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Milkipur by-election to take place on February 5, results on Feb 10

The Milkipur Assembly seat fell vacant following the resignation of Awadhesh Prasad, who was elected MLA from the constituency during the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

Politics of funding religious outreach: Examining nationwide schemes

As the AAP govt promises salaries to temple and gurudwara priests, a look at other parties nationwide that have made similar announcements or rolled out such schemes

2024: A year of challenges for incumbents and traditional political parties

Internationally, 2025 will be far less frenetic than 2024, which saw more than 60 countries, including India, hold their national electio­ns

Delhi, Bihar Assembly elections in 2025 to test the fate of freebies

This year will have the fewest elections of any in the current five-year electoral cycle. What does that mean for welfare schemes?

Parl winter session: 39-member House panel set up to scrutinise ONOE Bills

The committee will have 27 members from the Lok Sabha and 12 from the Rajya Sabha

In every country, elections are held only once: BJP MP Hema Malini on ONOE

Malini argues that simultaneous elections would conserve resources, which could then be allocated to vital sectors like education and health

Govt introduces ONOP bills, says they will be referred to House panel

Meghwal introduced the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill after a nearly 90-minute debate, followed by a division of votes. As many as 269 members voted in favour of the Bill and 198 against it

Punjab: Elections to 5 MCs, 44 councils to be held on December 21

Addressing the media here, State Election Commissioner Raj Kamal Chaudhuri said polling for five municipal corporations and 44 municipal councils and Nagar panchayats will be held from 7 am to 4 pm

BJP manifesto committee meets in Delhi ahead of Assembly elections

Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva on Sunday expressed confidence that the party would secure a similar victory in the national capital

Kejriwal highlights achievements, promises completion of pending projects

Kejriwal announced that India's largest sports university, with an estimated cost of Rs 2,100 crore, will be constructed in Mundka

No hope of SP coming to power till 2047: UP Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya

He accused the opposition party of misleading the Backwards and Dalits by allying with the BSP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and the Congress in 2024

BJP's UP bypoll triumph bridges gap between organisation and governance

Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary credited the win to the policies and leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

People again endorsed PM Modi's leadership, development vision: Nadda

Nadda also took on Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and said that the BJP-led NDA had won in the 2019 Maharashtra assembly polls but Thackeray "betrayed and insulted" the people's mandate

NDA tastes bypoll success in Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya; WB remains elusive

In Assam, the BJP and its allies retained four assembly seats and were leading in one, where the bypolls were held on November 13

After reverses in LS, Yogi asserts authority with 7-2 victory in bypolls

In each of the seven assembly seats that the BJP won on Saturday, all the winning candidates were unanimous that Adityanath and his call for unity were a "big factor" in their victory

AAP terms Punjab bypolls win 'semi-final' before Delhi Assembly polls

Kejriwal, a former chief minister of Delhi, said the people of Punjab have chosen the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the second time, which shows that it is doing good work

UP bypoll result: BJP clinches 6 out of 9 seats, SP saves Akhilesh's Karhal

UP bye-election results 2024: The BJP has emerged victorious, securing six seats. Meanwhile, the SP secured Karhal and Sishamau seats

NDA-BJP candidates winning bypolls proof of people's faith in PM Modi: Yogi

"Hearty congratulations to all the winning candidates! If we are divided we will be cut. If we stay united we will be safe," he said

Bihar bypolls: NDA sweeps all 4 seats, Prashant Kishore's Jan Suraaj flops

The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U)

Need to learn from results: Robert Vadra on MVA's show in Maharashtra polls

Regarding the Jharkhand elections, Robert Vadra expressed his happiness in the JMM-led mahagathbandhan and said that he hopes the BJP will not 'disturb the ruling party' using ED