Tag: Loksabha Polls

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged first time voters to register and cast their ballots in the coming Lok Sabha polls. Delivering his first “Mann Ki Baat” address of 2019, Modi said: “This year, the Lok Sabha elections will be held in our country and this will be the first time that […]

Gandhinagar: The Modi-led NDA government will be relying on women power to strengthen its booth-level management to ensure a victory in the 2019 general election. Addressing an audience of more than 700 workers from the BJP Mahila Morcha (women’s wing) in Trimandir at Adalaj in Gandhinagar district on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “You […]

New Delhi: Terming the opposition’s efforts to forge a grand alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as a failure, Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed the Congress, saying it can only be the “tail” of any alliance, but never the “nucleus”. “India is not going to experiment with a failed idea for the […]

Raipur: Amid threats of Maoist violence, 18 of the 90 constituencies in Chhattisgarh will go to the polls on Monday to elect a new Assembly in the first phase of a battle in which the Congress is desperate to end 15 years of BJP rule. The election, widely seen as a ‘semi-final’ ahead of the 2019 […]

Bengaluru: The ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition candidates in Karnataka were leading in two Lok Sabha constituencies and two Assembly segments in the bypolls held Saturday, according to initial trends as counting of votes was taken up this morning. The BJP was ahead in the Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat. The Congress was leading in Ballari and its […]

Chandigarh: More than 10 per cent voting was recorded in the first three hours of polling to Punjab’s 13 Lok Sabha seats on Sunday in the seventh and final phase of the general elections, officials said. Voting began at 7 a.m. in the constituencies of Patiala, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Anandpur Sahib, […]

New Delhi: A documentary encapsulating the story of the Indian elections will soon make way to the Indian small screen. National Geographic announced the project on Tuesday. The multi-crew production is shot at 37 locations across the length and breadth of the country. Several facets of the elections have been captured — from several booth […]