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Robert Vadra calls LS poll results 'disheartening'
After BJP's emphatic victory and Congress' humiliating defeat in the parliamentary elections, Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra on Friday said it is "disheartening" but winning and losing is a part of life.He congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hoping that India is governed in a "secular and democratic way"."Winning & losing is a part of life. My best wishes to the Congress party leaders and workers. There was plenty of hard work that went into elections. No doubt, it's disheartening but let's keep the fight on," Vadra, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi's husband, said in a Facebook post."I congratulate Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, BJP and NDA. I really hope that India is governed in a secular & a democratic way," he said.On Thursday, Vadra had wished Rahul and Priyanka good luck for the Lok Sabha election results.Addressing the Congress president as "R" and Priyanka as "P" in a Facebook post, he wrote, "R all the best. With you all the way, .
BJP will have to work on their promises now as they have got huge mandate, says Owaisi
All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said that the BJP will have to work on their promises as the mandate given in this Lok Sabha elections to the saffron party is huge and the electorate will seek answers from them on the basis of their work."This time BJP will have to work on their promises because of the massive mandate given by the people. Now the electorate will answer questions from them," he told ANI here.On being asked about the relevance of regional parties, Owaisi said, "BJP's onslaught was not stopped by Congress. So there is more importance of regional parties now. Jagan Mohan Reddy's party had won massively in Andhra Pradesh, which is also a regional party. Wherever there was Congress, BJP had claimed victory.""BJP's strong point is nationalism, Hindu identity and the use of social media which the party had used in the general elections," he said.Explaining his party's agenda, The AIMIM leader said, "Expanding all over India is
TMC wins 22 LS seats, BJP makes deep inroads in Bengal
The ruling TMC has won 22 out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal.The Mamata Banerjee-led party had won 34 parliamentary seats in the state in the 2014 General Elections.BJP has made huge strides in West Bengal by garnering 18 seats, 16 more than it had won in the 2014 polls, thereby breaching the once Left-ruled bastion and now the TMC citadel.Congress, on the other hand, managed to win just two seats while Left parties drew a blank.From BJP, the winners were -- Babul Supriyo (Asansol), Arjun Singh (Barrackpore), SS Ahluwalia (Burdwan-Durgapur), Locket Chatterjee (Hooghly) and Dilip Ghosh (Medinipur).Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury defeated TMC's Apurba Sarkar by 80,696 votes.Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee (TMC) retained his Diamond Harbour seat, defeating his BJP rival Nilanjan Roy by 3,20,594 votes.Other TMC candidates who won from their respective seats were Sougata Roy (Dum Dum), Satabdi Roy (Birbhum), Sunil Kumar Mondal (Bardhaman Purba), Mimi Chakraborty .
You'll never win by saying 'desh ke tukde-tukde': Ravi Kishan jabs Kanhaiya
Actor-turned-politician Ravi Kishan who registered victory from Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat for the BJP, slammed former JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar who was decimated by BJP's Giriraj Singh in Begusarai, saying those who talk of breaking the nation into 'tukde-tudke' (pieces) can never win the confidence of people."When you say 'desh ke tukde-tukde' you will never win the confidence of the people. By being anti-national and speaking against the nation, by abusing the established government you will never be able to win," said Ravi Kishan.Kumar shot to fame in 2016 after the alleged raising of anti-India slogans in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.Kishan had contested and lost from Jaunpur Lok Sabha seat during 2014 general elections on a Congress ticket. The actor joined BJP two years ago.The Gorakhpur seat was represented by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for five terms since 1998 until Praveen Kumar Nishad of Samajwadi Party won the seat in a by-poll ...
