Kairana Bypoll 2018

The RLD win in the Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll has broken the party's 'zero' spell in Parliament and the state legislature, leading to workers celebrating their sole MP with the euphoric colours of Holi.

The opposition today wrested Kairana from the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, where the parliamentary by-poll became a massive battle for pride in an election year leading up to the 2019 national polls.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Voting is underway in 73 polling booths in western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections.

The high-profile electoral contest for western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana Lok Sabha seat, where the ruling BJP is locked in a straight fight with a joint opposition candidate, saw over 54 per cent of the constituency's voters casting their mandate amid complaints of malfunctioning of EVM and VVPAT machines.

Four Lok Sabha by-elections will be held today in three states, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Nagaland.

With Lok Sabha by-polls to be held in Kairana constituency in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh tomorrow, opposition parties have come together to defeat the ruling BJP, hoping to gain momentum ahead of the 2019 national election.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

The day after a show of unity in Karnataka, the opposition received encouraging news in Kairana in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, where Lok Sabha by-elections will be held on Monday. Begum Tabassum Hasan, the candidate backed by several opposition parties against the BJP, has clinched the support of her brother-in-law, who was contesting as an independen...

A humble (but not humbled) Congress, in the congenial company of a broad alliance holding aloft the Idea of India, will, a year from now, stop the perverse rise of an alternative Idea of India that we have witnessed since 2014, notwithstanding the obvious truth that well over two-thirds of all Indians have never wished to have anything to do with t...

The RLD win in the Kairana Lok Sabha bypoll has broken the party's 'zero' spell in Parliament and the state legislature, leading to workers celebrating their sole MP with the euphoric colours of Holi.

The opposition today wrested Kairana from the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, where the parliamentary by-poll became a massive battle for pride in an election year leading up to the 2019 national polls.

The opposition today scored a major pick-me-up ahead of the 2019 national election, besting the BJP and its allies in important by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bihar. The BJP won only one of four parliamentary seats and one of 11 assembly seats in by-polls held across 10 states on Monday. After losing two parliament seats, the ruling par...

Voting is underway in 73 polling booths in western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, 49 polling stations in Maharashtra's Bhandara-Gondia and one polling station in Nagaland, after the Election Commission (EC) announced that re-polling will take place in these booths after widespread failure of the machines in Monday's by-elections.

The high-profile electoral contest for western Uttar Pradesh's Kairana Lok Sabha seat, where the ruling BJP is locked in a straight fight with a joint opposition candidate, saw over 54 per cent of the constituency's voters casting their mandate amid complaints of malfunctioning of EVM and VVPAT machines.

Four Lok Sabha by-elections will be held today in three states, including Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Nagaland.

With Lok Sabha by-polls to be held in Kairana constituency in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh tomorrow, opposition parties have come together to defeat the ruling BJP, hoping to gain momentum ahead of the 2019 national election.

By-elections to four Lok Sabha seats and 10 assembly constituencies across 10 states are being held today. The Lok Sabha seats that will vote include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the lone seat in Nagaland. While the BJP held three of these seats, its former ally Naga People's Front (NPF) had won the Naga...

The day after a show of unity in Karnataka, the opposition received encouraging news in Kairana in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, where Lok Sabha by-elections will be held on Monday. Begum Tabassum Hasan, the candidate backed by several opposition parties against the BJP, has clinched the support of her brother-in-law, who was contesting as an independen...

A humble (but not humbled) Congress, in the congenial company of a broad alliance holding aloft the Idea of India, will, a year from now, stop the perverse rise of an alternative Idea of India that we have witnessed since 2014, notwithstanding the obvious truth that well over two-thirds of all Indians have never wished to have anything to do with t...