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Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu

N Chandrababu Naidu's plan put on hold after UP poll results

N. Chandrababu Naidu has been trying to attract Muslim voters so that he can flaunt the TD's secular credentials.

12 March 2017 1:01 AM IST

Telangana CM K.Chandrasekhar Rao

After UP, K Chandrasekhar Rao may rethink early polls

CM was toying with idea of calling snap election.

12 March 2017 12:56 AM IST

Prashant Kishor, Election strategist

Assembly poll hustings: Poll strategists still in vogue

Social media engineering and data analysis done by various poll strategists also played their part in a big way.

11 March 2017 8:50 PM IST

BSP supremo Mayawati at an election rally. (Photo: PTI)

Assembly election results 2017: EC rejects Mayawati's claim of rigging...

The Commission also listed a series of mechanical and electronic measures it takes to prevent tampering of the EVM.

11 March 2017 8:43 PM IST

Tamilisai Soundararajan

Will go to civic polls, by-election with vigour: TN BJP

The local body elections in the state will be held before May 14.

11 March 2017 8:38 PM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, looks on during a press conference in Lucknow, India, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (Photo: PTI)

On tubeless cycle', Akhilesh doesn't go far; needs Dad to show him the...

Akhilesh will now be remembered as the CM BJP demolished in its biggest ever win, in the country's most prestigious...

11 March 2017 8:38 PM IST

Chief Minister KCR and his daughter Kavitha have accumulated thousands of acres of land near Yadagirigutta and that is the reason they want to make it as a district.

Muslim quota bill to be passed in ongoing Budget session: KCR

The state government clarified that reservation is proposed not on basis of religion, but for upliftment of backward...

11 March 2017 7:51 PM IST

The Munsiff court magistrate N.Suresh on Thursday awarded a six-week jail sentence for the Madurai district Collector and the Melur Tahsildar for not complying with a High Court order even after two years on a land patta issue.

Won't attend Supreme Court contempt hearing on March 31: Justice...

Asked whether he would attend contempt hearing scheduled for March 3, he answered in the negative, saying 'why should...

11 March 2017 7:45 PM IST

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. (Photo: PTI)

UP poll results: Akhilesh resigns, says alliance with Congress to...

He submitted his resignation to Governor Ram Naik who accepted it and asked him to continue till further arrangements.

11 March 2017 7:44 PM IST

BJP President Amit Shah waves at party workers who welcome him on his arrival at the party headquarters after partys win in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Assembly elections, in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

UP election results 2017: Who will be BJP's CM choice after huge win?

The BJP had not announced a candidate for CM's post before the polls, and several leaders are said to be in the fray.

11 March 2017 7:34 PM IST

Prashant Kishor, Election strategist

AAP one of the tough competitors we faced: Prashant Kishor

He also congratulated Amarinder Singh, Congress's chief ministerial candidate, for party's victory.

11 March 2017 6:13 PM IST

Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav addresses a public meeting near Aligarh. (Photo: AP)

Despite push by Congress, Akhilesh's cycle punctures in UP

Akhilesh's 'kaam bolta hai' slogan failed to strike a chord with the voters of Uttar Pradesh who rejected the Samajwadi...

11 March 2017 6:09 PM IST