AMRITSAR: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Amritsar Lok Sabha Constituency and former ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu Samani said that central funds should be investigated under Amritsar Smart City project and we will investigate it. Strict action will be taken against the officials if found guilty.

CHANDIGARH: The Congress party today suspended senior party leader and Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary for anti-party activities. He is son of former MP and minister late Santokh Singh Chaudhary.

The State Election Commission has decided to make special arrangements for the high-profile Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha Constituency.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) got a boost in Jalandhar when BJP Scheduled Castes Morcha Vice President Robin Sampla left his party and joined it on Tuesday.

JALANDHAR: The Punjab Provincial Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy firmly holds that the present combination of BJP-RSS and its central govt. is determinedly bent upon to establish a full-fledged Fascist system in our country if it wins the ongoing lok-sabha election 2024. To put this line into practice, BJP-RSS govt. has already started implementing the centralization of administration and political sphere.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today appointed leading lawyer and party chief spokesperson Arshdeep Singh Kler as coordinator of the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat.

DHARAMSALA: As the legislative assembly by-election approaches in Dharamshala on June 1st, political tensions are escalating. The Congress party has yet to announce its candidate for the seat, previously held by Sudhir Sharma. In the 2022 Himachal Assembly elections, Sharma was elected as a Congress representative but later switched allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), now contesting the by-election under its banner.

PHAGWARA: As senior Congress leader Mohinder Singh Kaypee quit the Congress party to join Akali Dal on Monday, Phillaur MLA Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary said that the candidature of Charanjit Singh Channi had wreaked havoc in the Jalandhar Congress and the party high command needed to wake up from its long slumber to salvage the sinking ship.

IMPHAL: Fresh polling in 11 polling stations in the Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency is underway amid tight security on Monday, officials said.

AGARTALA: The Election Commission (EC) has so far suspended 18 Tripura government staff for participating in political events and election campaigns in violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), an official said on Sunday.

AMRITSAR: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Amritsar Lok Sabha Constituency and India's Ambassador to America Taranjit Singh Sandhu Samari has requested the state government to immediately compensate the farmers for the heavy damage caused to wheat and other crops due to heavy rain, wind and hail. requested from BJP candidate Taranjit Singh Sandhu after bowing at Dera Har Bhagat Dwar of village Jethuwal of Attari constituency.

LUCKNOW: ‘Ab ki baar, 400 paar’ -- this is the only election slogan that is reverberating in the political arena in Uttar Pradesh.

KOLKATA: The tribal-dominated Purulia Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal is the only seat where the Congress-Left Front bonhomie got derailed as one of the front allies refused to honour the seat-sharing agreement.

DAHOD: Dahod, a key Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat, remains a significant battleground for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.

CHENNAI: DMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Water Resources Minister S. Duraimurugan has said that the DMK-led alliance would sweep the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu.

LUCKNOW: The ongoing Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh are witnessing the emergence of new generations from families with a history in politics.

NEW DELHI: Three weeks after the INDIA bloc held a mega rally in the national capital, the constituent parties are set for a show of strength in Ranchi on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address one public meeting each in Rajasthan's Jalore and Banswara districts, respectively, on Sunday.

JAIPUR: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a scathing attack against the Congress in Rajasthan's Kota, saying that had people voted for the Congress in the 2019 general elections, Kota would have turned into a stronghold of the now banned Popular Front of India (PFI).

AMRITSAR: Aam Aadmi Party candidate Cabinet Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal today addressed the people in the corner meetings conducted under the leadership of MLA from Constituency East Madam Jeevanjot Kaur.

SURAT: The nomination form of Nilesh Kumbhani, the Congress candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha seat, has come under scrutiny.

PHAGWARA: To further strengthen the sense of security among people during the Lok Sabha elections, Phagwara Police led by DSP Phagwara Jaspreet Singh, took out a flag march in Phagwara on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Denied a ticket from the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat by the Congress, which her husband Santokh Chaudhary served as MP twice, Karamjit Kaur on Saturday joined the BJP along with AICC secretary and co-incharge of Himachal Pradesh, Tajinder Bittu.

BENGALURU: A total of 337 candidates in Karnataka on Friday filed their nominations for the 14 Lok Sabha seats on the last date of the submission of nominations. These seats will go for polling on May 7, the State Election Commission said.

CHANDIGARH: In a first-of-its-kind initiative to sensitize voters and gather their suggestions to make the electoral process more efficient and transparent in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C held a Facebook live session, 'Talk to your CEO Punjab,' with the people of Punjab on Friday.

BHOPAL: Voting for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in six constituencies of Madhya Pradesh began at the scheduled time of 7 a.m. on Friday.

ITANAGAR: Voting for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh began on Friday morning under heavy security blanket, officials said.

AIZAWL: Voting for the lone Mizoram Lok Sabha seat began on Friday morning amidst heavy security cover, officials said.

PHAGWARA: Former Punjab Minister and Four Times Congress MLA, Veteran Congress Leader Amarjit Singh Samra has strongly opposed the decision of the congress high command to allot Congress ticket to Former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from Jalandhar Lok Sabha Seat.

CHANDIGARH: In a unique initiative, Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sibin C will go live on social media platform Facebook from 11:00 am to 11:30 am on Friday, April 19 to to respond to queries raised by voters related to Lok Sabha Elections 2024. The live event has been named 'Talk to Your CEO Punjab'.

NEW DELHI: Over 16.63 crore voters in 1.87 lakh polling stations across the country will decide the fate of 1,625 candidates in the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Friday.

ZAGREB: The ruling centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), led by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, won most seats in the parliamentary elections a day before, but failed to obtain enough seats to form a government independently.

HYDERABAD: The Election Commission on Thursday issued notification for elections to 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana along with by-election to Secunderabad Cantonment Assembly constituency on May 13, setting the stage for a three-cornered contest among the ruling Congress, opposition BRS and the BJP.

JAIPUR: Around 2.54 crore people are eligible to vote for the 12 parliamentary constituencies in Rajasthan which will go to polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election on April 19, officials have said.

CHANDIGARH: In order to curb unfair activities and ensure fair and transparent elections in Punjab, enforcement agencies have seized drugs, liquor, unaccounted-for cash, and freebies worth Rs 243.95 crore in the past month since the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections came into force on March 16.