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.
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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.
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.
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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.
26 Mar, 14:45 (IST)
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday began campaigning in Kadapa with National Conference leader Dr.Farooq Abdullah.
26 Mar, 13:12 (IST)
Veteran Bollywood actor and former MP Jaya Prada joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. The actor-turned politician is likely to contest Lok Sabha elections from Rampur.
Jaya Prada, who was the former Samajwadi Party leader had won the Rampur Lok Sabha seat in 2004 and 2009. Jaya Prada will fight the election from Rampur seat against Samajwadi Party candidate Azam Khan.
26 Mar, 12:58 (IST)
Rahul Gandhi's close confidant Sam Pitroda is all set to lead the Congress' Campaign Monitoring Committee for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2019. Other members of the committee include Congress leaders Pawan Khera, Rohan Gupta among others. The team will monitor the publicity and the campaigns of the Congress party during the elections.
26 Mar, 12:52 (IST)
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday announced that Nishad Party and Janvadi Party (Socialist) are now a part of Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance in Uttar Pradesh.
26 Mar, 12:42 (IST)
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh at a public rally in Delhi said, "Chowkidar chorr nahi, Chowkidar pure hai. Chowkidar ka dobara PM banana sure hai, desh ki samasyaon ka woh hi cure hai".
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26 Mar, 12:23 (IST)
Maharashtra: Imtiaz Jaleel to contest on parliamentary seat of Aurangabad on Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) ticket.
26 Mar, 12:10 (IST)
Tejasvi Surya, 28-yr-old BJP candidate from Bangalore South LS constituency on his candidacy: It's a mix of surprise & sense of gratitude. Have been active karyakarta from days in ABVP; It is the only party that recognises potential of karyakartas.
26 Mar, 11:47 (IST)
Dr Tejaswini Ananth Kumar (wife of late Union minister Ananth Kumar) who was not given BJP ticket from Bangalore South LS seat said that the party's decision to pick Tejasvi Surya is shocking. "It's shocking.I stand with the party's decision.Let's not start asking questions. If we have to contribute to the country then we have to work for Modi Ji", she said.
26 Mar, 11:44 (IST)
Lucknow: Janvadi Party (Socialist) and Nishad Party hoardings seen at Samajwadi Party office, alongside hoardings of Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal. SP-BSP-RLD are in an alliance in Uttar Pradesh.
26 Mar, 10:26 (IST)
Congress leader PC Chacko on Tuesday said that Rahul Gandhi will take final decision today about alliance with AAP. "We've had no word with AAP, as we had to take preliminary decision on our party's political stand whether we wanted an alliance or not.Both parties may have problems,that apart we've to defeat Modi & BJP, so, we'll come together", Chacko said.
Delhi Congress president Sheila Dikshit and other leaders of the unit on Monday had discussed the possibility of an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha polls in the city in a meeting with party chief Rahul Gandhi.
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.
(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Mar 26, 2019 09:27 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).