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In a first, BJP set to win Tripura's 2 Lok Sabha seats (2nd Lead)
For the first time, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on the verge of winning of Tripura's two Lok Sabha seats, where the counting of votes is nearing completion, poll officials said on Thursday.
Celebrations in Delhi as BJP heads for clean sweep
Celebrations broke out across the national capital on Thursday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading on all the seven seats in Delhi.
BJP wins Khargone, Ujjain reserved seats in Madhya Pradesh
The first two results of Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh Thursday went in favour of the BJP with its candidates declared winner in Khargone and Ujjain, both reserved seats. BJP candidate Gajendra Umrao Singh Patel defeated Dr Govnd Mujalda, his nearest Congress rival, by a margin of 2,02,510 votes from the Khargone (SC) seat, an EC official said. BJPs Anil Firojiya trounced Babulal Malviya of the Congress by a whopping margin of 3,65,637 votes from the Ujjain (SC) seat, he said.
PM Modi removes 'chowkidar' prefix from twitter, says take its spirit to next level
After a historic mandate in his favour, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday removed the 'Chowkidar' prefix from his twitter handle and asserted that it is time to take the 'Chowkidar' spirit to the next level.Taking to Twitter, Prime Minister Modi wrote, "Now, the time has come to take the Chowkidar Spirit to the next level. Keep this spirit alive at every moment and continue working for India's progress. The word 'Chowkidar' goes from my Twitter name but it remains an integral part of me. Urging you all to do the same too!"He also said that the word 'Chowkidar' has become a powerful symbol to safeguard India."The people of India became Chowkidars and rendered great service to the nation. Chowkidar has become a powerful symbol to safeguard India from the evils of casteism, communalism, corruption and cronyism," Modi said in another tweet.Following his footsteps, BJP chief Amit Shah, Union Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Union Minister Arun Jaitley and others .
Priyanka Gandhi congratulates PM Modi, says respects people's mandate
Priyanka Gandhi, Congress party's general secretary in-charge of eastern UP said that she respects the nation's mandate and congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for winning the Lok Sabha elections."We respect people's verdict and congratulate BJP workers and leaders, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Priyanka told ANI.Priyanka, sister of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, aggressively campaigned for the party in 26 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh but the results indicate she failed to make an impact, including in Amethi- the stronghold of the Nehru-Gandhi family.While in Uttar Pradesh, which sends highest number of lawmakers to the Lok Sabha, Priyanka criss-crossed the state and addressed 33 public meetings in Amethi, Raebareli, Varanasi, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Ghaziabad, Fatehpur Sikri, Bahraich, Dhaurahra, Barabanki, Kanpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Mirzapur, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Domariyaganj, Maharajganj, and Fatehpur.The political dynamics in the state changed .
Ruling MNF set to win lone Mizoram LS seat
C. Lalrosanga, the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) candidate, is set to secure the lone Lok Sabha seat in Mizoram as he is leading his nearest Independent rival Lalnghinglova Hmar by 8,307 votes. The party has won the Assembly by-election in the state.
High command to be apprised of Sidhu's damaging remarks: Amarinder
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday said he will soon take up with the Congress high command the issue of Navjot Singh Sidhu's damaging remarks ahead of polling in Punjab, which he said might have affected the party's performance in Bathinda.
Modi to chair outgoing Council of Ministers meeting on Friday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of outgoing Council of Ministers on Friday evening, officials said on Thursday.
Modi's mother greets BJP supporters outside her house
With the BJP heading for a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nonagenarian mother Hiraben Thursday greeted the party supporters, who gathered outside her house in Kudasan village on the outskirts of Gandhinagar. Modi, who contested from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, established a considerable lead over his rival and Samajwadi Party candidate Shalini Yadav. As the trends suggested that the BJP and Modi were headed for a resounding victory, supporters gathered outside Hiraben's house in the afternoon. They also raised slogans in support of Narendra Modi. Hiraben, who lives with her younger son Pankaj Modi, came outside the house and greeted the supporters for a couple of minutes before going back inside. Whenever the prime minister visits Gujarat, he makes it a point to meet his mother.
Chirag Paswan wins Jamui Lok Sabha seat in Bihar
Lokjanshakti Party (LJP) leader Chirag Paswan won from Jamui Lok Sabha seat in Bihar defeating Bhudeb Choudhary of RLSP by 2,41,049 votes. Paswan, son of LJP president Ramvilas Paswan, has been re-elected from the Jamui (SC reserved) seat for the second time. His victory margin has gone up substantially from the last time. Paswan, Parliamentary board chairman of the LJP, had won the seat in 2014 by a margin of 85,947 votes. LJP had contested six seats in Bihar as a constituent of the BJP-led NDA. Formerunion minister Upendra Kushwaha led Rashtriya Lok Samata Party nominee Bhudeb Choudhary was backed by the mahagathbandhan led by RJD in Bihar.
Mayawati: Prime ministerial 'aspirations' on hold
Mayawati never said it in so many words. But the BSP supremo threw enough hints during the poll campaign that she considered herself to be in the race for the prime minister's post, should the opposition manage to contain the BJP. At a rally in Ambedkarnagar, for example, she recalled that she has been elected to the Lok Sabha from that seat in the past. Time will tell. If all goes well, I will have to seek election from here again, she said, seemingly referring to the possibility of her entering Parliament through a by-election later, if something opened up in New Delhi. The results, however, have been a disappointment for the four-time Uttar Pradesh chief minister, who former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao famously called a miracle of democracy when she became the CM the first time in 1995. The BJP has trumped her Bahujan Samaj Party's alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party in the state. Yet her own party has done better than in 2014 Lok Sabha polls when it drew a complete
Respect the mandate given by people, says Priyanka
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for their victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and said the party respects the mandate given by the people of the country.
