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In Uttar Pradesh, the Lok Sabha contest will primarily be between the BJP-led NDA and the Samajwadi Party-Congress INDIA bloc, with the unaligned BSP posing a considerable challenge to both alliances. However, come Sunday, another ‘front’ of smaller parties was announced in the state, with the potential of changing the fortunes of INDIA parties.
Just two weeks after the Election Commission (EC) announced the schedule for the Lok Sabha and four state Assembly polls, 10 BJP candidates for the Arunachal Pradesh Assembly have already won their seats, including Chief Minister Pema Khandu, who also won unopposed in 2014 and 2011 in a bypoll. A sixth of the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh Assembly has been elected unopposed, one seat shy of the record set in 2014, when 11 candidates won without an election.
With the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections less than three weeks away, the poll fray has already been heating up. A day after the Congress revealed that it has received fresh notices from the Income-Tax Department for five years (1994-95 and 2017-18 to 2020-21) asking it to pay over Rs 1,823 crore, the party is set to launch nationwide protests Saturday against what it called the Narendra Modi-led BJP government’s alleged “egregious attack” on democracy and unleashing of “tax terrorism” against the Opposition on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections.
With the general elections underway, among the Election Commission’s (EC) key responsibilities is monitoring poll expenditure, both by parties and individual candidates, through its own observers and state and Central enforcement agencies. While there is no cap on how much parties can spend, candidates are limited to Rs 95 lakh for Lok Sabha constituencies and Rs 40 lakh for Assembly seats. In some smaller states and Union Territories, the cap is Rs 75 lakh and Rs 28 lakh for the Lok Sabha and Assemblies, respectively.
With the general elections underway, among the Election Commission’s (EC) key responsibilities is monitoring poll expenditure, both by parties and individual candidates, through its own observers and state and Central enforcement agencies. While there is no cap on how much parties can spend, candidates are limited to Rs 95 lakh for Lok Sabha constituencies and Rs 40 lakh for Assembly seats. In some smaller states and Union Territories, the cap is Rs 75 lakh and Rs 28 lakh for the Lok Sabha and Assemblies, respectively.
WITH THE return of the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) to its ranks, the NDA hopes to have a repeat performance as in 2019, when it had won 39 of the state’s 40 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress won the remaining single seat.
Among the companies that bought electoral bonds starting April 2019, there are 15 listed in the Nifty 50 index, of whom eight are also listed in the BSE Sensex, as per the data published by the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Election Commission on Thursday.
Among the companies that bought electoral bonds starting April 2019, there are 15 listed in the Nifty 50 index, of whom eight are also listed in the BSE Sensex, as per the data published by the State Bank of India (SBI) and the Election Commission on Thursday.