Of the 1,276 polling stations across Mizoram, 149 are remote voting centres, and 30 along the inter-state and international borders have been declared critical and vulnerable.
In the first phase, 223 candidates, including 25 women, are in the fray, and as per electoral rolls, 40,78,681 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.
The bench reserved its verdict on the petitions, including those filed by Congress leader Jaya Thakur, the CPI (M) and NGO ADR, after hearing arguments for three days.
Congress is counting on former dacoit Malkhan Singh to canvas for Thakur votes in poll-bound MP’s Gwalior-Chambal region. ‘No one says anything about dacoits in Parliament,’ he says
Nineteen of the 30 seats where the Congress achieved a 50 percent vote share in 2018 had been won by the BJP in 2013, when it secured its third consecutive term in power.
Most regional parties supported women's reservation bill in Parliament, but their track record of ticket distribution across last 2 assembly elections tells a different story.
In an interview with ThePrint, Jyoti Mirdha hits out at Congress for not paying heed to concerns raised by senior leaders like Sachin Pilot, talks about her future in BJP.
MLA Kailash Meghwal says he'll write to PM to remove Arjun Ram Meghwal from cabinet, Union minister threatens to file defamation case. Both are prominent Dalit faces in state.
One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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