Election 2019

TikTok on Wednesday announced that it would clamp down on paid political posts by influencers ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections. While political ads have been banned since 2019, the short video sharing platform said that it will prevent content creators from posting paid political messages on the app ahead of the elections coming in Novemb...

Jammu and Kashmir is without an elected government since June 2018; was divided into two UTs in 2019, which meant the electoral map and rolls would have to be redone

A total of 130 cases of "hate news" were reported to social media platforms between the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the latest round of Assembly polls in five states held earlier this year, the government informed Parliament on Thursday.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday claimed that in the last three years his government has fulfilled 95 per cent of the promises made by the party in the 2019 election manifesto.

Not many would have thought before the 2019 Maharashtra elections that Uddhav Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, could snap ties with his party's all-weather ally BJP, and become Chief Minister.

Ahead of the November 2019 election, Sri Lankan presidential challenger Gotabaya Rajapaksa proposed sweeping tax cuts so reckless the incumbent government thought it must be a campaign gimmick.

If you thought that after the humiliation of 2019, Congress would push to win the next rounds, you are wrong. They failed in Haryana, they did badly in Maharashtra, they were blown away in Assam.

"In Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi has been blessed for the fourth time consecutively -- 2014 Lok Sabha, 2017 Vidha Sabha, 2019 Lok Sabha and now, in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections," BJP president JP Nadda said.

Asserting that there is a silent wave in his favour, Utpal Parrikar, elder son of late Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, has said he was a favoured choice after his father's death in 2019, but was denied poll ticket by BJP due to local politics.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP, Samajwadi and RLD had formed an alliance against the BJP. The Congress with its leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party had fought the 2017 assembly polls in the state in an alliance.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra dropped a bombshell Friday morning when she hinted she could be the Congress's chief ministerial candidate for the Uttar Pradesh election. Hours later, she said she meant it in a "tongue-in-cheek" way.

Actor-activist Sadaf Jafar - who was "kicked in the stomach by a male cop" after being arrested during anti-CAA protests in Lucknow in December 2019 - will contest next month's UP election from the Lucknow (central) seat on a Congress ticket.

A Shiv Sena MLA from Solapur district in Maharashtra on Sunday claimed that he could win the 2019 elections only due to the support of BJP, NCP and other small parties.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted the BJP and the NCP to come together in Maharashtra to form government in 2019, but he told the PM that "it was not possible".

Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has finally found its regional partner head of elections in Goa. The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) of Sudhin Dhavalikar today announced a tie-up with the Trinamool Congress.

TikTok on Wednesday announced that it would clamp down on paid political posts by influencers ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections. While political ads have been banned since 2019, the short video sharing platform said that it will prevent content creators from posting paid political messages on the app ahead of the elections coming in Novemb...

Jammu and Kashmir is without an elected government since June 2018; was divided into two UTs in 2019, which meant the electoral map and rolls would have to be redone

A total of 130 cases of "hate news" were reported to social media platforms between the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the latest round of Assembly polls in five states held earlier this year, the government informed Parliament on Thursday.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday claimed that in the last three years his government has fulfilled 95 per cent of the promises made by the party in the 2019 election manifesto.

Not many would have thought before the 2019 Maharashtra elections that Uddhav Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, could snap ties with his party's all-weather ally BJP, and become Chief Minister.

Ahead of the November 2019 election, Sri Lankan presidential challenger Gotabaya Rajapaksa proposed sweeping tax cuts so reckless the incumbent government thought it must be a campaign gimmick.

If you thought that after the humiliation of 2019, Congress would push to win the next rounds, you are wrong. They failed in Haryana, they did badly in Maharashtra, they were blown away in Assam.

"In Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi has been blessed for the fourth time consecutively -- 2014 Lok Sabha, 2017 Vidha Sabha, 2019 Lok Sabha and now, in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections," BJP president JP Nadda said.

Asserting that there is a silent wave in his favour, Utpal Parrikar, elder son of late Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, has said he was a favoured choice after his father's death in 2019, but was denied poll ticket by BJP due to local politics.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP, Samajwadi and RLD had formed an alliance against the BJP. The Congress with its leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party had fought the 2017 assembly polls in the state in an alliance.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra dropped a bombshell Friday morning when she hinted she could be the Congress's chief ministerial candidate for the Uttar Pradesh election. Hours later, she said she meant it in a "tongue-in-cheek" way.

Actor-activist Sadaf Jafar - who was "kicked in the stomach by a male cop" after being arrested during anti-CAA protests in Lucknow in December 2019 - will contest next month's UP election from the Lucknow (central) seat on a Congress ticket.

A Shiv Sena MLA from Solapur district in Maharashtra on Sunday claimed that he could win the 2019 elections only due to the support of BJP, NCP and other small parties.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted the BJP and the NCP to come together in Maharashtra to form government in 2019, but he told the PM that "it was not possible".

Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has finally found its regional partner head of elections in Goa. The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) of Sudhin Dhavalikar today announced a tie-up with the Trinamool Congress.