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October 9, 2026 11:22 PM
The BJP wrested the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat from the Congress on Friday, with party candidate Devasish Sharma defeating his nearest rival AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal by 1,42,224 votes in the bypoll, the Election Commission said. Sharma, a former IAS o...
October 9, 2026 9:48 PM
The BJP on Friday swept the West Bengal assembly bypolls, trouncing its rivals by a record margin in politically significant Nandigram and scoring a victory in Rejinagar, consolidating its position barely five months after ending the TMC's 15-year ru...
October 9, 2026 8:26 PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked voters for their support following the bypoll results in Assam, West Bengal and Puducherry, and applauded the hard work of party workers, saying the results once again demonstrated the people's deep-root...
October 9, 2026 5:23 PM
BJP's Nandigram assembly by-election candidate Hasirani Rath trounced her nearest rival, Milan Pradhan of the Congress, by a record margin of 1,22,753 votes, as the EC declared the results on Friday. Rath, mother of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's...
October 9, 2026 4:37 PM
BJP candidate Devasish Sharma achieved an unassailable lead of 1,46,180 votes over his nearest rival, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal, as counting of votes polled in the by-election to the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat in Assam was underway on Friday, according ...
September 23, 2026 6:15 PM
The Election Commission of India has said that all decisions taken by it, including the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, are the outcome of unanimous decisions of the full Commission. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ECI s...
September 14, 2026 8:26 PM
Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar has begun a three-day visit to the Kingdom of Bhutan from September 14 to 16, with electoral cooperation and institutional engagement between the two countries high on the agenda. During the visit, ...
September 11, 2026 7:54 PM
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday described students as the “torchbearers of tomorrow’s democracy” and stressed the need to strengthen electoral literacy and democratic awareness among young citizens. Addressing the fifth reg...
September 7, 2026 6:46 PM
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced bye-elections to five Assembly constituencies across Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and West Bengal and one Lok Sabha constituency in Assam, with polling scheduled for October 6 and counting of votes...
September 3, 2026 10:27 AM
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Wednesday described Booth Level Officers (BLOs) as the first point of contact between the Election Commission of India (ECI) and citizens, and called them a foundational pillar of the world’s largest dem...
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