Politics

Rahul Gandhi was accompanied by mother Sonia and sister Priyanka as he made his way to the Amethi Collectorate.

Polling will be held in the Autonomous District (ST), comprising Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts, Karimganj (SC) and Silchar.

District Media Certification and Monitoring Committee has decided to add the cost of newspaper 'Aap Ki Kranti' into the election expenditure of Yadav.

Rahul is fighting a triangular contest with BJP's Smriti Irani and AAP's Kumar Vishwas in Amethi.

The voter turnout fell below expectation in all the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra which went to polls on Thursday, officials said.

Refusing to comment on his father's statment, UP CM Akhilesh Yadav blamed the media for playing his statements out of context.

A total of 56,47,736 voters including 29,98,487 men and 26,49,246 women are eligible to exercise their franchise.

An estimated 2,57,856 electorate will choose from the 15 contestants, five of them Independents.

According to the poll body, Arvind Kejriwal did not have permission for taking more than five persons with him to Raj Ghat.

Three leaders in the Congress - Rashid Alvi, Digvijaya Singh and Anand Sharma - have expressed their willingness to contest from Varanasi.

Congress which carved out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh eyeing the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections suffered a huge setback when the TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao's who is credited for the creation of the state, refused to tie up with it for elections.

The ULFA has decided that it will not participate in the election process as long as the prevailing conflict situation is not resolved.

The suit was filed by Gadkari in December 2010 after Tewari accused him of holding 'a benami' flat in the scam-tainted Adarsh Society.

BJP's state media convener Harshad Patel said the party would approach the Election Commission soon.

VS Sampath said officials have been asked to take serious view of breach of the Model Code of Conduct in force for the polls.

There will be serious consequences if Modi became the next Prime Minister, warned the Congress stalwart launching a scathing attack on BJP's PM candidate.