Claiming responsibility for the Lok Sabha election debacle, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in an open letter to party workers, resigned from his post and said it was an honour to serve the party. He said that it would be unjust to “ignore” his own responsibility for the election defeat.
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In an attempt to pursue Congress president Rahul Gandhi to withdraw his resignation from his post, chief ministers of states from the party urged Rahul Gandhi that nobody else except him was capable of reviving the organization at this stage.
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After winning a clear majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic alliance is also likely to dominate the Rajya Sabha by 2021. This will give the government a free hand to clear legislations.
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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.
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A tribal theatre activist, Jeetrai Hansda, has been arrested in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Jharkhand almost two years after he posted a comment asserting his community’s right to eat beef.
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During his 75-minute speech addressing the newly elected NDA members of Parliament, Narendra Modi advised the MPs to exercise restraint while speaking in public and emphasized that his government would push towards winning the trust of the minority communities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Although, YSRCP and TRS have been in touch with opposition parties since the exit-poll results, the BJP has also been banking on the two parties to boost the NDA numbers if the mandate doesn’t turn out to be what the exit polls predicted.
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