NEW DELHI: The BJP won the Gujarat assembly polls for a record sixth straight victory today, and was set to evict the Congress in Himachal Pradesh, tightening the party’s grip over the country’s politics with general elections only 18 months away. The Gujarat results turned out to be a seesaw, with BJP and Congress running […]
NEW DELHI: A bill seeking to extend the facility of ‘proxy voting’ to overseas Indians, on the lines of service voters, was introduced in the Lok Sabha. The draft law also seeks to make the election law gender neutral by replacing the term ‘wife’ with ‘spouse’ to benefit service voters. According to the provisions of […]
NEW DELHI: The BJP today looked set to retain power in Gujarat, with the party winning 46 seats and leading in 53 others in the keenly-contested polls to the 182-member Assembly. The BJP is all set to wrest power from the Congress in Himachal Pradesh as it won 8 seats and was leading in 37 […]
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi today took charge as the president of Congress in the presence of the 132-year-old party’s top brass and his family members. The Congress’ central election authority (CEA) handed him over the certificate of his elevation to the top post during a grand event held at the lawns of the All India […]
NEW DELHI: Disruptions marred the first day of the Winter Session of the Rajya Sabha today as a determined opposition stalled proceedings protesting the disqualification of former JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav and another MP of the same party and certain recent remarks of the Prime Minister. The House was first adjourned for about 20 minutes […]
NEW DELHI: The BJP looks headed for facile victories in both Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, according to a string of exit polls conducted by various media organisations. Almost all exit polls predicted more than 100 seats for the BJP in Gujarat where the party has been ensconced in power for close to two decades now. […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday petitioned the Election Commission (EC) for action against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for addressing an event organised by an industry body on the eve of the final phase of the Gujarat polls where he attacked the main Opposition party. The Congress’s complaint came soon after the EC issued a […]
AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took off this morning in a sea plane from the Sabarmati River here to Dharoi Dam in Mehsana district on the last day of campaigning for the Gujarat Assembly polls. Modi boarded the single-engine sea-plane from near the Sardar Bridge connecting the old city with Ahmedabad West, the first-ever flight […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally alleged that Pakistan was meddling in the Gujarat elections, and questioned some senior Congress leaders’ recent meeting with the neighbouring country’s officials, including the country’s high commissioner to India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally alleged that Pakistan was meddling in the Gujarat elections, and […]
NEW DELHI: Along expected lines, Rahul Gandhi was elected as Congress president unopposed on Monday, signalling a generational shift in the Grand Old Party, which his mother Sonia Gandhi shouldered for 13 years. The announcement was made by the Congress’ Central Election Authority chairman Mullapally Ramachandran. Ramachandran said the 47-year-old leader would formally take over […]