Lok Sabha Elections 2019

‘Victory not mine, but of people desperate for honesty’: PM Modi

Delivering a rousing speech at the BJP headquarters that was teeming with loyalists, mediapersons and security personnel, Modi likened himself to a fakir (ascetic), even as the party chose to crown him as the leader of the fiercely fought election.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Amit Shah’s master plan for Uttar Pradesh derails SP, BSP

After all, the party’s success in 2014 and 2017 had relied substantially on a split in the anti-BJP vote.

How Opposition failed to stop the Modi wave, despite unity effort

They came, they met and then they lost the game. The opposition league, which was toying with names such as Secular Democratic Front, failed to dent or stop the Narendra Modi wave.

Congress may fail to secure leader of the opposition post again

The Congress is unlikely to get the post of the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha for a second time in a row as it has yet again failed to get 10% seats in Parliament’s lower House.

Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka govts on shaky ground?

The Lok Sabha election results could determine the fate of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh governments, which enjoy wafer-thin majorities.

Lok Sabha election results 2019: Strikes on terror swung political wind

While the political decisiveness shown by the PM mattered in both the 2016 surgical strike and February air strike, credit is also due to his national security team led by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

Possible change of guard, strategy for 3 state polls on BJP’s agenda

After a thumping victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two next tasks are picking a new national president and turn its attention towards three crucial assembly elections later this year.

Lok Sabha election result 2019: ‘Nation first’ approach won the day

The airstrike appears to have been the turning point in shifting the focus to nationalism and national security from issues like farm distress and lack of jobs, which helped the Congress wrest power from the BJP in the three heartland key states.

Boosting economy to bridging divide, PM Modi has his task cut out

As PM Modi takes charge for a second time, it is time for India’s political leadership to shift gears and turn on their governance lens.

BJP’s Amit Shah the strategist now emerges as leader of masses

On May 5, en route to Chandigarh, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah told this writer that he expected his party to win around 23 seats in West Bengal and 63 seats in Uttar Pradesh.

Quietly, relentlessly RSS worked behind the scenes to power BJP win

For the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) big win is not only a referendum on the saffron party’s performance on national security and on economic and international fronts, but also a sign that its social engineering has been successful in coalescing Hindu votes.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Government offset income slowdown with asset creation in rural heartland

The BJP scored commanding leads across farm belts in major battleground states on the strength of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heavy campaigning focused on national security, foreign policy and Hindutva.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: What the next 5 years hold for key leaders

Hindustan Times examines the political fortunes of the country’s top political leaders and what the verdict of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections means for them

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Rao Inderjit Singh of Gurgaon wins third ticket to Parliament

Rao Inderjit Singh, who joined the BJP in 2014, also improved his vote share by 12.2% this time, getting 61% of the votes polled in the district.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Ex-army chief retains his Ghaziabad seat with almost 2014-like margin

BJP’s Gen (retd) VK Singh defeated his nearest rival Suresh Bansal of the Samajwadi Party by 5,01,500 votes.

Gautam Budh Nagar: Dr Mahesh Sharma has the pulse of Noida

At 9pm, Sharma had polled 8,28,164 votes while the BSP candidate Satveer Nagar secured 4,93,421.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP’s capital competition turns out to be a no-contest

The party got nearly 50% vote in the Capital.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Rude jolt to AAP’s national dreams

It lost all seven seats in Delhi and won only one seat in Punjab.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP’s ‘fresh face’ strategy helps roll back reverses in Chhattisgarh polls

Lok Sabha elections 2019: High on assembly win, Congress dealt huge blow in Madhya Pradesh

The BJP bettered its 2014 result of 27 seats in the state, a result, party workers argued, of started preparation right after the assembly elections.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: After 2018 defeat in Rajasthan, the second coming

It marks a turnaround since the BJP lost power in December to Congress in the state that sends 25 lawmakers to Parliament.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Girish Bapat clinches Pune LS seat

Retaining the seat for the BJP, Bapat, at the time of going to press, had polled 6,04,687 votes. His closest rival, the Congress’ Mohan Joshi had 2,94,839 votes, with one round still left to count.

NDA routs Grand Alliance in Bihar by 39:1, in Jarkhand by 12:2

In Bihar, the NDA handed a crushing defeat to the five-party Grand Alliance, which won just one seat, the Muslim-dominated Kishanganj where JD-U’s candidate was defeated by Congress’s.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Narendra Modi’s persona makes UP vote beyond caste lines

Prime Minister Narendra Modi won his seat by a higher margin of over 4.75 lakh votes while his home minister comfortably won from Lucknow.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Saffron sweeps north but no Modi mojo in Punjab

The BJP-led NDA, which retained power with a thumping triumph, bagged 22 of the 34 Lok Sabha seats in the region, making a clean sweep in Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: How CM Devendra Fadnavis ensured Maha win

The Opposition alliance of Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won five seats, with the former managing to get one seat less than in 2014 and the latter retaining its tally of four.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: KCR’s plan to play kingmaker in Delhi falls flat

His party, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), could win only 9 out of 17 seats in the state. TRS expected to win 16 seats.

Kerala: Near sweep for Congress; CPM left with one

For the beleaguered Congress, there is some comfort down south. Wayanad has saved the party president from major blushes.

Jagan Mohan Reddy’s long march halts Naidu’s victory run in Andhra

In spite of being the son of a powerful Congress satrap, the road to success for Reddy was not an easy one, especially after he fell out with the Congress high command in the aftermath of his father’s untimely death.