Election Cold Calling

For the Aam Aadmi Party, flying in chief Arvind Kejriwal to celebrate its success in the municipal elections in Gujarat's Surat, deep inside the BJP's impenetrable citadel, the state chief of the ruling party had some cold water.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at the Congress for calling him "Shauchalaya ka Chowkidaar", saying "I wear their abuse as a badge of honour".

"Hello sir, I am calling from a media house," says a young woman hunched over a phone in Lucknow. Nearly 70 others packed into the non-descript three-storey house in a quiet Lucknow suburb are making similar introductions. At the other end of the line are voters, or village-level influencers, who the callers hope to win over in support of their cli...

The man credited with Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar's electoral success has received a cold call from Mamata Banerjee, though she may not really need him. West Bengal is due for polls next year and the Chief Minister has approached Prashant Kishor, the strategist who has two massive election victories in his bag.

Lambasting the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal over violence in Municipal elections, CPI-M today said it was a "cold blooded murder of democracy" and called for fresh elections to the two Municipal Corporations monitored by Central forces.

Ignoring calls for boycott and braving the cold weather, a large number of people came out to vote in the ongoing Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir today. Voting is taking place in three Kashmir districts - Budgam, Pulwama and Baramulla - in the shadow of serial terror attacks on Friday in which 12 security personnel and one civilian were kil...

For the Aam Aadmi Party, flying in chief Arvind Kejriwal to celebrate its success in the municipal elections in Gujarat's Surat, deep inside the BJP's impenetrable citadel, the state chief of the ruling party had some cold water.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at the Congress for calling him "Shauchalaya ka Chowkidaar", saying "I wear their abuse as a badge of honour".

"Hello sir, I am calling from a media house," says a young woman hunched over a phone in Lucknow. Nearly 70 others packed into the non-descript three-storey house in a quiet Lucknow suburb are making similar introductions. At the other end of the line are voters, or village-level influencers, who the callers hope to win over in support of their cli...

The man credited with Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar's electoral success has received a cold call from Mamata Banerjee, though she may not really need him. West Bengal is due for polls next year and the Chief Minister has approached Prashant Kishor, the strategist who has two massive election victories in his bag.

Lambasting the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal over violence in Municipal elections, CPI-M today said it was a "cold blooded murder of democracy" and called for fresh elections to the two Municipal Corporations monitored by Central forces.

Ignoring calls for boycott and braving the cold weather, a large number of people came out to vote in the ongoing Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir today. Voting is taking place in three Kashmir districts - Budgam, Pulwama and Baramulla - in the shadow of serial terror attacks on Friday in which 12 security personnel and one civilian were kil...