A total of 279 candidates, including 14 women, are in the fray for Saturday's polls to the 60-member assembly in Manipur, battling debilitating blockades and dragging insurgency.
Two highways that hog the limelight for all the wrong reasons are the flavour of Manipur's poll season.
If it pays to keep voters in good humour, the ruling Congress and CPI coalition in Manipur has put itself at a disadvantage, alienating nearly 100,000 government employees by not implementing the Sixth Pay Commission's proposals.
Despite being a dry state, barring a few pockets, poll-bound Manipur will enforce three dry days on the Election Commission of India's order. Sobhapati Samom reports.
At least one person was killed and three others injured in a powerful explosion Sunday evening outside the residence of a Congress party candidate in election-bound Manipur, the third attack in the past two weeks, an officer said.
The Trinamool Congress will contest in 48 of the 60 constituencies in the January 28 Manipur Assembly election.
Over 290 candidates are in the fray for the Manipur assembly elections scheduled on January 28, election office said today.
Nearly 35,000 security personnel, including 280 paramilitary forces, have been deployed in Manipur for the upcoming assembly election following threat from militant outfits.
Three insurgents were killed in an encounter with police commandos in Imphal West district of Manipur, police said today.
Militants on Monday exploded a bomb near the house of a Trinamool Congress candidate in Naharup area while an explosive was seized from the residence of another party candidate in Thangmeiband but no was injured, officials said.
Three decades after it was imposed in Manipur to deal with insurgents, the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is still an issue used by parties during electioneering for the January 28 Assembly poll in the state.
Barely eleven days to go, lacklustre campaigning for the coming January 28 Manipur assembly polls is at a very low ebb with candidates confining to hoisting flags at their houses and their supporters.
UPA allies Congress and Trinamool Congress will cross swords in the Manipur assembly polls with both parties putting up 60 and 47 candidates respectively.
Seven persons got burn injuries after explosions caused a major fire in the Indian Oil Corporation’s Guwahati Refinery on Tuesday. The banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) claimed responsibility for the blasts but refinery authorities attributed it to a technical snag.
A five-party alliance's bid to upstage the Congress in Manipur appears to have been nipped in the bud. The culprits: the Bihar-based chiefs of two of its constituents.