Elections 2014

Nitish Kumar's Party To Join NDA, Likely To Get Berths In Modi Cabinet

India News | Reported by Manish Kumar, Edited by Aloke Tikku | Saturday August 19, 2017

Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United is back in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance or NDA after nearly four years of separation. A patch-up between the long-lost partners was announced at the party's national executive meeting this morning in Patna.

'Ready For Mid-Term Polls, Will Win': Devendra Fadnavis' Message For Sena

India News | Reported by Anant R Zanane, Prasad Kathe and Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday June 15, 2017

The BJP is ready for a mid-term challenge in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said, in an apparent reaction to ally Shiv Sena's repeated taunts.

For Development, Need Infrastructure First: Top 5 Quotes Of PM Modi

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Friday May 26, 2017

The Narendra Modi government is marking the completion of its 3 years in office with countrywide celebrations for the next 20 days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who took oath of office on May 26 after the party's sweeping victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections -- will begin the celebrations by opening India's longest bridge in Assam. PM Modi will...

3 Years Of Modi Government LIVE: Here's What The Prime Minister, Others Did And Said Today

India News | Edited by Abhishek Chakraborty | Friday May 26, 2017

The Narendra Modi government completed 3 years today. Marking the third anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a number of infrastructure projects in Assam today, one of them being India's longest bridge - The Bhupen Hazarika Bridge. In 2014, Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP to a massive victory in the general electio...

MCD Election Results 2017: 7 Things The BJP Did To Win Delhi Again

India News | Reported by Akhilesh Sharma, Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Wednesday April 26, 2017

The BJP's massive win in the Delhi civic elections today is the result of a strategy prepared with surgical precision and on the scale of a state election. The party needed to re-establish control in the national capital after winning only three seats in the Delhi assembly elections two years ago, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Par...

PM Narendra Modi To Attend NDA Meet Today To Formulate Future Strategy

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Monday April 10, 2017

A key meeting of the ruling NDA's top leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, heads of BJP allies and its chief Amit Shah, will be held tomorrow to take stock of the political situation and decide on future strategy.

Political Parties Must Be Held Accountable for Unfulfilled Poll Promises: Chief Justice JS Khehar

India News | Edited by Ipsita Sarkar | Saturday April 8, 2017

Political parties must be held accountable for the electoral promises that remain unfulfilled on a routine basis, Chief Justice of India JS Khehar said today, adding, poll manifestos have turned out to be just a piece of paper.

BJP's Trivendra Rawat Takes Charge As Uttarakhand Chief Minister, PM Narendra Modi Attends Ceremony

India News | Edited By Aloke Tikku | Saturday March 18, 2017

A long-time RSS pracharak, the BJP's Trivendra Singh Rawat, 56, today took over as the ninth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, the state that he had campaigned should be carved out of Uttar Pradesh back in the nineties. The BJP had swept the hill state in the state elections with 57 of the 70 seats in the state; Mr Rawat is said to have played a key r...

Trivendra Singh Rawat, Close To RSS And Amit Shah, To Take Oath As Uttarakhand Chief Minister Today

India News | Reported by Nikhil Pandhi, Edited by Abhishek Chakraborty | Saturday March 18, 2017

Trivendra Singh Rawat, a former RSS pracharak, has been elected as the BJP's legislative party leader in Uttarakhand and will take oath as the Chief Minister today.

PM Narendra Modi 'Favourite' To Win 2019 Lok Sabha Elections: US Experts

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday March 14, 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as a clear favourite for the 2019 general elections after the BJP's landslide victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, top US experts on India have said. While one of the experts noted that the electoral results of the recently concluded Assembly polls in five states show that the ...

It's Official. Manohar Parrikar Will Be Back As Goa Chief Minister Tomorrow

India News | Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Monday March 13, 2017

Manohar Parrikar will take oath as Goa Chief Minister for the fourth time tomorrow. He declared today that he has resigned from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers to go back to Goa as its Chief Minister. The incumbent BJP with 13 seats claims to have support of eight other legislators needed to cross the magic mark. Mr Parrikar wil...

The Reasons For Modi Being Stronger Than Ever

Blog | IP Bajpai | Saturday March 11, 2017

On this day, Narendra Modi coloured the Ganga from source to Varanasi in saffron in an astonishing victory that recalls the sweep of the 2014 general election and clearly allows the BJP to set the political agenda until the next general election in 2019 without much opposition.

Assembly Election Results 2017 - Modi Super-Wave Brings Saffron Holi For Uttar Pradesh: 10 Points

India News | Edited by Arun Nair | Saturday March 11, 2017

The BJP rode a Modi super-wave to a massive victory in Uttar Pradesh today, winning 312 of the state's 403 seats; its allies have won 13 seats for a grand total of 325. It's a triumph that will strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim to a second term in 2019. As jubilant party workers celebrated an early Holi, BJP chief Amit Shah credited t...

Can Team Akhilesh-Rahul Do Magic In UP? Here's What The Numbers Say

India News | NDTV News Desk | Sunday March 5, 2017

As chief minister Akhilesh Yadav seeks to be re-elected in Uttar Pradesh, will his Samajwadi Party's strategic alliance with the Congress help him in his bid? Yes, if the state votes like it did five years ago in the assembly elections of 2012. No, if it votes the way it did in the 2014 general elections.

UP Election 2017: In Final Push, PM Narendra Modi vs Akhilesh Yadav And Mayawati In Mirzapur Today

India News | Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Friday March 3, 2017

As the battle for Uttar Pradesh enters its last leg with just two phases left now, it's a make or break for major players in the state, the BJP, BSP and Congress-SP together. The BJP, which hopes to replicate its sweep of UP in the 2014 general elections, has moved its entire top leadership to eastern UP, where polling will be held for 89 seats in ...

