Oct 13 assembly elections: Fact file

September 19th, 2009 RANCHI - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren Saturday said it may break away from the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and contest all seats in the assembly elections due by March next year. "The party workers are in favour of fighting assembly elections alone in the state.

September 9th, 2009 RANCHI - All 22 legislators of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jharkhand Wednesday submitted their resignations to demand immediate assembly elections in the state that has been under president's rule since Jan 19. The legislators handed their resignations to Governor K.

September 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Friday constituted screening committees for shortlisting the candidates for assembly elections in three states scheduled to be held in October. "The Congress president has constituted the screening committees for the ensuing assembly elections, a statement issued by Congress media department here said.

September 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), the main opposition party in Haryana, Friday released the first list of 42 candidates of the party for next month's assembly elections. The list includes the name of INLD national president and former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala (Uchana Kalan), state INLD president Ashok Arora (Thanesar) and several former ministers and legislators.

August 21st, 2009 RANCHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party's Jharkhand unit Friday demanded early assembly elections in the state which is under president's rule since this January. State BJP chief Raghubar Das said Home Minister P.

May 27th, 2009 RANCHI - The Jharkhand unit of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has decided to abandon the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and fight the assembly elections on its own. However, the final decision rests with the central leadership of the party, state JD-U president Jaleshwar Mahto said after a meeting of the state executive Tuesday.

May 22nd, 2009 GANGTOK - The first session of the newly elected 32-member Sikkim assembly commenced Friday with former tourism minister K.T. Gyaltsen being elected as the new speaker of the house.

May 20th, 2009 CHENNAI - By-elections to four assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu will be announced soon, a top election commission official said here Wednesday. 'By-elections for the four vacant assembly seats - Illayankudi, Thondamuthur, Bargur and Cumbum - will be announced soon,' the state's chief electoral officer Naresh Gupta told reporters.

May 16th, 2009 GANGTOK - Counting of votes cast for elections to the 32 assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat of Sikkim began Saturday morning, poll officials said. Counting began at 8 a.m.

April 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - National Conference (NC) patron Farooq Abdullah Monday said that he would file his nomination to contest from the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat along with another party leader, Salman Sagar. 'I and Salman Sagar, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation chairman, shall file nominations for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat,' Farooq Abdullah said at a press conference here.

April 1st, 2009 AIZAWL - The battle lines are drawn for elections to the lone parliamentary seat in Mizoram with the fight expected to be between the ruling Congress party and the independent candidate backed by a combine of the main opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) and Mizoram People's Conference (MPC). Four candidates, C.L.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission has disqualified the candidature of 3,423 candidates for not filing the details of the expenses incurred during the last Lok Sabha or recent Assembly elections. The EC said that the candidates have been disqualified for three years.

March 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) late Saturday announced that they would fight Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Orissa separately, ending their decade-long alliance. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who heads the BJD, told reporters here that his party will fight the Lok Sabha and assembly elections alone.

February 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) may allot its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fewer seats in the coming assembly and general elections, BJD leader Surya Narayan Patro said Wednesday. 'The BJP has lost its grip in many seats and the BJD is considering doing away with the old seat-sharing equations,' Patro, who is also a cabinet minister, told IANS.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former MP Om Prakash Kohli Thursday took charge as the new president of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a month after his party lost assembly elections in the city to the Congress. Kohli succeeds Harshvardhan, who came under criticism after the party lost the battle for power in assembly elections.