New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday poised to form the government for a third consecutive term notwithstanding crushing losses in three Hindi heartland states after a bitterly fought election that was projected as a referendum on his popularity. The Bharatiya Janata Party, whose candidates had contested in the name of Modi, won…
Patna: Powered by a better-than-expected show from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), the ruling NDA was poised to retain the upper hand in the state where its candidates were leading in 34 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats. The JD(U) was leading in all but two of the 16 seats it had contested, as…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi eyes a record-equalling third straight term in power amid the INDIA opposition bloc’s hope of springing a surprise as the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha election is set for Tuesday, bringing an end to a marathon polling exercise stretching over 80 days. While most experts have long…
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday dared the opposition to share evidence of allegations that returning officers and district magistrates were influenced to vitiate the poll process so the panel could take action against them. The opposition should also tell the Commission about those trying to influence the poll process before the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi eyes a record-equalling third straight term in power amid the INDIA opposition bloc’s hope of springing a surprise as the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha election is set for Tuesday, bringing an end to a marathon polling exercise stretching over 80 days. While most experts have long…
New Delhi: Citing the Conduct of Election Rules, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said the count of postal ballots will start first across all counting centres and asserted that there was “no doubt about it”. Responding to questions at a press conference here, he said after half-an-hour of the start of the postal…
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Monday said that the elections commissioners were always here, and never went missing. Addressing a press briefing, he said social media meme pages are calling us ‘ Laapataa Gentlemen’. But we never went missing, we were always here, Rajiv Kumar said. “Now memes can say the ‘Laapataa…
Hyderabad: The city police have dropped the names of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Telangana BJP chief G Kishan Reddy from an FIR they filed on a complaint relating to allegedly using minors in a poll campaign here last month. In a complaint to the Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), TPCC vice-president G Niranjan…
New Delhi: Senior BJP leaders, including Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh, held a meeting on Monday, a day before the Lok Sabha poll results will be declared. They are learnt to have taken stock of the prevailing political situation following the exit polls predicting a big win for the BJP-led alliance, and the…
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Monday, a day before the Lok Sabha poll results will be out. There was no official word on the details of the meeting. Kumar’s JD(U) is part of the BJP-led NDA and is seen as a declining, though still significant, force…
