New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognizance of involvement of children and infants in demonstrations in the backdrop of the death of an infant on January 30 at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi. A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant will hear the matter […]
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‘If BJP has inside info on Shaheen Bagh why don’t they act?’
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday slammed Union minister Giriraj Singh, saying if BJP leaders are getting inside information on Shaheen Bagh, why are they not acting on it? Speaking to the media, the AAP MP asked the BJP minister if India is run by the BJP or whether […]
Remove Kapil Mishra’s ‘India Vs Pak’ comment: EC tells Twitter
New Delhi: The Election Commission has asked Twitter to remove the comment of BJP’s Model Town Assembly candidate Kapil Mishra from its platform describing Shaheen Bagh’s anti-CAA protest site here as “mini-Pakistan”. Mishra had also described the upcoming Assembly polls as a contest “on Delhi roads between India and Pakistan” Officials in the commission told […]
Delhi goes to polls on Feb 8, counting on Feb 11
New Delhi: The election commission on Monday announced February 8 to be the date of Delhi assembly elections. Model code of conduct comes into effect with the announcement, the EC said. The date of notification is January 14, while January 21 will be the last date of filing nominations. There are total of seventy seats […]
SC seeks EC response on EVM malfunction complaint
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to respond on a plea seeking to remove the provision which criminalizes the reporting of malfunctioning of the electronic voting machines, if proven false. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gagoi asked the poll panel to file its reply within two weeks. The […]
610 political parties won no seat in Lok Sabha elections
New Delhi: A total of 610 mainly regional and small political parties across the country failed to win even a single seat in the Lok Sabha elections while 530 got zero per cent vote share. A total of 13 parties managed to enter the Lok Sabha by bagging just one seat each, according to data […]
BJP won by spreading communal poison in Bengal, EC worked in their favour: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: Accusing the BJP of doing well in the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal by spreading “communal poison”, Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the saffron party’s polarisation tactics would be counterproductive for them in the next state Assembly polls, scheduled in 2021. She also charged the Election Commission […]
Congress leaders look tense as CWC meet ends
New Delhi: The Congress leaders, who participated in the CWC meeting on Saturday to discuss the party’s abysmal showing in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, wore grim look when they came out as the meeting ended. As the top decision-making body met at the party headquarters on 24 Akbar Road, many speculations flew across […]
Despite defeat, Congress vote share goes up in Bhopal
Bhopal: Bhopal Lok Sabha seat continues to be in focus even after the election process is over. The humiliating defeat of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh (Congress) at the hands of political rookie Sadhvi Pragya Thakur (BJP) is a case study for those assessing the voting pattern in the constituency’s assembly segments. Thakur […]
BJP makes inroads into West Bengal, Odisha
New Delhi: In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) surprised many by making deep inroads into West Bengal and Odisha, considered bastions of the Trinamool Congress and the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), respectively. The BJP was leading in 18 of the 42 seats in West Bengal, and 9 out of 21 […]