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BJP’s Lok Sabha poll campaign gets a big boost from western praise | Lok Sabha Elections News
15Apr By adminNo Comments
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BJP’s Lok Sabha poll campaign gets a big boost from western praise | Lok Sabha Elections News

'PM Modi likes to claim that previous governments sought Western aid while, under him, India has provided vaccines to the world' | Photo: PTI4 min read Last Updated : Apr 15 2024 | 7:22 AM ISTBy Mihir Sharma To outsiders, it may seem unclear what the world’s largest election, which India will hold in stages starting at the end of this week, is all about. While we are dangerously short of jobs, unemployment doesn’t seem to be under discussion. Voters don’t appear to be as concerned about “democratic backsliding” as the liberal elite is. And, while the opposition is gamely trying its hand at caste- and region-based identity politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s universal appeal renders such old-style politics irrelevant.   If you look a little closer, however, a pictu...
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BJP manifesto: Sankalp Patra gives NRC a miss, sticks to UCC stand | Lok Sabha Elections News
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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BJP manifesto: Sankalp Patra gives NRC a miss, sticks to UCC stand | Lok Sabha Elections News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP National President JP Nadda release the BJP's election manifesto ‘Sankalp Patra’ at the party headquarters, in New Delhi, Sunday, April 14, 2024 (PTI Photo) Launching the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s election manifesto on a day that the shadow of conflict threatened to spread further across West Asia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a “strong government with a full majority was necessary” in the prevailing uncertain international environment. At the manifesto launch in New Delhi Sunday morning, the PM didn’t refer to any specific dispute but spoke of how his government, in the past 10 years, had time and again evacuated Indians stuck in conflict situations abroad.  The 69-page BJP manifesto, or ‘San...
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Cong names 16 more LS candidates, fields Vikramaditya against Kangana | Lok Sabha Elections News
13Apr By adminNo Comments
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Cong names 16 more LS candidates, fields Vikramaditya against Kangana | Lok Sabha Elections News

1 min read Last Updated : Apr 13 2024 | 9:36 PM IST The Congress on Saturday announced a list of 16 more candidates for the Lok Sabha polls and fielded former Union minister Manish Tewari from the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency. The party also pitted Himachal Pradesh Minister Vikramaditya Singh against BJP candidate and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut in the state's Mandi Lok Sabha seat. Vikramaditya Singh is the son of the Congress' Himachal Pradesh unit chief Pratibha Singh. The candidates were announced during a meeting of the party's Central Election Committee here on Saturday evening.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)Fi...
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India’s Q2 growth rate highest in world; fundamentals strong: FM Sitharaman
7Dec By adminNo Comments
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India’s Q2 growth rate highest in world; fundamentals strong: FM Sitharaman

Addressing the winter session of the Parliament on Thursday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that not only India was the fastest-growing economy in the world but also it had the highest growth rate in the second quarter of the current financial year (Q2FY24) in the world. The finance minister spoke on the progress made by the Indian economy under the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government, stating that the country's economy had grown from the tenth largest in 2014 to the fifth largest economy in 2023. Moreover, India had the most significant growth in the July-September quarter at 7.6 per cent. Sitharaman said, "India's second quarter growth is the highest in the world as India continues to be the fastest-growing economy. The third and fourth largest ec...
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BJP sweeps MP, wrests Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh
4Dec By adminNo Comments
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BJP sweeps MP, wrests Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, on the back of “Modi’s guarantees”, swept aside the Congress challenge in the Hindi heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, a result that strengthened Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s prospects of leading his party to a third successive Lok Sabha triumph five months hence. The Congress consoled itself with a win in Telangana, but the results jolted the party, which would sit down, along with rest of the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, on Wednesday, to plan the road ahead. With the Congress losing the heartland, where it had “guaranteed” a return to the Old Pension Scheme, the election results could ease the pressure on the Centre on the issue. However, the BJP had matched the Congress ‘guarantee’ for...
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Rural booster puts Congress in power
3Dec By adminNo Comments
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Rural booster puts Congress in power

Even as the rest of India witnessed a lacklustre performance from the Congress, the youngest state, Telangana, became a beacon of hope for the Grand Old Party, poised to secure 64 seats, surpassing the simple majority mark of 60 needed to form a government in the southern state. A key driving force behind the Congress victory was its success in rural constituencies outside the Hyderabad area. This marks the first instance since the formation of the state in 2014 that any party other than Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is set to assume power. However, with only a marginal majority, political analysts expect a power struggle between Telangana Congress chief Revanth Reddy and Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka for the position...
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Who is leading at 10:30 am?
3Dec By adminNo Comments
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Who is leading at 10:30 am?

According to the early trends in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP is leading in the state and has crossed the halfway mark of 116 seats. Congress is in second place with 91 seats.  MP Assembly election 2023: Who is leading at 10:30 am? According to TV reports, the trends for 230 seats out of the total 230 are out. BJP was leading on 138 seats, followed by 88 of Congress. To win the state, a party or coalition needs to win 116 seats. According to the website of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the BJP was leading on 137 seats followed by the Congress on 57 seats. Other parties are leading on 3 seats.  Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is leading from Budhni. Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Prahlad Singh Patel is leading from Narsin...
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Edge to BJP in Madhya Pradesh, a close fight in Rajasthan: Exit polls
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Edge to BJP in Madhya Pradesh, a close fight in Rajasthan: Exit polls

Most exit polls on Thursday predicted a photo finish in Rajasthan, with a couple of them suggesting that the Congress could be on the cusp of breaking a quarter-century trend of the state’s electorate throwing out the party in power, and that the party was ahead of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana and set to return to power in Chhattisgarh. The surprise, according to at least two exit polls, could be Madhya Pradesh (MP) where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might secure a historic landslide and the Zoram People’s Movement, contesting its first Assembly elections, likely to cross the majority mark in Mizoram. The counting of votes in these five states, which is also the last round of Assembly polls before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April-May, ...
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Emotional moment to leave old Parliament, says PM Modi
18Sep By adminNo Comments
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Emotional moment to leave old Parliament, says PM Modi

It is an emotional moment to leave the old building of the Parliament as several bittersweet memories have been associated with it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. He said that the building will continue to inspire many generations to come. From September 19, the sessions of the Parliament will be held in its new building.  On the first day of the five-day special session of the Parliament, Modi initiated the discussion in Lok Sabha on the "Parliamentary Journey of 75 years starting from Samvidhan Sabha -- Achievements, Experiences, Memories and Learnings". He said that while foreign rulers had decided to build the structure, it was constructed by the hard work, sweat and money of the people of India. "Before Independence, this building was called the Imp...
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Opposition and allies urge govt to take up women’s reservation Bill
18Sep By adminNo Comments
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Opposition and allies urge govt to take up women’s reservation Bill

At Sunday’s customary all-party meeting on the eve of a parliamentary session, several participants including the Opposition and allies of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spoke in chorus for the women’s reservation Bill. They urged the government to ensure its passage in the five-day special session whose highlight will be the shifting of proceedings to the new Parliament building on September 19 — the day of the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi this year.   According to sources, the government could have Parliament take up eight Bills during the session, including the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill and another that seeks to overturn the effect of a Supreme Court verdict on the appointment of the chief election commissioner ...
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