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Arunachal Pradesh: BJP leading in 13 assembly seats
The BJP is leading in thirteen out of 57 Assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh, while the JD(U) is ahead in three seats, according to the initial Election Commission trends. Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein is leading by 7291 votes against his nearest rival Khunang Kri of the Congress in Chowkham constituency, Namsai district. Jambey Tashi of the BJP is leading by 1129 votes over his nearest rival Jampa Thirnly of the National People's Party (NPP) from Lumla assembly constituency in Tawang district. In the prestigious Itanagar seat, Techi Kaso of the Janata Dal (United) is currently taking the lead against Kipa Babu of the BJP by a margin of 302 votes, while state home minister and NPP candidate Kumar Waii is trailing behind Gorduk Pordang of the BJP by 297 votes. Education minister Honchun Ngandam is leading from Pongchau-Wakka constituency by 2, 104 votes, while PHE minister Wangki Lowang is leading from Namsang constituency by a margin of 1,682 votes. Independent ...
Nepal objects to US envoy's move to engage with people through social media
The Nepal government has taken strong exception to the US envoy's move to engage with Nepali people on a weekly basis through social media, saying it would only invite unnecessary controversy, according to a media report on Thursday. In a video on embassy's official Twitter and Facebook pages on Monday, US Ambassador to Nepal Randy Berry said he was starting a weekly series where he would hear and answer questions from around four million Nepalese following these social media handles. Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali said that such a move would only invite unnecessary controversy as there was no practice in Nepal in which ambassadors interacted with Nepali people on the social media. We think such kind of engagement is not needed. If the embassy has anything to say, it can directly talk to the government, Gyawali was quoted as saying by The Himalayan Times. The embassy's Facebook post read, What would you ask Ambassador Berry if you had the chance? We are letting ...
It is a BJP Tsunami, says Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said that Lok Sabha elections results reflect that there is a Tsunami of Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the country.As per the Election Commission's trends, BJP is leading on 28 seats in the state while the Congress is leading on one seat out of 29 parliamentary constituencies.Talking to ANI, Chouhan said: "Lok Sabha elections results reflect that there is a Tsunami of BJP, not a wave. Narendra Modi resides in the people's heart and he is blessed with God-like powers.""In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress party had made false promises of the loan waiver. They have stopped all programmes of ours. That is why people have voted in anger against the Congress party here, " said Chouhan.Asked about the BJP's performance across the country, the BJP leader said: "As BJP president Amit Shah had said in West Bengal and Odisha, the BJP will improve its performance. I have ...
NDA leading on 39 seats in Bihar, RJD on 1
Early trends in the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar showed the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance leading in 39 constituencies, while Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is leading on one.The only candidate who is leading for the grand alliance in Bihar is Misha Bharti from Pataliputra.In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, NDA had won 31 seats in BiharThe seven-phase Lok Sabha elections were held from April 11 till May 19.
Karnataka: BJP heads for landslide win, Congress, JD-S face rout (4th Lead)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a landslide victory while the ruling Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) alliance face rout in Karnataka's 28 Lok Sabha constituencies where vote count was underway on Thursday.
Omar congratulates NDA for 'stellar performance'
National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Thursday congratulated the BJP and the NDA for its "stellar performance" in the Lok Sabha polls. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for putting together a winning alliance and a professional campaign. "So the exit polls were correct. All that's left is to congratulate the BJP & NDA for a stellar performance," Abdullah tweeted. "Credit where credit is due PM Modi Sahib & Mr Amit Shah put together a winning alliance & a very professional campaign. Bring on the next five years," he added. Abdullah's tweet came as the trends showed the BJP and the NDA sweeping the Lok Sabha polls. As per the latest Election Commission data, the National Conference is leading on three Lok Sabha seats in the state and the BJP has opened huge leads in two constituencies while leading by a slender margin in Ladakh.
