Bylections to 25 assembly seats in 12 states delivered a set of results Tuesday that didn’t hold too many surprises, unlike the Lok Sabha verdict. Congress won four of six in Himachal Pradesh to strengthen CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s hand after a period of uncertainty sparked by a revolt in his ranks, while BJP swept…
NEW DELHI: Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi addressed a press conference here on Tuesday evening in the presence of Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi. “We have always said that this was a fight between Modi versus the people. We humbly accept the people’s mandate,” Kharge said. He described the gains made by INDIA bloc…
NEW DELHI: Those active in stock market understand how failure to meet expectations can be disastrous despite good results. We got a glimpse of that today also as Sensex tanked over 4,000 points on failed expectations and investors lost lakhs of crores. Well, that perhaps explains the political mood after the 2024 Lok Sabha election…
NEW DELHI: Even though the BJP is leading on around 240 seats, much less than the 303 seats it won in 2019, its vote share has seen only a marginal dip, meaning it has been unable to convert its vote share into seats this time.In 2019, the BJP had secured around 37.36% of the total…
NEW DELHI: The Indore Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh has set two unique record this Lok Sabha election. As results pour in, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Shankar Lalwani secured a victory with a record margin of 10,08,077.BJP’s sitting MP from Indore Shankar Lalwani won and managed to get 12,26,751 seats. He defeated Bahujan…
NEW DELHI: The verdict is out. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA is set to form the government at the Centre for the third consecutive term. But what would usually be termed a clear victory, in turn, feels like a defeat for the BJP after the opposition INDIA bloc‘s stellar show. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday took a dig at PM Modi as the BJP fell short of majority in Lok Sabha elections. “PM Modi ‘broke’ many parties, people broke his morale,” Mamata said after her party made impressive gains in West Bengal and stopped the BJP’s juggernaut in the state….
NEW DELHI: Ongoing Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday expressed disbelief at the YSR Congress party‘s defeat in the assembly elections, despite the implementation of numerous welfare programs “without any trace of corruption.” Jagan, who secured victory in the Pulivendula assembly segment with a majority of over 61,000 votes, affirmed the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi following the NDA‘s third consecutive win in the Lok Sabha elections expressed his gratitude to the ‘janata janardan’ (public) for thier affection.“People have placed their faith in NDA, for a third consecutive time! This is a historical feat in India’s history,” PM Modi said in a post on X…
NEW DELHI: In 2014, Smriti Irani was the giant killer of Lok Sabha elections and made national headlines after defeating Rahul Gandhi in the Congress bastion of Amethi. Five years later, the constituency has a new giant killer – Kishori Lal Sharma, a Congressman who has worked closely with the Gandhi family for decades. K…
