MUMBAI: A clear mandate for the Bharatiya Janata Party in three key northern states of India is all set to rejuvenate Dalal Street bulls and take markets higher when trade resumes on Monday. Following the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Telangana, exit polls had suggested BJP taking a lead in MP … Read more
After the party’s drubbing in the just-concluded Assembly polls, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked the party’s state unit chiefs in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur to resign. The development comes two days after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) discussed threadbare the reasons for the party’s debacle in these Assembly polls. The Congress … Read more
After a landslide victory in the state legislative assembly, the BJP would be eying to win the majority of 36 seats in the state Legislative Council where biennial elections will be held on April 9. The 36 seats of UP’s Upper House are spread across 35 local authorities’ constituencies, where polls were earlier planned on … Read more
Over 55 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday. Voting started at 7 am. It ended at 4 pm in the Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and the Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats, while in the rest of the segments, it continued till … Read more
With the Election Commission stepping up vigil, more than Rs 1,000 crore worth of cash, drugs, liquor and freebies have been seized so far in the ongoing assembly polls in five states, a nearly four-fold increase in such seizures over the previous round of elections in 2017. According to an Election Commission statement, Punjab topped … Read more
The BJP and Captain Amarinder Singh are non-players in Punjab, says Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal. In an exclusive interview with Nidhi Sharma, Badal speaks on how Congress is crumbling due to infighting, why Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi model is an advertisement campaign and how BJP is collecting “zeroes”. Excerpts: On fighting Punjab … Read more
Defections are de rigueur in election season as leaders move to other parties when denied a ticket or in search of greener pastures as they feel the opponent is likely to form the government. Parties on the rise also poach leaders to bolster their chances on seats they are weak. However, the ongoing Assembly elections … Read more
The Congress on Saturday released its first list of 53 candidates for the Uttarakhand assembly elections. Uttarakhand Congress president Ganesh Godiyal will contest from the Srinagar seat and Leader of Opposition in the outgoing assembly Pritam Singh from the Chakrata (ST) constituency. The names of former chief minister Harish Rawat and Harak Singh Rawat, who … Read more
Amid various political parties seeking to woo voters with promises of free power and other freebies ahead of the assembly polls, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday announced a 50 per cent cut on farmers’ electricity bills for running their tubewells. The Chief Minister’s office made the announcement on its official Twitter handle that said … Read more
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said Uttar Pradesh does not want “bua or babua”, apparently referring to BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Pary chief Akhilesh Yadav. The state wants only “baba”, he added referring to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a convention of BJP booth presidents here, just months ahead of the UP Assembly … Read more