2019 Lok Sabha Election Campaign

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a new record in the 75-day campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, which began when the EC announced the poll schedule on March 16 and ended today as the silence period set in for the last phase of voting on June 1.

Polling in five constituencies in Bihar in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections passed off peacefully, with a provisional voter turnout of 60 per cent, almost one per cent less than that of the 2019 general elections, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted that he went to people with hope in 2014, trust in 2019 and guarantee in 2024.

Two days after the virtual rally of July 21, where she kicked off the campaign for West Bengal Assembly elections due next year, Mamata Banerjee on Thursday made a series of structural changes in her party's organisation to take on her main political rival, the BJP, that made significant inroads into the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections and co...

A team of "specialists" from universities like Oxford and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a creative social media campaign and a complete change of strategy helped script Hemant Soren's remarkable turnaround in Jharkhand after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's Lok Sabha debacle earlier this year. A 10-point agenda was prepared and executed ove...

Maharashtra Elections 2019: More than five months after he quit the Congress chief's post, Rahul Gandhi made his first public appearance at Maharashtra's Latur and attacked the government on the state of the economy.

The Congress is facing revolt from two key members in Maharashtra and Haryana - states that are having assembly elections in less than three weeks. In both states, the party was voted out in 2014 and failed to register its presence in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. The factionalism, which was one of the causes of the defeat, did not aba...

Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, announced today by the Election Commission for October 21, will be the first in the country since Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP to success in Lok Sabha polls in May. Nearly 11 crore people will vote across the two states in an election that is also the first since PM Modi's government pushed...

Rahul Gandhi refused to meet anyone for the second day in a row, making it clear that he would not reconsider his decision to quit as Congress president over the party's national election rout. Several Congress leaders went to Rahul Gandhi's home this morning but reportedly could meet only his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Ashok Gehlot and Sachin P...

The AAP Saturday took a dig at newly-elected East Delhi Lok Sabha lawmaker Gautam Gambhir, saying he should meet people on the dusty roads and not "cheat them" by sending his duplicate as he did during the campaigning period.

The top leadership body of the Congress will meet shortly to discuss what went down for the party in the national election after the National Democratic Alliance, powered by the pan-India campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, won over 350 seats in the 542 Lok Sabha constituencies that went to polls.

Cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir speaks with NDTV after his remarkable election victory in Delhi. Mr Gambhir speaks about his campaign, about allegations made against him by the Aam Aadmi Party, and what his plans are for Delhi. He also has a message for AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress president Rahul Gandhi faced one of his worst days in politics yesterday. Besides running a disastrous campaign that left his party in tatters across the country, Rahul Gandhi could not even retain his own constituency Amethi, a family stronghold that he had won effortlessly since 2004.

Rahul Gandhi, who has led the Congress to its second straight landslide defeat in the national election, is expected to offer his resignation when the party's top leadership meets on Saturday for a detailed autopsy. The Congress has failed to touch three digits and is unlikely to qualify for the post of Leader of Opposition this time too. Prime Min...

BJP leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today criticised the opposition for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "thief" during campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a new record in the 75-day campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, which began when the EC announced the poll schedule on March 16 and ended today as the silence period set in for the last phase of voting on June 1.

Polling in five constituencies in Bihar in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections passed off peacefully, with a provisional voter turnout of 60 per cent, almost one per cent less than that of the 2019 general elections, officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted that he went to people with hope in 2014, trust in 2019 and guarantee in 2024.

Two days after the virtual rally of July 21, where she kicked off the campaign for West Bengal Assembly elections due next year, Mamata Banerjee on Thursday made a series of structural changes in her party's organisation to take on her main political rival, the BJP, that made significant inroads into the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections and co...

A team of "specialists" from universities like Oxford and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), a creative social media campaign and a complete change of strategy helped script Hemant Soren's remarkable turnaround in Jharkhand after the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's Lok Sabha debacle earlier this year. A 10-point agenda was prepared and executed ove...

Maharashtra Elections 2019: More than five months after he quit the Congress chief's post, Rahul Gandhi made his first public appearance at Maharashtra's Latur and attacked the government on the state of the economy.

The Congress is facing revolt from two key members in Maharashtra and Haryana - states that are having assembly elections in less than three weeks. In both states, the party was voted out in 2014 and failed to register its presence in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year. The factionalism, which was one of the causes of the defeat, did not aba...

Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, announced today by the Election Commission for October 21, will be the first in the country since Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP to success in Lok Sabha polls in May. Nearly 11 crore people will vote across the two states in an election that is also the first since PM Modi's government pushed...

Rahul Gandhi refused to meet anyone for the second day in a row, making it clear that he would not reconsider his decision to quit as Congress president over the party's national election rout. Several Congress leaders went to Rahul Gandhi's home this morning but reportedly could meet only his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Ashok Gehlot and Sachin P...

The AAP Saturday took a dig at newly-elected East Delhi Lok Sabha lawmaker Gautam Gambhir, saying he should meet people on the dusty roads and not "cheat them" by sending his duplicate as he did during the campaigning period.

The top leadership body of the Congress will meet shortly to discuss what went down for the party in the national election after the National Democratic Alliance, powered by the pan-India campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, won over 350 seats in the 542 Lok Sabha constituencies that went to polls.

Cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir speaks with NDTV after his remarkable election victory in Delhi. Mr Gambhir speaks about his campaign, about allegations made against him by the Aam Aadmi Party, and what his plans are for Delhi. He also has a message for AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress president Rahul Gandhi faced one of his worst days in politics yesterday. Besides running a disastrous campaign that left his party in tatters across the country, Rahul Gandhi could not even retain his own constituency Amethi, a family stronghold that he had won effortlessly since 2004.

Rahul Gandhi, who has led the Congress to its second straight landslide defeat in the national election, is expected to offer his resignation when the party's top leadership meets on Saturday for a detailed autopsy. The Congress has failed to touch three digits and is unlikely to qualify for the post of Leader of Opposition this time too. Prime Min...

BJP leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today criticised the opposition for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "thief" during campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.