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CPI Announces List Of 25 Candidates For Keralam Assembly Polls, 4 Incumbent Ministers In Fray | India News

CPI Announces List Of 25 Candidates For Keralam Assembly Polls, 4 Incumbent Ministers In Fray | India News

Last Updated:March 15, 2026, 18:59 IST The CPI announced 25 candidates for the Kerala Assembly polls on April 9, fielding four incumbent ministers. ECI Announces polling dates for Keralam Assembly Elections (AFP) The CPI, a key ally of the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), has announced a list of 25 candidates for the upcoming Keralam Assembly polls, which will be held on April 9. CPI state secretary Binoy Viswam released the candidate list soon after the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the poll schedule for four states and a Union Territory. Four incumbent ministers — G R Anil, J Chinchurani, K Rajan and P Prasad — are in the fray. The party has also fielded sitting legislators, including K Rajan, Mohammed Muhsin, E T Taison and V R Sunil Kumar. In Nattika, former MLA Geetha Gopi is set to contest the assembly polls in place of sitting MLA C C Mukundan. In addition, Kaipamangalam MLA E T Taison has been fielded from North Paravur, where he is set for showdown with Leader of Opposition V …

BFI Elections: Returning Officer Pauses Process After Incumbent President Says Twin High Court Orders Have ‘Potential To Disrupt’

BFI Elections: Returning Officer Pauses Process After Incumbent President Says Twin High Court Orders Have ‘Potential To Disrupt’

The upcoming Boxing Federation of India elections were “paused” on Friday by Returning Officer RK Gauba after the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh High Courts directed the body to reinstate names that were omitted from the electoral college owing to a March 7 directive by BFI President Ajay Singh. Singh wrote to Gauba on Friday, stating that the BFI is seeking urgent intervention from a superior court due to the “conflicting orders” issued by the two high courts. The election is scheduled for March 28. “The president of the BFI has communicated…'(s)ince these orders have the potential to disrupt the ongoing electoral process/schedule, we are taking steps to approach the superior courts for urgent intervention’,” Gauba quoted Singh as saying in in his order. Gauba said that Singh requested that “further orders be awaited before the conflicting orders of the high courts are acted upon”. The Delhi High Court had asked the BFI to proceed with the elections despite staying the March 7 order that rendered all those who are not elected members of …

‘BJP calls me a clerk. How can a clerk push for an alliance between a 24-year incumbent CM and the world’s largest party?’: V K Pandian | Political Pulse News

THERE IS hardly any election conversation in Odisha where his name doesn’t come up. Till recently a top bureaucrat, V K Pandian is now the virtual No. 2 of the ruling BJD in the state and the man who has the ears of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. He is also the main target of the BJP’s attack, which hopes to stall the BJD in its home state, where it has been in power now for over 24 years. As the two parties, which briefly contemplated an alliance, now take on each other as prime rivals, Pandian recently said the BJP may try to form the government by any means if it gets 50-60 seats in Assembly polls. Excerpts from an interview with Pandian at Gopalpur, before he left for his day’s campaign: Not at all. The toughest battle was the 2019 polls… because in the 2017 zilla parishad polls, the BJP had increased its tally significantly and won one-third of the parishad president posts. However, in 2022, the BJD won by a landslide, winning 30 …

Abhay Thakur is new envoy to Russia, incumbent takes over as Secretary in MEA | Latest News India

Abhay Thakur, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of 1992 batch, is set to be India’s next ambassador to Russia. Thakur will replace the present ambassador Pavan Kapoor of 1990 batch. Meanwhile, incumbent Kapoor will be appointed as new Secretary (west) in the Ministry of External Affairs. Abhay Thakur, Indian Foreign Service officer of 1992 batch, is set to be India’s next ambassador to Russia. (Getty Images) In other new appointments, Indian Ambassador to Austria, Jaideep Mazumdar will take over as Secrertary (East) in the MEA with Shambhu Kumaran going to Vienna from Manila. With India’s permanent representative to UN Ruchika Kamboj slated to retire on May 31, focus is on who will make it to New York and who will succeed Taranjit Sandhu, who retired on January 31, as the next Indian ambassador to the US. Source link