Politics

The last date for filing of nomination is April 4, while scrutiny of nominations will be held on April 5.

According to locals, ever since the Mamata Banerjee-led party came to power, there has been peace in their locality. The entire area has witnessed massive development in terms of better road, water and civic amenities, they claimed.

Addressing a BJP poll rally near Vijayawada, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the Centre did not accord a special status to Andhra Pradesh because it had been offering adequate funds for its development.

Amit Shah stressed that securing the country's boundaries was the biggest achievement of the Narendra Modi government.

Addressing an election rally where the Prime Minister also spoke, the chief minister Pema Khandu claimed that the development process in Arunachal Pradesh picked up only after the NDA came to power in 2014.

The Patwa Toli community have been long-time supporters of the BJP. However, reservation demands and the recent murder of a member could change the political dynamics.

Though the changing stand of the BJP over the bill is only a poll gimmick for opposition parties, the saffron party sees the change in tone as a fresh attempt to bring the region on board again.

In the 2004 assembly polls, Chamling's SDF steamrolled opposition parties by winning all the 32 seats.

Blaming demonetization and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for what he said was an economic mess, Gandhi said after releasing the Congress manifesto here for the Lok Sabha polls that his party was determined to set right the situation.

Regarding the Congress’ promise to review the AFSPA, Jaitley said though there was a robust mechanism in place to deal with complaints against armed forces personnel, the grand old party wanted them to be prosecuted at the whims of terrorists.

Manohar Parrikar, 63, died on March 17 after battling a pancreatic ailment for over a year.

The most recent case of double candidature is that of PM Narendra Modi, who contested from Vadodara and Varanasi in 2014, one of the most cited instances of multiple candidature is that of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

In a Facebook post, the veteran CPI(M) leader said the Congress president had an attitude of approaching political situations without a clear understanding and he was being misled by certain people.

For the past three-and-a-half decade, Hyderabad has remained with the AIMIM. Its chief, Asaduddin Owaisi, is re-contesting from the constituency for the fourth time in a row.

Assam Congress leader Kishor Bhatta said that ever since the BJP passed the citizenship amendment bill in the Lok Sabha, it had lost the people’s trust in the northeast.

The BJP has announced names of 142 of the 147 assembly seats and 20 of the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies.