NAGPUR: While the electoral battle was primarily a Mahayuti versus Maha Vikas Aghadi contest, it was the head-to-head fights between BJP and Congress in 75 constituencies that shaped the larger outcome. BJP emerged victorious in 65 seats of these, leaving Congress with a mere 10.The assembly election, coming months after the Lok Sabha polls in…
MUMBAI: Sharad Pawar‘s self-proclaimed swansong in electoral politics ended in a damp squib with his nephew’s NCP winning more than 4x the seats that his own party could muster. In retaliation for Ajit’s decision to field his wife against Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule, the Maratha warhorse had turned the Baramati contest again into a prestige…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday established himself, and rather convincingly, as the leader of the real Shiv Sena.With his party winning 57 seats – one more than the undivided Shiv Sena’s 56 in the 2019 assembly elections and a staggering 35 more than Shiv Sena-UBT’s Saturday tally – he now has the…
NEW DELHI: Giving a boost to BJP and its allies in bypolls at 48 assembly seats across 15 states, NDA emerged the dominant force, securing 26 seats.Among the big wins was UP’s Kundarki constituency, which BJP picked up after 31 years. The seat had remained an SP stronghold since 2012.Continuing its dominance in Assam, BJP-led…
DEHRADUN: Days after six youths were killed in a collision between their MUV and a container truck near ONGC Chowk in Dehradun, police arrested the truck driver in UP’s Saharanpur Friday. The driver had fled the scene abandoning the truck.The impact of the accident was so severe that six of the seven occupants in the…
NEW DELHI: When the verdict of the Lok Sabha elections was announced in June, resentment among farmers in Maharashtra was seen as a major factor behind BJP’s dismal performance in the state, along with nervousness among Scheduled Caste voters who feared the party might amend the Constitution if it returned with 400-plus seats. Changing the…
NAGPUR: The Sangh Parivar unleashed its well-oiled machinery to power BJP-led Mahayuti to a landslide victory. The Nagpur-headquartered organisation quietly mobilised its vast network of cadres, organising over 60,000 voter meetings statewide to counter opposition narratives and consolidate support under the campaign banner – ‘Sajagraho’ (Be vigilant, be awake).Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, in an…
KOLKATA: TMC Saturday swept assembly bypolls in Bengal, the first held after the RG Kar rape-murder. TMC won all six seats that went to vote on Nov 13, taking its tally in the 294-member state assembly to 219. The party’s “actual” majority may be starker as four opposition MLAs have consistently sided with TMC both…
NEW DELHI: What was common between Maharashtra and Jharkhand? Cash was king when it came to wooing voters. Direct transfers, under whatever name they be, Ladki Bahin in Maharashtra or Mukhyamantri Maiya Samman Yojana in Jharkhand, have helped parties ride back to power.If PM-Kisan, BJP’s belated attempt to counter NYAY, worked in its favour in…
The Manipur govt extended on Saturday the suspension of mobile internet services for two more days in seven districts – West, Imphal East, Kakching, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur and Kangpokpi, reports Prabin Kalita.Broadband and mobile internet services were initially suspended on Nov 16 following the violence that erupted after the bodies of six Meitei women and…
