Narendra Modi, who will be sworn in as a three-term Prime Minister on Sunday after Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and Nitish Kumar’s JDU propelled his BJP above the 272-seat majority line, criticised his long-time adversary Congress for failing to win as many seats in this election. He announced that the Congress had yet again failed to … Read more
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has won in West Bengal’s Diamond Harbour by a margin of 7,10,930 votes in the Lok Sabha election according to the Election Commission of India. The TMC leader, who is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is running for a third consecutive … Read more
Rajnath Singh, Union Minister for Defence, won in his third electoral bid from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow constituency in the Lok Sabha election according to the Election Commission of India. Singh’s closest rival for the seat is Ravidas Mehrotra of the Samajwadi Party was short of 1,35,159 votes, according to the ECI. Mohammad Sarwar Malik of … Read more
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday retained the Dharwad Lok Sabha seat, which he has been holding since 2004. He got 7,16,231 votes, winning by a margin of 97,324 votes over Vinod Asooti of Congress who secured 6,18,907 votes. Pralhad Joshi, the union minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines, had also served as the … Read more
The Congress made significant gains in Haryana wresting five Lok Sabha seats and giving a setback to ruling BJP, whose tally was down from 10 to five in the state, where the assembly polls are also due later this year. As the Congress made a comeback, its Rohtak candidate Deepender Singh Hooda won with the … Read more
Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister and head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), defeated Sonal Patel, the nearest Congress opponent, by an astounding margin of more than 7.44 lakh votes on Tuesday to win the Gujarat Lok Sabha seat of Gandhinagar, the Election Commission of India revealed. After the ballots for the coveted seat … Read more
In her first election, actress Kangana Ranaut, who has starred in films like Tanu Weds Manu and Queen, is leading from the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh. Ranaut, who is accustomed to controversy, will face Vikramaditya Singh of the Congress, who is the son of former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh. … Read more
The seventh and last phase of the Lok Sabha election ended this evening, with exit polls suggesting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would serve a record third term. The NDA has been able to secure three of the five43 Lok Sabha seats, which is its ideal score. Most people believe that the BJP will fall … Read more
The long-drawn 7-phase election in the world’s largest democracy — in which the BJP is hoping for a historic third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi — comes to a close today, with voting on 57 seats. The counting will take place on Tuesday. Here are the Top 10 points in this big story: Get … Read more
Today marks the start of the fourth round of voting in 96 Lok Sabha seats spread across ten states and Union Territories for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Currently, 1,717 applicants are competing in this round. At 9 am, 10.4% voter turnout was recorded across 10 states and union territories. Polling is being held in … Read more
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to modify the content of its election campaign song as per the advertising codes prescribed under the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994 and ECI guidelines, the party claimed. The poll body also asked the party to resubmit the song after modification, … Read more
The BJP will be wiped out from Ghaziabad to Ghazipur, declared Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday, just two days before the national elections are set to begin across the country. Mr Yadav, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by his side, said every promise made by the BJP turned out false and that the … Read more
In a groundbreaking move, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is allowing the elderly and those with disabilities to vote from home in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for the first time in a Lok Sabha election. The optional home voting option is available to voters who are over 85 years old and Persons with … Read more
Microsoft has issued a warning, claiming that China is preparing to use artificial intelligence-generated information to sabotage the next elections in South Korea, the United States, and India. The alert was issued following China’s test run of using artificial intelligence (AI) to sway the results of Taiwan’s presidential election. Microsoft’s threat intelligence team predicts that … Read more
The BJP will contest alone in the Lok Sabha and the assembly election in Odisha without going into any alliance with Naveen Patnaik’s BJD. BJP Odisha president Manmohan Samal announced on X that there will be no BJP-BJD alliance. The announcement came after days of speculations over a possibility of alliance as the BJP is … Read more