Sikkim assembly poll: Chamling’s tenure as CM ends after 24 years

The longest-serving chief minister of India, Pawan Kumar Chamling’s tenure ended after his party failed to secure mandate in the Sikkim assembly election. Chamling’s party, the Sikkim Democratic Front, lost the state election to a resurgent Sikkim Krantikari Morcha. Read More
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In Andhra, Jagan makes a big comeback, sweeps LS, state polls

The YS Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party, on Thursday, appeared on course for a landslide win in Andhra Pradesh parliamentary and assembly elections and swept 22 out the 25 Lok Sabha seats defeating the the N Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party. Read More
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In a first, BJP-led NDA sweeps Bihar, RJD draws a blank

The Rashtriya Janata Dal, led by Lalu Prasad’s son Tejashwi Yadav and the main party in the Bihar mahagathbandhan, could not manage to win even a single seat in 2019 Lok Sabha election out of the 20 seats it contested. Read More
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Modi retains power with massive mandate, crushes opposition

Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA returned with a greater force by surpassing its 2014 Lok Sabha election performance. BJP itself has won or leading in 302 seats out of the 542 seats that went to the poll with the NDA coming close to the 350 mark. Read More
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Naaveen Patnaik’s BJD gets mandate for the consecutive fifth term in Odisha

Naveen Patnaik, chief minister of Odisha, has successfully led his Biju Janata Dal party back to power in the state for the fifth term. Read More
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World leaders congratulate Modi over landslide election win

With the trend indicating that the NDA led by the BJP heading towards a landslide victory on the 2019 Lok Sabha election, international leaders have already started to congratulate Prime Minister Narendra Modi for retaining power with an even greater mandate than 2014. Read More
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MODI! MODI! MODI! BJP headed towards massive victory

Stabilized trends at around 4pm indicate that Narendra Modi’s BJP is leading in as many as 301 seats, which is 19 more than it won in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Along with the BJP, the NDA is expected to touch or even cross 350 seats in the 543-member House. Read More
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Ahead of poll counting, MHA issues security advisory to all states, UTs

The ministry of home affairs while taking precautionary measures, alerted all the states and Union territories against the chances of violence during the counting of the Lok Sabha election votes. Read More
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EC rejects opposition demand for changes to VVPAT counting

The Election Commission rejected a demand by 22 opposition parties asking that voter-verifiable paper audit trail should be counted before electronic voting machines in polling stations wherever applicable. Read More
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Opposition leaders’ vigil outside EVM rooms amid tampering row

Amid complaints of alleged tampering of EVMs, opposition parties in several states are keeping a round-the-clock vigil on the storage rooms where the voting machines are kept in high security, ahead of the counting of votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Read More
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