BJP announces list of seven candidates in Assam

September 22nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Two ministers of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana have filed their nominations for next month's assembly election even before the ruling Congress announces the list of candidates. Forests, Environment and Tourism Minister Kiran Chaudhary Tuesday filed her nomination papers as the Congress candidate from Tosham assembly constituency in Bhiwani district.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Saturday evening announced its list of candidates for the oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. In Maharashtra, where the party is going to contest 119 of the 288 total seats, with ally Shiv Sena contesting the rest, it announced a first list of 66 candidates.

May 16th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Counting of votes for 24 parliamentary seats in the northeast began Saturday amid heavy security arrangements, officials said. Counting of votes began at 8 a.m.

April 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - The ruling DMK Sunday announced candidates for 21 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu. Chief Minister M.

March 28th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Praja Rajyam Party of actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi Saturday announced candidates for 12 Lok Sabha and 60 Andhra Pradesh assembly constituencies. The prominent among the Lok Sabha candidates are former MP Bhuma Nagireddy and former state minister Khaleel Basha.

March 26th, 2009 CHENNAI - Actor-politician Vijaykanth Thursday announced the first list of nine candidates of his DMDK for the Lok Sabha elections. 'Our party will prove to the Tamil masses that the DMDK is a power to reckon with in this state.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPM) on Saturday released its second list of 16 candidates for Kerala, Karnataka and Lakshadweep for general elections. The party will field 14 candidates in Kerala while one candidate each in Karnataka and Lakshadweep.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has released its first list of 11 candidates for Madhya Pradesh and five candidates for Jammu and Kashmir for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The party will contest all 29 seats from Madhya Pradesh.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released names of seven candidates from Assam for the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP, which is in alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in the state, would contest eight seats while rest of the six seats would be fought by the AGP.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Thursday released a list of 25 candidates, including cabinet ministers Kamal Nath and Sontosh Mohan Dev, and four ministers of state, for the Lok Sabha polls in three states and one union territory. The list also figures controversial Assam MP Moni Kumar Subba, whose nationality had been questioned.

March 11th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has termed the tie-up between the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of general elections as an alliance of two 'betrayers'. 'The two (AGP and BJP) betrayers have come together and so the task for us this time has become easy.

March 9th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Sunday admitted that the pre-poll tie-up between the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be a factor in next month's parliamentary elections. 'Yes, AGP-BJP (alliance) would be a factor in the elections, although we have totally stopped thinking of the Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) as the party would have no bearing or impact on the elections,' the chief minister said.

February 25th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal committee of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday approved its candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections, the party's senior leader Shyamal Chakraborty said here. 'We've primarily finalised the list of our candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday released a list of 23 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, taking the number of its contestants announced so far to 71. The names were finalised at a meeting of the party's Central Election Committee held at the party headquarters under the chairmanship of its president Rajnath Singh.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday released a list of 48 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, taking to 96 the number of contestants it has announced so far. The names were finalised at a meeting of the party's Central Election Committee held at the party headquarters with party president Rajnath Singh in chair.