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People voting for development, says Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attributed the BJP’s storming back to power in Uttar Pradesh, and also retaining Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa to people voting for development. “Due to the power of democracy, the BJP retained power in states where governments were hardly elected twice in a row,”...
Ticket aspirants line up for AAP in Karnataka
After the Aam Aadmi Party’s spectacular sweep in Punjab, its Karnataka state convener Prithvi Reddy’s mobile phone has not stopped ringing. On an average, he is getting 30 calls in an hour and an overwhelmed Reddy has not been able to answer all of them because dozens of aspirants...
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...
Biden warns direct NATO-Russia clash would trigger ‘World War III’
US President Joe Biden on Friday vowed that Russia would pay a “severe price” if it used chemical weapons in Ukraine, while also pledging to avoid provoking Moscow into “World War III.” Biden reacted after Russia accused Ukraine and the United States of developing biological and chemical weapons —...
Mayawati blames UP loss on media, rival
In her first public address after almost getting wiped out in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati today blamed the media and Samajwadi Party (SP) for the party’s loss. While trying to lift the spirit of party workers, she blamed the media and...
Sidhu praises ‘excellent decision’ by Punjab
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu in his first interaction with the media after his party received a drubbing from the Aam Aadmi Party said that this is a politics of change. “I congratulate the people of Punjab for this excellent decision of ushering in a new system,” he...
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...
Akhilesh says SP showed BJP’s seat count can be cut
“The struggle in public interest would continue,” Akhilesh Yadav tweeted. A day after the BJP’s record victory in Uttar Pradesh, prime challenger Samajwadi Party’s chief Akhilesh Yadav thanked voters for their support and said they had shown that the BJP’s seat count can be decreased. Taking to Twitter this...
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...
Amarinder Singh loses in Patiala
Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lost the election today in an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sweep that left the Congress far behind and crushed heavyweight leaders across parties. Amarinder Singh lost in his Patiala Urban constituency to AAP’s Ajit Pal Singh Kohli. The 79-year-old, in a tweet, accepted...
AAP sweeps Punjab to add second state to kitty
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, in its second attempt, has taken Punjab, giving the eight-year-old outfit its second state after Delhi. “This shows AAP is the natural and national replacement of the Congress,” said Raghav Chadha, who ran the Punjab campaign for his party, in an exclusive interview to...
Goa Cong approaches Supreme Court over 2017 defections
The Congress’s Goa unit has approached the Supreme Court over the defection of its 10 MLAs to the BJP in 2017. The Congress’s move came as counting is going in in the Goa assembly elections 2022. In 2017 Goa assembly polls, the Congress had 17 MLAs and BJP 13...
World Bank warns inflation may trigger riots
Soaring energy and food prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could exacerbate existing food security concerns in the Middle East and Africa, and may fuel growing social unrest, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart said. Germany will host a virtual meeting of agriculture ministers from the Group of Seven...
AAP guards Goa candidates after resort move by Cong
A day after Congress moved its MLA candidates in Goa to a resort, the Aam Aadmi Party has also moved to keep its own candidates under guard. Sources say AAP candidates have been put together at certain locations in the state. With predictions of a hung assembly and Congress’s...
