After election debacle, string of state Congress leaders resign

After Congress chief Rahul Gandhi announced that he wants to quit the party as its chief, three state Congress chiefs have resigned after the party’s poor performance in 2019 Lok Sabha poll taking the total number of state unit chiefs expressing their desire to quit from three to six. Read More
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BIMSTEC leaders invited to Modi’s swearing in, Imran Khan ignored

The government has invited leaders of the BIMSTEC countries, which includes Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan, for Modi’s swearing-in ceremony as the prime minister. However, it has not extended an invitation to Pakistani PM Imran Khan. Read More
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Rahul won’t abandon Congress but firm to quit as its chief: Reports

After Congress president Rahul Gandhi told the party that he wants to quit as its chief over the party’s abysmal performance in the Lok Sabha election, it fuelled speculations on the future of the party and its leadership. Read More
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Amethi BJP worker shot dead, Smriti Irani turns pallbearer

Two days after BJP’s Smriti Irani pulled off the biggest upset in Lok Sabha election by beating Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, her close associate from the constituency, Surendra Singh, was shot dead at his residence. Read More
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Jaganmohan Reddy meets Narendra Modi, may join NDA

After the announcement of the Lok Sabha and the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections results, the next chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There are speculation that his YSRCP may join the BJP-led NDA. 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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