Tag: Election
Kamal Nath Sworn In As MP CM Ending 15 Years Of BJP Rule
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath, who steered his party to victory in Madhya Pradesh, was on Monday sworn in as its 18th Chief Minister, bringing to an end 15 years of BJP rule in the state which had become the saffron party's stronghold.....
LJP To Contest 6 LS Seats In Bihar
The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will contest six seats while the BJP and the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) will contest 17 seats each, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar under a seat-sharing formula, BJP President Amit Shah announced on Sunday.....
Bangladesh Polling Closes Amid Clashes, Opposition Boycott
Polling stations in Bangladesh closed on Sunday after a day of violent clashes in which at least 12 people have died as well as a boycott by the main Muslim opposition party, reported EFE.....
Lok Sabha Passes Bill Providing Quota For Upper Castes
The Lok Sabha on Monday night passed the "historic" Constitution amendment bill to provide 10 per cent quota for upper castes in government service and higher educational institutions, with the opposition backing it despite reservations over the timing and calling it an "election gimmick".....
Congress To Contest All UP Seats But Doors Open For Secular Parties
Snubbed by the SP and BSP who have joined hands in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Sunday said it will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state but insisted that its doors were open for secular parties willing to defeat the BJP.....
Opposition Alliance Opportunist, For Their Own Existence: Modi
Calling the opposition alliance "opportunist", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the parties coming together ahead of the Lok Sabha polls of practicing negative politics for their own existence and said the BJP was not in politics for "divide and rule" or building vote banks.....
BJP Calls EVM Row Congress Sponsored
The BJP on Tuesday called claims made by a US-based self-claimed cyber expert that the 2014 Lok Sabha elections were rigged and the EVMs can be hacked as a "conspiracy" sponsored by the Congress.....
15% Polling In 2 Hours In Haryana Bypoll
Haryana's lone Jind seat assembly bypoll registered an over 15 per cent voter turnout in its first two hours on Monday.....
It Could Be A Please-all Budget On Friday
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal will present the Interim Budget in the Lok Sabha on Friday that could virtually be a full-fledged budget of the Modi government ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in which tax sops for the middle class and the corporates could be expected along with a relief package to address agrarian distress and the stressed small scale industry sector.....
Election Bonanza For Middle Class, Tax Exemption Limit Up At Rs 5 Lakh
In a bonanza for the country's middle class in an election year, the government on Friday proposed various tax sops including tax exemption for individual annual incomes of Rs 5 lakh, all of which add up to taking individual incomes up to Rs 9.5 lakhs outside the tax net.....
