The Election Commission on Friday announced a schedule for Jharkhand Assembly Election 2019. The five-phase elections will start from November 30, and the counting of votes will be done on December 23.

Manohar Lal Khattar will be taking oath as Haryana Chief Minister on Sunday afternoon, beginning his second term in the state. He met the Governor on Saturday to stake claim of forming the government.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, after getting good numbers in Maharashtra, reminded Bharatiya Janata Party of its promise of 50-50 seat sharing. The Sena, which contested on 126 seats, is leading on 58, a few shorter than the 63 it won in 2014 when it broke ties with the BJP and went solo in all 288 seats of the state.

It is not new when the voting list has been found not updated with the latest data. Particularly, in the case of Manjula Modi as she found that she has 'died again' as the Bandra resident went to cast her votes along with her husband on Monday morning.

As two states – Haryana and Maharashtra – voted on Monday for a single-phase Assembly elections, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi took a potshot at the Bharatiya Janata Party after one of the BJP's MLAs claimed that no matter which button is pressed on the EVM, the vote will go to the BJP.

In the view of assembly elections to be held in Haryana on October 21, a public holiday has been announced for those working in the government and semi-government offices, state-run corporations and boards, educational institutions, public enterprises and banks in Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi, stated a report.

Saying that there is a possibility that the VVPATs and EVMs can be hacked by professionals using mobile internet, the NCP urged the EC to issue the order with the objective to avoid such criminal activities in the state during polls.

The poll-bound states Maharashtra and Haryana are all set to go to assembly elections on October 21 (today). Heavy security has been beefed up in the two states.

Days after Azam Khan was seen going emotional and shedding tears while speaking about his ordeal at a poll rally, a BJP leader Jaya Prada slammed him asking who is a good actor now? She added, "He is now crying in every public meeting, he used to call me a good actress, but what is he doing now? This is a curse of the tears women have shed because of him."

A delegation of Opposition leaders met the poll officer demanding that either BJP's name should be removed or other parties should be allowed to place their names on the ballot papers.