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Mysore Lok Sabha Constituency, one of the 28 constituencies in Karnataka, holds significant political importance in the state. Over the years, it has witnessed shifts and developments, shaping its electoral landscape. Mysore 2024 Lok Sabha Polls: Constituency Composition Presently, Mysore Lok Sabha constituency comprises eight legislative assembly segments. Notably, Madikeri and Virajpet were incorporated into Mysore constituency during the Delimitation process in 2007, marking a significant alteration in its composition.

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parliamentary board members held a meeting. According to media reports, the NDA has not given our party due preference in seat-sharing in Bihar. Because of this, there is a lot of disappointment among our party workers," Pashupati Kumar Paras said.

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), starting from August 2022, which means that LIC employees will receive arrears for the past two years, according to a report by CNBC-TV18. With the allowances included, the overall raise could go up to 22 per cent, the report added. The development comes as a relief to more than 1 lakh employees and 30,000 pensioners associated with LIC.

BJP's election campaign in Karnataka on March 16, the day on which the Election Commission is scheduled to announce poll dates and schedules. The PM will address a public rally at Kalaburagi on March 16, Saturday and will again return to the state on March 18 to address another rally at Shivamogga. The rallies will come close on the heels of the BJP announcing its list of candidates.

Karimnagar district is set to see polling activity as the Lok Sabha elections draw closer each day, with the Election Commission of India set to announce dates for the nationwide polls any time now. One of the Telugu state's 33 districts, Karimnagar is an erstwhile Congress stronghold, with the Bharat Rashtra Samithi and the Bharatiya Janata Party taking the seat away from the Gandhi-led outfit in recent years. The seat is currently held by the BJP's Bandi Sanjay, who snagged it from the BRS in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Yediyurappa on Friday said party leader Jagadish Shettar will contest the Lok Sabha election from Belagavi. «Jagadish Shettar met me yesterday. He was not willing to contest from Belgaum (Belagavi) Lok Sabha constituency. I convinced him to contest from there. He has happily agreed to it,» Yediyurappa, a member of the BJP Parliamentary Board, told reporters here. The BJP is yet to officially announce his candidature for the seat. Yediyurappa said there is no doubt that the BJP will win the election from Belagavi with a huge margin.

Election Commission of India (ECI) should play its role in restoring democracy in Jammu and Kashmir and announce dates for both Parliament as well as assembly polls in the Union Territory, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said here on Friday. «We have no expectations from the Election Commission. The EC should play its role as part of its mission of maintaining democracy. It has been 10 years that J-K has not seen an assembly election,» Abdullah told reporters here. Referring to the submission of a report by former President Ram Nath Kovind-led committee on 'one nation one election, the former J-K chief minister said it was a golden opportunity to start the policy from J-K. «The former president has submitted a report on 'one nation, one election'. What can we hope for from them: drum-beating 'one nation one election' if you do not start from J-K. Is it to fool the people?

Follow Electoral Bonds Data Live updates here However, there's no way to find out which donor/company donated how much to which political parties. This was despite the Supreme Court raising concerns in its February 15 judgement that the now-scrapped Electoral Bond Scheme can lead to quid pro quo. In later rulings, the Supreme Court said the State Bank of India (SBI) does not need to match the names of electoral bond buyers with specific political parties.

Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) MLC K Kavitha was taken into custody on Friday evening. The development came hours after Income Tax Department (I-T) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials conducted searches at her Hyderabad residence, according to media reports. Earlier on Friday, at least 10 officers from both agencies from New Delhi had conducted searches in the presence of Kavitha and her husband D Anil Kumar. It was not clear if the action is linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy linked case of the central agency in which the ED has questioned the BRS MLC and daughter of former Telangana chief minister Chandrashekar Rao, PTI reported citing official sources. The ED had claimed Kavitha was linked to a «South Group» lobby of liquor traders who were trying to play a larger role under the now scrapped Delhi excise policy for 2021-22.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday denied any link between the functioning of investigative agencies, including ED raids, and electoral funding to the ruling party, saying these allegations are just assumptions. «What if the companies gave the money, and after that, we still went and knocked at their doors through ED (Enforcement Directorate). Is that a probability or not...It is an assumption that the ED went and knocked at their doors, and to save themselves they came up with funds. The second assumption is that are you sure that they have given (electoral bonds) to BJP. What if they probably gave to regional parties,» she said while speaking at India Today Conclave. The finance minister's comments came a day after the Election Commission of India published a list of subscribers of the electoral bonds and funds mobilised by various political parties. The list provided by State Bank of India, the issuer of electoral bonds, was published after the order of the Supreme Court.

The Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu is expected to see a big battle this time. As per reports, the INDIA alliance will put up a single candidate from the seat to not split votes among opposition parties. Reportedly, CPI-M and Congress might not announce any candidate from the seat which will held MK Stalin-led DMK to field a storng candidate to take on BJP which is expected to announce the name of a strong candidate for the Coimbatore seat. Coimbatore 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Date The Election Commission will announce the dates for 2024 general elections on March 16.

Congress got only 11 percent," the Congress President said. Mallikarjun Kharge demanded a special investigation into the donations made through electoral bonds and said that the account of the BJP must remain frozen till the completion of the probe. "Even our voter pattern (percentage) if you see we are nearly one-third and the rest of the people are two-third including BJP, but in donations, they got more than 50 percent.

Marathwada region, the constituency has seen clash between BJP and Congress. However, in recent times, apart from the national players, regional parties have also stepped up and played a role in the electoral battle. After the implementation of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies, Nanded Lok Sabha constituency comprises six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. Nanded Lok Sabha 2024: Dates The Indian Election Commission is scheduled to reveal the date for the 18th Lok Sabha elections on March 16 at 3 pm. The ECI has stated that the dates for the Lok Sabha elections and several state assembly polls will be announced simultaneously. It is anticipated that the elections will take place across the country during the months of April and May.

Piyush Goyal, 59, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles, as well as Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, hit the campaign trail must be when he was a young boy when his mother fought corporation polls in Mumbai after the Emergency and later assembly polls in the nineties. Now Goyal is part of a sizable group of BJP's Rajya Sabha MPs who have been fielded in Lok Sabha elections as the party aims to cross the 400-seat mark. Names of Goyal, Sarbananda Sonowal, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, V Muraleedharan: Anil Baluni and Bhupendra Yadav have been announced while Nirmala Sitharaman and S. Jaishankar are likely to join this group. In his 14-year-long career (for he was first elected to Rajya Sabha in 2010), Goyal has emerged as a deft minister and a politician well-versed in the art of the possible. His first electoral tryst will not be a coming-of-age act but a rite of passage he skipped as he gained stature. The go-to man for the party as well as the government, Goyal is now going to the people. He has been fielded from Mumbai North constituency.

2024, all eyes are on Meerut Parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The election, anticipated to be held in April this year, awaits formal confirmation from the Election Commission of India (ECI) in March. Meerut Lok Sabha Elections: Voting Schedule and Result Announcement The precise voting date for the Meerut Lok Sabha constituency in the upcoming 2024 elections is yet to be declared by the Election Commission. Similarly, the result announcement date awaits official confirmation in March.

Maharashtra. For the 18th Lok Sabha, BJP has tried to stir things up and announce Union Minister Piyush Goyal as the candidate for this constituency. The change left many surprised as BJP's Gopal Shetty has been winning this seat for the past two Lok Sabha polls and has a stronghold in the constituency. 18th Lok Sabha will also be a chance for Mumbai-born Goyal to set foot in the Lower House as he has been part of the Parliament as a member of the Upper House. «Of course, I am very excited. I am looking forward to a decision being made by the party leaders and I do hope that I get an opportunity to contest. It will be my privilege,» Goyal told PTI recently when asked about his plans for contesting Lok Sabha elections. Mumbai North Lok Sabha 2024: Date

Congress MLA from Mhow, Antar Singh Darbar, and his senior party colleague from Indore, Pankaj Sanghvi, were among many leaders from the grand old party who joined the BJP in Madhya Pradesh on Friday. The leaders officially changed their political allegiance in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday. Sanghvi was the Congress candidate from Indore in the 2019 general elections. The new BJP joinees said that they embraced the saffron party after being impressed by the «magnificent works and developmental activities» being carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the country and CM Yadav in MP.

Stalin is prominent among the INDIA bloc leaders, who will attend the concluding rally of the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Mumbai on Sunday, a Congress leader said. Talking to PTI on Friday, Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra assembly, Vijay Wadettiwar, said apart from Stalin, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav have also confirmed their participation in the March 17 rally to be held at Shivaji Park in Dadar area of central Mumbai. Representatives from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and other allies of the opposition alliance will also remain present, he said. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv Sena (UBT) head and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar will also participate in the event.