VVPAT machine, EVMs to be used in Gujarat elections, EC declares

A K Joti informed that a candidate could put a complaint before the RO if he/she had doubts about any defect in the VVPAT machines.

Knives out for Akhilesh Yadav after UP civic poll fiasco

Party leaders, who spoke on condition of anonymity, squarely blamed party president Akhilesh Yadav for the party’s defeat in municipal elections.

The AAP, expectedly, plans to focus on middle class voters and the deprived sections of society for the Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP secured a massive victory in the civic polls in Uttar Pradesh on Friday and the BSP finished a distant second.

The BSP won just two mayoral posts in Aligarh and Meerut, whereas, Congress and Samajwadi Party failed to win a single mayoral seat.

The UP CM said that critiques of the Gujarat development model should do some ground work, instead of 'loosing arrows in the air.'

The Congress bettered its performance by ranking number two in Varanasi, Moradabad and Mathura.

BJP's mayor candidates were leading in Meerut, Saharanpur, Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Gorakhpur as per initial trends.

Residents of government colonies in Lucknow also said that their names were struck off the voters’ list.

Lucknow has thrice sent a woman to the Lok Sabha as its representative with Sheila Kaul being elected in 1971, 1980 and 1984.