TDP names 27 candidates for Andhra assembly polls

October 4th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - At least 67 candidates, contesting the Haryana assembly elections, have criminal cases pending against them for murder, attempt to murder and extortion, an NGO said here Sunday. We have scrutinized the affidavits of 489 candidates of political parties contesting the Haryana assembly polls.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After President Pratibha Patil's son, the Congress has named the offspring of two union ministers in its third list of candidates for Maharashtra assembly elections. The list that was announced past midnight Thursday has the names of Amit Deshmukh, son of Heavy Industries minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, and Praniti Shinde, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's daughter, as candidates from Latur City and Solapur City Central constituencies, respectively.

September 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Monday announced its second list of 40 candidates for the Oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana. The party also finalised the names of candidates for by-election to three seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly, according to an official statement here.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Issuing its first list of candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday gave ticket to Poonam Mahajan, the daughter of the deceased BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan from Ghatkopar West area. In its first list of candidates for the Assembly elections, BJP announced the names of 66 candidates of which 23 are sitting MLAs who have been given the tickets.

April 23rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - The police in Andhra Pradesh Thursday placed two candidates of ruling Congress party and the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the state's Guntur district under house arrest to ensure peaceful polling. M. Venkataramana Rao, state minister for ports and airports and Congress party candidate from Repalle assembly constituency in Guntur district and his rival A.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The staggered 15th Lok Sabha elections begin Thursday. Here are some facts about the first of the five phases of the polls in which 17 states and union territories will elect representatives to the parliament: Total number of parliamentary constituencies: 124 States/union territories going to polls: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Maghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.

April 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Leaders of all political parties made a last-ditch attempt to woo voters on the last day of campaigning Tuesday for the first phase of simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and the Andhra Pradesh assembly Tuesday. Loudspeakers fell silent and parties stopped canvassing at the stroke of 4 p.m.

March 31st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Over 300 candidates from different political parties as well as independents have filed their nominations for 22 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh, poll officials here said Tuesday. These parliamentary constituencies along with 154 assembly segments spread over 14 districts in Telangana and north coastal Andhra Pradesh would go to polls in the first phase on April 16.

March 25th, 2009 HYDERABAD - There is trouble ahead for the four-party opposition combine in Andhra Pradesh as the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Wednesday unilaterally declared it would contest 20 seats in the next month's assembly elections. CPI-M, one of the constituents of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)-led alliance, denied that the seat sharing agreement with TDP was finalised.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Election authorities on Monday issued a notification to conduct polls in 154 Assembly constituencies in the North Coastal Andhra and Telangana regions during the first phase of the election. The authorities have made elaborate arrangements for the filing of nominations by the candidates in these constituencies.

March 22nd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Archana Nayak, the only woman MP in Orissa's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Nayak, who has organised and led many women's movements in Orissa against dowry, violence against women and other such issues, said she quit the BJD as it would be unable to fight the Congress in the assembly and parliamentary polls after splitting with the BJP.

March 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Andhra Pradesh Government on Friday forwarded the names of three Police officers to the Election Commission for it to name the State's new Director General of Police (DGP). The names were forwarded after the Election Commission had ordered the transfer of current DGP S.

March 18th, 2009 HYDERABAD - The Congress Central Election Committee has finalised the names of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh, which include Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's son Y.

March 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has received a total of 600 applications from party workers expressing their desire to contest the polls from 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state, a party official said Tuesday. 'The poll observers appointed by the party to look for suitable candidates today (Tuesday) submitted the names of the party workers who are keen to contest the polls after meeting a total of 8,000 workers across the state,' BJP state general secretary Vijay Rupani told reporters here.

March 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - All political parties in Andhra Pradesh have welcomed the Election Commission's decision to hold two-phase polling in the state for both the Lok Sabha and the state assembly. Andhra Pradesh will go to the polls April 16 and 23.