Page 424 - Politics
BJP's Brijendra Singh defeats Dushyant Chautala in Hisar
BJP candidate Brijendra Singh won the Hisar parliamentary seat defeating his nearest rival and incumbent MP Dushyant Chautala of the JJP by a margin of 3,14,068 votes. Congress candidate Bhavya Bishnoi, the grandson of former chief minister Bhajan Lal, finished third. Brijendra Singh, a political greenhorn, is the son of Union Minister Birender Singh. The bureaucrat-turned-politician had joined the BJP recently. Chautala, the great grandson of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal, had floated the Jannayak Janata Party six months back after a vertical split in the INLD following a feud within the Chautala family.
Zakir Musa trapped during encounter in South Kashmir
Zakir Musa, the so-called chief of Al-Qaeda's Kashmir cell, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, was Thursday evening trapped during a cordon and search operation at Tral in South Kashmir, officials said. They said that a locality in Tral of Pulwama district was cordoned by security forces this evening following a specific input. The forces were fired upon by terrorists trapped inside a house. An encounter was underway and there were confirmed reports about the presence of Musa there, they said. Additional forces were rushed to the encounter site to ensure that no one escaped from there, they said.
Will work with PM for betterment of people in Delhi: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "historic" win of the NDA in the Lok Sabha election and asserted that his party fielded "very good" candidates on all the seats and he accepts the people's mandate. Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party towards what is certain to be a spectacular victory for a second term in office, as his message of nationalism, security, Hindu pride and a New India was wholeheartedly embraced by voters across large swathes of the country. The BJP is also set for an astounding victory in Delhi, where it is leading in all the seven seats. "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. "We accept the mandate of the people. We fielded very good candidates and our party workers worked very hard during campaigning," he said in another tweet. "Congratulations to Bhagwant and the people of Sangrur. .
AP: CM Chandrababu Naidu resigns, Jaganmohan Reddy swears in on May 30
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP chief N Chandrababu submitted his resignation to the state Governor ESL Narasimhan on Thursday.On the other hand, YSR Congress chief, Jaganmohan Reddy will take oath as the state's chief minister on May 30 in Vijayawada. On the same day, elected MLAs of the YSR Congress will meet and elect Reddy as their leader, according to party sources.Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was routed in the assembly as well as Lok Sabha elections by Jaganmohan Reddy's YSR Congress on Thursday. In a 175-member state assembly, Reddy's party is leading on 149 seats while TDP is only ahead in 25 assembly constituencies.In the election trends, the YSR Congress is leading on 22 out of 25 parliamentary constituencies whereas the TDP is leading on three Lok Sabha seats only.
Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar congratulates Modi on spectacular performance
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the spectacular performance of the NDA in the general elections."I would like to congratulate honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi on getting huge support across the nation. The public has given a clear mandate which is a big responsibility on our shoulders," said Kumar.He further said that the public of Bihar has rejected the bitter atmosphere created during this election."Attempts were made to create a bitter atmosphere during the elections but I am happy that the public has rejected it."Evading the question of his party's stand on Article 370, Kumar said, "As a party, we have already clarified our position on such issues. All the NDA allies will work in consensus."Asked if his party colleagues would join the cabinet of the Modi government, Kumar said, "The leadership and other political allies will think about it and there is nothing special about it."To the possibility of the NDA ...
BJP wins four seats in Gujarat, leading on other 22 seats
The BJP has won four out of 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat and is leading on all the remaining seats by large margins as the counting is underway. BJP's Mitesh Patel won from Anand Lok Sabha constituency, defeating Congress candidate and former Union minister Bharat Solanki by 1.97 lakh votes. In Bardoli, BJP's Parbhu Vasava defeated Congress' Tushar Chaudhary by 2.15 lakh votes. In Chhota Udepur, BJP's Gitaben Rathva won by a margin of 3.77 lakh votes, defeating Congress' Ranjitsinh Rathva. BJP's Mohan Kundariya won Rajkot seat by 3.68 lakh votes, defeating Congress candidate Lalit Kagathara. BJP president Amit Shah has gained a lead of over 5.55 lakh votes against Congress candidate C J Chavda in Gandhinagar seat. While the lead of BJP's Navsari candidate C R Patil, at 6.89 lakh, remains the highest on all of 26 seats.
