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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
TopicMunicipal corporation elections

Topic: municipal corporation elections

BJP sweeps Haryana local polls, wins 9 out of 10 corporations

Candidates who won with big margins included BJP’s Faridabad nominee Parveen Joshi who won by over 3 lakh votes and Raj Rani from Gurugram who won by over 1.79 lakh votes.

Why senior Haryana Congress leaders are abandoning ship ahead of municipal elections

Leaders like Ram Niwas Rara, Tarlochan Singh and Bishan Lal Saini are among those who have joined BJP. More than 30 local-level party leaders have also quit the party & joined BJP.

Shinde’s Sena boosts bargaining power before BMC poll, inducts as many ex-corporators as possible

As many as 87 former corporators of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation are said to have joined Shinde-led Shiv Sena, most are from UBT faction, followed by Congress and NCP (SP).

Where is India’s politics headed? Just wait for the result of 2022 Delhi civic body polls

AAP can win the 2022 MCD election even if the BJP manages to hold on to a large section of its 2017 vote share. Here's how.

‘Punjab is ready for change this time’, says Kejriwal as AAP is No.1 in Chandigarh civic poll

AAP won 14 out of 35 seats in the Chandigarh municipal polls, becoming the single largest party, while the BJP lost its majority and was reduced to 12 seats.

Resort politics back in Rajasthan, BJP shifts candidates to hotels ahead of civic poll results

BJP leaders, however, officially say they have kept candidates in hotels to train them ‘on how to vote during the election of chairman in case they win’.

Why Hardik Patel is losing his ‘mass leader’ appeal in Gujarat after joining Congress

Hardik Patel rose to prominence in 2015 on the back of Patidar quota agitation. He joined Congress in 2019, and was made its Gujarat unit working president in July 2020.

People have rejected Congress’ misrule, says Rajasthan BJP chief after civic polls results

Both Congress and the BJP got clear majority in two municipal corporations each after the state EC Tuesday declared the election results of six corporations in Jaipur, Kota and Jodhpur.

BJP wins 60 seats in Kashmir: Opposition boycott undermining democracy or letting BJP grow?

The BJP has won 60 municipal wards unopposed in the urban local body election of Jammu and Kashmir. The result comes after two main...

Shiv Sena makes common cause with the enemy, praises Congress for Nanded win

Sena’s deteriorating relations with ally BJP come to the fore after Congress wins 73 seats out of 81 in former CM Ashok Chavan’s stronghold Nanded.

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My first meeting with Modi ji in 1996 gave me a living model of leadership: ML Khattar

As Modi enters his seventy-sixth year of service to the nation, I join millions in wishing him strength and success.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.