Madhya Pradesh

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 5 Madhya Pradesh caretaker Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday said he was never a CM contender, neither in the past nor today and had always discharged the duty the BJP had assigned him....

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 5 Caretaker chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday released a video statement saying he was never a CM contender, neither in the past nor today and has always discharged whatever duties...

New Delhi, December 5 Miffed with former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath over a variety of reasons but mainly over his inability to carry INDIA bloc partners in Madhya Pradesh along, the Congress has asked the sitting state unit...

Anup Dutta Bhopal, December 3 The incumbent BJP clinched a resounding victory in Madhya Pradesh decimating Congress’ hopes of wresting the state. With at least 163 seats in the bag, the party comfortably crossed the majority mark of 116...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 3 The BJP on Sunday swept the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in stunning victories, leaving only Telangana for the Congress as the saffron party gained a massive head start over...

Ruchika M Khanna Chandigarh, December 3 The Aam Aadmi Party’s ambitions of gaining a political foothold in the Hindi heartland seems to have been cut short after the party has been unable to win a single seat in any of...

Bhopal, December 3 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won from Budhni seat for a sixth time by defeating Congress’ actor-turned-politician Vikram Mastal by a margin of 1,04,974 votes. Chouhan, the longest serving CM of MP, first won from...

Bhopal, December 3 Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Sunday accepted his party’s defeat in the state polls and expressed hope that the BJP would live up to the trust reposed in it by the people. Talking to reporters...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 28 Caretaker Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the BJP was headed towards a fifth consecutive victory in the state as women had removed all hurdles from its path. We’ve worked hard...

Sheopur, November 26 A sub-adult tiger from Rajasthan has entered Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park (KNP), where cheetahs from Africa have been introduced to revive their population in the country, an official said on Sunday. “Yes, tiger pugmarks were found...

Gwalior, November 20 A 19-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped in broad daylight in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district on Monday. The incident occurred near a petrol pump under the jurisdiction of Jhansi Road police station in the district at around 9:30...

Bhopal, November 17 A voter turnout of 73.72 per cent was recorded in assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh on Friday, officials said. It was a provisional figure and the final voting percentage was likely to be higher, the election officials...

Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, November 17 Quite naturally, the ongoing elections are also a test of popularity of incumbent chief ministers as well as their challengers in the five states. Political stakes are high for all of them, and for some...

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, November 17 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sent a strong signal of solidarity to Madhya Pradesh as the state voted in single phase elections. “Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh inspired me,” the PM said at BJP’s...

Bhopal, November 17 Polling for election to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Assemblies was held on Friday. Madhya Pradesh recorded a voter turnout of 71.16 per cent till 5 pm on Friday as polling was held for the 230-member legislative Assembly,...

New Delhi, November 16 The BJP and the Congress went all out in Madhya Pradesh to woo the electorate with both clocking hundreds of rallies led by top leaders. While BJP leaders, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi top campaigner, held...

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...