2017 Assembly polls News

Former Gujarat Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela's son Mahendrasinh, a two-time Congress legislator, joined the ruling BJP on Saturday.

The Election Commission of India on Thursday directed that no political party, candidate, organisation or any person will publish any advertisement in print media on February 3 and 4 unless contents of the advertisement proposed to be published have been pre-certified by the political parties and candidates from the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) committee.

Ending days of speculation, the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Wednesday announced it will not contest assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

Despite a bitter power struggle in Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh's ruling party is inching closer to forming an electoral alliance with Congress and a deal is likely to be sealed next week.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) may announce dates for upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur on Wednesday. 

"Should women in the country not get equal rights? SP, BSP and Congress will not speak on (triple talaq) but we do not have any fear. I want to say from this platform that in the coming polls, besides development and eradication of goondas, respect of women should be made a poll issue," Shah said

The Aam Aadmi Party will host a dinner with its leaders Bhagwant Mann and Sanjay Singh in Bathinda on Tuesday to raise funds for its political conference in Muktsar on January 14, which will be addressed by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, ahead of the 2017 Assembly polls.

In a bid to garner support for the 2017 Assembly polls, Samajwadi Party on Sunday kickstarted "Gaon Gaon Akhilesh" campaign to connect with the people.

BSP chief Mayawati said that people in Bihar voted en masse in favour of the grand alliance against the "wrong policies'' of BJP.