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Kharge, Khera, and Meenakshi among 7 Congress RS candidatesCongress has announced seven candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections across five states. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge will ...
SDPI to contest majority of seats in 2027 Gujarat polls; open to alliances, says chief FaizyThe Social Democratic Party of India plans to contest most seats in the 2027 Gujarat assembly elections. The party aims to build its grassr...
Karnataka CM buzz intensifies as Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar meet Congress high command todayKarnataka's top leaders, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, are in Delhi for crucial talks with the Congr...
Assembly Elections 2026: TVK - the rare 'political startup' that turned 'unicorn' instantlyTamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) has followed in the footsteps of parties such as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and...
TMC MP Mitali Bag alleges attack on car by BJP, EC seeks reportTMC MP Mitali Bag took to social media to express her outrage after her car was reportedly vandalized by BJP supporters in Hooghly district...
Will 2026 Tamil Nadu elections be a survival test for key present & former AIADMK leaders like EPS, OPS, Sasikala and DhinakaranTamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026 are shaping up as a crucial test of legacy, leadership and survival within the AIADMK camp, still deeply...
Caste calculus at play: How Tamil Nadu’s key communities could shape the electoral battleTamil Nadu elections are shaped by dominant caste blocs, including Vanniyars in the north, Gounders in the west, and Thevars in the south. ...
Tamil Nadu polls 2026: Avinashi contest tightens as TVK disrupts AIADMK-BJP strongholdThe Bharatiya Janata Party faces a tough contest in Avinashi. The constituency has been an AIADMK stronghold for decades. New entrants like...
Posters declaring Samrat as new Bihar CM put up outside Patna BJP office as Nitish heads to DelhiPosters naming Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary as Bihar's next leader appeared outside the BJP office amid speculation of Nitish Kumar's departu...
Whether Dalit polarisation will reap benefits in Punjab has to be seenOf the 117 seats, 34 (one-third) seats are reserved for the scheduled castes. Among the reserved seats, eight of the 34 reserved seats have...
Meira Kumar achieves what her illustrious dad couldn'tThe SC had upheld Giri's election as president but came to a sad conclusion after evaluating testimonies of politicians, who decades later ...
TRS backs NDA's Ram Nath Kovind, claims credit for nod to Dalit nomineeImmediately after receiving Modi's call, the CM consulted his colleagues. "Later, he conveyed his party's support for the presidential cand...
Choice of Ram Nath Kovind is a political masterstroke by Narendra Modi: Ram Vilas PaswanRam Vilas Paswan asked opposition parties to support the Dalit candidate, claiming that if they put up a candidate against Kovind then they...
To win Uttar Pradesh, Congress makes a cocktail of BJP, BSP and SP formulasIn a state where caste considerations ride high during electoral battles, Dalits form the largest social segment on the Congress list with ...
To break into Mayawati’s dalit base, BJP betting big on non-jatavsJatav community, to which BSP leader Mayawati belongs, constitutes about 55% of Dalit population in UP according to 2011 census, but BJP is...
Asaduddin Owaisi's MIM fields Dalit candidate from Muslim-dominated constituencyExperimenting with his plan of 'Dalit-Muslim unity' ahead of the 2017 UP assembly elections, Owaisi is all set to hold a series of public m...
UP Assembly polls: BJP wooing Dalit vote bank of BSPThe party is in touch with several BSP leaders, who are feeling isolated or been expelled from the party in the recent past.
NGO demands effective monitoring of Rajasthan panchayat pollsCandidates backed by influential leaders get elected due to the influence and those who raise Dalit voice are defeated.
Mayawati fields two Dalit candidates for Rajya SabhaRajaram and Veer Singh, both outgoing MPs in current Rajya Sabha, were fielded from Azamgargh and Moradabad respectively.
Lok Sabha polls: If Narendra Modi is chaiwala, then I'm chalwala (slumdweller), says Madhusudan MistryMistry branded the BJP PM candidate as "casteist" alleging that he was trying to win elections in the constituency by provoking Dalits.