Elections 2019

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Samajwadi Party boss Akhilesh Yadav will both skip Wednesday's INDIA bloc meeting, sources told NDTV this morning.

Elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in 1989 and brought back into the Union Cabinet after 15 years in 2019, Prahlad Patel now faces a new political challenge - fighting the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls from Narsinghpur.

In a setback for the lone JD(S) Member of Parliament, Prajwal Revanna, the High Court of Karnataka on Monday rejected his application seeking a stay on the order declaring his election in the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Hassan constituency null.

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refuted allegations made by a British television channel that the 2019 Easter suicide bombings that killed nearly 270 people were engineered by his loyalists to get him elected as president.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging the election of Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi from the New Delhi constituency during the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

The "Lok Sabha Prabharis", appointed "exclusively" for next year's general elections, have been given a headstart to prevent "any last-minute challenges", said one of the seven in-charges. The BJP won all the seven seats in the 2014 and 2019 polls.

A research paper titled "Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy" suggests that there was manipulation of results in some seats by the ruling BJP.

Akhilesh Yadav had won from Azamgarh in 2019 Lok Sabha elections but vacated the seat after winning from Karhal assembly seat in 2022.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray of betraying the BJP for the chief minister's post after the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2019 by joining hands with Nationalist Congress Party and Congres

TDP was a part of NDA in 2014 but quit the ruling alliance in March 2018 before the 2019 elections on the issue of special status to Andhra Pradesh. However, both parties came together after the recent municipal elections in Port Blair.

Eight Congress turncoats who joined the BJP and helped it form the government in 2019, lost in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, for which the results were announced on Saturday.

The regional party has won six of the seven by-polls held in the state after the 2019 elections.

Sonia Gandhi, who has been largely absent from public rallies since the 2019 elections, addressed her first meeting in Karnataka a day ago.

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition challenging the election of DMK MP Kanimozhi from Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi constituency in 2019.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi will hold a rally in Karnataka, where state elections begin on May 10. The April 5 rally will be held in Kolar, the place where Mr Gandhi made the comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Samajwadi Party boss Akhilesh Yadav will both skip Wednesday's INDIA bloc meeting, sources told NDTV this morning.

Elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time in 1989 and brought back into the Union Cabinet after 15 years in 2019, Prahlad Patel now faces a new political challenge - fighting the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls from Narsinghpur.

In a setback for the lone JD(S) Member of Parliament, Prajwal Revanna, the High Court of Karnataka on Monday rejected his application seeking a stay on the order declaring his election in the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Hassan constituency null.

Sri Lanka's ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refuted allegations made by a British television channel that the 2019 Easter suicide bombings that killed nearly 270 people were engineered by his loyalists to get him elected as president.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition challenging the election of Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi from the New Delhi constituency during the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

The "Lok Sabha Prabharis", appointed "exclusively" for next year's general elections, have been given a headstart to prevent "any last-minute challenges", said one of the seven in-charges. The BJP won all the seven seats in the 2014 and 2019 polls.

A research paper titled "Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy" suggests that there was manipulation of results in some seats by the ruling BJP.

Akhilesh Yadav had won from Azamgarh in 2019 Lok Sabha elections but vacated the seat after winning from Karhal assembly seat in 2022.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday accused Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray of betraying the BJP for the chief minister's post after the Maharashtra Assembly elections in 2019 by joining hands with Nationalist Congress Party and Congres

TDP was a part of NDA in 2014 but quit the ruling alliance in March 2018 before the 2019 elections on the issue of special status to Andhra Pradesh. However, both parties came together after the recent municipal elections in Port Blair.

Eight Congress turncoats who joined the BJP and helped it form the government in 2019, lost in the May 10 Karnataka Assembly elections, for which the results were announced on Saturday.

The regional party has won six of the seven by-polls held in the state after the 2019 elections.

Sonia Gandhi, who has been largely absent from public rallies since the 2019 elections, addressed her first meeting in Karnataka a day ago.

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition challenging the election of DMK MP Kanimozhi from Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi constituency in 2019.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi will hold a rally in Karnataka, where state elections begin on May 10. The April 5 rally will be held in Kolar, the place where Mr Gandhi made the comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname.