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Lucknow University has decided that Counselling for all the PG courses will be done online for which a candidate is not required to visit the campus.

Deputy chief minister and party coordinator O Panneerselvam announced the list of candidates that the AIADMK is going to field for Lok Sabha election. Only six sitting MPs and one woman candidate have been fielded in the list, while the DMK has fielded two women.

BJP’s first list of candidates from Karnataka is out for the next month’s Lok Sabha elections. The BJP core committee headed by BS Yeddyurappa has shortlisted the names which will be forwarded to the central committee

Out of 175-member Andhra Pradesh Assembly, the BJP announced its candidates for 123 seats along with 54 seats of the 60 in the  Arunachal Pradesh Assembly

Former union minister KV Thomas, the sitting MP of Ernakulam, was replaced by the young legislator Hibi Eden

Former district in-charge minister Manju was a ticket aspirant from the Congress for Hassan seat. But as per the seat-sharing agreement, Prajwal Revanna of the JD(S) will contest from the constituency now. This has angered Manju, who is likely to join BJP to contest against Prajwal
 

Bapatla candidate Nandigam Suresh read out the names of candidates who will be contesting the Lok Sabha and the assembly polls

TDP Lok Sabha candidate Thikka Reddy and ASI Venugopal suffered bullet injuries when the former entered the YSRCP stronghold Mantralayam and tried to hoist the TDP flag

 

Eight women who had contested elections due to the sudden death of their respective husbands have registered massive wins since 1967. This time Sumalatha Ambareesh and Tejaswini Ananth Kumar are in the fray seeking to ride on sympathy vote
 

The CEC of the BJP will begin at 6pm on Saturday where the names of candidates for all the 91 constituencies that fall in the first phase will be discussed . This will be followed by consecutive meetings on March 18 and March 22. 

Supporter Yishtalinga heartily invited Prime Minister Modi to contest from Bagalkot, whereas Congress, in what can be described as a sarcastic expression, invited the Prime Minister to contest from Karnataka
 

Wife of late Ambareesh, Sumalatha, met former chief minister of Karnataka SM Krishna at his residence. Addressing the media later, she said she sought SM Krishna’s blessings for her Mandya candidacy

Chandrababu Naidu will contest from Kuppam constituency, and his son, IT Minister Nara Lokesh will contest from Mangalagiri constituency. They are two among the 126 candidates listed as hopefuls from the Telugu Desam Party in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections

In a grand event, JD(S) national president Deve Gowda launched his grandson Nikhil Kumaraswamy into politics. Nikhil, the son of Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy was also officially declared as the JD(S) candidate for Mandya Lok Sabha seat