Assembly Elections 2023: Why unconditional cash transfers to women are here to stay
Assembly Elections 2023: There is justice in the poll promises that political parties are making to women voters, whose assertion at the polling booth in terms of turnout and independent choices is only too evident to these parties. Women are hindered in many ways in improving their economic condition – think of the abysmally low workforce participation rate and land ownership – and unconditional cash transfers provide a remedy through redistribution
Telangana polls: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao files nomination from Gajwel segment
K Chandrasekhar Rao, who reached Gajwel by a chopper, submitted his nomination to the Returning Officer. After filing the paper, he went around the ground there in an open-top vehicle wishing BRS activists and people who gathered there.
Assembly Elections 2023: BJP’s three-man army of PM Modi, HM Shah and CM Adityanath is working to a plan
Assembly Elections 2023: The three top leaders are executing specific roles: PM Modi has the responsibility of countering the Congress party’s overtures to voters, home minister Amit Shah is marshalling the frontlines with sharp talking points and the backroom through faction management, while Yogi Adityanath is projecting the hardline Hindutva stance
BRS is Telangana people's 'A' team, nobody's 'B' team: Rama Rao
Countering Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's comments that the ruling BRS is the B-team of BJP, he said it did not have any tie-up with the saffron party even in the local body elections.
Telangana polls: CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to file nomination papers at Gajwel, Kamareddy today
After filing his nomination papers, he will address a poll rally at Kamareddy in the afternoon, official sources said.
Congress appoints Ramesh Chennithala as senior observer for Telangana assembly polls
It also appointed more observers for some Lok Sabha seats in the southern state for the November 30 assembly polls.
Telangana polls: BJP releases 'chargesheet' against BRS govt
Senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, who is the party's election in-charge in Telangana, claimed there is anger among people that the BRS government has betrayed them.
Majority of sitting MLAs in 5 poll-bound states are crorepatis, many face criminal cases, shows data
Telangana MLAs are the richest of the five, and the state also has the maximum share of MLAs with criminal cases registered against them. No state has done too well when it comes to female representation.
BJP, Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena to contest Telangana assembly polls together
The BJP and Jana Sena, led by actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan, both NDA partners, have reached an understanding for the Telangana assembly polls, BJP MP K Laxman said
Telangana Assembly polls 2023: CPI (M) announces candidates for 14 seats
CPI(M) state secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram would contest from Palair in Khammam district, while former MLA Julakanti Ranga Reddy would seek re-election from Miryalguda
Telangana Assembly Elections 2023: 100 nominations filed for assembly polls on 1st day
The nominations would be scrutinized on November 13, while November 15 is the last date for the withdrawal of candidatures, according to the schedule of the election.
EC issues notification for November 30 Telangana assembly polls
According to the notification, the nomination filing process for the polls would begin today and they would be accepted from 11 AM to 3 PM on working days till November 10.
Telangana Elections 2023: KCR fighting from a second seat suggests all is not well in Gajwel
Telangana elections 2023: KCR’s decision to contest from Kamareddy may have followed the huge rumblings of discontent in Gajwel, a constituency he assiduously nurtured and which has gained much from having the CM as its MLA. To make matters worse for KCR, his sworn rival BJP’s Etela Rajender is making a strong pitch for community votes
Assembly Elections 2023: BJP dares Congress to bat on its Ram Mandir poll pitch
Assembly Elections 2023: Union home minister Amit Shah has sent out a loud declaration of intent by raising the Ram Mandir inauguration at Kamal Nath’s Chhindwara. Apart from political rhetoric from PM Modi and HM Shah, the activity at the grassroots – mobilising people in batches of 25 from each village to visit Ayodhya – is a sure sign of how the discourse around the temple will play out at every tier of society
Assembly Elections 2023: Congress relies on surveys to curb internal tussles over ticket distribution
Assembly Elections 2023: While factions retain their sway over the Congress at the state and district levels, the institutionalising of surveys to identify candidates with the greatest winnability has introduced a new dynamic in the bargaining between the high command and regional satraps. The coming elections will reveal the efficacy of the process
Telangana Elections 2023: A serial defector sums up BJP and Congress’s wildly fluctuating fortunes
Telangana Elections 2023: In 2022, when Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy defected to BJP from Congress, the saffron party was on a high in Telangana after a string of impressive wins. But he lost a bypoll, BJP lost momentum in the state, Congress regained its mojo after Karnataka, and lo, Reddy is coming back home
Congress holds meet to decide names of candidates for Telangana polls
Chaired by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, the meeting was attended by former party chief Sonia Gandhi, besides members of the Committee and Telangana leaders, including PCC chief A Revanth Reddy.
In Charts | KCR battled high inflation, unemployment in Telangana, but scored in FDI and fiscal discipline
A graphical snapshot of the economy of Telangana as it gears up for its third assembly election shows the ruling BRS battling anti-incumbency amid high inflation and unemployment. However, the state has done well comparatively when it comes to reining in its fiscal deficit, attracting foreign investments and improving its digital penetration
Assembly elections 2023: Telangana statehood continues to be poll plank for parties
The state, which will go to polls on November 30, will witness a traingular fight among BRS, BJP and Congress, Each party is trying to take credit for Telengana statehood in order to woo voters.
Assembly elections: Newton actor Rajkummar Rao appointed Election Commission's national icon
Earlier personalities such as Pankaj Tripathi, Aamir Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, and MC Mary Kom were appointed national icons by the poll body.
Telangana Elections 2023: Former Naxals make a beeline for electoral politics
From Congress’s Seethakka to BJP’s Etela Rajender, a host of former Naxals have found a happy hunting ground in Telangana’s electoral politics. It’s not really a surprise, given the state’s long tryst with left wing extremism and the dominance that the People’s War Group once enjoyed over vast swathes of North Telangana
Women electorate in focus as parties step up outreach in key state polls
With this bloc having emerged as crucial voter segment, the BJP and Congress in particular have pulled out all stops to bring them into their fold
Assembly Elections 2023: For Congress, a test of its OBC strategy before Lok Sabha polls
Assembly Elections 2023: Congress’s outreach to OBCs and its promise to carry out a nationwide caste count and remove the 50 percent cap on reservations for SCs/STs and backward classes will first be tested in the assembly polls before the Lok Sabha elections next year. But winning back the OBC vote from BJP won’t be easy
Three Lok Sabha MPs in BJP's list of 52 candidates for Telangana polls
In the BJP's initial list of 52 candidates for the November 30 state assembly elections, three Lok Sabha MPs, including former Telangana president Bandi Sanjay Kumar, were featured.
