Ahead of the Nagaland Assembly Elections, Congress announced its first list of 21 candidates on Saturday. The Central Election Committee (CEC), headed by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, released the list of candidates after a meeting. The party’s state unit chief K Therie will contest elections from Dimapur-I.

In an official notification, the party said, The Central Election Committee of the Congress has selected the candidates for the ensuing elections to the Legislative Assembly of Nagaland.

Among the other candidates on the party’s first list are S Amento Chisti from Dimapur II (ST), V Lasuh from Dimapur III (ST), Akavi Zhimomi from Ghaspani-I, and Rosy Thomas from Tenning (ST).

Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released the list of 20 candidates for the upcoming Nagaland Assembly Elections. BJP state president Temjen Imna Along will contest from the Alongtaki Legislative Assembly constituency.

Here’s the full list of BJP candidates

Nagaland Assembly Elections will be held on February 27, and the results will be declared on March 2. The last date for filing nominations is February 7.

Reports have come to light from the National Capital where Bharatiya Janata Party organised a protest outside Aam Aadmi Party’s headquarters over the liquor scam. The BJP demonstrators were demanding resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over allegations of corruption pertaining to the liquor sales policy.

It was also reported that the BJP workers were raising slogans of Arvind Kejriwal chorr hai (Arvind Kejriwal is a thief) as the saffron party continued to demonstrate outside the AAP headquarters.

The protest by the BJP comes after the Delhi Chief Minister had questioned the veracity of the Enforcement Directorate’s claims and dismissed the investigation agency’s allegations. The supplementary chargesheet had named Vijay Nair, Sharath Reddy, Binoy Babu, Abhishek Boinapalli and Amit Arora.

CM Arvind Kejriwal had termed the allegations by the ED as fake and cited that such allegations are happening to topple the elected government. Aam Aadmi Party convener had also stated that the investigation agency doesn’t file cases with the objective to stop corruption, but rather to help BJP poach MLAS.

Following the chargesheet by ED, the BJP slammed the Arvind Keriwal government and said that the chargesheet has acted as a tool to unmask the real face of Delhi Government. Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari had also alleged that the liquor mafia bribed 100 crore Rs to Arvind Kejriwal’s aid acting on the direction of the Delhi CM.

A court on Thursday accepted the supplementary chargesheet against five accused, as well as seven companies in the case of alleged inconsistencies in the Delhi excise policy. The Delhi government had scrapped off the Delhi excise policy last year after the CBI ordered an investigation into the alleged corruption.

The ED has claimed that a sum of Rs 100 crore bribe was also used in the Aam Aam Party’s Goa campaign for the assembly elections.

Bhartiya Janata Party has released its list of candidates for Chinchwad and Kasba Peth assembly constituencies in view of the upcoming assembly by-elections 2023 in Maharashtra. BJP has given ticket to Ashwini Laxman Jagtap from Chinchwad and Hemant Narayan Rasne from Kasba Peth.

For the unversed, the Election Commission has changed the date of polling for two assembly seats in Pune district of Maharashtra from February 27 to February 26. The commission was informed that the 12th class and graduation examinations were to be held on the date of polling which was fixed earlier. The commission issued a press release, announcing the change in the date.

Polling date changed

The poll panel issued a press note in January to announce the change and said that the District Election Officer of Pune, Maharashtra has informed about the clash of election dates with the dates of 12th class HSC examination and graduation degree examination to be held at various polling stations in the assembly constituencies where bye-elections are to be held.

After considering the ground situation and all other relevant aspects of the matter, the Commission had decided to revise the date of poll for the bye-election to the Legislative Assembly constituencies 205-Chinchwad and 215-Kasba Peth, Maharashtra.

When will the votes be counted?

It has been said that the date of voting will now be 26 February. At the same time, after the election, the date of counting of votes has been fixed on March 2. Election results will be announced on March 2. And then only the victory and defeat will be decided.

However, elections are to be held in other states of the country as well. The results of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland assembly elections are going to be declared on this date. The election dates and schedule for these two seats were earlier announced by the Election Commission on January 18 along with some other seats.