Tag: Gujarat Elections

New Delhi: NOTA (None of the Above) option got 2.5 times more votes than the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the 29 seats that the party contested in Gujarat, according to an election result analysis by IANS. The NOTA is an option in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and by registering a vote under NOTA, […]

Gandhinagar/Shimla: The BJP on Monday just managed to hold on to power in Gujarat, edging past the half-way mark to clinch a sixth term in government, but wrested Himachal Pradesh from Congress with a comfortable majority. Overcoming initial setbacks in a seesaw battle, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged 99 seats, seven more than the […]

New Delhi: The victory of the BJP in Gujarat is a victory of “developmental politics” over dynasty and appeasement, BJP President Amit Shah said on Monday, attributing the party’s lesser number of seats to the caste-based campaign of the Congress and its allies. Shah also said that the BJP’s victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha […]

New Delhi: All exit polls on Thursday predicted a clean sweep for the BJP in the Assembly elections held in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, in both of which it was virtually a direct fight between the two parties. While one channel gave a maximum of 135 seats to the BJP in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, […]

  New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmanohan Singh on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spreading “falsehood and canards” in a desperate bid to win the Gujarat elections and asked him to “apologize to the nation”. In a hard-hitting statement, Manmohan Singh denied allegations by Modi that he and others invited to a dinner […]

New Delhi: The Congress today termed its outing in the Gujarat assembly polls under the stewardship of party president Rahul Gandhi as its “moral victory”. “Congress’ Party’s campaign under the leadership of #CongressPresidentRahulGandhi ji has led to a moral victory for our party in #Gujarat…,” AICC general secretary in- charge for Gujarat Ashok Gehlot tweeted. […]

For the first time since the BJP swept to power at the Centre three and a half years ago, the Deadly Duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah looks truly vulnerable. Gone is the nonchalance that marked the public utterances of Modi and Shah before and after the UP elections. Notwithstanding […]