Politics
The party may be over for Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a Dalit-centric party that had a Brahmin as its most visible face in the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, has come up with its worst ever performance and not quite unexpectedly either. With Mayawati making a very restricted appearance in the election campaign, it...
11 Yogi ministers fail to win despite BJP’s big show
As many as 11 ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government failed to win in the 2022 assembly elections, despite the BJP registering an impressive victory. According to the Election Commission website, of the 402 seats the result of which were declared, BJP won 255. Its alliance partners Apna Dal...
Apna Dal shows the way to mainstream parties
While the major political parties in Uttar Pradesh have been facing hiccups in maintaining their performance, it is the Apna Dal, led by Union Minister Anupriya Patel, that has steadfastly maintained its success rate in elections in the past decade. The Apna Dal contested 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh,...
Chouhan says Rahul making Gandhi’s vision of Cong end a reality
There is immense respect among the people for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while commenting on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s stunning election victories in four states with the results trickling in on Thursday. “The kind of leadership he has offered and the...
Cong debacle gives rebels more clout as Gandhis lose
As results trickled in from all the five states where elections were held, the Gandhis watched in dismay. But in Delhi, not too far away from where they sat, some members of the so-called “G23″ shook their heads and said, “The more things change, the more they remain the...
Women voters behind BJP’s big UP win
Behind the Bharatiya Janata Party’s big win in Uttar Pradesh for a historic second term, which no government could achieve in the past 37 years, is the women voter which seems to have consolidated behind the party over the free rations given for the past two years and the...
Sidhu accepts people’s decision, congratulates AAP
Navjot Singh Sidhu, the president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, contested from Amritsar East in the 2022 elections. But after eighth round of counting, it looks like the Congress leader is going to be defeated by Aam Aadmi Party’s Jeevan Jyot Kaur. Sidhu, who previously worked as the...
Modi, Shah to visit Gujarat to clear ground for polls
After elections in five states draw to a close with the results scheduled on Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party has set eyes on Gujarat assembly polls due later this year. To build steam for the state polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are likely...
Trinamool-MGP coalition may be crucial in Goa
A day ahead of the counting of votes, the marginal players in the coastal state of Goa may emerge as kingmakers in case of a fractured mandate as predicted by the exit polls. While the Trinamool Congress is not commenting on the post-poll scenario, Ashok Tanwar, who was in...
Cong back to resort politics in Goa
To prevent horse trading and the repeat of the 2017 fiasco, the Congress top brass has asked its Goa candidates to stay in a hotel until Thursday afternoon, a day after the election results of five states, including the coastal state, will be declared, according to sources. On March...
Nadda gets into ministry making mode
Assembly elections 2022 may have wrapped up in five states, with 48 hours to go for results, but there is no break in sight for BJP chief JP Nadda who is continuing with his tour of various states, meeting party cadre and strategizing for the next round of polls....
Congress stares at tough days ahead
A few hours before the exit poll prediction that Congress could be on its way out in Punjab, a not-so-beaming Punjab Congress chief Navjot Sidhu arrived at the Congress headquarters to attend a membership drive meeting. This was for the first time after the February 20 polls that the...
With ‘hung assembly’ threat Goa CM to meet Modi
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and state BJP President Sadanand Tanawde are in Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, Goa BJP said. The meeting comes after exit poll results on Monday gave the Bharatiya Janata Party a slight edge in the state. Meanwhile, BJP leaders and...
‘Dialogue stalemate’ between Mamata and Governor
The budget session of the West Bengal Assembly was set to start with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s speech at 2pm. The governor will be welcomed by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with whom he has been embroiled in a war of words. Dhankhar met...
Goa Cong says 2017 mistake won’t be repeated
Ahead of the March 10 poll results, the Goa Congress is working on a strategy to ensure there is no repeat of 2017, where the grand old party won 17 seats, becoming the single largest party, but was unable to form the government. Goa has 40 constituencies, and the...
Telangana CM says new Opposition platform soon
After meeting Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren at Ranchi, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday reiterated that a new platform will be announced soon to fight for a qualitative change at national level as the nation was undeveloped in last seven decades. Addressing reporters after giving Rs 10...
BJP lowering UP target for a mere win
Today Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath is finishing his election campaign with a rally in Azamgarh’s Atraulia, a seat that the Bharatiya Janata Party has never won. By doing five public meetings on the last day of canvassing, CM Yogi will complete nearly 200 rallies and roadshows in...
Sasikala’s bid to revive AIADMK raises hope
Since her return from prison ahead of the state elections last year, VK Sasikala and her nephew TTV Dhinakaran have been making manoeuvres; some direct, some subtle, and many obviously tactless to grab the reins of power of the AIADMK. In recent months, Sasikala has released audios of phone...
