26 Mar, 21:22 (IST)

Election Commission on Tuesday appointed Gopal Mukherjee as Special Expenditure Observer for Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, DD Goel for Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. Shailendra Handa to be Special Expenditure Observer for Gujarat and Maharashtra, Madhu Mahajan for Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

26 Mar, 19:29 (IST)

Jaipur: Former BJP leaders Ghanshyam Tiwari and Surendra Goyal have joined Congress in presence of Congress President Rahul Gandhi.

26 Mar, 18:44 (IST)

Samjawadi Party releases another list of candidates; Devendra Yadav from Etah, Hemraj Verma from Pilibhit and Anand Sen from Faizabad.  

26 Mar, 18:22 (IST)

BJP on Tuesday released a list of 29 candidates for Uttar Pradesh and 10 candidates for West Bengal for Lok Sabha Elections 2019. Satyadev Pachauri to contest for BJP from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Virendra Singh Mast to contest from Ballia.

26 Mar, 17:12 (IST)

Congress Delhi Chief Sheila Dikshit on a possible alliance with AAP: When a decision will be taken then we will inform the media. Ultimately decision is to be taken by Rahul Gandhi as he is the party president, all will abide by what he decides.

26 Mar, 17:02 (IST)

Rebel BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha will join Congress on March 28. In these Lok Sabha elections 2019, the saffron party denied him a ticket from his constituency Patna Sahib.Read the full story here: 

26 Mar, 15:31 (IST)

BJP releases list of 42 star campaigners for phase 1 and 2 of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 from Bihar.

26 Mar, 15:26 (IST)

Delhi Congress Chief Sheila Dikshit addresses the media on Tuesday. In her address, Dikshit said that Dikshit the Nyunatam Aay Yojana (Nyay) is an Extraordinary Scheme and congratulated Congress President Rahul Gandhi for it. The scheme is aimed at eradicating poverty from across the nation.

26 Mar, 15:13 (IST)

Tollywood film actor Manchu Mohan Babu on Tuesday joined YSR Congress Party in the presence of party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, in Hyderabad.Here's the tweet:

26 Mar, 15:09 (IST)

Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday announced that Rajendra Gavit, BJP’s sitting MP from Palghar Lok Sabha seat has joined Shiv Sena. He will be Shiv Sena's candidate from Palghar, Maharashtra.

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New Delhi, March 26: In the run up to the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday named its Karnataka Yuva Morcha General Secretary Tejaswi Surya as candidate for the prestigious Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency, which goes to poll on April 18. According to reports,  BJP's central election committee has decided to field the 28-year-old practicing lawyer in the Karnataka High Court. Stay updated with LatestLY for all the latest news and updates on election campaigns and candidate list. Congress Releases 11th List of 5 Candidates For Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Check the Full List.

Meanwhile, senior Congress leader B.K. Hariprasad has been named the Congress candidate from the high-profile Bangalore South constituency. According to a report by IANS, the name of Hariprasad, currently a Rajya Sabha member, was among the 10 candidates in various states released on Sunday after a meeting of the Central Election Committee. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Hits Out at BJP, Says Saffron Party Busy Promoting Chowkidar’ T-shirts as Merchandise Ahead of Lok Sabha Elections 2019.

The party on late Sunday night named candidates for 18 of the 20 Lok Sabha constituencies it is contesting in the state under a seat-sharing agreement with its ruling ally Janatal Dal-Secular (JD-S), which will contest the remaining eight seats. The candidates for Bangalore North and South were not named.

On Monday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had attacked the BJP over the plight of ‘shiksha mitras’ or contractual teachers in Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi alleged that the ruling party leaders are busy marketing T-shirts instead of attending to those suffering. Hundreds of ‘shiksha mitras’ have been protesting and pressing for better pay and appointment as assistant teachers in the state.