Behind The BJP's UP Election Machine, Meet The Party's Mini-Amit Shah

India News | Written by Sreenivasan Jain | Thursday March 2, 2017

If the BJP pulls off a win in Uttar Pradesh, there will be many public claimants for its success. But there is one who is likely to remain invisible - Sunil Bansal, the party's organisation secretary, and the man to whom BJP chief Amit Shah entrusted the UP campaign.

UP Elections 2017: BJP Will Repeat Its 2014 Lok Sabha Poll Feat: Arun Jaitley

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 2, 2017

BJP will repeat its 2014 Lok Sabha electoral success and form a majority government in Uttar Pradesh, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said tonight.

UP Elections 2017: BJP Will Repeat 2014 Lok Sabha Feat In The State, Says Arun Jaitley

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday March 2, 2017

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said, at a public gathering, that the BJP will repeat its 2014 Lok Sabha electoral success and form a majority government in Uttar Pradesh.

As Doubts About Rahul Gandhi Grow, Leaders Wonder 'Who Will Bell The Cat?'

India News | Written by Sunil Prabhu | Sunday February 26, 2017

After Congress party suffered another electoral debacle in the local elections of Maharashtra and Odisha, some senior leaders within the party have now begun to question the abilities of party vice president Rahul Gandhi - albeit in hushed voices.

UP Polls 2017: Prannoy Roy On Why 'New Voters' Of 2014 Are Essential For BJP

India News | Posted by Divyanshu Dutta Roy | Friday February 24, 2017

India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh is more than halfway through the 2017 Assembly Elections - seen as the bellwether for the general elections two years later. NDTV's Prannoy Roy analyses what it will take for the parties to win the prized battle in the state seen as most critical to India's political discourse.

Winning Uttar Pradesh: 5 Simple Graphics That Explain The Math

India News | Edited by Raija Susan Panicker | Saturday February 25, 2017

In 2012, the BJP won 47 of a possible 403 seats, placing it third in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh: In Areas With Many Muslims, Hindu Vote For BJP Increases

Elections News | Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday February 23, 2017

Muslims form about 18 per cent of Uttar Pradesh's population. In urban areas, they form 32 per cent of voters; in rural parts, they are about half that.

The Modi Wave Of 2014: Will It Repeat In Uttar Pradesh?

Elections News | Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Thursday February 23, 2017

In 2012, the BJP won 47 of a possible 403 seats, placing it third in the state. Just two years later, the unbeatable campaign dispensed by Narendra Modi, then a Prime Ministerial candidate, won his party the equivalent of 337 seats - a quantum leap of outstanding proportion.

BMC Elections 2017: My Name's Missing, Say Many Celebs As Mumbai Votes

India News | NDTV News Desk | Tuesday February 21, 2017

Mumbai votes today in civic polls and political parties have urged the megacity to do better than before - it has averaged 44 per cent in voter turnout for BMC elections since 1997. But among those who did turn up to vote, several complained that their names were not on voting lists. This isnt the first time. In 2014, the Election Commission that ...

UP Election 2017: Smriti Irani Knows Why Priyanka Gandhi's Not Campaigning

India News | NDTV News Desk | Thursday February 16, 2017

Campaigning for her party - the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Union minister Smriti Irani took on Priyanka Gandhi, whose brother and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has teamed up with the Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav for the ongoing Assembly elections in the state. Speaking about the people of Amethi, a key constituency for the Congress, Ms Iran...

An Order On Rohith Vemula's Caste Boosts Mayawati's Attack On BJP

India News | Written by Shikha Trivedy | Saturday February 18, 2017

Mr Vemula'ssuicide is just one of the incidents targeting Dalits which have occurred since the BJP came into power in 2014, says Mayawati, who is trying to combine the Dalit and Musim vote, which add up to around 40% percent of UP, in her effort to dislodge Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and beat the BJP's campaign that's led by Prime Minister Naren...

UP Election 2017: Ajit Singh's Party Tries to Stitch Together Rainbow Coalition

India News | Written by Sandeep Phukan | Tuesday February 14, 2017

The Rashtriya Lok Dal has ruled out any post-poll alliance with the BJP, enthused by reports that their traditional votebank in western Uttar Pradesh, the Jats, are angry with the BJP and may return to fold. The Jat support had swung to the BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha elections following the Muzzaffarnagar riots, and the RLD - which had won 9 seats in 20...

Uttar Pradesh Elections 2017: Jat Door-To-Door Campaign Says 'Vote Today', Claims BJP Will Hurt

India News | Written by Sunetra Choudhury | Saturday February 11, 2017

It's been a busy day for Vinod Rathi. He had a single-point agenda on Uttar Pradesh's first day of voting: as a member of the Jat Sabha, to go to as many homes as possible and get the community to vote. The Jats, who form 17 per cent of voters in areas like this one, abandoned their traditional choice, Ajit Singh and his Rashtriya Lok Dal, to vote ...

UP Election 2017: At 64 Per Cent, UP Betters Last Time's Turnout In First Phase

India News | Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Saturday February 11, 2017

Polling was held in 73 assembly constituencies in western Uttar Pradesh on Saturday in the first of seven phases of what is billed as a semi-final before the 2019 national election. A turnout of 64.2 per cent was recorded, 3 per cent better than that registered in 2012 state elections. The pressure is on the BJP which swept the region in the 2014 n...

Uttar Pradesh Elections 2017: Among Western UP Jats, A Sense Of Exploitation By BJP. And Yet...

India News | Monday February 6, 2017

Jats, seared by Muzaffarnagar riots, feel Ajit Singh may be spent force, consider backing BJP