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PM Modi launches, lays foundation of 50 projects worth Rs.1,254 cr in Varanasi
By Press Trust of India | Varanasi
UPDATED ON FEB 16, 2020 02:32 PM IST
The prime minister dedicated to the nation the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Memorial Centre and unveiled a 63-feet tall statue of the RSS ideologue - the tallest statue of the leader in the country.
Bypoll results: RJD wins two seats in Bihar| Highlights
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2019 07:06 PM IST
By-elections for 51 assembly seats, two Lok Sabha constituencies, and one Union Territory were held on October 21.
Santosh Gangwar’s employment remark draws Oppn flak, aide clarifies
By HT Correspondent | Bareilly
UPDATED ON SEP 15, 2019 11:56 PM IST
The comments came amid criticism of the government over India’s unemployment rate rising to a 45-year high of 6.1% in 2017-18, data of which was released in May.
UP alliance’s vote share declined on 51 seats
By Saurabh Chauhan | Hindustan Times, Lucknow, Lucknow
PUBLISHED ON MAY 27, 2019 03:47 PM IST
The Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal had joined hands before the Lok Sabha polls in the hope that their combined vote share would enable them to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. The election results, however, proved otherwise as the alliance’s vote share declined in 51 Lok Sabha constituencies. In 15 constituencies, the decline was by over 10%.
Lok Sabha election result 2019: BJP set to sweep Gujarat with leads in all 26 seats
By HT Correspondent | Ahmedabad
UPDATED ON MAY 23, 2019 01:09 PM IST
It appears the BJP is set to regain rural areas, including Saurashtra and north Gujarat, which the Modi-led party had lost in the 2015 local body elections and the assembly elections owing to the impact of Patidar quota agitation and rural distress.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Anurag Thakur seeks 4th term from party stronghold
By HT Correspondent | Dharamshala
UPDATED ON MAY 19, 2019 11:56 PM IST
Over 1.3 million people were eligible to vote in Hamirpur from where Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anurag Thakur is seeking his fourth in Parliament.
PM Modi’s Varanasi among 13 Lok Sabha constituencies to vote in 7th phase in UP
By Pankaj Jaiswal | Hindustan Times, Lucknow
UPDATED ON MAY 18, 2019 07:33 PM IST
In 2014, the BJP and allies had won all these 13 seats but this time is faces a tough fight from the BSP-SP alliance.
Lok Sabha election 2019: Big mid-term test for Amarinder Singh’s govt in Punjab in seventh phase
By Navneet Sharma | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON MAY 18, 2019 07:29 PM IST
The Congress is hoping to continue its winning streak in a multi-cornered fight, but has been weighed down by internal squabbles and anti-incumbency.
‘Murder of democracy’: BJP slams Mamata Banerjee over violence at Amit Shah roadshow
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 15, 2019 10:22 AM IST
Amit Shah asked people in Bengal’s nine Lok Sabha constituencies that are yet to vote to respond to the attack with their vote.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: PM Modi to not campaign in Varanasi, hopes voters will ‘handle everything’
By Asian News International | New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 14, 2019 05:06 PM IST
Varanasi will be going to polls along with 58 other parliamentary constituencies of the country on May 19 and PM Modi said he has faith in his voters for ‘handling everything’ without campaigning.
‘Staffer was sick, but was forced to be on election duty’: Relatives
By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON MAY 12, 2019 01:44 AM IST
While relatives have demanded action against those who denied her leave application, government officials claimed that they did not receive a leave application at all.
Delhi CEO issues notice to BJP for airing poll-related content on NaMo TV
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 12, 2019 07:43 AM IST
In April, after the Election Commission had directed that all recorded programmes displayed on the NaMo TV be pre-certified, the Delhi poll body had directed the BJP not to air any content on the platform without its certification.
Lok Sabha elections phase 6 in numbers
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 11, 2019 03:00 PM IST
The counting of votes will take place on May 23 once all the seven phases get over on May 19.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: After Mayawati’s PM hint, focus on BSP citadel in east UP
By Faizan Haider | Ambedkar Nagar
UPDATED ON MAY 12, 2020 08:05 PM IST
BJP’s Hari Om Pandey won Ambedkar Nagar in 2014 with 41.77% vote share. The then sitting MP Rakesh Pandey, a BSP veteran, lost with 28% vote share.
