Bhopal, November 16 Madhya Pradesh will vote on Friday to decide the electoral fate of 2,533 candidates in 230 assembly seats, including political bigwigs like Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his predecessor and rival Kamal Nath, in a poll...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 15 Shrillness marked the closure of election campaigns in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Wednesday with leaders firing salvos at one another in the final bid to woo the electorate. Madhya Pradesh (single phase for...
New Delhi, November 14 Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of “purchasing” his party’s MLAs and “stealing” the government in Madhya Pradesh. Referring to the desertion of 22...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 14 The ruling BJP on Tuesday hit top gear in poll bound Madhya Pradesh with Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing rallies in the swing region of Malwa-Nimar and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launching a...
Anup Dutta Bhopal, November 10 In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress is contesting in the upcoming Assembly elections to regain power which they lost when Jyotiraditya Scindia rebelled against then Chief Minister and state Congress chief Kamal Nath causing the elected...
Aditi Tandon Bhopal, November 10 The families of Bhopal gas leak victims on Friday petitioned the Election Commission for change of result day in five election-going states, December 3, reminding the poll panel of the sombreness of the occasion. It...
Aditi Tandon Indore (MP), November 8 Dressed in jeans and shirt, Aam Aadmi Party’s Indore-4 candidate Piyush Joshi makes a fine impression as an outlier, while his rivals turn up for campaigns in trademark ‘kurta pyjama’ or ‘saree’. “I am...
Aditi Tandon Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Nov 7 Back in the Assembly poll arena after 10 years, BJP’s invincible warhorse Kailash Vijayvargiya is queering the pitch for rivals in Indore-1, which he is contesting, as also in the Malwa-Nimar region considered...
Chandigarh, November 6 For the first time, four all-woman armed police companies from Punjab would stand for election duty in other states. Four woman companies, about 280 in strength, led by Commandant Avneet Sidhu would be doing election duty...
Aditi Tandon Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), November 6 Malwa’s scholar king Raja Bhoj is dominating the poll narrative in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar, where communal tensions are simmering over the ownership of a site that houses an 11th century monument, Bhojshala, built...
Bhopal, November 2 Popular characters from the 1975 Hindi blockbuster ‘Sholay’ have entered the political discourse ahead of the November 17 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The opposition Congress and the ruling BJP are accusing each other of looting the state...
Anup Dutta Bhopal, October 30 There has been widespread resentment in the party rank and file in the BJP and Congress following distribution of party tickets for the upcoming Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. A day after Union Minister Amit...
Anup Dutta Bhopal, October 29 The BJP and Congress’ lists of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh have held down the party’s trend of offering an electoral launch pad for bureaucrats. Ahead of the elections, two government...
Ashok Gehlot vs Vasundhara Raje CM Ashok Gehlot (72) Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his rival Vasundhara Raje are known in Rajasthan as the comeback leaders. Both have survived rebellions, staying afloat in tempests. Gehlot not only crushed a daring...
Seoni, October 22 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has gone on an announcement spree this election season and is even promising a bridge where there is no river, claimed state Congress president Kamal Nath on Sunday. The BJP-governed...
Jupinderjit Singh Chandigarh, October 21 Illegal weapons manufacturing units in Madhya Pradesh have become a new headache for the Punjab Police. Robbers and gangsters have been found using weapons from such units. As many as 512 weapons manufactured illegally in...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 20 When the Congress unveiled 88 nominees for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh elections announcing 229 of the 230 candidates for the upcoming elections, sitting Dimani MLA Ravindra Singh Tomar’s name stood out. After careful calculations,...
New Delhi, October 19 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday penned an emotional letter to the voters of the election-bound Madhya Pradesh, seeking their direct support for him. The letter unveiled on X bears a picture featuring the PM...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 19 The first signs of friction in the anti-BJP INDIA bloc emerged on Thursday with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accusing the Congress of betrayal in Madhya Pradesh. Akhilesh, whose party has so far announced...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 17 The BJP on Tuesday held marathon meetings to make strategy for Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh with top central and state brass in attendance. The central election committee of the party chaired by Prime Minister...
Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, October 17 The Congress on Tuesday promised Rs 25 lakh health insurance and Rs 10 lakh accidental insurance schemes for all, a caste census and purchase of cow dung at Rs 2 per kg in its...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 15 Though the political mettle of several stalwarts is on the line in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh elections, stakes are particularly high for two leaders — BJP’s most prominent OBC face and four-term CM Shivraj...
Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, October 15 The Congress on Sunday announced the first list of candidates for next month’s Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. For the 230-member strong Madhya Pradesh House, the Congress has announced 144 names....
New Delhi, October 10 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the Madhya Pradesh Government of corruption and mismanagement. At a rally in Shahdol, he quoted from LK Advani’s memoir where he apparently said the “original laboratory” of the BJP-RSS...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 10 Ever since four-time MLA Yashodhara Raje Scindia announced her unwillingness to contest from Shivpuri seat in Madhya Pradesh, questions have been raised on whether her nephew and Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will take...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 9 Hours after the Election Commission announced poll schedules for five states, the BJP unveiled its first list of 41 candidates for Rajasthan elections fielding seven sitting MPs in a state it hopes to wrest...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 9 The Election Commission on Monday set the ball rolling for a crucial poll cycle announcing single-phase elections for the Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana and voting in two phases for Left-wing...
Chandigarh, October 8 Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh won the J&K Open with a solid final round performance of 3-under 69 to take his total to 11-under 277 today. Chouhan (71-70-67-69) picked up...
Bhopal, October 7 In the wake of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra predicting Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s exit from the top post following the year-end Assembly polls, the latter asked people at a rally whether he should...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, October 5 Ahead of Assembly elections later this year, the race for Scheduled Tribes (ST) votes heated up in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday with star campaigners of both the ruling BJP and opposition Congress feting local...