Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a rally in Telangana’s Karimnagar on Wednesday, questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s “deals” with businessmen and asked why he had stopped abusing them as soon as the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were announced. The Prime Minister also asked if Gandhi had received huge sums of money from Ambani-Adani since he … Read more
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote a letter to the INDIA allies expressing concerns over alleged delay in the publishing of electoral data and urged the parties to work “collectively and unitedly” to ensure the independence of the Election Commission of India (ECI). Kharge said the delay in publishing the final voting percentages for … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi voted in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections this morning at an Ahmedabad school. The Nishan Higher Secondary School in the city’s Ranip neighbourhood has been marked as a voting station. The Prime Minister reached the polling station a little after 7:30 am. Union Minister Amit Shah welcomed him and … Read more
The BJP has fielded Karan Bhushan Singh, the son of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Singh, from the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha seat. A six-time MP, Brij Bhushan Singh has been facing opposition fire over sexual harassment charges against him by women wrestlers. Here are some facts on Karan Bhushan Singh 1. Karan … Read more
Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies in the NDA have crossed more 100 seats after the two phases of polling and are confident of achieving the “400 paar” target in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. Amit Shah also said the BJP is heading towards its … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked during a public gathering in Davanagere, Karnataka, on Sunday that he and Kannadigas share a ‘heart-to-heart tie’. The Prime Minister asked the people if he could give his speech solely in Hindi without the help of a translator. “Can I speak in Hindi today? I have no translator today as … Read more
Bengaluru South Lok Sabha MP Tejasvi Surya claimed he was eating chaat at a roadside stall in 2019, when he came to know that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had picked him to contest from the high-profile constituency following the demise of senior party MP H.N. Ananth Kumar in November 2018. A political greenhorn in electoral politics, Surya … Read more
Rajasthan Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Praveen Gupta on Sunday said that in 61 out of 200 Assembly constituencies in the state, women voters have outnumbered men. With a voter turnout of 60.72%, women made their mark in all 25 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state, which went to polls in two phases on April 19 … Read more
Nearly half of Bengaluru’s voters did not turn up to vote in the Lok Sabha elections on Friday. Voting took place in 14 constituencies in Karnataka, with the Election Commission estimating the turnout at 69.23 per cent. However, the percentage of voters who exercised their franchise in three urban constituencies in the city — Bangalore … Read more
Voting for 88 constituencies in the second phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections across 13 states and union territories has begun. Over 1,200 candidates, including 4 candidates from Outer Manipur, are contesting the polls. At 9 am, 9.3% voter turnout was recorded across 13 states and union territories. Chhattisgarh and Manipur recorded over 15% … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday claimed that the Congress party will snatch away jobs from families of marginalised communities and give to those who have “first claim” on resources, in an apparent reference to Muslims. Addressing a rally at Aonla in Bareilly district, Modi said, “If two people in a backward or Dalit family … Read more
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor, and actor-turned-politician Arun Govil are among the key candidates in the fray for the second phase of the Lok Sabha polls with BJP’s Hema Malini, Om Birla and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat seeking a hat-trick of wins from their respective constituencies. Staggered over seven stages, the first phase of … Read more
The Election Commission on Thursday issued notices to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, days after the two rivals traded allegations of Model Code violations in poll speeches by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi. The poll panel – whose response had been awaited as a litmus test on the … Read more
Former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has said that there is a 99.9% chance that he will contest from Uttar Pradesh’s Kaiserganj constituency. The controversial MP, who was accused of alleged sexual harassment by female wrestlers, said that he is not the contestant for now, but he … Read more
Subrata Pathak, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Kannauj MP, has compared his election battle with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in the Uttar Pradesh constituency to an India-Pakistan cricket match. Yadav will file his nomination today, three days after the party announced another candidate in the constituency. “In a democracy, the election is the biggest festival. … Read more