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I will not do anything out of bad intentions or anything for myself: Modi
Making a victory speech after the spectacular show in the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised the people of the country that he will not do anything with bad intentions and would not do anything for himself.Addressing the party workers after securing the mandate for a second consecutive term, he said the victory has cast a big responsibility on him."But I promise you that the work you have given me in the coming days I will not do anything with bad intentions. There can be mistakes while doing work, but there will be no work that will come out of bad intentions," Prime Minister Modi said."You have given such a big responsibility, I will not do anything for myself. Publically I want to say that every moment of mine and every part of my body will be dedicated to the people of India," he added to the cheers of a huge crowd that gathered at the BJP headquarters here amidst pouring rain.Talking about the election campaign, he said that one striking ...
Rahul, Kejriwal congratulate PM Modi for victory in LS polls
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday thanked the people of Amethi after conceding defeat from the Lok Sabha seat considered as the stronghold of the Gandhi family."Thank you to the people of Wayanad for electing me as your MP. Thank you also to the people of Amethi," the Congress president said in a tweet.The Gandhi scion also thanked the Congress workers and leaders for their 'hard work' in the election campaign.He also congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the NDA for its victory in the Lok Sabha polls."I accept the verdict of the people of India Congratulations to the winners, Mr Modi & the NDA," Rahul said.Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal also congratulated PM Modi for the resounding victory."I congratulate Sh Narendra Modi for this historic win and look forward to working together for the betterment of the people of Delhi," Kejriwal tweeted.NDA is on the verge of a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls as the trends showed it winning more than 300 ..
LS results 2019: HD Deve Gowda defeated in Tumkur by BJP's Basavaraj
Former Prime Minister and JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda on Thursday lost from the Tumkur Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka by 13,339 votes.Bharatiya Janata Party's GS Basavaraj won from the constituency.In Karnataka, BJP has won 21 seats and leading on four, while Congress and JD(S) have been restricted to one-one seats each.
Most dynasties face people's wrath in LS polls
If caste barriers fell in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, dynasties became the second casualty with many political families, mostly belonging to the opposition camp, failing to win the people's mandate.
BJP wins 1 LS seat, 3 Assembly bypolls in Goa (Roundup)
In what could be described as a mixed bag of results, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa won one Lok Sabha seat, but lost the other amid a saffron tsunami in the country on Thursday.
Chhattisgarh: BJP wins 3, Cong 1; BJP leading on six seats
The BJP has won three and Congress one out of the 11 Lok Sabha seats in Chhattisgarh as per the results declared by the Election Commission so far. Of the remaining seven seats, the saffron party was leading in six seats and the ruling Congress in one. Former state minister Renuka Singh of the BJP defeated her Congress rival Khel Sai Singh in Surguja (ST) seat by a huge margin of 1,57,873 votes. Another woman candidate of the BJP Gomtee Sai, president of Jashpur district panchayat, won from Raigarh (ST) seat against Congress' Laljeet Singh Rathiya, a sitting MLA, by 66,027 votes. In high-profile Raipur, state BJP vice president Sunil Soni defeated Congress candidate and Raipur Mayor Pramod Dubey by a whopping margin of 3,48,238 votes. A major upset is likely in Durg Lok Sabha constituency where the BJP's Vijay Baghel is leading by 3,91,978 votes over Congress' Pratima Chandrakar. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his two cabinet colleagues hail from the Durg lok sabha ...
Bangladesh PM telephones Modi to congratulate him on his victory in Lok Sabha polls
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday telephoned her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to congratulate him on his victory in the general elections during which the two leaders pledged to raise the India-Bangladesh relationship to unprecedented new heights. Prime Minister Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) towards an emphatic victory for a second term in office. The Bangladesh Prime Minister telephoned Modi to congratulated him on the clear mandate given by the people of India to the NDA Government, an official statement said. During the telephonic conversation, which lasted over five minutes, Hasina said "this emphatic verdict is a reflection of the trust and confidence reposed on you (Modi) by the people of India." She said that the people of South Asia would be happy over this win and expected to pave ways for the people of the region to work together. "The two leaders pledged to continue to raise the India-Bangladesh relationship to unprecedented new heights. ...