BJP crosses 300 mark, Cong bags 52 as counting nears end
Sealing its phenomenal electoral victory, the Narendra Modi-led BJP crossed the 300 mark and was leading in one seat as counting for votes for 542 Lok Sabha seats neared its end on Friday. The massive exercise began Thursday morning with early trends establishing the BJP's conclusive lead, making it evident that Modi's message, packaging muscular nationalism, security and Hindu pride, had worked wonders. With the BJP riding a Modi wave that took it past its 2014 tally of 282, the opposition was left way behind with the Congress winning only 52 seats, two less than it needs for a Leader of Opposition post in the lower house and marginally more than the 44 it got in the last general elections. Regional parties followed the Congress in the electoral table. The DMK with 23 wins, the Trinamool Congress and the YSRCP with 22 each, the Shiv Sena with 18 and the Janata Dal-United with 16 made their presence felt in an election that took on overtones of a presidential contest with the ...
NDA sweeps Bihar with 39/40 seats, Mahagathbandhan routed
The rout of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which led the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, has been the biggest shock in these elections.
OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik resigns after election debacle
Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik Friday announced his resignation from the post in the wake of the party's electoral debacle in the state. "I have sent my resignation to AICC President (Rahul Gandhi) owning moral responsibility for the party's poor show in both Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state," Patnaik told reporters here. "While the Congress faced defeat in the state, I too lost at the hustings," the Congress stalwart said. Admitting that the Congress had failed to win the confidence of the people, Patnaik said "the party needs to take concrete steps to set the organisation in proper shape by getting rid of opportunists and attracting youths into its fold." He said that he had tried his best to bolster the party's poll prospects. Patnaik said a committee, headed by senior leader Narasingha Mishra, has been set up to ascertain the reason behind the drubbing suffered by the Congress in Odisha. While Congress has won only one ...
YSR Congress polls nearly 50 per cent votes
The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), which swept to power in Andhra Pradesh, polled nearly 50 percent votes in Andhra Pradesh, Election Commission data shows.
About 5.4 lakh TN voters choose NOTA
A total of 541,150 voters, or about 1.8 per cent of the electorate, in Tamil Nadu have picked NOTA (None of the Above) in the Lok Sabha elections, according to the Election Commission.
Landslide victory for BJP in Arunachal Pradesh assembly polls
The BJP has comfortably crossed the 31-seat mark in Arunachal Pradesh to claim simple majority in the 60-member Assembly, while its rival Congress has bagged just four seats so far, the results made available by the Election Commission showed. Counting of votes is still underway for five assembly constituencies in the state. For the first time, the BJP will form government in the Himalayan state with the support of its own MLAs. The saffron party has clinched 37 Assembly seats, including three unopposed, and is currently taking a lead in two constituencies. The JD(U), which made its maiden entry into the electoral scene of Arunachal Pradesh, won seven seats so far, while another debutant National People's Party (NPP) secured four seats. The lone regional outfit, Peoples' Party of Arunachal (PPA), bagged a single seat, while two Independents clinched one seat each. Among the prominent BJP winners are Chief Minister Pema Khandu, who won the election from the Mukto seat, ..
PM thanks world leaders for congratulatory messages on Twitter
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday thanked world leaders and personalities as their congratulatory messages kept pouring in after he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a super-sized victory for a second term in office. Thanking American vice president Mike Pence, who congratulated him saying he looked forward to working with India, Modi said it was a victory of democracy which the India and US cherish. "Thank You @VP. This is a victory of democracy, which India and the US cherish. I will continue to promote our partnership with the US for peace and shared prosperity for our two countries and the world," Modi tweeted Friday. In a series of tweets, Modi thanked world leaders such as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, France President Emmanuel Macron, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and several others who wished the him on his party's landslide victory. In his messages to the world leaders, the PM said he looked forward to strengthen close ...
US sees Pakistan-based LeT threat to it in Afghanistan: Pentagon report
The US considers Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as one of the greatest threats to it and allied forces in war-torn Afghanistan, where at least 300 fighters from the terror group are active, a Pentagon report has said. The LeT, designated a global terror organisation by the US and the UN, was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that killed 166 people. Among the 20 prominent terrorist organisations active in Afghanistan, LeT ranks fifth in terms of fighters along with al Qaeda and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, stated the Pentagon report, 'Lead Inspector General for Operation Freedom's Sentinel', for the quarter ending March 31. The report said the Department of Defence "identified the Haqqani Network, the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba as groups that present the greatest threat to US and allied forces in Afghanistan". The report also stated that an estimated 300 LeT and 1,000 Islamic Emirate High Council operatives are active in the ...
