Elections 2022 highlights: Congress lodges complaint over ‘misuse’ of children in PM Modi’s Gujarat campaign video

Election highlights: Haryana is holding local body elections on Tuesday in several areas.

Gujarat elections will take place on December 1 and 5. (File image) (HT_PRINT)

Gujarat has been witnessing high voltage campaigning for elections scheduled for next month with all top leaders of the BJP, Congress, and AAP urging voters to choose their parties. A total of 788 candidates, including 70 women, remain in the fray for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly polls for 89 of the of the Gujarat Assembly's 182 seats on December 1. ...Read More

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• 22 Nov 2022, 09:48:41 PM IST

  Ahead of polls, Congress alleges corruption in Kejriwal's electricity model, wants CBI probe

  Congress' Ajay Maken has targeted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's electricity model, calling it the "corruption" model, reported ANI.

• 22 Nov 2022, 09:10:13 PM IST

  SC on exploitation of ‘silence of Constitution’ on appointments of ECs, CECs: 'Disturbing trend'

  The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked the exploitation of the "silence of the Constitution" on the appointments of election commissioners and chief election commissioners a "disturbing trend", reported PTI.

• 22 Nov 2022, 08:23:19 PM IST

  Gujarat election: Congress complains to NCPCR against PM Modi's ‘misuse’ of children in campaign

  Congress complains to National Commission for Protection of Child Rights against PM for 'misuse' of children in Gujarat campaign.

• 22 Nov 2022, 07:48:31 PM IST

  ‘Gujarat is going to create history’: Himachal CM Jairam Thakur ahead of polls 

  "It is going to be a one-way election in Gujarat and it is BJP everywhere in the state. Gujarat is going to create history in terms of votes and seats," Himachal CM Jairam Thakur told ANI.

• 22 Nov 2022, 07:06:44 PM IST

  Congress president Kharge calls Centre led 'rozgar mela' an 'election stunt'

  Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi who handed over 71,000 job letters to youths, terming it an "election stunt," reported PTI.

• 22 Nov 2022, 06:13:26 PM IST

  Gujarat election: BJP chief JP Nadda calls AAP ‘banner-based’ party

  BJP president J P Nadda said Tuesday the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will lose the Gujarat Assembly elections as it is a "banner-based party" as against the BJP which is cadre-based.

• 22 Nov 2022, 05:48:45 PM IST

  Haryana panchayat polls: Voting underway to elect 559 panchayat samiti, 78 zila parishad members

  Haryana panchayat elections are being held to elect 559 panchayat samiti members and 78 zila parishad members in 25 blocks of four districts.

• 22 Nov 2022, 05:11:45 PM IST

  Haryana panchayat polls: The results of zila parishad, panchayat samiti to be declared on Sunday

  As panchayat pols in Haryana conclude today, the result of election to zilla parishad and panchayat samiti will be declared on Sunday, while the results of of panches and sarpanches posts is declared on the day of voting itself,  PTI reported.

• 22 Nov 2022, 04:37:35 PM IST

  Gujarat election: 1,621 candidates to contest polls next month

  As deadline to withdraw nominations for next month's Gujarat assembly election got over on Tuesday, an official confirmed 1,621 candidates will contest the polls, PTI reported.

• 22 Nov 2022, 04:06:28 PM IST

  Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging electoral bond scheme on Dec 6

  The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the plea of a Congress leader challenging – a recent notification by which the sale of electoral bonds has been extended by 15 more days in the year of general elections to legislative assemblies of states and Union Territories (UTs) with a legislature – will be heard on December 6.

• 22 Nov 2022, 03:40:29 PM IST

  Gujarat election: Former Cong MLA Kaminiba Rathod joins BJP days ahead of poll

  Former Congress MLA Kaminiba Rathod joined the Bharatiya Janata Party today in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

• 22 Nov 2022, 03:11:09 PM IST

  Gujarat election: Amit Shah attacks Congress, says party always ‘insulted’ Sardar Patel

  Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that the Congress did everything possible to "insult" Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and it has started praising him only ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, reported PTI.

• 22 Nov 2022, 02:31:01 PM IST

  Haryana panchayat polls: 41% voter turnout recorded till 1:30 pm

  As per officials, nearly forty-one per cent of the voters have cast their votes so far in four districts of Haryana in the final phase of the panchayat polls on Tuesday, PTI reported.

• 22 Nov 2022, 02:05:36 PM IST

  Gujarat Assembly elections: Maharashtra allows one day paid leave for voters in border areas

  With the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections next month, the Maharashtra government allowed one day of paid leave for voters of Gujarat, who are working in border districts like Palghar, Nashik, Nandurbar and Dhule, to cast their vote on the polling day.

  The government resolution (GR) also instructed all private companies to follow the order and said that action will be taken in case of violation.

• 22 Nov 2022, 02:04:05 PM IST

  Street plays, magic shows in AAP campaign for MCD polls

  Guitar and magic shows, 1,000 street meetings by star campaigners and street plays are some of the events planned by the Aam Aadmi Party to woo voters for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls during its second phase of campaigning from Wednesday.

• 22 Nov 2022, 09:56:57 AM IST

  Panchayat polls: Voting underway in Haryana

  Polling was underway Tuesday to elect members of zila parishad and panchayat samitis in four districts of Haryana in the third and final phase of the panchayat polls, PTI reported.

• 22 Nov 2022, 07:18:53 AM IST

  AAP MLA allegedly manhandled over MCD polls ticket distribution issue

  AAP MLA Gulab Singh Yadav was allegedly manhandled on Monday by some of his party's workers after an altercation broke out over the issue of distribution of tickets for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls.

• 22 Nov 2022, 06:26:15 AM IST

  Haryana, Faridabad, Palwal, Haryana and Hisar to hold Zila Parishad & Panchayat Samiti today