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Anitha Kumaraswamy will be the party candidate to contest from Karnataka's Ramanagara constituency for the upcoming by-poll elections. Anitha is HD Kumaraswamy’s wife and JD(S) faces the fall of encouraging dynasty politics.

To encourage voters to exercise their franchise, in view of the low turnout during the first phase of polling, the Election Commission has extended the voting period from 9 to 10 hours

Nadira is contesting as an AISF candidate at AJ College, Thozhakkal in Thiruvananthapuram. 
 

BJP state general secretary CT Ravi expressed his displeasure to the media in Mangaluru, Karnataka, on holding Lok Sabha by-polls in the state in November, which will not permit a full term to the candidate that wins the election.

This is the first phase of the urban local bodies polls in Jammu and Kashmir, which will be held for the first time in 13 years. Security has been tightened for the elections in 422 of the state's 1,100 municipal wards.

'Today all our MLAs, MLCs, district president and core committee have decided that this time for Shivamogga's Lok Sabha constituency, our BY Raghavendra will be the candidate,' said  Karnataka BJP leader KS Eshwarappa.

The Election Commission today announced the dates of polls to the Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram. With this announcement, the four state governments will be debarred from certain activities. Here are the details.

Congress and JD(S) claim that with Ananth Kumar being unwell, his wife may contest from Bengaluru south for 2019 Lok Sabha election. BJP leaders say that Ananth Kumar is doing better and is healthy. He will only contest and win.
 

The verdict was pronounced on a batch of pleas raising a question whether lawmakers facing criminal trial can be disqualified from contesting elections at the stage of framing of charges against them