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MUZAFFARNAGAR: “The cow has eaten the BJP,” Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh said, referring to the largescale dest
CHANDIGARH: Issues like women’s reservation and empowerment have quite often found place in the political narrative of diffe
SRINAGAR: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti today filed her nomination from the volatile Anantnag constituenc
LUCKNOW: For the first time in decades, Samajwadi party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav will be contesting the Mainpuri Lok Sabha se
Recently, forty-four media outlets in India and five global digital media companies have been temporarily prohibited from publishing ‘defamat
SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL: Nearly 200 summers ago in 1823 when Major Robert Bruce was released for a ransom paid by the East India Com
ITANAGAR: The gap between the ‘richest’ and ‘poorest’ MP candidates for Arunachal Pradesh’s two Lok
LUCKNOW: Even before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) takes on the opposition in Uttar Pradesh in the general elections, it is fig
SRINAGAR: The prospects of former chief minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti have dimmed with the Congress party yesterday announ
NEW DELHI: “We could not give up Begusarai (to CPI candidate Kanhaiya Kumar) as our candidate had defied the Modi wave in 20
AURANGABAD: BJP-Shiv Sena leaders in Maharashtra are finding it difficult to keep their respective voter constituencies intact as
Ever wonder what other people are thinking? Us too. Thankfully, even as a handful of people with most all the guns and money encourage the upper cl
SRINAGAR: Amid simmering tensions in Kashmir Valley, the five-phased Lok Sabha elections will start from April 11 in Jammu and Kas
SHILLONG: As an independent nation, India is now 72. At this age its democracy should be ripe enough to work for the welfare of th
DATELINE: Donning a yellow scarf around his neck, Navanath Padalkar of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) is campaigning in Baramati
ALIGARH: The stage is being set for a slugfest between the main opposition parties in almost all the Muslim dominated seats in wes
NEW DELHI: Of the group of senior BJP leaders, sidelined and often humiliated in the party, at least one has refused to bite the d
LUCKNOW: Most Shia Muslim voters who talked to The Citizen, asked for one good reason why any Muslim should vote for the Bharatiya
GUWAHATI: Prominent Dalit and youth leader, and MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will curb
PATNA/NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate from Begusarai Tanweer Hasan dismissed the contest from the CPI’s Lok Sa
NEW DELHI: What could have been certain victory in most Lok Sabha seats in UP is now under a question mark with the Congress havin
NEW DELHI: In the midst of the hurly burly of electioneering a fairly significant event was lost. Janata Dal (S) leader Danish Ali
NEW DELHI: A second parliamentary seat for Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Karnataka? Very possible, with speculation rife af
NEW DELHI: ‘Thoda mehenga kha lenge, but Pakistan se dar ke nahi rehenge (we’ll spend more on food and basic
VARANASI: A paan-chewing Sharma Ji drove me from Lucknow to Varanasi. Every patch of good road was praised as the hard work of Pri
NEW DELHI: The Congress party has emerged as a third factor in all states where regional parties were consolidating alliances for
ITANAGAR: Twelve BJP MLAs, including two cabinet ministers, have been denied party tickets to contest the Legislative Assembly ele
The last four weeks have changed the 2019 election dramatically.
Until the Election Commission’s announcement of the poll sche
COOCH BEHAR (WEST BENGAL): If universal adult suffrage is the basis of democracy then such a democracy does not exist in India, as
ITANAGAR: Lobsang Gyatso does not come across as a brazen man. However, anyone who has followed reports of protests against planne
NEW DELHI: “We will bury the Bharatiya Janata Party in Muzaffarnagar in these elections, the very district it used to create
ITANAGAR: The two Lok Sabha seats and all 60 Legislative Assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh will go for elections simultaneously
PATNA/NEW DELHI: The Rashtriya Janata Dal is still unsure about relinquishing the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat for former Jawaharlal N
SRINAGAR: With the country going to polls from April 11, the Election Commission of India’s decision to delay the Jammu and
NAJIBABAD, UTTAR PRADESH: Near the foothills of the Himalayas in a quiet corner of western Uttar Pradesh lies the region popularly
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party has declared its first list of candidates that includes party patriar