The BJP president Amit Shah said he has been working with the prime minister since the last 35 years and his skill of being a “great listener” was one of the reasons behind his success. read more

This would be Modi’s second visit to Rae Bareli, the first being in 1999. read more

Upendra Kushwaha had been dropping hints about dumping the NDA for months, particularly after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) negotiated a seat-sharing pact for the 2019 general elections with BJP boss Amit Shah that they declared, would reduce seats for... read more

Describing illegal immigration as threat to the country, Shah said National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a way to solve the basic problems of the country and should not be connected to the BJP. read more

The Calcutta High Court on Friday came down heavily on the West Bengal government for not responding to BJP’s letters seeking permission for its ‘rath yatras’ in the state and directed top officials to take a decision on the processions by December ... read more

Exit polls show a close contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, with the surveys predicting starkly different results. Some exit polls show an edge for the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh while others predict a majority for the Congress. Cvoter-Republic TV has given an edge to the Congress in the state where Shivraj Singh Chouhan is seeking a 4th straight term. The survey gives the BJP 90-106 seats; to Congress it gives 110-126 seats and 6-22 seats to others. Madhya Pradesh has 230 seats and the majority mark for a party to win is 116. The Axis My India - India Today poll predicts a range of 102 to 120 seats for the BJP in the state. This survey gives 104 to 122 to the Congress indicating a tight race. ABP News- CSDS has predicted a win for Congress in Madhya Pradesh, giving 94 seats to the BJP, 126 to the Congress and 10 seats to others. However a Times NOW-CNX survey predicts a clear majority for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh with 126 seats. This one says that the Congress will win 89 seats, a marked improvement over its tally in the last election but still trailing the BJP.read more

Modifying an order by a single bench that put all three BJP yatras on hold until January 9, a division bench of the court said the three state officials should meet with, at the most, three leaders from the party and reach a decision by December 14. read more

Chhattisgarh exit polls 2018: The polls to the Chhattisgarh assembly was held in two phases: The first in 18 seats spread across eight Maoist-affected districts on November 12 and the then in 72 constituencies spread across 19 districts on November ... read more

Sohrabuddin Shaikh, a gangster with alleged terror links, and his wife Kausar Bi were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the Gujarat Police in November 2005. His aide Tulsiram Prajapati was killed in another ‘fake’ encounter by the Gujarat and Rajasthan... read more

The BJP had planned three so-called ‘rath yatras’, including the one in Cooch Behar, covering most of the parliamentary seats and 294 assembly constituencies over the next one-and-a-half months. read more

The campaigning in both the states has been bitter with personalised attacks by leaders of various parties. The elections are being mainly fought on local issues and development, but the leaders relied on emotional issues too to sway voters. read more

The 2018 Rajasthan election is all about Raje, who has faced criticism for being inaccessible. On ground, the campaign of both the Congress and BJP has centred around her. read more

The BJP and 95-year-old Jethmalani said in the joint plea that a decree be passed in terms of amicable settlement between them as BJP president Amit Shah has expressed “regret” over the senior lawyer’s expulsion from the party. read more

The recent assembly elections offer the Congress its best, and last chance, to build some momentum heading into the 2019 elections. If the Congress is unable to win atleast two major states, it stares at the real prospect of being a totally deflated... read more

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid floral tributes to Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar, on his 63rd death anniversary at a function in Parliament House Lawns, New Delhi. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, other MPs and political leaders, also paid homage to the Father of the Indian Constitution, who championed the causes of Dalits, women and labourers.

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