Cong wins South Goa LS seat, BJP leading in North Goa
The Congress wrested the South Goa Lok Sabha seat from the BJP Thursday, while the latter is leading in the North Goa parliamentary constituency. Congress candidate Francis Sardinha defeated BJP's Narendra Sawaikar in South Goa. The Congress, which had lost this seat in 2014, snatched it back from the saffron party this time. Sardinha, who had represented this parliamentary constituency earlier, won by a margin of 15,268 votes as he polled 1,81,340 votes, while Sawaikar got 1,66,072 votes. While AAP candidate Elvis Gomes polled 19,304 votes, Shiv Sena nominee Rakhi Prabhudesai Naik got 1,503 votes in South Goa. Independent candidates Kalidas Vaigankar and Mayur Kankonkara polled 1,215 and 1,463 votes respectively. Total 70.15 per cent people had cast their votes in this constituency as against the 75.17 per cent during the 2014 polls. As for North Goa, the Amit Shah-led party is most likely to retain the seat as its candidate and Union Ayush Minister Shripad Naik has ...
Indian business tycoons, expats in UAE hail Modi's resounding election victory
Indian business tycoons and expats in UAE hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP's resounding election victory on Thursday, saying they look forward to the continued focus of the government for the growth of trade and commerce in India. "Modi's previous term made Indians living outside the country very proud. NRIs are very pleased with the return of the Modi government," said Kamal Vachani, businessman and Group Director of Dubai-based Al-Maya. Dr B R Shetty, founder of NMC Healthcare, said with the Modi government coming back to power, "black market will be completely wiped out" from the country, the Gulf News reported. Joy Alukkas, chairman and managing director of the Joyalukkas Group, said as an entrepreneur he "look forward to the continued focus of the government for the growth of trade and commerce in India". The positive response of the Sensex post announcement of the election results is surely reassuring for trade, commerce and businesses in India, he said, expecting ...
Bengali superstar Dev wins from Ghatal, defeats BJP's Bharati
Bengali superstar Deepak Adhikari, who was fighting the Lok Sabha polls on a Trinamool Congress ticket, was re-elected from the Ghatal seat on Thursday. Popularly known as Dev, the high-profile candidate defeated his nearest rival from BJP, former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh, by 1,07,973 votes, the Election Commission said. While Dev polled 7,17,959 votes, Ghosh got 6,09,986 votes, the EC said. Congress candidate Mohammed Saifullah Khandakar got 32,839 votes and came third.
Election chatter on Twitter sees massive jump at 396 mn tweets
Twitter was abuzz during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, with as many as 396 million tweets being sent out on the platform since January this year, recording a phenomenal jump over the previous general elections. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2014, the micro-blogging platform had generated more than 56 million election-related tweets between January 1 and May 12, 2014, although the user base at that time was far lower. Twitter, however, does not provide country-wise break up of its user numbers. On Thursday alone, 3.2 million tweets were sent out as counting of the votes progressed through the day. Interestingly, a third of these were recorded between 3 pm and 4 pm, around the same time that Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted his victory post. "The volume of conversation around #LokSabhaElections2019 including Tweets from candidates, political parties, citizens and the news media ensured that from 1 January 2019 till 23 May 2019, Twitter saw more than 396 million Tweets on the ...
