Rae Bareli: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has sent an emotional letter to her voters in Rae Bareli, thanking them for their support in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, where her win was the only saving grace for the Congress, who could not even hold on to the family borough Amethi. She wrote that she was […]
Category: LS POLLS 2019
Rahul Gandhi takes back offer to resign
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took back his offer to quit as the Congress President, a proposal he made during the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Saturday following the party’s rout in the Lok Sabha elections, party sources said. A party source told IANS: “Rahulji has taken back his proposal to resign as the […]
Women, first-time voters swung it for NDA: IANS-CVOTER Analysis
New Delhi: Female and first-time voters seem to have swung the results in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), a detailed analysis of the 2019 Lok Sabha results by IANS-CVOTER show. The NDA got 45.1 per cent of votes cast by females against 42.1 per cent of men preferring the ruling […]
Lalu Prasad skips lunch, goes mum after RJD rout
Ranchi: Jailed former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad has stopped taking lunch and keeping quiet most of the time after his party suffered a humiliating rout in the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar. The Rashtriya Janata Dal failed to win any seat in Bihar, once its bastion, and Jharkhand. Despite the Modi wave […]
52 Congress MPs who won despite Modi wave come from 18 states, UTs
New Delhi: Who are the 52 candidates of the Congress who won despite the Narendra Modi wave in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections? The Congress had fielded 421 candidates across the country but only 52 of them got elected from 18 states and union territories, marking the second dismal performance by the grand old party in […]
Saumitra Khan lone Muslim face of BJP, community number goes up to 27
New Delhi: Saumitra Khan will be the lone Muslim face of the BJP in the new Lok Sabha where the representation of this minority community has gone up to 27 from 22 in the outgoing House. Khan was elected from Bishnupur in West Bengal and is the only Muslim among the 303 Lok Sabha members of […]
Muslim representation increases to 27 in 17th Lok Sabha
New Delhi: Muslim representation in 17th Lok Sabha has increased by five taking the community’s tally to 27 from 22 in the outgoing Lok Sabha with the BJP getting its lone Muslim face as Saumitra Khan, who won from West Bengal against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. Most of the winning candidates are from opposition […]
Four key issues before Modi 2.0
New Delhi: Four key economic issues — GDP figures from CSO, fiscal deficit numbers from CGA, Jalan panel report on RBI surplus and RBI circular on NPA resolution — are awaiting formation of government as the Modi 2.0 is faced with a slowdown, slack in demand, consumption and investment. Battered by a severe slowdown, the Indian […]
Will fulfil expectations of people, says Modi
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday assured that his new government would leave no stone unturned in fulfilling the dreams and expectations of people, and that it expedite all of its works. Modi’s assurance came after President Ram Nath Kovind formally invited him to form the government when he called on him at Rashtrapati […]
Mamata sees foreign hand behind BJP poll win
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday saw a foreign hand behind the BJP-led NDA’s thumping win in the Lok Sabha polls, and expressed doubts over the results of seats her party lost by less than one lakh votes alleging the EVMs were programmed in the saffron outfit’s favour. “There is some suspicion in […]