New Delhi: Maintaining its hold over Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday won all the seven Lok Sabha seats here, with winning margins ranging between 2.2 lakh and 5.7 lakh votes. The BJP in 2014 bagged all the seats with vote margin ranging between 1.06 lakh and 2.68 lakh. It has re-nominated five of the […]
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Modi magic steers BJP to historic win in Lok Sabha polls, opposition crushed
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday led the BJP to a stunning and historic victory in the Lok Sabha battle, with the ruling party itself set to win 303 seats in a marked improvement over its 2014 showing that left the opposition dazed and demoralized. The BJP-led NDA is poised to get 348 of […]
Congress snatches Andaman and Nicobar seat from BJP
Port Blair: Amid an all pervading doom, the Congress had something to cheer for in Andaman and Nicobar Islands as its candidate Kuldeep Rai Sharma snatched the Lok Sabha seat from the BJP by humbling its candidate Vishal Jolly with a 1,407-vote margin in the vote count on Thursday. Sharma got 95,308 votes, while Jolly had […]
Bengal verdict: BJP wins 13, Trinamool 15 seats
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress has won 15 Lok Sabha constituencies and is leading in seven while the BJP has bagged 13 seats and is leading in five. The Congress is leading in two Lok Sabha seats. Babul Supriyo of the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated his nearest rival Trinamol Congress’ Moon Moon Sen by 1,97,637 […]
Congress Working Committee to meet soon, deliberate on Lok Sabha debacle
New Delhi: A meeting of Congress Working Committee is expected to be held soon to look into reasons for the partys debacle in the Lok Sabha elections with party chief Rahul Gandhi expected to give his assessment of what went wrong and the remedial steps that need to be taken. It is the second successive debacle […]
BJP wins all five seats in Uttarakhand
Dehradun: Repeating the feat of 2014, the BJP on Thursday scored a big victory in Uttarakhand bagging all the five Lok Sabha seats in the state. In all the five seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidates won by more than 2 to 3 lakh votes. BJP state President Ajay Bhatt scored an emphatic victory by 3.39 […]
BJP ally Apna Dal wins both LS seats it contested in UP
Lucknow: The Apna Dal, an ally of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has won both the Lok Sabha seats that it contested from Mirzapur and Robertsganj. Union Minister Anupriya Patel has won from Mirzapur while Pakodi Lal Kol has won from Robertsganj. In 2014, the Apna Dal had contested only two seats, Mirzapur and Pratapgarh, and […]
Punjab CM hints at changing Sidhu’s portfolio
Chandigarh: Hours after blaming Navjot Singh Sidhu’s inept handling of the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the poor performance of the Congress in the urban areas, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday evening said he intended to change the minister’s portfolio. In an interview with a news channel, the Chief Minister said […]
Seven former Congress Chief Ministers lose polls, two trailing
New Delhi: As the Congress suffered another debacle in Lok Sabha polls, several senior leaders of the party including seven former Chief Ministers lost their contests and two were trailing with big margins. Three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit lost from Delhi North East, former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat lost from Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar, former Haryana […]
Gambhir wins East Delhi by 3,91,222 votes
New Delhi: BJP’s cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir on Thursday won the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat here by a margin of 3,91,222 votes over his Congress rival and former Delhi Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely. Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party came third. While Gambhir bagged the seat with 6,96,156 (55.35 per cent) votes, Lovely got 3,04,934 (24.24 per […]