Erstwhile royal family member Diya Kumari wins Rajsamand seat by over five lakh votes
Erstwhile royal family member Diya Kumari won the Rajsamand parliamentary seat by defeating her nearest rival Devkinandan of the Congress by over five lakh votes. Kumari was contesting the Lok Sabha polls for the first time. She defeated Devkinandan by 5,51,916 votes. Kumari got 8,63,039 votes as against 3,11,123 votes of Devkinandan. The royal scion had represented the 14th Rajasthan Assembly from Swai Madhopur but decided against contesting the 2018 assembly election. The BJP fielded her from Rajsamand after sitting BJP MP Hari Om Singh Rathore decided not to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls citing health reasons. In 2014, Rathore had won the seat by defeating the Congress candidate by a margin of 3,95,705 votes. In 2009, Gopal Singh of the Congress had emerged victorious from the seat by defeating the BJP candidate by a margin of 45,890 votes.
Nehruvism has been 'completely replaced' by Modi-ism: MP Rakesh Sinha on poll results
RSS ideologue and BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha Thursday hailed the party's stellar performance as a "victory of Narendra Modi and his vision" and claimed Nehruvism has been "completely replaced by Modi-ism". With the BJP on course to return to power with a thumping majority, Sinha also said the party triumphed because the Modi government knew how to balance "Ram and 'roti'". "This is a historic moment in the country in post-independent India, when we have rejected dynasty, individualism, and politics based on narrow discourse, and a new narrative, new India, new leadership is the message of this election," Sinha told PTI. The Rajya Sabha MP also rejected claims that BJP's performance would have been on a much lower scale had it not been for the Balakot airstrike months before the beginning of polls. "Politics is not run by conspiracy theories... It is the work of (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi, who has worked for the common man, the Jan Dhan Yojana, Ayushman Bharat, and other ...
UP: Modi wins Varanasi; BJP-Apna Dal bag 4 seats, leading in 59
The BJP and its ally Apna Dal (S) Thursday consolidated their position in Uttar Pradesh by bagging four seats and leading in 59 others, according to the available trends. Prime Minister Narendra Modi won from Varanasi by defeating his nearest rival SP's Shalini Yadav by a huge margin of 4,79,505 votes. According to the trends available till 7 pm, the BJP wrested Bahraich and Gorakhpur seats, while Apna Dal (S) won from Robertsganj. The fifth seat went to the BSP. The party had drawn a blank in the state during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. In Bahraich, Akshaywar Lal of BJP won by defeating Shabbir Balmiki of Samajwadi Party by a margin of 1,28,752 votes. Gorakhpur seat was wrested by Bhojpuri star and BJP candidate Ravi Kishan by defeating SP's Rambhual Nishad by a margin of 3,01,664 votes. In the by-election, the seat was won by the SP-BSP combine. Robertsganj seat went to Pakauri Lal Kol of BJP's alliance partner Apna Dal (Soneylal) who defeated his closest rival Bhai Lal of Samajwadi .
PM Modi supporters in Australia, Singapore celebrate BJP's victory
As the counting trends began showing BJP-led NDA heading towards a comfortable majority in Lok Sabha, supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Australia and Singapore were seen celebrating his certain return to the office.PM Modi's supporters in the Perth city of Australia danced on the beats of drums and raised slogans. A group of women wearing saffron stoles celebrated the victory of the BJP. Similar celebrations burst out in Singapore as well.As per official Election Commission (EC) trends, the NDA is currently leading at 347 of the 542 parliamentary seats, while the UPA is leading on 91.Earlier in the day, BJP workers and supporters in India held celebrations at party offices in various cities, as well as its headquarters in New Delhi after the trends showed party surging towards a mammoth victory.Supporters distributed sweets, burst crackers and danced on the streets leading to the party offices.Large scale orders for the sweets have also been placed by the party across the .