BJP trounces Congress in Himachal Pradesh
The ruling BJP on Thursday bagged all four Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh, repeating its 2014 performance by trouncing the Congress. The BJP candidates won by a margin of over three lakh votes in Lok Sabha seats of Mandi, Kangra and Shimla, with the party cornering 69 per cent of vote share in the state. Its Hamirpur candidate Anurag Thakur too had an unassailable lead of over three lakh votes over his Congress rival Ram Lal Thakur. Suresh Kashyap of BJP won by 3,27,515 votes against his nearest rival Dhani Ram Shandil of Congress from Shimla Lok Sabha seat, a state election officer said. Kashyap polled 6,06183 votes, whereas Shandil got 2,78,668 votes. All the other four candidates lost their deposit. In 2014, Virender Kashyap of BJP had won by defeating Mohan Lal Brakata of Congress by 84,198 votes.This time the BJP dropped him and fielded Pachhad MLA Suresh Kashyap. In Mandi, sitting BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma won with a margin of 4,05,459 votes against his nearest rival ...
Cong-JDS coalition comes under shadow of electoral rout, face
Facing a rout in the Lok Sabha polls, numerically shaky Congress-JDS government in Karnataka led by H D Kumaraswamy appeared to be at the cusp point amid fears that the outcome would have a bearing on its stability. Badly mauling the Congress and JDS, the BJP has pulled off a spectacular electoral feat, winning 22 Lok Sabha seats and leading in three more, leaving one each to be shared by the coalition partners and an Independent. A complete sweep as this has stunned the BJP itself which was expecting a maximum of 22 seats and caused tremors within the ruling coalition, which has been facing existential crisis right from the day it formed the government a year ago. It was exactly one year ago that Kumaraswamy was sworn in as head of the coalition government after heightened political drama that saw B S Yeddyurappa, the leader of the single largest party BJP, resigning as Chief Minister of a three-day old government,unable to prove his majority in the ...
Irani's giant-killing act, dethrones Rahul in home turf
Smriti Irani, whose meteoric rise in the BJP saw her become the HRD and Information & Broadcasting Minister before being divested of these portfolios, Thursday emerged as a giant-killer -- this time scripting a historic win by dethroning Rahul Gandhi in the Congress's home turf. The 43-year-old popular television actor-turned politician continued to cultivate Amethi in the past five years despite her loss in 2014 to Gandhi and this helped her reap electoral dividends. Throughout her campaigning, Irani asserted that people of Amethi want change and development and will vote for Modi. Irani courted quite often, be it her educational qualification or her stint in the Union Cabinet. In her nomination papers, she mentioned she was not a graduate. She said she passed secondary school examination in 1991 and senior secondary school examination in 1993. In her affidavit for the 2014 polls, she had said she graduated from Delhi University in 1994, triggering a row over the veracity of her .
Owaisi wins from Hyderabad LS seat for 4th time
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi won the Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat for the fourth consecutive term Thursday. Owaisi, who had been winning the seat since 2004, defeated J Bhagavanth Rao of the BJP by over 2.82 lakh votes. In 2014, Owaisi had secured 5,13,868 votes emerging victorious against the same opponent by 2,02,454 votes. Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat has been traditionally a stronghold of the AIMIM, which has maintained a firm grip on the minority voters-dominated constituency since 1984. The party's former chief and Asaduddin's father Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi had earlier got elected six times consecutively from here.
Tough road ahead for Kamal Nath after assembly bypoll win
From a nine-time Member of Parliament from Chhindwara to Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, seasoned politician Kamal Nath has traversed a long way in both national and state politics since 1980. The 72-year-old Congress veteran Thursday won the bypoll from the Chhindwara assembly segment, allowing him to continue as the Chief Minister. Nath defeated Vivek Sahu of the BJP by a margin of 25,837 votes. Kamal Nath's son Nakul Nath, who fought his maiden parliamentary poll, won the Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat for the Congress. The victory of the Naths has come as a silver lining to the otherwise gloomy condition of the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, where it assumed power just six months ago, but is headed for a poor showing in the Lok Sabha polls. After contesting Lok Sabha polls successfully nine times, Nath fought his maiden assembly election (a bypoll) from his home turf Chhindwara after becoming Chief Minister in December 2018. As his government enjoys a wafer thin majority ..
YSRC wins 29 seats, leading in 120 others;set for overwhelming
The YSR Congress on Thursday virtually decimated the Chandrababu Naidu-led TDP and appeared on course for a resounding victory in Andhra Pradesh with its candidates winning in 29 seats and leading in 120 others. The ruling Telugu Desam Party won in four seats and was leading in 21 segments while actor-politician's Jana Sena party in one, according to the latest Election Commission data. The Y S Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSRC may end up with over a three-fourths majority in the 175-member Assembly. The YSRC Legislature Party will meet here on May 25 to formally elect Jaganmohan Reddy as its leader, who will be sworn-in as chief minister on May 30. Reddy told reporters he would take oath as CM at Vijayawada on May 30 and promised to bring in a governance that the country would stand up and look to. With his party set to wrest power, Reddy Thursday described it as people's victory. Terming his party's good show in the state Assembly polls and Lok Sabha elections as a "new ...
