The exit poll surveys conducted by various media houses and independent organizations predicted that both Congress and BJP would fight each other equally in getting the majority in the assembly elections held for 222 constituencies in the state. But the JDS would play a decisive role in the government formation.
Former Vice President M. Hamid Ansari on Saturday wrote a letter to Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) President Mashkoor Ahmed Usmani confirming that there was breach of security during May 2 programme.
Upset over not providing basic facilities to her village, a woman tried to commit suicide at a polling station in the district on Saturday.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday advised the security forces to ensure safety and security of civilian life and property while carrying out anti-militancy operations, an official statement said.
The deceased has been identified as Umesh Kumar, a native of Uttar Pradesh's Etah district, and was found murdered in the morning at his residence in Jahangirpuri in north Delhi.
JDS state president and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy said that the Election Commission has failed to check the election-related malpractices in the Karnataka Assembly election.
Despite losing a family member, the grief-striking family members reached the polling station and exercised their votes at Naganur in Surapura taluk of Yadgiri district on Saturday and this attracted appreciation from all corners. A family member was died at the house of Somanna of the village.
Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha said the figure was likely to go up as data was still being collated from various polling stations where people queued up beyond 6 p.m. when the voting was supposed to end.
A person who was coming to Kulalu polling station for voting in Kolnadu village in Bantwala constituency died of cardiac arrest here on Saturday.
A court here on Saturday directed Tihar jail authorities to produce before it, on Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's nephew Vinay Bansal arrested in connection with an alleged scam worth Rs 6 crore in the Public Works Department (PWD).
