NEW DELHI: BJP has won the highest number of reserved seats since 1993, bagging 4 out of the 12 Scheduled Caste (SC) constituencies.The party, for the first time, has also won Mangolpuri, which is an SC seat.The SC seats are Gokalpur, Seemapuri, Mangolpuri, Sultanpur Majra, Bawana, Karol Bagh, Patel Nagar, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, Madipur, Kondli…
NEW DELHI: BJP, which won the majority of seats in the Delhi assembly elections, saw four out of its nine women candidates emerging victorious. However, the total number of women elected dropped from eight in 2020 to five this year. This time, the five women who emerged victorious include four from BJP and one from…
NEW DELHI: The 2025 assembly election was a closely fought one with BJP and AAP putting up a great fight in almost all assembly constituencies, but the final results were decisive. Despite a small difference of just 2.6% in the vote share, BJP won 48 of 70 seats while AAP was reduced to only 22.There…
CHANDIGARH: Celebrations of BJP’s victory in Delhi assembly elections on Saturday extended beyond the national capital, delivering a morale booster to the saffron party’s Haryana leadership too.For nearly a month, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, his cabinet, former ministers, and BJP MLAs, were deeply involved in the party’s Delhi campaign. Leading the charge was…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi‘s assertion on tabling of all pending CAG reports – some 14 of them, dating back to 2017-18, including those on ‘Sheesh Mahal‘ and the liquor policy – and not sparing any corrupt in Delhi is being seen as a pointer to a fresh round of criminal action against top AAP…
NEW DELHI: Promises are free, keeping them is costly.Once election euphoria has settled, knuckling down on the math to keep the ‘revdis’ flowing is an onerous job. Governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra have found this out. The new Delhi government is about to as well.On its way to wresting Delhi from AAP, BJP…
NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Saturday said that BJP’s chief minister will not occupy the “Sheesh Mahal”, a govt official bungalow where Arvind Kejriwal used to live when he was the chief minister.The 6, Flagstaff Road bungalow in Civil Lines was mired in controversy over the past year for the allegedly costly…
NEW DELHI: With AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and his former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia losing their seats, the party faces its biggest challenge ever as it will now have to step into the role of an opposition for the first time in the face of a raging BJP that has come to office with…
NEW DELHI: Ayushman Bharat-PM Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), a flagship health scheme of BJP-led Centre, may finally be made available in Delhi.AAP, which was in power earlier, had vehemently opposed its implementation saying that the state’s own scheme – Delhi Arogya Kosh – was far more robust than the central scheme.BJP had promised in the…
NEW DELHI: The 2025 assembly elections have ushered in a new generation of legislators in Delhi. In the list of winners on Saturday are several first-time candidates whose victories ranged from nail-biting finishes to commanding leads.These successful debuts reflect the dynamic nature of Delhi’s political landscape, where the established parties have signalled that fresh talent…