Nitish congratulates PM on NDAs victory
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for NDAs spectacular victory in the country as well in the state. Kumar also thanked the people of the state for giving their stamp of approval to the development work carried out by both the central and the state government in Bihar. In democracy, people are the master who have given their mandate. I congratulate the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for NDAs spectacular victory in the country and Bihar. I also thank the people of the country especially that of Bihar who have recognized the development work carried out by the state government and the Narendra Modi government, Kumar said. The result is before all of you. People have voted for the alliance which has worked for them. This is a lesson for those who were trying to do some kind of caste arithmetic alone, Kumar said this while talking to reporters at his official residence 1, Aney Marg here in the state capital after the poll ...
UK celebrates India's 'decisive' verdict for Modi
India's election results resonated in the political and business corridors of the UK on Thursday as leading politicians and entrepreneurs welcomed the "decisive" victory scored by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. While the official Downing Street reaction to Modi's landslide win is expected only after the official results declaration, members of the Theresa May-led Conservative Party government took to social media to celebrate the verdict. "Beyond the size of the majority now commanded by the BJP, this result is a decisive verdict on the support enjoyed by Narendra Modi across the nation of India," said Bob Blackman, a Conservative Party MP from Harrow in north-west London where he represents a large British Hindu constituency. "The BJP are the natural allies of the Conservative and Unionist Party and I am positive about the ever blossoming relationship between our two great nation states. India has been strengthened both domestically and abroad under Modi's premiership and I look ...
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince congratulates PM Modi on his election victory
Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE's Armed Forces, on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his election victory, saying he looked forward to working with him to deepen the strong bilateral ties. Prime Minister Modi on Thursday led his Bharatiya Janata Party towards a super-sized victory for a second term in office. "I was pleased to talk to my dear friend Narendra Modi, India's PM, over the phone to congratulate him on his party's election win," said Mohammed, colloquially known as MbZ. "We look forward to working together to deepen our strong bilateral ties. The UAE wishes India & its friendly people more development & prosperity," he said.
From humble 2 seats to second-term: PM Modi recalls BJP's journey at victory address
Hailing the BJP's stellar victory in the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra on Thursday recalled the party's journey of 'do se dubara' (from having two MPs to returning for a second term).Addressing euphoric party workers at BJP headquarters, PM Modi said, "It is BJP's specialty that even though we have hit the count of two (MPs), but we never lost our way. We did not forget our ideals. We did not stop, did not bow, neither felt tired. There was a time when we were two, still, we have come back again now. This two to second-term journey has been filled with lots of ups and downs."Modi asserting that crores of party workers have a single aim of bringing laurels to mother India. "If someone has won, it is Hindustan that has won, it is democracy that has won, it's public that has won, and therefore, all BJP and NDA people with humility dedicate this victory to the public. I congratulate all the winners, no matter from which party or which region they contested," he said.PM Modi
Vice President Naidu congratulates people for voting for stability
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday congratulated the people of India for voting for stability in the Lok Sabha elections."I congratulate the people of India for making their choice so clear with resounding clarity and voting for stability. I congratulate the Election Commission for the smooth and efficient conduct of elections," the Vice President said in a release."I congratulate all the winning parties and candidates in whom the people have reposed immense trust," he added."I hope that all of us irrespective of party affiliations, will continue to deepen the roots of our rich democratic tradition and focus our collective energies on development, reforms, and enhancement of the quality of our people's lives," said Naidu.
Masoodi defeats by Cong's Mir by 6676 votes, Mehbooba comes a poor third in Anantnag
National Conference (NC) leader Hasnain Masoodi on Thursday defeated Congress' Ghulam Ahmad Mir by 6676 votes.PDP chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti came poor third from Anantnag Lok Sabha seat.Masoodi, however, said that he would consider his victory of so some use only when the issue of Kashmir was solved."This is not a moment of happiness for me... My victory will be considered only when the issue of Kashmir is solved. This is a lesson for them. The Assembly elections should be held soon in the state," Masoodi told media persons here.
After campaign from 12K km away, BJP overseas group in US celebrates win
After a four-month campaign from 12,000 kilometres away for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Overseas Friends of BJP-USA (OFBJP) is planning celebrations in 20 cities for the party's victory, according to its President Krishna Reddy Anugula.