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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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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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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Markets showing nerves from possibility of Modi losing election

Investors in India are bracing for an extreme-event risk with a possibility of Narendra Modi failing to retain power after the Lok Sabha election. Meanwhile, foreign investors continued to aggressively withdraw money out of domestic stocks. Read More
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