Advani terms Maharashtra as a state of record suicides by farmersOctober 8th, 2009 PUNE/AURANGABAD - BJP leader L K Advani has termed the state of Maharashtra the record holder for most cases of suicide by the farmers. The elections to the legislature of Maharashtra are scheduled to be held on October 13.
Chawla asks Maharashtra voters to go along with family to polling boothOctober 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls, chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla has said that voters should go with their families at polling booths in order to prevent bogus voting. "It is necessary because the ration cards in Maharashtra do not carry photos of the family members.
BJP targets Congress-NCP coalition on farmers' suicides in MaharashtraOctober 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader Sushma Swaraj has targeted the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ruling coalition of Maharashtra state on farmers' suicides in the region. Political temperature and blame game between political leaders and parties is on the high ahead of the October 13 polls in the State.
Agitated Shiv Sena activists ransack Manohar Joshi's houseSeptember 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - Senior Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi's house was ransacked here on Sunday by some party workers who were agitated over the neglect of their favourite local leader during ticket allocation for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. According to sources the outrage was over demand of ticket to dadar constituencies sitting MLA for upcoming assembly polls.
Cong election committee meets to finalise candidates for assembly pollsSeptember 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Election Committee of the Congress party met here today to finalise candidates for Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh assembly polls. Prime Minister Dr.
Deshmukh wants Congress to contest Maharashtra assembly polls aloneMay 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Triumphed with his party's success in the Lok Sabha elections, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Sunday said that he wants the Congress party to go alone in the upcoming assembly polls. "We want to contest assembly elections in Maharashtra without aligning with any other party.
Separatists continue poll boycott efforts in KashmirMay 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Separatist leader and Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference or APHC, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have again urged voters to boycott the fifthnd last phase of general elections. Addressing a large gathering at the Jama Masjid on Friday, he urged the people of north Kashmir, who will be casting their votes on May 13, in the last and final phase, to stay away from the polling process.
Residents defy boycott call to cast votes in KashmirMay 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Defying the boycott call given by the separatists, residents came out in large numbers to cast their votes in Kashmir on Thursday. Defying the boycott call, a large number of men and women stood outside the polling station waiting for their turn to cast their votes.
Hurriyat now calls for poll boycottApril 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - The moderate faction of the Hurriyat conference on Thursday took a U-turn on its decision not to call for a poll boycott in Jammu and Kashmir and asked the people to stay away from ongoing general elections. Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that election is no substitute to the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
Moderate Hurriyat not for election boycottApril 16th, 2009 SRINAGAR - In a significant development, the moderate Hurriyat group led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq Thursday decided not to call for a boycott of parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir. After three days of discussions here, the group announced that the elections were no alternative to 'the right to self-determination' but did not specifically ask Kashmiris to keep away from the polls.
Dam affected villagers threaten to boycott pollsApril 13th, 2009 BHOPAL - Over 30,000 villagers in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district - where many villages have submerged due to a dam project - have decided to boycott the polls in protest against the power plant on the Pench river. 'People of 32 villages who have been effected due to the Pench project will Tuesday take a pledge at Ravindra Bhawan in Bhopal to boycott the polls,' Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activist Aradhana Bhargava told IANS.
Sex workers in WB to boycott polls if their demands are not metApril 12th, 2009 SILIGURI - Complaining of neglect and subjugation by the mafia, police and political leaders, the sex workers in Siliguri district of West Bengal have united to boycott polls if their demands are not fulfilled. More than 3,000 sex workers, who residing in the brothels of Siliguri, claim that they have been fighting for years for their recognition.
Sri Lanka Tamils issue: Vijaykanth again offers to boycott pollsApril 1st, 2009 CHENNAI - Actor-turned-politician and DMDK leader Vijaykanth has renewed his offer to boycott the ensuing parliamentary elections to show his solidarity with the Tamils in Sri Lanka, if the bigger Dravidian parties do the same. 'The DMDK would gladly follow suit if the (ruling) DMK and (the main opposition) AIADMK agree to boycott the elections on the Sri Lanka Tamils' issue.
Maharashtra polls on April 16, 23 and 30March 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra goes to the polls over three phases on April 16, 23 and 30 to elect its 48 representatives to the Lok Sabha. Voting for the two Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa will be held on April 23, the Election Commission announced Monday.
Rs.6.2-bn relief package for Maharashtra farmersDecember 29th, 2008 NAGPUR - The Maharashtra government Tuesday announced a relief package worth Rs.6.2 billion (Rs.620 crore) to the crisis-ridden farmers in the state. Nearly four million farmers, who were left out by the central government's Rs.71-billion loan waiver package, are expected to benefit from this initiative.
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