Election Results 2017

Rahul Gandhi Gujarat Visit Highlights: Congress Chief Offers Prayers At Somnath Temple, Will Review Election Result Next

India News | Edited by Abhishek Chakraborty | Saturday December 23, 2017

Rahul Gandhi will meet Congress leaders in Gujarat, who have already begun analysing the election result, to review and get insight about the electoral outcome. Gujarat Congress organised a three-day conclave, which ends today, to study the poll results. During the 'chintan shivir' (introspection camp), Congress leaders and workers in Gujarat have ...

At Top Congress Meet, Dr Manmohan Singh's Diagnosis Of Gujarat Results

India News | Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Aloke Tikku | Saturday December 23, 2017

Congress president Rahul Gandhi is travelling to Gujarat on Saturday to review and analyse his party's performance in the assembly elections. But at the Congress Working Committee yesterday, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already told him precisely what he thinks went wrong.

Days After Results, BJP Touches 100-Mark In Gujarat, With Some Help

India News | Reported by Rohit Bhan, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Friday December 22, 2017

The BJP has touched the 100-mark in Gujarat, where it won a sixth straight term on Monday but with a reduced margin, confined to double digits.

Chief Ministers For Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh Highlights: Vijay Rupani Retains Top Job

India News | Saturday December 23, 2017

After the BJP emerged victorious in the assembly elections by defeating the Congress in both Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the party is now mulling decision on chief ministers for these states. As the party's presumptive state chief for Himachal Pradesh, PK Dhumal lost his seat in the polls, speculations are rife as to who the next chief minister o...

Governor Dissolves Gujarat Assembly, Vijay Rupani To Be Caretaker Chief Minister

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 20, 2017

Gujarat Governor OP Kohli today dissolved the 13th Legislative Assembly, paving the way for the formation of a new government under the BJP in the coming days.

Gujarat Assembly Election Results: BJP, Congress Supporters Celebrate In US

World News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 20, 2017

BJP supporters celebrated the party's victory in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly Polls and asserted that the people of the two states have voted for development and rejected caste-based politics and corruption.

Vijay Rupani Frontrunner For Gujarat Chief Minister, But Not Default Choice

India News | Reported by Rohit Bhan, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Wednesday December 20, 2017

Vijay Rupani, outgoing Gujarat chief minister is seen as the favourite for the top post, but the BJP's performance in the assembly elections has thrown open the possibility of the party opting for someone else. As the state BJP waits for the arrival from Delhi of union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who will oversee the selection of the next chief ...

Urban Voters Still With BJP, Rural Gujarat Behind Congress

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 20, 2017

Though people turned up in large numbers to attend Patidar leader Hardik Patel's anti-BJP rallies in the cities of Gujarat, they ended up voting for the saffron party, which won nearly one-third of their total of 99 seats from eight major cities in the state.

5 Congress Rebels Lose, 2 Win On BJP Tickets In Gujarat Elections

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 20, 2017

It may have ended up as the runner-up in Gujarat polls won by the BJP, but the Congress exacted sweet revenge of sorts with five out of the seven defectors who contested on the saffron party's ticket losing.

Post Gujarat, Congress Calls For Restoring Dignity In Public Discourse

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 20, 2017

The Congress party today called for restoring dignity in political discourse in the country after it was vitiated during the campaigning for the keenly- contested Gujarat Assembly polls.

Gujarat Results Have Made Us Stronger, More Stable: Devendra Fadnavis

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 20, 2017

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said the results of Assembly elections in neighbouring Gujarat had made his own government stronger.

"Congress Real Winner in Gujarat": BJP Ally Shiv Sena's New Jab

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday December 19, 2017

As the BJP retained Gujarat, its ally, the Shiv Sena, has said that it was the Rahul Gandhi-led Congress which had emerged as the "real winner" in the election.

Elections Won, BJP To Send Top Leaders To Prep For Naming Chief Ministers

India News | Reported by Akhilesh Sharma, Edited by Debanish Achom | Tuesday December 19, 2017

The BJP has postponed to tomorrow its meeting of party MPs held every Tuesday when parliament is in session. Many parliamentarians, sources said, were involved in hectic electioneering in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh and the meeting was rescheduled to give the party a day to regroup

If You Get 49% Vote Share, Can't Say It Is Anti-Incumbency: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

Elections News | Edited By Aloke Tikku | Tuesday December 19, 2017

That the BJP ended up with 49 per cent of the popular vote in Gujarat demonstrates that there was really no anti-incumbency against the party that had ruled the state for 22 years, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told NDTV, explaining the party's lower tally than the 2012 elections to a gap in rural Saurashtra due to "certain agrarian factors and loc...

How Ahmed Patel Thinks Congress Could Have Won Gujarat

Elections News | Edited By Aloke Tikku | Tuesday December 19, 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP win in his home turf Gujarat was a "moral defeat" for the ruling party that targeted around 150 seats but will make the next government with 99 seats, Ahmed Patel, the 68-year-old top strategist of the Congress told NDTV.