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…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the nation to “reassess outdated thinking and beliefs” and free “our society from the pressure of professional pessimists”, asserting that the foundation for a “Viksit Bharat” must be laid in the 25 years in the run up to the centenary of India’s independence. “The world of…
New Delhi: The Congress and its INDIA bloc allies are trying to undermine the integrity of India’s electoral process, the BJP alleged on Sunday and urged the Election Commission to prevent any attempts of “violence and unrest” during the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha polls on June 4. A BJP delegation comprising Union…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he was going back to jail not because he was involved in corruption but as he had raised voice against “dictatorship”. Kejriwal was released from jail on May 10 on interim bail granted by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case linked to the…
New Delhi: Exit polls on Saturday predicted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain power for a third straight term, with the BJP-led NDA expected to win a big majority in the Lok Sabha polls. While India Today-Axis My India has forecast 361-401 seats for the BJP-led alliance and 131-166 seats for the opposition INDIA…
New Delhi: Early exit polls predicted a comfortable majority for the BJP-led NDA, with the ruling alliance projected to open its account in Tamil Nadu and Kerala and sweep Karnataka. The Republic TV-P Marq poll claimed that the ruling alliance will win up to 359 seats and the opposition INDIA bloc will bag 154 seats…
Kolkata: Sporadic incidents of violence marred the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in the nine parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal, as TMC, ISF and BJP workers clashed in various parts of violence-prone Jadavpur and Diamond Harbour constituencies. Although the poll panel has claimed that voting has been peaceful so far, it said…
(Online Desk) Polling begins for the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections today with voters in 57 parliamentary constituencies across eight states and Union Territories casting their ballot to elect the new government. The phase will witness polling for several key constituencies, including Varanasi, which has in the last two elections, become…
New Delhi: As many as 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are in fray in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections to be held on Saturday. A total of 57 seats spread across seven states – Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Punjab – and the Union territory of Chandigarh…