Twenty one out of 24 BJP candidates leading by over 1 lakh votes in Rajasthan
As many as 21 out of the 24 BJP candidates are leading by a margin of over one lakh votes, with one having established a lead of more than 4 lakh votes in the trends available so far. The saffron party contested on 24 seats leaving one seat to its alliance partner, who is also ahead. The Congress, which won the assembly elections in the state recently, is trailing behind on all the 25 Lok Sabha seats of the northern state. No result have been declared so far. BJP's Subhas Chand Baheria (Bhilwara) is leading with a margin of 4,45,082 votes while PP Chaudhary (Pali), Devji Patel (Chittorgarh) and Diya Kumari (Rajsamand) are surging ahead with a margin of 3,00,982, 3,12,151 and 3,01,872 votes respectively. Bhagirath Chaudhary (Ajmer) Balak Nath (Alwar), Kailash Chaudhary (Barmer), Nihal Chand (Ganganagar), Rajyavardhan Rathore (Jaipur Rural), Dushyant Singh (Jhalawar-Baran) are leading with a margin of more than two lakh votes. Kanakmal Katara (Banswara), Rajita Koli (Bharatpur), Arjun ..
Congress fails to capitalise on assembly poll victories, trails in Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh
The Congress Party, which won the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan in the assembly elections in December last year, is trailing in Lok Sabha polls in all the three states, as per official Election Commission trends.In both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Congress is leading on just one seat out of the total 25 and 29, respectively, while in Chhattisgarh, it is trailing on 9 seats out of the 11, according to the trends three hours after counting started at 8 am.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading on the remaining seats in the three states.The trends come as a surprise, especially in Chhattisgarh, where Congress had won 68 seats out of the 90 in the assembly polls. The BJP, which had ruled the state for 15 years, managed to win only 15.In Rajasthan, the Congress had won 99 seats out of the 200. One short of the majority, the party managed to form the government with the help of one seat won by its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). Lastly, in Madhya
LS Results 2019: Riteish Deshmukh and Asha Bhosle congratulate PM Narendra Modi
As counting of votes is underway for the 17th Lok Sabha elections, signaling a victory for the BJP, actor Riteish Deshmukh and singer Asha Bhosle congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their tweets."India has decided- Democracy needs to be celebrated. Many Congratulations to our Hon Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji on this huge verdict," he tweeted.While expressing that people have voted wisely Asha Bhosle wrote, "The Indian electorate has voted wisely. Congratulations to Hon. PM Modi, NDA & all BJP party cadres who have worked tirelessly to take our country into a Golden Age that is long overdue. Jai Hind."The counting done till now has indicated that BJP is far ahead of the 'gathbandhan' in Uttar Pradesh leading with 54 seats and Congress party leading with one seat. BJP is also leading with two seats in Arunachal Pradesh.In Maharashtra, the BJP is ahead on 23 seats while Shiv Sena on 20 seats.Apart from Riteish Deshmukh, Anupam Kher whose wife Kirron Kher is eyeing a ...
Panaji Assembly bypoll: BJP loses late Manohar Parrikar's seat to Congress
After 25 years of uninterrupted run, the BJP on Thursday failed to retain the Panaji Assembly constituency, largely represented by late Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar since 1994.
BJP takes big lead in MP, Pragya says victory of 'dharma'
In a major setback to the Congress, the BJP has taken a massive lead in 28 out of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, with Malegaon blast accused and BJP candidate from Bhopal, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, on Thursday thanking voters for their support.
This is people's victory, says Jagan Mohan Reddy
With YSR Congress Party heading for a landslide win to wrest power in Andhra Pradesh, party chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday described it as people's victory.
BJP set to win Tripura's two Lok Sabha seats
For the first time, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is heading for a comfortable victory in Tripura's two Lok Sabha seats, poll officials said on Thursday.
TRS hopes of clean sweep in Telangana dashed
Overconfidence by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) appeared to have caused a setback to the ruling party in Telangana as both the BJP and Congress were leading in four seats each, dashing its hopes of a clean sweep.
Pragya breaks 'silence' to express happiness over poll trend
BJPs Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, Thursday broke the vow to express her elation over poll trends which showed her in the lead. Thakur expressed happiness over the Lok Sabha poll trends which showed her ahead of her nearest Congress rival Digvijay Singh by over 90,000 votes. "I am happy with the people's response," she told reporters at her home and waved to people and her supporters who were chanting "Jai Shri Ram". A beaming Thakur was seen waving to the supporters. Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Monday apologised for the controversial remarks and set out to observe silence to do some "soul searching". She had last week lauded Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as a "patriot", sparking furious debate in the last lap of the seven-phase elections. The Congress alleged that "insulting martyrs is in the DNA" of .
