Chhattisgarh assembly polls

Raipur: Purandar Mishra, an Odia leader was elected from Raipur City (North) Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh on. As a BJP candidate, Mishra defeated Kuldeep Singh Juneja of the Congress party by a margin of 23,054 votes. Mishra…

New Delhi: Voting is being held on Thursday in all 230 assembly seats of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh’s 70 seats. In both these states, it is a faceoff between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. In MP, voting will…

Raipur: Three school teachers returning from polling duty lost their lives when the SUV in which they were travelling had a head-on collision with a truck in Chhattisgarh’s Kondagaon district on Wednesday. These three polling officials…

Bhubaneswar: An Odia BSF jawan, Prakash Chandra Sial, who was seriously injured in an IED (improvised explosive device) blast triggered by Maoists in Kanker of Chhattisgarh succumbed to injuries. Sial hailed from Gopalpur under Bahanaga…

Raipur: Several security personnel were injured in an encounter with the Maoists in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday while voting continued in 20 assembly segments of the state. The exchange of fire continued for around 20 minutes in a forest…

Raipur: Polling is being conducted in 20 assembly segments during the first phase of Chhattisgarh assembly elections on Tuesday, a poll official said. The voting process began at 7 am at Mohla-Manpur, Antagarh, Bhanupratappur, Kanker,…

Raipur: Over 6,400 aged voters in Chhattisgarh will avail the Election Commission of India's vote-from-home facility for senior citizens above 80 years of age and persons with more than 40 per cent disability. The Election Commission has…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) President Sarat Pattanayak, former Union Minister Bhakta Charan Das, and Koraput MP Saptagiri Ulaka are among the 40 star campaigners for Chhattisgarh announced by the AICC. This…

Through a letter, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to reschedule the date of the second phase of the Chhattisgarh assembly elections as it coincides with the Chhath Puja festival. The AAP has…

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released its third list of 11 candidates for coming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh. Till now the AAP released the names of 33 candidates for the Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh where voting for the…