Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Akash Saxena won the by-elections in troubled Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s bastion of Rampur Sadar in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. Saxena defeated Khan’s close associate and SP candidate Asim Raja with a margin of more than 33,500 votes, becoming the first ever BJP candidate to register victory in Rampur […]
Unpacking the reasons why Congress won a decisive mandate in Himachal, Congress leader Alka Lamba said that the strategy of the state unit was to now allow Himachal to be fought on national issues. Instead the party ensured that BJP was restricted to local issues like price rise, Old Pension scheme etc. She speaks to […]
Congress senior leader and spokesperson Pawan Khera in an interview to The New Indian’s Assistant Editor Anand Singh said that the party was expecting a decisive mandate from the people of Himachal. The next big challenge for Congress is to decide the CM face, which could be a cause of factionalism within the party.
Speaking to The New Indian’s special correspondent Alok Singh, AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP said that it was a big achievement for the party to have breached the citadel of BJP, and made in-roads into several corners of the state cutting both BJP and Congress’ votes. The party is also now officially a national party, because […]
The BJP is set for a landslide victory in Gujarat to retain power for a seventh straight term and is likely to break previous records by winning the highest number of seats in any assembly election in the state. As BJP hit the 150 plus seats mark, the Gujarat state leadership wasted no time in […]
Better infrastructure and excellent public services are key to enhancing efficiency and productivity of people in cities and towns to realise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of India when it completes 100th year of Independence, said Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh on Wednesday. He was speaking at the two-day ‘National Convention on People Centric Urban Governance […]
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav is poised to win the byelections for Mainpuri Lok Sabha segment, which fell vacant after the demise of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, as per trends of counting of votes on Thursday. Counting of votes for bypolls for Mainpuri Lok Sabha, and Rampur and Khatauli Assembly constituencies […]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was heading to a historic victory with more than 150 seats in Gujarat while rival Congress was poised to snath the reign of Himachal Pradesh from the saffron party in early trends on Thursday. According to the Election Commission of India (ECI) data, the BJP won seven seats and was leading […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party has lost the MCD elections following a 15 year uninterrupted reign. But it might have gained a credible face for an urban electorate like Delhi- something it has been lacking both in 2014 and 2019. Former cricketer turned politician Gautam Gambhir managed to win 61 per cent wards (22/36) in East […]
As the results of high-stakes Delhi MCD elections poured in, Aam Aadmi Party’s victory became apparent with the final tally of 134 seats for AAP, followed by BJP winning 104 seats. An elated Atishi Marlena who’s AAP MLA from Kalkaji constituency said that the poll outcome indicates that people of Delhi have faith in Arvind […]