On April 22, Mukesh Dalal was declared the winner after the Congress’ candidate was disqualified and others withdrew their nominations.
The Bharatiya Janata Party expelled its leader KS Eshwarappa for six years for contesting the polls as an Independent candidate from Karnataka’s Shivamogga.
Kunwar Sarvesh Singh, who died of a heart attack, was unwell for a long time and was undergoing medical treatment in Delhi.
This came a week after the BJP won the Surat seat unopposed as the polling officer disqualified the Congress candidate and others withdrew their nominations.
The BJP will scrap reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes by 2025 if re-elected, Congress’ Revanth Reddy claimed.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated Tashi Gyalson, the chief executive councillor of Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council in Leh, from the seat.
Lok Janshakti Party MP Mehboob Ali Kaiser joined the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal.
Out of the total 1,352 candidates, 392 have declared assets worth over Rs 1 crore, according to a report by the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms.
Millions of Indians are queuing up to cast their ballot in the first of the seven-phase election.
Social service is down. Health service is down. Security is down. That's the London assessment by Tarun Ghulati, the Indian-origin candidate in the race to challenge Pak-origin Sadiq Khan from winning a third term as Mayor of London.
The nomination papers of Nilesh Kumbhani, Congress' candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha seat, were rejected on Sunday after his three proposers claimed that the signatures on them were forged. Likewise, the nomination form of Suresh Padsala, Congress' alternate candidate from Surat, was also invalidated, effectively eliminating the main opposition party from the city's electoral contest.Returning officer (RO) Sourabh Pardhi said the three nomination forms submitted by Kumbhani and Padsala were...
While the final numbers are not yet out, polling figures for the first two phases are likely to be lower than those at the corresponding stages in 2019.