Over 31 million voters will Thursday decide the political fortunes of 2,148 candidates in 22 Lok Sabha and 154 assembly constituencies in the first phase of polls in Andhra Pradesh. The election authorities have made elaborate arrangements for smooth and free and fair polls in all 10 districts of Telangana including Hyderabad and the north [...]
Here is good news for voters who did not get voter identity cards. The Election Commission has decided to allow genuine voters to exercise their right to vote even if they do not have identity cards. However, the voters should produce any other photo identity card specified by the Election Commission before the polling officer [...]
The elections in Andhra Pradesh have been to be hold on in dual phases on 16th and 23rd of Apr for both Andhra Pradesh public and Indian parliament. The election elect of Andhra Pradesh has taken huge stairs to enroll authorised electorate and embody the names of authorised electorate in the voter list of Andhra [...]
The Chief Minister, Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, has called upon the people not to believe the hallow promises of the Grand Alliance as they have no credibility. He told mediapersons here on Wednesday that present elections are being fought on the Congress credibility and the opposition parties’ policies of betrayal. He said the Congress [...]
Praja Rajyam party president Chiranjeevi assured the Muslim minorities that if his party were voted to power it would provide sense of security to them and launch all necessary programmes for their benefit. Criticising that either the Congress or the Telugu Desam did know the social justice, he said his party had given tickets to [...]
Chief Electoral Officer I. V. Subba Rao here on Tuesday night clarified that films of Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Junior NTR and others who are associated with political parties, could be telecast by TV channels even during the period of enforcement of code for Phase I polling areas (4 p.m. April 14 to 4 p.m. April 16). [...]
ANAKAPALLE: Notwithstanding Praja Rajyam president Chiranjeevi’s charisma, his brother-in-law and film producer Allu Aravind finds it an uphill task to win the Anakapalle Lok Sabha seat. Aravind, who is new to the constitutency, is banking solely on the PRP contestants in all the seven Assembly segments which constitute his Lok Sabha constituency. But owing to [...]
The Praja Rajyam has admitted that it has not given tickets to 104 backward classes candidates, a claim it was making to hype its “social justice.” The allegation that the party had fudged figures was made by the former PR general secretary, Mr P. Prabhakar. The party president, Chiranjeevi, was so stung by the allegations [...]
A sting operation carried out by a TV channel resulted in its woman reporter being jostled right in the Praja Rajyam headquarters on Tuesday. NTV had telecast an alle-ged conversation between the party’s candidate from Bhongir Lok Sabha constituency, Mr Chandram-ouli Goud, and another leader, Mr Sama Prabhakar Reddy, who was denied a ticket from [...]
According to a countrywide survey conducted for The Week magazine, the UPA is expected to get 234 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with Congress emerging as the single largest party with 144 seats. The survey has projected 186 seats for the opposition NDA with BJP being victorious on 140 seats, while the Third [...]
