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The Samajwadi Party has fielded Aparna Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's step-brother Prateek Yadav, from Lucknow Cantt.....
While healthcare has largely been a neglected issue in past general elections, major parties started talking about health in their manifestos from 2004.....
The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance is likely to gain majority with 187 to 197 seats and around 35 per cent vote share in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, according to a recent survey.....
Days before polling in the Punjab assembly elections, at least three persons were killed in a powerful blast in a car close to a rally of a Congress candidate near the state's Bathinda city on Tuesday evening, police said.....
Violence continued in the Nagaland capital on Thursday as a mob went on rampage, burning down several government properties and vandalised government vehicles in protest against Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang's refusal to meet their demand on local body polls.....
BJP chief Amit Shah on Friday asked Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to explain why Uttar Pradesh in Uttar Pradesh is "in shambles".....
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav undertook their second joint roadshow in the Taj City on Friday evening.....
More than 2,000 bulk litres of alcohol was seized on election eve, by the state excise officials in a raid at two establishments in and near the state capital, Chief Electoral Officer Kunal said late on Friday.....
Polling for Goa's 40 assembly constituencies officially ended at 5 p.m. on Saturday by when 83 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise, officials said.....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday likened his first election rally in Uttar Pradesh with India's first war of independence in 1857, saying it was a fight against the British then and now it is a battle against poverty and the state's rulers who have obstructed growth and development.....