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince congratulate Modi on election win
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the Lok Sabha elections, the media reported on Friday.
In his maiden Lok Sabha poll, Prasad defeats 'shotgun'; wins Patna Sahib seat
Fighting a high-stakes battle, BJP veteran Ravi Shankar Prasad has emerged victorious in his first Lok Sabha election, defeating his colleague-turned opponent Shatrughan Sinha by more than 2.84 lakh votes. A four-time Rajya Sabha MP, Prasad wrested the Patna Sahib seat in Bihar from Sinha, a rebel BJP leader who is also known as 'shotgun'. Prasad garnered 6.07 lakh votes while Sinha, a former Bollywood star who joined Congress earlier this year, managed only 3.22 lakh votes. The 65-year-old Prasad has held various ministerial portfolios, including that of Law and Justice, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as Atal Bihari Vajpayee governments. When Modi swept to power in 2014, Prasad was first given the ministries of Telecom and Information Technology and Electronics. Later, he was divested of the telecom portfolio. Currently, he is a Rajya Sabha member and holds the portfolios of Law and Justice as well as Electronics. He became a Rajya Sabha member for the first time in 2000 .
BJP gets more than 60 per cent vote share in U'khand
The BJP, which retained all the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand with huge victory margins, also got more than 60 per cent of the vote share this time, the highest by any party in the history of the hill state. The BJP had captured 55.30 per cent of the total votes cast in the state in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls but this time got 61.0 per cent votes, increasing its vote share by 5.70 percentage points. The increase in the BJP's vote share despite a voter turnout of 61.50 per cent which was a little less than in 2014 when the state had recorded 61.67 per cent polling makes it all the more creditable for the party. The Congressfinished secondbehind the BJP getting a vote share of 31.4 per cent followed by the BSP which got 4.48 per cent of the total votes cast. The big difference in the vote shares of the two parties, which were locked in straight contests in all the seats, shows the overwhelming support for the BJP. BJP national secretary Tirath Singh Rawat, who won with a huge margin
In continuing Modi surge, BJP claims Middle India (IANS Special)
The Bharatiya Janata Party has effected a redrawing of its support base that now spreads beyond the Hindi heartland to include at least 10 states that form its core.
White House is 'crying out for impeachment': Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has argued that the "White House is just crying out for impeachment" but that Democrats will continue to hold back on opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump until it's "unavoidable".
'The North Remembers', Smriti Irani after dethroning Rahul Gandhi
'The North Remembers' the victories and the defeats. It has been a month of wins and loses, be it the finale of HBO fantasy drama 'Game of Thrones' or the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.From the triumph of the 'Starks' in the show to the landslide win for the BJP in the 17th general elections, the two have followed a close line. BJP candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Amethi constituency after defeating her rival, Congress candidate Rahul Gandhi, has summed up her success in a quote from the ultra-popular series.She shared a silhouette picture of a direwolf on the backdrop of the moon with a quote from the series 'The North Remembers'.This also comes in the wake of BJP's triumph over most parts in North India.Acknowledging Smriti's win in the North and adding that there is love from the South too, an Instagram user commented, "Dont worry mam there is love from south kerala too just that we need better speakers communicators and planing in kerala we tried our best but not enough follow up or ...
Over 5,000 voters opted for NOTA in UP's Muzaffarnagar
Over 5,000 voters opted for the none of the above (NOTA) button in elections to the Muzaffarnagar parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, election officials said. Ten candidates were in the fray for Muzaffarnagar seat which was retained by BJP's Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, who defeated his nearest rival and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh by 6,526 votes. According to the election officials, 5,061 voters opted for NOTA here. While Balyan secured 5,73,780 votes, Singh polled 5,67,254 votes. Independent candidate Neel Kumar got 4,884 votes -- less than what was polled for NOTA.
Two high-profile BJP leaders bite dust in Odisha
Amid celebrations in the BJP camp for the stupendous victory in the Lok Sabha elections, two of its high-profile leaders lost in Odisha.