BJP set to sweep Rajasthan
The BJP-led NDA is heading towards a clean sweep in Rajasthan with saffron party candidates leading in 24 seats while its alliance partner Rashtriya Loktantrik Party is leading in one seat, as per Election Commission trends. One of the BJP candidates is leading with a margin of more than three lakh votes, one with more than two lakh margin and 14 are leading with more than 1 lakh vote margin. Two BJP candidates --Subhas Chand Baheria (Bhilwara) and PP Chaudhary (Pali)-- are leading with huge margins of 3,57,157 and 2,21,991 votes. Bhagirath Chaudhary (Ajmer), Balak Nath (Alwar), Kailash Chaudhary (Barmer), Arjun Ram Meghwal (Bikaner), Rahul Kaswan (Churu), Chandra Prakash Chaudhary (Chittorgarh), Nihal Chand (Ganganagar), Ramcharan Bohra (Jaipur), Rajyavardhan Rathore (Jaipur Rural), Devji Patel (Jalore), Dushyant Singh (Jhalawar-Baran), Gajendra Singh Shekhwat (Jodhpur), Diya Kumari (Rajsamand) and Arjun Lal Meena (Udaipur) are leading with a margin of more than one lakh votes. BJP's
Yogi regains his prestige in Gorakhpur
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has regained his prestige in Gorakhpur by ensuring the victory of BJP candidate and Bhojpuri star Ravi Kishan.
BJP gains healthy lead on 9 seats in Haryana, Cong's Deepender Hooda ahead in Rohtak
The BJP is maintaining a healthy lead in nine out of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, as per trends available, with Congress' sitting MP Deepender Singh Hooda giving a tough fight to the saffron party's candidate in Rohtak. Barring Rohtak, where Deepender Hooda is leading with a margin of more than 13,000 votes over BJP's Arvind Sharma, the BJP is comfortably placed on the remaining seats. The saffron party candidates' lead margins are between 60,000 to two lakh votes, as per trends available with the Election Commission. Apart from Deepender Hooda, candidates from Haryana's famous political clans the Hoodas, Chautalas, Bhajan Lals and Bansi Lals are staring at a likely defeat. BJP fortunes remained on the upswing in Haryana, where it played second fiddle before the 2014 parliamentary polls. After winning seven of the eight seats it contested in 2014, the BJP went on to form its government on its own for the first time in Haryana when assembly polls were held later that year. Union .
NC, BJP lead in 3 seats each in J&K
The National Conference is leading on three Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, while the BJP has opened huge leads in two constituencies of the state. Former chief minister and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti is trailing at the third spot in the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, where the NC's Hasnain Masoodi is leading and Congress state president G A Mir is in second place. National Conference president Farooq Abdullah is leading by 48,000 votes over the PDP's Aga Mohsin. Union minister and BJP leader Jitendra Singh is leading by over 2.37 lakh votes over Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh in Udhampur constituency. BJP's Jugal Kishore is leading by over 1.43 lakh votes against Raman Bhalla of the Congress from the Jammu seat. In Ladakh constituency, journalist-turned-politician Sajjad Hussain and the BJP's J T Namgyal have exchanged leads several times since the counting began. Namgyal is leading by a margin of over 2,000 votes at the end of the latest round of counting. In north ...
BJP set to win all four seats in HP as leading over 2.35 la'
The ruling BJP is leading in all the four Lok Sabha seats- Mandi, Kangra, Hamirpur and Shimla - in Himachal Pradesh, a state election officer said. In Mandi, the sitting BJP MP Ram Swaroop of BJP was leading by over 2,37000 votes against his nearest rival Aashray Sharma of Congress, he added. Kangra: BJP candidate Kishan Kapoor of BJP was ahead by 3,05,000 votes against his nearest rival Pawan Kajal of Congress. Hamirpur: Sitting BJP MP Anurag Thakur of BJP was leading by over 2,93,000 votes against his nearest rival Ram Lal Thakur of Congress, the official said. Shimla seat: BJP candidate Suresh Kashyap of BJP was forging ahead with 2,64,000 votes against his nearest rival Col Dr Dhani Ram Shandil of Congress.