Stalin steers DMK through the long night, sweeps LS polls
: Assiduously working for a grand victory through the years, DMK President M K Stalin single handedly steered his party through the long night,sweeping the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu after back to back poll debacles. The DMK-led front, which also comprises Congress and the IUML, is set for a clean sweep and is poised to win 37 of 38 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu with the lone seat appearing to go to the AIADMK. The DMK lost the 2011 and 2016 Assembly polls and 2014 Lok Sabha elections. DMK appears set to win in all the 19 constituencies it fought and its allies MDMK, VCK (Villupuram), KMDK,and IJK who fought on the Rising Sun symbol of the Dravidian party are also likely to win in view of the huge margins, taking the Dravidian party's total tally to 23 seats. Allies Congress is set to emerge victorious in 8, IUML and VCK (Chidambaram) one each and CPI and CPI(M) two each. Seeking the early bird advantage, 66-year-old Stalin launched DMK's village level outreach ...
Former CM Om Prakash Chautala's INLD stares at bleak future
The saga of electoral debacles for the Indian National Lok Dal led by former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala continued as the party was once again headed for a defeat in the general elections. After a vertical split in the party last year following feud in the Chautala family, INLD's political graph in Haryana further nosedived. The party had fielded its candidates on all the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, but going by the Election Commission trends until evening, INLD candidates have performed poorly and were relegated to fifth spot on a few seats. Even its sitting MP from Sirsa Charanjeet Singh Rori was trailing at fourth spot, going by the trends. The BSP, an ally of the INLD which walked out from the alliance after the party split, had put up a comparatively better performance than Chautala-led party. Even the fledgling JJP was ahead of the INLD on many seats, including Hisar, Sirsa, Sonipat, Kurukshetra and Bhiwani-Mahendergarh. In 2014, the INLD had won two Lok Sabha .
NDA wins assembly by-election in one Bihar seat, leading in
The NDA's stellar show in Bihar was reflected in the assembly by-elections as well with the BJP wresting the Dehri seat from the RJD, defeating the opposition party by a thumping margin of over 30,000 votes and the JD(U) surging ahead of its rivals in Nawada. BJP's Satyanarayan Singh polled 72,097 votes in Dehri, while his nearest RJD rival Mohammad Firoz Hussain got only 38,104. Hussain's father Mohd Iliyas Hussain had won the seat in the 2015 assembly polls, and the by-election was necessitated by his conviction in a corruption case by a CBI court in Ranchi, which led to his disqualification from the assembly. In the Nawada seat, which fell vacant upon sitting RJD MLA Raj Vallabh Yadav's conviction in a rape case, JD(U) candidate Kaushal Yadav was leading by a modest margin of just over 5,000 votes. The 'Mahagathbandhan' candidate, Dhirendra Kumar Sinha of the HAM, was third way behind Independent Shravan Kumar. Notably, Raj Vallabh Yadav's wife Vibha Devi is in the
Chavan takes responsibility for Cong's debacle in Maha
Maharashtra Congress chief Ashok Chavan on Thursday accepted responsibility for his party's defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, saying they raised people's issues in the run-up to the polls but failed to succeed. The Congress was trailing in all the seats it contested in the state, except Chandrapur where its nominee Suresh Dhanorkar was leading over his BJP rival and Union minister Hansraj Ahir. To a query on whether he will continue as the state Congress chief, Chavan, who was also trailing in Nanded Lok Sabha seat, told reporters in his constituency that the party central leadership would take a call on his future role. "I will give my views to the party leadership. I accept responsibility for our defeat. We relentlessly raised people's issues and took on the government, but it is sad that we did not get success," he said. Chavan appealed to the party workers not to get disheartened and rather start preparations for the state Assembly polls due later this year. To a ...
'Janta maalik hai', says Rahul Gandhi, congratulates Modi
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for BJP's bumper win in the general elections.Calling the results "people's mandate", the Congress chief said, "I had said that during the campaign 'janta maalik hai' (public is the decision maker) and today people have clearly given their decision. I congratulate the PM and BJP.""What matters today is that people have decided Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister and I respect that," Gandhi said while briefing the media here.He further maintained, "There are two visions. One is of Modi ji and another of Congress'. We will make our ideology win. But now we have to accept that in these elections, the BJP and Narendra Modi ji has won."Boosting the morale of the party candidates and workers, he said, "Our candidates fought with all their heart. I say to the people of Congress party and those who believe in our ideology that you do not need to be scared."Gandhi refused to comment on the mandate his party .
Lok Sabha results 2019: Nitin Gadkari hails people's choice
Reacting to the counting trends of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls which shows BJP is leading with massive figures, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday hailed people's choice who restored their faith once again in BJP.In a press conference at Nagpur, he downplayed the Priyanka factor in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and said that people are much more knowledgable and enlightened to get into such gimmicks.Amidst the sound of firecrackers, he said: "All political parties and their party workers should respect the mandate of the general people".Answering on the abyss of politics, he said: "All the parties should abide by the rules and regulations and should respect each other and that shall be the true win for democracy".Reacting over the naming and shaming of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the Congress and opposition parties, he said, "PM represents the country and using the jargon 'Pradhanmantri chor hai' was not right".He advised all the parties to respect the mandate of the people saying ..
UK drifting towards new Brexit extension: Juncker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said the UK is drifting towards another Brexit extension in October as he slammed MPs for focussing on Prime Minister Theresa May's removal over finding agreement on the withdrawal deal.
BJP ally Apna Dal wins both LS seats it contested in UP
The Apna Dal, an ally of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has won both the Lok Sabha seats that it contested from Mirzapur and Robertsganj.