Kochi, April 6 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar launched a Gen Z-themed voter awareness song in Malayalam in Kochi, aimed at encouraging young voters to take an active role in the electoral process.The initiative uses a lively video format, where groups of youngsters convey the importance of voting through music and dance.This voter awareness rap song features a diverse Gen Z group, comprising young men and women appearing as professionals and students, sending out a direct messa…
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Tiruvalla (Kerala), April 4 (IANS) Placing women’s political empowerment at the heart of his campaign pitch, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday underscored the Centre’s commitment to the Women’s Reservation Bill, asserting that 33 per cent reservation for women in legislatures would become a reality and be reflected in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections.Addressing a mammoth NDA rally in Tiruvalla, PM Modi said Parliament would take up discussions on the Bill from April 16 to 18 and called for …
Guwahati, March 27 (IANS) Asaduddin Owaisi is set to campaign for AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal in Assam ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, in a move aimed at consolidating minority votes in key constituencies. A senior party leader on Friday said that Owaisi will visit Assam on April 2 and 3, during which he is scheduled to address at least eight public meetings across different constituencies.The campaign will primarily focus on garnering support for Ajmal, who is contesting from the Binn…
Agartala, March 21 (IANS) The elite Tripura State Rifles (TSR), which has previously carried out election-related duties in more than 12 states, will be deployed in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal and Assam, officials said here on Saturday.A senior Tripura Police official said that, following a request from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), ten TSR companies, comprising 778 personnel, will be sent to poll-bound West Bengal and Assam to provide security before and during the Asse…
Hyderabad, March 11 (IANS) The BJP in Telangana has termed as mockery of the Constitution the judgment of Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, dismissing petitions for disqualification of BRS MLAs who had defected to ruling Congress party.State BJP president, N. Ramchander Rao, called Wednesday’s verdict by the Speaker on the petitions for disqualification of Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari as “absolute mockery of the Constitution”.In his post on ‘X’, Ramchander Rao took pots…
Chennai, March 2 (IANS) Seat-sharing negotiations between the AIADMK and the BJP ahead of the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections are shaping up to be guided more by “winnability” than by the sheer number of constituencies allotted to each party.The BJP, a key partner in the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the State, is pressing for a significantly larger share of seats this time.In the 2021 Assembly elections, the BJP contested 20 constituencies and won four. Encouraged …
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to give a tough fight to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Assembly constituency Bhabanipur in the upcoming Assembly elections. Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and veteran BJP leader, Suvendu Adhikari, has set up a ‘war room’ in the Bhabanipur constituency, BJP sources said on Sunday.This ‘war room’ has been set up on the ground floor of a house at 8/1B Chakraberia Road (South) in Ward No-70 of th…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) Around 2500 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will be needed if the Bengal Assembly polls are held in single phase, according to initial estimate by the Election Commission of India (ECI).The proposal for a single- phase poll had gone to the ECI’s headquarters in New Delhi from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, in Kolkata, though the latter had maintained that the final decision in this matter would be taken by the Commission.”Base…
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir, on Saturday, claimed that being a part of Trinamool Congress’ “ploy” to defeat former state Congress president in West Bengal and former five-time Lok Sabha member, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, from Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 was one of the biggest blunders in his life. Kabir is the legislator from Bharatpur Assembly constituency, which is one of the seven Assembly constituencies under Baharampur Lok Sabha. After gettin…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday rejected Congress leader Alka Lamba’s revision plea challenging the framing of criminal charges against her in connection with a protest held at Jantar Mantar last year to demand implementation of women’s reservation in Parliament ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.Additional Sessions Judge Dig Vinay Singh of the Rouse Avenue Courts dismissed the revision petition, holding that there was no “patent illegality, perversity or jurisdictional er…