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Presidential poll will decide direction of country, whether democracy will remain or not: Yashwant Sinha

July 18, 2022 1:00 pm

Yashwant Sinha said, "Government agencies have become very active, they are causing split in political parties, they are compelling people to vote in a particular way and there is also a game of money involved."

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Chirag Paswan attends NDA meet on presidential poll

July 17, 2022 3:49 pm

Chirag Paswan's presence at the meeting held in Parliament is significant as he had walked out of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar during the assembly polls

Presidential poll fight against misuse of central agencies: Yashwant Sinha

July 12, 2022 7:14 am

Yashwant Sinha alleged that the BJP and the government led by it at the Centre are "deliberately" creating an atmosphere of hate in the country.

J&K Assembly to miss presidential polls for 2nd time in history

June 23, 2022 6:48 pm

There have been precedents of legislative assemblies of states not being part of the presidential polls on account of their dissolution, the first such instance being of Gujarat in 1974.

Presidential poll: TMC's Abhishek Banerjee to attend Oppn meet convened by Sharad Pawar

June 20, 2022 3:07 pm

A senior TMC functionary said its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is likely to represent the party at the opposition meeting convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar on June 21 over the upcoming presidential poll.

Prez poll: Rajnath speaks to key Oppn leaders, Naveen, Nitish as BJP eyes consensus candidate

June 15, 2022 9:30 pm

Singh made the calls to leaders from opposition parties Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Trinamool Congress (TMC), Samajwadi Party (SP), Biju Janata Dal (BJD) among others and enquired from them about their preference for the next President.

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Presidential polls: Congress reaches out to AAP, others

June 11, 2022 8:05 am

Sources said Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress’s point person for holding talks with parties in the Opposition, has spoken to AAP’s Rajya Sabha leader Sanjay Singh.

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As they voted for Kovind and Meira Kumar, Tweeple were busy captioning this Advani pic

July 17, 2017 9:03 pm

Presidential polls: On Monday, as soon as the voting concluded, a photo of L K Advani started doing rounds on the micro-blogging site. The picture shows the senior BJP leader casting his vote through a secret ballot in the Presidential Poll, and Tweeple have started interpreting it in their own way.

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PM Modi congratulates Ram Nath Kovind on presidential poll eve

July 16, 2017 10:26 pm

Modi recalled that the former Bihar governor had worked as a 'sahyogi' (aide) of Morarji Desai when he was the prime minister and said this government will offer all 'sahyog' (cooperation) to him.

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Presidential poll 'historic', all parties maintained dignity of election: PM Modi

July 16, 2017 5:11 pm

Appreciating that all the parties upheld the dignity of the presidential election, PM Modi said that such behaviour highlights the maturity of our democracy. PM Modi further added that it has to be made sure that not a single vote should go wasted in the historic election on Monday.