LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had got off to a good start. His early emphasis on ‘Pichde (backward), Dalit, Alpasankhyak (minorities)’ was combined with a sharp focus on farmer issues, joblessness, paper leaks and rising prices. It turned out to be one of his best election strategies, backed by intelligent candidate selection.The Samajwadi Party…
When BJP derided the coming together of opposition parties under INDIA alliance last July as the banding of the “corrupt” against Narendra Modi, little did the ruling camp realise that the 16 disparate and volatile regional satraps could forge a seamless coordination under a common policy platform which would give the NDA a run for…
Of the 12 Union ministers who contested from UP, only five, including PM Narendra Modi (Varanasi) and defence minister Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), managed to save their seats.Dubbed a “giant slayer” for defeating Rahul Gandhi in Amethi in 2019, Union ministerSmriti Irani (women and child development) lost the seat to Gandhi family loyalist Kishori L Sharma…
MUMBAI: Investors, globally, do not like surprises. They also prefer a status quo. Surprisingly, both these elements were missing during Tuesday’s trading on Dalal Street. The result: A never-seen-before 4,390-point crash in Sensex and a Rs 31-lakh-crore wealth destruction in just six-and-a-half hours.On Tuesday, contrary to exit poll predictions of a resounding election mandate for…
Amidst the excitement of Lok Sabha elections, the two big assembly polls saw major upsets as BJP uprooted Naveen Patnaik’s BJD, ending an unbroken 24-year stint in Odisha, and N Chandrababu Naidu made a dramatic comeback in Andhra Pradesh with his TDP-led alliance ousting YSRCP’s YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.BJP rode anti-incumbency sentiment against Naveen, harping…
NEW DELHI: It was once again capital punishment for the Opposition. Brought together by the compelling need to avoid splitting of votes, AAP and Congress – after many hiccups and ignoring the lack of enthusiasm of their cadres – had worked out a seat-sharing arrangement but at the end of the day couldn’t make any…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge termed the results a mandate against PM Modi and a “very big and damaging political and moral defeat” for him and BJP as “he sought votes in his own name everywhere he went”. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said, “the main message in this election is that people have unanimously…
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NEW DELHI: Shrugging off celebrations in the opposition camp over BJP’s loss of majority, PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday declared that his third term will be defined by bold decisions, signalled the likelihood of fresh initiatives specifically aimed at women, the poor and SCs/STs and declared his intent to press on with his drive against…
PATNA: After over three years of struggle, LJP (Ram Vilas) prez Chirag Paswan through his decisive victory has finally proved he is the “real” political heir of his father Ram Vilas Paswan, who died in Oct 2020.By winning all the five Lok Sabha seats his party was allotted in the NDA alliance, Chirag has not…
