Gandhinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national President Amit Shah surpassed the victory margin of senior party leader L.K. Advani as counting entered 22nd round, even as his party was all set to bag all the 26 seats in Gujarat, repeating its 2014 performance. With every vote count almost going into his kitty, Amit Shah had […]
Tag: 2019 Lok Sabha elections
LS poll results show Rahul’s ‘chowkidar chor hai’ campaign failed miserably
New Delhi: The “chowkidar chor hai” campaign by Congress President Rahul Gandhi to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and his proposed Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) clearly failed to impress the Indian electorate which gave a resounding victory to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Thursday, putting a question mark on the leadership of the […]
Jagan Mohan Reddy to take oath as Andhra Pradesh CM on May 30: YSRCP leader
Amaravati: Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will take oath as the new Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on May 30 in the temple town of Tirupati, a YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader said on Thursday. YSRCP was heading for a landslide victory as it was leading on 152 seats in the 175-member Assembly. Senior party leader […]
PM Modi, Amit Shah take big lead
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah are among the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders who have taken big leads on the seats from where they are contesting. According to the Election Commission trends, Modi, contesting from Varanasi, is leading by 2,63,583 votes over his nearest rival Ajai Rai of the […]
Farooq Abdullah set to win, Mehbooba Mufti likely to finish third
Jammu/Srinagar: National Conference President Farooq Abdullah appeared set to win the Lok Sabha election from Srinagar while former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti was trailing at the third spot in Anantnag constituency. As the counting of votes was completed for nearly 65 per cent of the votes in the six […]
Congress leading in 19 seats, set to sweep Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: With 35 per cent counting of votes done in Kerala, the Congress-led UDF showed lead in 19 seats while the ruling CPI-M-led LDF was all but washed out as it was ahead in just one seat. Congress president Rahul Gandhi is leading the pack with a margin of over 1.60 lakh votes. E.P. Jayarajan, […]
‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ emerged big winner on social media
New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appeared set to retain power, the party emerged as a clear winner on social networks and traditional media platforms — reaching out to its target audience in a much mor organised and methodological manner than its rivals. The BJP’s […]
Raje and Gehlot travel in same flight, but don’t talk to each other
Jaipur: Call it political animosity or compulsion, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former chief minister Vasundhara Raje travelled in the same flight on Wednesday, but did not talk to each other. They landed at Jaipur airport from the same flight which they boarded from Delhi in the afternoon. “Raje was in the business class while […]
‘All-time high’ fake news storm hit millions in India polls
New Delhi: Veena Arora, a retired school principal in a small town of Uttar Pradesh, decided to use a smartphone in November last year for the first time at the cajoling of her children so that the family could stay together online even though they live in different cities. In no time, she joined WhatsApp […]
This is how vote counting process is undertaken
New Delhi: Amid allegations that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in the elections were being changed ahead of counting of votes on Thursday, PRS Legislative Research, an independent research institute, on Wednesday explained how the counting process takes place. The polls to elect the 17th Lok Sabha were held in seven phases for 542 […]