Karnataka: CM Kumaraswamy to call Cabinet Ministers' meeting tomorrow
In the wake up of BJP's mammoth victory in 2019 General elections, Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy has called on a Cabinet Ministers' meeting on Friday at 12 pm.A JD (S) legislature party meeting has also been called at 4 pm on Friday in Bengaluru.The meeting has been called to discuss and strategise the party's political development after the landslide victory of BJP.Earlier, the BJP had predicted the collapse of the Congress-JD (S) coalition after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Mamata: The Left-slayer who failed to stop BJP roar in her den
A rare blend of grit and pragmatism, Mamata Banerjee was seen as a potential prime minister in the event of the NDA failing to pass muster with voters in the Lok Sabha elections. But that was before Thursday when any such ambition she may have cherished got drowned in cacophonous celebration of the BJP's resounding victory. But for a tweet she made congratulating the "winners", the once obscure milk vendor-turned-slayer of the 34-year-old communist rule in West Bengal lay cocooned at her Kalighat home in south Kolkata through the day. The sharp-tongued leader made friends across parties and jettisoned them with equal ease during her political career spanning nearly four decades, but probably failed to see which way the wind was blowing this time. Arguably the most strident critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Banerjee was courted by regional satraps of all hues--from Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to her Telangana ...
Former Hry CM Bhupinder Hooda loses from Sonipat
Former Haryana chief minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda was on Thursday defeated by BJP's Ramesh Chander Kaushik from the Sonipat Lok Sabha seat. According to the Election Commission, Kaushik won by a margin of 1,64,864 votes. The dismal performance of the Congress' senior leader in Sonipat is a setback for the party in Haryana. The ruling BJP is set to win all the 10 seats in the state. Hooda, who had been two-time chief minister from 2005-2014, was at present a sitting MLA of the Congress from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi in Rohtak district. He had jumped into fray from Sonipat, contesting the Lok Sabha polls after a gap of 14 years. Earlier, 71-year-old Hooda had remained a four-time MP from the Rohtak parliamentary seat.
Will approach party high command against Sidhu: Amarinder Singh
Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Thursday said he would approach the Congress high command over his cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu's remarks on the sacrilege issue during electioneering. A day before polling, Sidhu had raised questions on the probe into the desecration of religious texts in 2015. Maintaining that Sidhu's remarks "might have affected the party's performance in Bathinda, the CM said he would take up the issue with the party high command once things settled after the election results. The CM also said Sidhu's performance as a minister needed to be reviewed as he had "not been able to handle his own department". The Congress in Punjab performed poorly in urban areas and Sidhu was the minister for urban development, the CM said, adding that it was wrong on his part to make the controversial remarks. The chief minister said the minister evidently did not understand that a special investigation team (SIT) had been set up to probe the sacrilege issue. The chief minister ..
BJP's Parvesh Singh Verma leads by a record margin of over 5 lakh votes, set to win West Delhi seat
BJP's West Delhi candidate Parvesh Singh Verma, who rode on the Modi wave and his father Sahib Singh Verma's goodwill, is all set to win a second term as he was leading with a record breaking margin of over five lakh votes. In 2014, he had set a new record of victory margin by winning the seat by a margin of over 2.68 lakh votes, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party candidate Jarnail Singh, who ended up at the second spot. He had polled more than AAP and Congress candidates together. History is set to repeat itself for Verma as is poised to win by a huge margin by defeating Congress' Mahabal Mishra, who was elected as an MP from the seat in 2009. Verma's victory will mean he would break his own record set earlier. "This is not just a win, this is a historic landslide win for @narendramodi ji @AmitShah ji, for all us, their comrades & every BJP Karyakarta and above all for the People of India," he posted on Twitter. Before the polls, Verma had exuded confidence that he would retain the ...
Indian-Americans celebrate Modi's electoral victory
Indian-Americans from across the US Thursday celebrated the electoral victory of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by distributing ladoos and watching election results in movie theatres and restaurants. Election watch parties were held in restaurants and in homes where scores of Indian-Americans, along with their friends and families, gathered late Wednesday night to watch election results live either on Indian new channels or Facebook. The election results were shown live in at least two theatres, including one in Minneapolis. Overseas Friends of BJP USA (OFBJP USA) said that it was planning to organise victory celebrations in more than 20 cities around the country, including Boston, New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. Congratulating the Prime Minister on his massive victory, Krishna Reddy Anugula OFBJP USA president said, adding that Modi will transform India and improve the ...