Lacklustre Himachal poll campaign endsMay 11th, 2009 SHIMLA - The curtains came down Monday on campaigning for the four Lok Sabha seats from Himachal Pradesh that was by and large devoid of din and colour. Thirty-one candidates are in the fray for the state's four Lok Sabha seats - Shimla (Scheduled Caste), Kangra, Mandi and Hamirpur, where polling will be held in the fifth and final phase May 13.
Campaigning ends for West Bengal's final phase of pollingMay 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - After rising to a crescendo over the past couple of days, campaigning ended Monday in 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal that go to the polls in the final phase Wednesday. The fate of 100 candidates, including Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and eight other women will be decided by 13.8 million electors across 17,136 polling booths spread over three southern Bengal districts, including this state capital.
Jayaprada accuses Azam Khan of launching a cheap campaign against herMay 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi party candidate from the Rampur Lok Sabha seat Jayaprada has accused her fellow SP leader Azam Khan of being involved in cheap campaigning against her, and added that she would take the matter to the Election Commission. The actress-turned politician, who is seeking re-election from Rampur constituency in Uttar Pradesh, further alleged that Khan and his supporters had released CDs and posters that were not good in taste.
Campaigning ends peacefully in SrinagarMay 5th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Campaigning for Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency that goes to the polls Thursday in the staggered Lok Sabha elections ended peacefully Tuesday. 'The campaigning came to an end and no untoward incident happened during the campaign process,' an election official said.
Campaigning ends in Delhi for Thursday's pollingMay 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Campaigning for the seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi that go to the polls Thursday in the penultimate phase of elections ended Tuesday evening with party leaders putting in last ditch efforts to attract voters. Before campaigning ended at 5 p.m, the Congress' star campaigner Rahul Gandhi addressed the media in the morning and a rally in northeast Delhi in the afternoon.
Campaigning ends for second phase polls in West BengalMay 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - The campaign drums fell silent Tuesday evening for the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies going to the hustings in West Bengal May 7. After reaching a crescendo over the last couple of days, campaigning came to an end at 5 p.m., as per Election Commission stipulations.
Campaigning ends in Delhi TuesdayMay 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is to address a rally here in a last minute effort to woo voters before campaigning for parliamentary elections in Delhi ends Tuesday evening. A total of 160 candidates are in the fray for the capital's seven Lok Sabha seats.
Campaigning ends for third phase of pollsApril 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Campaigning for Thursday's third phase of the staggered Lok Sabha elections came to an end Tuesday evening in nine states and two union territories. Polling is to be held in 107 constituencies in Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and Sikkim, besides the union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu.
Campaigning for Goa's two Lok Sabha seats endsApril 21st, 2009 PANAJI - Campaigning for the two Lok Sabha seats in Goa wound up Tuesday evening, with both the ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming they would win both seats with relative ease. Speaking to reporters Tuesday evening, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said that the BJP candidates would be routed April 23, when Goa's approximately 1.2 million voters will cast their ballot.
Campaigning for second phase of Lok Sabha elections ends todayApril 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections will come to an end on Tuesday. The polling will be held on April 23.
Campaigning ends for Manipur's seatApril 20th, 2009 IMPHAL - Campaigning for the second phase of election in Manipur - scheduled a day before the rest of the country - ended Monday, with preparations for the voting almost complete, election officials said. Manipur is the only state where the second phase of elections will be held Wednesday, while in the rest of the country it will be held the following day, the officials said.
Campaigning ends for Chhattisgarh's 11 seatsApril 14th, 2009 RAIPUR - Campaigning for Chhattisgarh's parliamentary elections drew to a close Tuesday with polling officials getting ready to conduct the mammoth exercise that will stretch over 20,967 polling booths and decide the fate of 178 candidates. An electorate of 15.4 million, including 7.6 million women, will vote Thursday in what is essentially a contest between the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress that heads government in New Delhi.
Campaigning ends for first phase of Elections 2009April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Campaigning for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2009 came to an end Tuesday in 15 states and two union territories, which go to the polls Thursday. A total of 1,715 candidates, including 122 women, are in the fray for 124 seats in the first of the five-phased election.
BJP allies find Modi's campaigning a burden: CongressApril 9th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) allies find Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's campaigning in their states a burden, Gujarat Congress president Siddharth Patel said Thursday. 'Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has openly said he is not interested in inviting Modi for poll campaigning in his state.
BSP candidate campaigns on bullock cartMarch 27th, 2009 ETAWAH - A candidate of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Etawah in Uttar Pradesh has adopted unique means for campaigning to woo the voters. Gauri Shankar, who is contesting from Erawah, is trying to woo the voters by campaigning on a bullock cart, a horse cart and rickshaw.
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