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Finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema addressing masses in Dirba constituency of Sangrur district. (Express Photo)

Punjab rural polls: Parties make last-minute push as campaigning ends

December 12, 2025 7:51 pm

BJP Pathankot MLA Ashwani Sharma campaigned across the rural areas of his constituency on Thursday and Friday.

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Bengal BJP MP urges Cong, Left to join hands with it to defeat TMC in rural polls

November 09, 2022 9:38 am

The ruling TMC claimed that Khan's appeal proved that the three parties have a tacit understanding in West Bengal.

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One-third of Odisha rural poll posts won unopposed, 90% of them by BJD

January 28, 2022 4:15 pm

The opposition alleged the ruling BJD had threatened candidates from other parties to withdraw their nominations and used foul means to keep them away.

TN civic polls: 22-year-old to head Venkatampatti panchayat, will focus on providing water in drought-hit region

October 15, 2021 1:27 pm

R Sharu Kala, an engineering graduate, says providing drinking water at the village residents’ doorstep is her top priority

Vijay Makkal Iyakkam makes a grand entry in rural local body polls

October 14, 2021 10:41 am

The performance comes as a surprise in the state’s political arena as even the veteran actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan’s party Makkal Needhi Maiam or filmmaker-politician Seeman’s Naam’s Tamizhar Katchi failed to open their accounts.

Tamil Nadu: With only 1 vote, BJP functionary contesting as independent invites ridicule

October 13, 2021 12:43 pm

D Karthik was contesting in the Tamil Nadu rural local body polls at Kurudampalayam panchayat in Coimbatore. Family members had votes in a different ward, he says.

Stalin-led DMK meet deliberates gearing up for rural polls in TN

August 09, 2021 8:48 am

The meeting deliberated on gearing up for polls in the nine districts of Kancheepuram, Chengelpet, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi, party sources said.

From 2008 to 13,SAD-BJP maintain rural supremacy

April 14, 2014 1:53 pm

Congress slips in Majha,Akalis in Doaba

Results today; SAD,Congress hopeful of good performance

May 21, 2013 3:13 am

Rural polls: Counting from 8 am for 25 Zila Parishad and 226 Block Samiti seats.

Govt rules out central forces for panchayat polls

March 31, 2013 3:00 am

The stand-off between the West Bengal government and state election commission (SEC) over deployment of central paramilitary forces for the rural polls continued today as the state government,in its reply to the SEC,ruled out the possibility of deploying central paramilitary forces during the panchayat polls.