elections 2012 news

Veteran BJP leader and eight-time Gujarat MLA Yogesh Patel passed away in Vadodara at the age of 79 after a prolonged illness. Patel, who served as legislator for 36 years, represented Raopura and later Manjalpur constituencies. He also held the position of Minister of State for Narmada and Urban Housing.

Veteran BJP leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Major General (retd) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri passed away at 91. A distinguished soldier with service in three wars, Khanduri later served as a Union Minister, spearheading infrastructure development, and as Uttarakhand's Chief Minister, championing anti-corruption measures. His demise marks a significant loss for the party and the state.

The record turnout so far in the current round of Assembly elections are being seen as testimony to the election commission’s sustained campaigns to instill voter awareness and successful updating of electoral rolls.

"We have received demand for 299 buses so far for the assembly elections that start on February 8 this year.

Rural and semi-rural pockets of the district witnessed a huge turnout of voters during the fifth phase of assembly election on Thursday.

The upward polling trend continued in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls with 56 constituencies in the third phase recording around 57% voting on Wednesday.

The pregnant reporter, Harvinder Kaur of a Punjabi daily, who reported the matter of Congress leaders terrorizing voters, is still hospitalized.

In 2007, the average voting in Kanpur was 44.7%. This was way ahead of Lucknow’s 35%.Now that the state capital has notched up 56%, people in the neighbouring city are raring to better it.

The paramilitary forces deployed in the city for the smooth conduct of the polls won the hearts of the voters.

Hundreds of voters in the 10 assembly constituencies of the Industrial City were deprived of their democratic right to exercise franchise as their names were missing from the voter list during the fifth phase of polling on Thursday.

In western Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati’s Jatav voters are neither invisible nor silent.

The fifth phase of assembly election in the city witnessed a huge participation of Muslim women voters.

Hundreds of IIT-Kanpur staff and teachers also used their right to franchise at two polling booths set up inside the institute's campus. The rush of IITians was witnessed at the campus school and at type I community centre polling booths.

For the past several weeks, corporate chiefs and industry chambers have been lobbying for keeping excise duty and service tax rates steady in the wake of slowing demand as the government was contemplating an increase in these rates to boost revenues.

With the Tuesday tragedy, Congress seems to have entered a phase of decline after the upswing since the Lok Sabha win in 2009.

The Congress’s poor show has dented the possibility of the party getting its nominee into Rashtrapati Bhavan when President Pratibha Patil retires in July.

The election fever has gripped the festival of colours too.Step into the markets and you will find sprinklers inspired from election symbols of political parties.

Poor governance and lack of roads kept voters away in nine polling stations of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

Today political parties are more inclined to field winnable candidates irrespective of whether they are male or female.