Shravasti Lok Sabha seat: Past perfect, present tense in this land of Buddha
By Pankaj Jaiswal | Hindustan Times, Shravasti, Shravasti
UPDATED ON MAY 10, 2019 11:42 AM IST
Shravasti: Despite its glorious electoral and Buddhist history, the district is very low on development index
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Polling peaceful in state; 63.78% turnout
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Jaipur
PUBLISHED ON MAY 07, 2019 03:04 PM IST
30 control units and 109 VVPATS across the state and these were replaced immediately.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Bee attack, VVPAT snags as polling finishes in Rajasthan
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Jaipur
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2019 11:09 PM IST
Thirteen seats polled in the previous phase of the ongoing elections. With this, all 25 seats of the state have finished voting.
Lok Sabha elections phase 5 in numbers
By HT Correspondent | New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 05, 2019 05:54 PM IST
The counting of votes will take place on May 23 once all the seven phases get over on May 19.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: EC directs DMs to motivate people to vote
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Lucknow
UPDATED ON MAY 05, 2019 02:57 PM IST
The focus should also be on ethical voting, he said. In the first phase 63.69% votes were polled, in the second phase polling was 62.30%, in the third phase polling was 60.52% whereas in the fourth phase polling percentage slipped to 58%.
Lok Sabha elections 2019 | 5th phase poll: Tight vigil in two Lucknow seats
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Lucknow
UPDATED ON MAY 05, 2019 02:30 PM IST
Lok Sabha constituencies of Lucknow and Mohanlalganj will be transformed into fortresses on Monday, when polling for the fifth phase of the ongoing general elections takes place.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: In letter to Amethi, Rahul vows to start schemes ‘blocked’ by BJP
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, AMETHI
UPDATED ON MAY 04, 2019 12:55 PM IST
In a letter written in Hindi to members of his “Amethi pariwar” (Amethi family), Gandhi said he drew strength from them to stand firmly and listen to their woes.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: In terminal decline, AAP remains a pale shadow of its former self
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
UPDATED ON MAY 04, 2019 12:41 PM IST
The stand-up comedian-turned-politician is in a tough three-way contest with Kewal Singh Dhillon of the Congress and former finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa of the SAD in his re-election bid.
In letter to Amethi, Rahul Gandhi vows to start schemes ‘blocked’ by BJP
By Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON MAY 03, 2019 06:10 PM IST
In a letter written to the members of his “Amethi pariwar” (Amethi family), Rahul Gandhi said he drew strength from them to stand firmly, listen to the woes of people and raise their voice.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Fight for New Delhi’s Lok Sabha constituency has local issues at hand
By Sweta Goswami | Hindustan Times, NEW DELHI
UPDATED ON MAY 11, 2019 12:02 PM IST
The constituency is also home to some of the city’s busiest and famous markets such as Connaught Place, Sarojini Nagar, Defence Colony, Khan Market, South Extension, Green Park and Hauz Khas, which means there is no dearth of traders.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Poll office rejects AAP’s plaint against BJP’s Gambhir
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, NEW DELHI
PUBLISHED ON APR 29, 2019 11:55 AM IST
Atishi has sought Gambhir’s disqualification for having two voter identity cards from Rajender Nagar and Karol Bagh constituencies.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: ‘Those who defamed Begusarai will lose’, says Kanhaiya Kumar
By HT Correspondent | New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 07, 2020 08:20 PM IST
Kanhaiya Kumar is making his electoral debut as the Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate for Begusarai, where the left party was once dominant. He is contesting against BJP leader Giriraj Singh in Begusarai.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: UP CM Adityanath urges people to vote
UPDATED ON APR 29, 2019 09:23 AM IST
The mercury during summer is high, take care of yourself, but do vote. The government is formed by every one vote,” he said in a series of tweets.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Bottled-up emotions find expression, villagers get no solace in poll talk
By Saurabh Chauhan | Malihabad
PUBLISHED ON APR 27, 2019 02:17 AM IST
The hooch tragedy claimed a dozen lives in Khadta village of Malihabad alone. The victim’s families are now struggling to make ends meet. Most of these families have less than a bigha of land each.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Polls over, candidates in Kerala launch cleanliness drive
By Ramesh Babu | Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram
UPDATED ON APR 26, 2019 03:01 PM IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Ernakulam, union minister K J Alphons, was seen whitewashing defaced walls in his constituency on Thursday.
Kerala CM loses cool, shouts at journalists over query on voter turnout in Lok Sabha polls
By Press Trust of India | Kochi
PUBLISHED ON APR 24, 2019 05:37 PM IST
“Maari nilkku angottu” (Keep away), the Chief Minister, in an agitated mood, shouted at the media persons when they approached him for his version of record polling in the last three decades in the general elections.
