Ajay Bhatt, the Uttarakhand BJP chief, was named the party’s Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar candidate, after former chief minister and the BJP’s sitting MP BS Koshiyari declined to contest from this Lok Sabha constituency, citing his age. read more

Pitroda, in an interview to news agency ANI, raised questions over the Balakot strike saying that international media did not agree with the claims made in India about the IAF action against terror camp in Pakistan. read more

Of the six ‘smaller’ parties in Maharashtra, the MNS has decided not to contest the elections, but will campaign against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “misleading people”. read more

Several 75-plus leaders, including Advani and others such as Guwahati MP Bijoya Chakravarty, Garhwal MP BC Khanduri and Nainital MP Bhagat Singh Koshyari did not figure in the BJP’s first list. read more

The Indian team of 284 athletes won 85 golds, 154 silver and 129 bronze medals in its highly successful campaign at the prestigious event. read more

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be contesting from Varanasi constituency. BJP president Amit Shah will be contesting from Gandhinagar. Union home minister Rajnath Singh will contest the elections from Lucknow with Nitin Gadkari contesting from Nagpur. Union Minister JP Nadda announced a list of total 182 candidates. (Hindustan Times)read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will contest from Varanasi, while BJP president Amit Shah will contest from Gandhinagar. Union home minister Rajnath Singh will contest the elections from Lucknow with Nitin Gadkari contesting from Nagpur. read more

In a radio address on Wednesday, PM Modi had targeted the ‘chowkidar’ campaign of the Congress. The Prime Minister said chowkidar is the flavour of the season, referring to BJP’s “Main Bhi Chowkidar” campaign on social media. read more

The BJP has released its list of 40 “star campaigners” for Odisha which is scheduled to go to polls in four phases on April 11, 18, 23 and 29. Both the Lok Sabha and assembly elections are being held simultaneously in the state. read more

In Sikkim, the BJP has released the second list with 12 candidates while the first list with six names for Arunachal Pradesh after the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting approved the lists. read more

The Main Bhi Chowkidar campaign, they add, is one such – a riposte of sorts to the Congress’ Chowkidar Chor Hai campaign launched by the Congress, which alleged wrongdoing in the Rafale fighter jet deal. read more

In an interview, Sunil Deodhar said although PM Modi is popular in the southern state, there is a vacuum in terms of BJP’s leadership in Andhra Pradesh read more

Many Opposition leaders criticized the government’s inability to prevent the attack in Pulwama and accused the government of trying to reap political gains out of the air strikes in Pakistan’s Balakot. read more

Priyanka Gandhi launched a sharp attack on Modi, calling him an Indian dictator (“Hindustani tanashah”) and compared the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) rule to the British Raj during which people were tortured and no one allowed to raise their... read more

“From the press to parliament. From soldiers to free speech. From the constitution to the courts. Institutional insult is the Congress way,” Modi wrote. “Everyone is wrong, only the Congress is correct.” read more