The swearing ceremony of six cabinet ministers and three ministers of state for Haryana took place on Saturday. Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia on Saturday administered their oath of office.
 
The five ministers who will take office include Capitan Ajay Singh, Randeep Singh Surjewala, ...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Saturday owned up responsibility for the party's poor electoral showing and stressed that there was no need to "single out one person" for the debacle.

Singh, whose message was read out by party general secretary Ravi Shankar ...

The leader of Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday (May 18) decided to offer his party's support to Congress-led UPA but demanded proper development of the state of Karnataka. The JD-S party fought against Congress in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. JD-S was a part of ...

An independent MP from Ladakh, Ghulam Hassan Khan has tied up with Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), which took its tally to 263 in the newly elected Lok Sabha. Ghulam Hassan Khan fought from Ladakh seat as an independent candidate after quitting the National Conference party of Jammu ...

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s magic worked once again as the Congress retained power in Andhra Pradesh with a comfortable majority. Facing a united opposition alliance and the Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) of superstar Chiranjeevi, YSR emerged victorious and achieved the distinction ...

Telugu actor and Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) president K. Chiranjeevi won Tirupati assembly seat in Chittoor district but experienced defeat in Palacole constituency. He lost the Palacole seat to B. Usha Rani of the Congress by over 5,000 votes. On the other hand, he was elected from Tirupati after ...

Indian voter  delivered a resounding verdict for stability giving the ruling Congress-led coalition five more years to rule the world’s largest democracy with economist Manmohan Singh at the helm. The margin of victory stunned pundits, although two exit polls Friday had predicted a large ...

Country's second oldest party, Communist Party of India (CPI) might lose its status of a national party following its disastrous performance in the 15th Lok Sabha elections. So far, CPI has bagged only two seats and the trends show that it is not going to win another three seats to push the number ...

Former UN undersecretary general and Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor defeated his nearest CPI rival P Ramachandran Nair to clinch the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat. When the counting began on Saturday (May 16) morning, Tharoor was leading by 22,000 votes. After the final results were ...

The ruling party of Orissa, Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is expected to register a landside victory as early results for assembly elections in the state show that the party is way ahead of its rivals, BJP and Congress. As per official reports, BJD has so far bagged two assembly seats and BJP has managed ...

Congress-led UPA  is expected to come to power again as early election trends reveal that UPA has won 53 seats and is leading in 202 seats. On the other hand, BJP-led NDA has clinched 33 seats and is ahead in 127 constituencies. It is expected that UPA will win around 254 seats, just 18 short ...

As per the latest trends available for the 2009 Lok Sabha Election, Congress led UPA alliance has taken an early lead over BJP led NDA alliance.Going by the trends available for 503 of the 543 seats, UPA was ahead in 224 seats while NDA was leading in 157 seats. The Third Front was leading in 77 ...

Navin Chawla replaced N Gopalaswami as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday (April 21). The 63-year-old holds the office of the Chief Election Commissioner at a time when the country is in the midst of Lok Sabha election. Earlier in the month of April this year, the President of ...

Narendra Dhoni, the elder brother of Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, was inducted in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday (April 19). Report confirms that Dhoni's elder brother has also started campaigning for BJP's candidate in the Jharkhand capital. While interacting with the ...

Congress party today (April 17) named Ramesh Kumar and J P Aggarwal as its candidates for North East Delhi and South Delhi Parliamentary constituencies. The last date for filing the nominations for the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi is April 18. Earlier Congress withdrew the candidature of Sajjan ...

With a view to disseminate faster and convenient information about the 15th Lok Sabha elections, Internet search engine Sagoon today (April 17) launched special dedicated site called India Election 09 in English and Hindi. The new site will help the people to gather latest updates and election ...

Granting a conditional reprieve to detained BJP leader Varun Gandhi, the Supreme Court today (16th April) ordered his release on parole for two weeks. However, the Supreme Court put a condition on Varun to give an undertaking to Etah jail authorities that he will not make inflammatory speeches. The ...

Google India launched its online election centre on Monday (6th April) allowing voters from across the country to go online to confirm their voter registration status, discover their polling location or even view their constituency on a map. The bi-lingual site in Hindi and English was launched in ...

Social activist Nafisa Ali will be the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow. With this, she will replace Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt who was earlier fielded as the SP candidate from the seat. A few days back Supreme Court rejected Dutt's plea to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, by ...

Today, BJP Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi got arrested and has now been sent to judicial custody till Monday after moving a surrender plea in Pilibhit court, where a case has been filed against him for his anti communal speech. According to BJP leader Kalraj Misra, the Chief Judicial ...

The former cricketer and captain of the Indian team Mohammad Azharuddin will open his political innings from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, in the last month Azharuddin has joined the Congress party. Azharuddin's name figures in the list of 14 candidates declared by the party on Friday (27th ...

Giving yet another blow to Congress' hopes of stitching up a strong alliance in Tamil Nadu for the Lok Sabha elections, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) has decided to cross over to Jayalalita's AIADMK camp. A last-ditch effort by senior Congress leaders in Delhi to retain PMK failed on Tuesday ...

After serving notices to Varun Gandhi for his alleged derogatory remarks against a minority community the Election Commission (EC) on Sunday (22nd March) night announced its final verdict on this issue. In the verdict EC found him guilty of breaching the model code of conduct. An order issued by EC ...

The presence of Bollywood in the Indian politics seems to be increasing with the passing time. The latest actress to join the political scene in the country is Amisha Patel. The lady, who made her debut opposite Hrithik Roshan - in 'Kaho Naa Pyar Hai', is all set to contest the election from Rajkot ...

The speculation about the area from which Mohammad Azharuddin, the former Indian cricket captain, will contest the upcoming elections continues to be rife. As per the latest reports, it is believed that the former skipper might be fielded from Meerut or Moradabad by Congress, the party he joined ...

The Delhi High Court on Friday (20th March), granted anticipatory bail to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi who is contesting from Pilibhit parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Earlier UP administration has filed a criminal case against him on the directions of the Election ...

Renowned classical danseuse Mallika Sarabhai on Thursday (19th March) announced that, she will take on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat. Interacting with the media at her Darpana Academy, the 51-year-old danseuse also made it clear that she ...

The seasoned diplomat and former UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor was on Thursday (19th March) named the Congress candidate for the key Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in Kerala. Talking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, soon after Congress released its list of candidates for Kerala in ...

Swinging into prompt action the Election Commission on Tuesday (17th March) ordered filing of a criminal case against BJP candidate Varun Gandhi for his alleged inflammatory speech with communal overtones. The commission also served notice to BJP seeking its explanation on this issue.
 
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The Election Commission of India has issued guidelines for implementation and processing of various projects, schemes and rural development programmes by the Central and the state governments. All directions regarding the mode of conduct will be issued by the Election Commission, Haryana Chief ...