Politics

Modi was elected as the NDA's leader at the Central Hall in Parliament on Saturday.

A closer look at the constituency-level performance of the BJP this time shows that the number of seats where the party polled more than half the total votes saw a 65 per cent increase.

Amit Shah said when Modi became the Prime Minister for the first time in 2014, ordinary citizens were filled with hope that a person from a modest background could be elected to the highest office.

TRS sources pointed out that the party was successful in 10 of the 17 seats along with ally AIMIM. BJP's vote percentage rose to about 20 per cent from 10 per cent in assembly elections held in last December as the voters preferred Modi's leadership as it...

Ashok Chavan admitted that the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Agadhi (VBA), which has the AIMIM as a constituent, had cost the Congress-NCP alliance 'nine to ten seats'.

Contesting on Biju Janata Dal's ticket from Keonjhar, Chandrani Murmu defeated two-time BJP MP Ananta Nayak by a margin of 67,822 votes.

This is the Trinamool's worst defeat since the 2004 Lok Sabha election when, in spite of polling 21.04% of the votes, the party got a solitary seat.

In his resignation letter to party supremo and former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, Ashok Arora said he was resigning as the state unit chief in view of the severe drubbing the party received at the hustings.

That his decision to enter the poll fray was more of an emotional outburst was revealed from the fact that Riyazuddin Deshmukh, after filing his nomination, never campaigned for himself in Bhopal.

The two-time MLA from Bijpur assembly constituency had held a press conference earlier in the day in which he hailed his father's organisational skills.

The BJP bagging 25 out of the total 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka has left the one-year-old Kumaraswamy government in a tizzy over its stability.

Here is a look at three parties which left the NDA, joined the alliance or share an uneasy relationship with the BJP.

The Wayanad seat which was supposed to be the spare proved to be the saving grace for Rahul Gandhi who conceded defeat against BJP’s Smriti Irani in Amethi constituency of Uttar Pradesh.

In this podcast, we discuss how Modi-Shah duo trumped the opposition, how Modi-led NDA 2.0 will be different from its first term, what it means for Congress and its President Rahul Gandhi and the maturing of the Indian voter.

The former ABVP leader had faced vehement opposition from even where he was finally nominated for the parliamentary election.

Alleging that opposition parties had joined hands at the national level with the sole agenda of defeating PM Narendra Modi, K Laxman said people had realised that regional parties have become 'family parties'.