2004 Lok Sabha Poll

A government in India is likely to be voted out whenever GDP growth under it is lower compared to its predecessor's. This happened six times, in 1977, 1980, 1991, 1996, 2004 and 2014.

In 2004, the DMK-led bloc swept the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, winning all 39 seats and the lone Puducherry segment, giving the much needed stability to the Congress-led UPA-I regime.

With Congress facing defeats in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, party leader Jairam Ramesh recalled that 20 years ago the party similarly lost in these three states but came back strong and emerged as the single largest party in 2004 poll

Ever wondered why electronic voting machines, used in four Lok Sabha elections and 127 assembly polls since 2004, are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members of Rajya Sabha, and members of state legislative c

Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Amendment Bill will be the first legislative business of the BJP president in parliament after his election to the lower house and cabinet appointment following the party's decisive win in national polls last month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called his party's manifesto or Sankalp patra, a document promising good governance, security and prosperity of the country. BJP chief Amit Shah in his introductory message claimed that India is a "maha-shakti" now. During the period between 2004 and 2014, when UPA was in power, India had "slipped in the eyes of the wor...

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launchedhis 2019 election campaign from the same tribal Lal Dungri village in Gujarat's Valsad district where his grandmother Indira Gandhi in 1980, his father Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 and his mother Sonia Gandhi in 2004 started and romped home to power.

Veteran actor Moushumi Chatterjee joined the ruling BJP today, months before the national election due by May. In 2004, she had contested the national election as a Congress candidate in Bengal.

Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee sensed defeat by the end of the campaign in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls which the party had forced him to advance, says his long-time aide Shiv Kumar Pareek, recognisable to everyone by his handlebar moustache.

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu declared himself a "born Congressman" after formally joining the party following weeks of negotiations ahead of the Punjab election next month. He is set to contest the February 4 Punjab assembly polls from Amritsar East, a part of the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency that he represented from 2004 to 20...

Delhi State Election Commission today told a court in Delhi that the original affidavits and some other documents, filed by candidates who had contested 2004 Lok Sabha poll from Chandni Chowk, including Union Minister Smriti Irani and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, were "not traceable".

Delhi State Election Commission today told a Delhi court that the original affidavits and some other documents, filed by candidates who had contested 2004 Lok Sabha poll from Chandni Chowk, including Union Minister Smriti Irani and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, were "not traceable".

Arun Jaitley is a key strategist, having steered the BJP's campaign successfully in difficult states such as Gujarat (2002 and 2007), Madhya Pradesh (2003), Bihar (2005), Karnataka (2004 and 2008) and Punjab (2007 and 2012). And now he forays into electoral politics by entering the race for the Lok Sabha polls from Amritsar.

With 22.63 lakh voters, Ghaziabad is the second largest Lok Sabha constituency after Malkajgiri in Andhra Pradesh. The constituency has a fair sprinkling of Rajputs, Brahmins, Baniyas and Jats, and, with the exception of 2004, has voted for the BJP since 1991.

A government in India is likely to be voted out whenever GDP growth under it is lower compared to its predecessor's. This happened six times, in 1977, 1980, 1991, 1996, 2004 and 2014.

In 2004, the DMK-led bloc swept the Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu, winning all 39 seats and the lone Puducherry segment, giving the much needed stability to the Congress-led UPA-I regime.

With Congress facing defeats in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, party leader Jairam Ramesh recalled that 20 years ago the party similarly lost in these three states but came back strong and emerged as the single largest party in 2004 poll

Ever wondered why electronic voting machines, used in four Lok Sabha elections and 127 assembly polls since 2004, are not deployed in polls to elect the President and Vice President of India, members of Rajya Sabha, and members of state legislative c

Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Amendment Bill will be the first legislative business of the BJP president in parliament after his election to the lower house and cabinet appointment following the party's decisive win in national polls last month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called his party's manifesto or Sankalp patra, a document promising good governance, security and prosperity of the country. BJP chief Amit Shah in his introductory message claimed that India is a "maha-shakti" now. During the period between 2004 and 2014, when UPA was in power, India had "slipped in the eyes of the wor...

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launchedhis 2019 election campaign from the same tribal Lal Dungri village in Gujarat's Valsad district where his grandmother Indira Gandhi in 1980, his father Rajiv Gandhi in 1984 and his mother Sonia Gandhi in 2004 started and romped home to power.

Veteran actor Moushumi Chatterjee joined the ruling BJP today, months before the national election due by May. In 2004, she had contested the national election as a Congress candidate in Bengal.

Then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee sensed defeat by the end of the campaign in the 2004 Lok Sabha polls which the party had forced him to advance, says his long-time aide Shiv Kumar Pareek, recognisable to everyone by his handlebar moustache.

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu declared himself a "born Congressman" after formally joining the party following weeks of negotiations ahead of the Punjab election next month. He is set to contest the February 4 Punjab assembly polls from Amritsar East, a part of the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency that he represented from 2004 to 20...

Delhi State Election Commission today told a court in Delhi that the original affidavits and some other documents, filed by candidates who had contested 2004 Lok Sabha poll from Chandni Chowk, including Union Minister Smriti Irani and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, were "not traceable".

Delhi State Election Commission today told a Delhi court that the original affidavits and some other documents, filed by candidates who had contested 2004 Lok Sabha poll from Chandni Chowk, including Union Minister Smriti Irani and senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal, were "not traceable".

Arun Jaitley is a key strategist, having steered the BJP's campaign successfully in difficult states such as Gujarat (2002 and 2007), Madhya Pradesh (2003), Bihar (2005), Karnataka (2004 and 2008) and Punjab (2007 and 2012). And now he forays into electoral politics by entering the race for the Lok Sabha polls from Amritsar.

With 22.63 lakh voters, Ghaziabad is the second largest Lok Sabha constituency after Malkajgiri in Andhra Pradesh. The constituency has a fair sprinkling of Rajputs, Brahmins, Baniyas and Jats, and, with the exception of 2004, has voted for the BJP since 1991.