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Mumbai civic polls: BJP wrests control of BMC; Shiv Sena (UBT) relegated to Opposition

Mumbai civic polls: BJP wrests control of BMC; Shiv Sena (UBT) relegated to Opposition

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In the second phase of local body elections held in Mumbai, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the highest number of seats in Mumbai, while Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) finished second and to take the position of a “strong” Opposition for the first time in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The BJP is leading with 89 seats, while its alliance partner Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena has 29 seats in the BMC. The Shiv Sena (UBT) has won 65 seats, the MNS has won six seats, and the Congress managed to survive with 24 seats. Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won three seats, and Sharad Pawar’s NCP won one seat. The surprising element was the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) winning eight seats, while the Samajwadi Party got two seats. With this the BJP and the Shiv Sena has crossed the half mark of 114.  “I am grateful for people’s trust. They have given a mandate for the agenda of development in this election, showing that they want development. I am proud of being …

UDF wins Vizhinjam local body poll in Kerala, wrests control from LDF after a decade

UDF wins Vizhinjam local body poll in Kerala, wrests control from LDF after a decade

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Voters queue at a school in Vizhinjam in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday (January 12, 2026) to cast their ballot. | Photo Credit: JAYAMOHAN A Buoyed by the winning sequence in the just-concluded local body polls in Kerala, the United Democratic Front (UDF) on Tuesday (January 13, 2026) wrested the Vizhinjam ward in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, where the election was postponed due to the death of a candidate, from the Left Democratic Front (LDF). The UDF candidate, K.H. Sudheer Khan, won the seat by a margin of 83 votes. The UDF candidate secured a total of 2,902 votes, while LDF candidate N.A. Noushad of CPI(M) polled 2,819 votes. BJP candidate Sarvashakthipuram Binu came third with 2,437 votes. LDF rebel and former ward councillor N.A. Rasheed polled 118 votes. The votes secured by Mr. Rasheed played a crucial role in the UDF’s victory as the winning margin was less than the votes of the rebel candidate. The former CPI(M) councillor in Vizhinjam ward was contesting as an Independent this time. Former Youth Congress leader Hisan Hussain had contested as a …

BJP wrests Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar Teachers’ seat

BJP wrests Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar Teachers’ seat

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The BJP-backed candidate Malka Komaraiah emerged victorious in the Telangana Legislative Council elections from The Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar Teachers’ constituency spread across 15 districts. He won the seat with a margin of more than 5,700 first preference votes against his nearest rival Vanga Mahender Reddy of the PRTU (TS). Mr Komaraiah secured 12,959 votes while Mr Mahender Reddy got 7,182 votes at the end of the first preference vote count in Karimnagar on Monday night. Of the total 25,041 polled votes, around 897 votes were declared invalid. In the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar Graduates’ constituency, a significant number of 8,000 votes were declared invalid in the preliminary count of around one lakh votes till 9 p.m. on Monday. A total of 2,50,106 voters cast their ballots in the Graduates’ MLC polls on February 27 sealing the fate of 56 candidates. The sorting of another 1.50 lakh ballots was under way when the reports last came in. Most of the invalid votes were on account of wrong markings in the ballot papers, sources said. Several ballots were found invalid due to …

Telugu Desam Party wrests Kadapa by repeating 1999 election results

Telugu Desam Party wrests Kadapa by repeating 1999 election results

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Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu waving the party flag. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangment It took 25 years for the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to post a resounding victory in Kadapa, considered the erstwhile bastion of the Indian National Congress (INC) and later the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP). The party won seven out of 10 Assembly seats in the combined Kadapa district in 2024, which is exactly similar to its achievement in 1999, when it bagged eight out of 11 seats (The district lost one seat owing to delimitation exercise later). Another startling coincidence is that the TDP was part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in both the elections, indicating the pertinent need for the party to have a long-term perspective in terms of strategic electoral alliances. YSR citadel More than the Congress or the YSR Congress, Kadapa used to be the personal citadel of the YSR family. Be it Late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, his younger brother and former MP Late Y.S. Vivekananda Reddy or the family scion and former Chief Minister Y.S. …

Congress wrests Himachal Pradesh from BJP

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Congress party workers celebrate the party’s victory in Himachal assembly elections at the party office, in Lucknow on December 08, 2022 | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The Congress made a comeback in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, by winning 40 seats in the high-stakes electoral contest for the 68-member Legislative Assembly, edging out the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), which had appeared confident of returning to power.  Himachal Pradesh result updates | CM Thakur resigns, Assembly dissolved as Congress registers comeback win Himachal Pradesh has seen a bipolar electoral system for more than three decades, with the Congress and the BJP alternately forming the government. Yet again, the voters in the hill State have followed the tradition of throwing out the incumbent government after five years of governance. The ruling BJP, which was aiming to once again form the government with its high-pitched “mission repeat” campaign, failed to go beyond the 25-seat mark in the State assembly. While Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur won by a record margin of over 37,000 votes — the highest-ever by any …