NEW DELHI: After gaining a considerable number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday claimed that the Lok Sabha poll mandate was a ‘decisive rejection’ of the politics of divisiveness and said that the INDIA bloc must continue to work together as an united opposition in both inside and…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP won for the first time in 45 assembly constituencies and nine Lok Sabha (LS) seats in Odisha in the recently concluded simultaneous polls, an analysis by TOI of the results revealed. The party won a total of 78 seats in the 147-member assembly and 20 out of 21 LS seats in the…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Friday clarified his position on his political future and said that he might not contest another Lok Sabha election if the next polls are held five years from now. Tharoor said people should know when to step aside for the ‘younger blood’. “Not electoral politics but…
After Congress’s surprise comeback in Punjab, which saw it win 7 of the 13 Lok Sabha seats, leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa tells TOI’s Subodh Ghildiyal that not allying with AAP was a conscious decision that bore fruit.How did Congress do so well after being wiped out in the assembly polls 2022?I and state…
NEW DELHI: Amid elation in the Congress camp over its performance in the Lok Sabha elections, there is a growing desire in the party that Rahul Gandhi take up the post of leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and lead the party from the front in Parliament.Congress failed to get the top opposition perch after…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday said that Congress and its allies have not only lost people’s confidence but also missed the opportunity to behave as a responsible opposition as they have consistently tried to demean democratic institutions by casting aspersions on them.At a press conference, party’s spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said that the opposition parties had…
NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA is expected to win around 71 of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, according to exit poll results released on Saturday. Meanwhile, opposition bloc INDIA is likely to win around 10 seats.What pollsters said: Pollster PMARQ predicted that NDA will win 69 seats while INDIA will secure 11. Matrize has…
NEW DELHI: Google’s iconic logo was replaced with a symbolic representation of an index finger marked with ink on Saturday, commemorating the final phase of voting in India’s 18th Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Users who click on the Doodle are directed to search results related to the latest updates on the general elections in India….
NEW DELHI: The Congress has decided not to participate in Lok Sabha election exit poll debates on the television channels which are scheduled for Saturday. Announcing the decision Congress leader Pawan Khera on Friday said the party does not wish to “indulge in speculation and slugfest for TRP”.Taking to X, Khera announced party’s decision and…
NEW DELHI: As the sixth phase of Lok Sabha concluded on Saturday, Congress claimed the BJP‘s fate is “all but sealed” and said that the INDIA bloc has already crossed the halfway mark of 272 seats and is on course for a tally of over 350 seats in total.Taking on the social media, X, Congress…
