Bjp Votebank

West Bengal BJP chief on Friday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into violence in Howrah during Ram Navami celebrations.

With an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the ruling BJP is planning to hold conferences in various parliamentary constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh starting from Muzffarnagar next month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday tied the bill to ban Triple Talaq to women's empowerment and said the Congress, which missed the bus twice to bring about gender equality, should not be an impediment.

The Rampur constituency in western Uttar Pradesh has been in the headlines over the last weeks for the war of words between its two contenders - Samajwadi Party's Azan Khan and the BJP's Jaya Prada.

Nitish Kumar's decision to vote against the instant Triple Talaq bill, should it come up for passing in the Rajya Sabha, has drawn fire from ally BJP. While the party's central leaders are silent, its Rajya Sabha member and leader from Bihar, CP Thakur, made a jibe within hours of the JD(U) announcement.

In Rajasthan's Ajmer today for the grand finale of Vasuyndhara Raje's 'Gaurav Yatra', Prime Minister Narendra Modi ripped into the Congress, accusing the party of indulging in votebank politics and appealing the people to give Vasundhara Raje a second term in power. Rajasthan has lately followed the trend in southern states like Kerala and Tamil Na...

At a rally in central Kolkata, BJP chief Amit Shah's message and target were clear. "We are here to uproot Mamata Banerjee," he said right at the beginning of his speech that ripped into the Bengal Chief Minister for trying to stop the citizens' list in Assam.

With the Congress aggressively wooing the Patel vote bank, Gujarat's ruling BJP is likely to focus on winning over the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) ahead of next month's elections in the state, say party leaders.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal has ruled out any post-poll alliance with the BJP, enthused by reports that their traditional votebank in western Uttar Pradesh, the Jats, are angry with the BJP and may return to fold. The Jat support had swung to the BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha elections following the Muzzaffarnagar riots, and the RLD - which had won 9 seats in 20...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invoked Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay to say Muslims should not be treated as a votebank. Rather they should be considered "your own" and be "empowered".

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today alleged that the 'Grand Alliance' was hatching a conspiracy to take away five per cent reservation quota of the OBCs and give it to minorities to further its votebank politics.

The coming assembly election appears to have split Delhi down the economic lines - with one section supporting the BJP and the other, the Aam Aadmi Party.

Taking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee head on, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today accused her of playing votebank politics and said no real 'parivartan' (change) has taken place in the state during TMC rule.

With a strong eye on backward votes, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today fielded Uma Bharati from the Charkari assembly seat in Bundelkhand in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

It's the battle to capture a votebank, that comprises 16 percent of Bihar 's total population. With Assembly elections in the state starting in four days, politicians are going all out to try and win over Bihar's sizeable Muslim population."People should be wary of forces that try to divide society, and should also be wary of those who side with th...

West Bengal BJP chief on Friday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into violence in Howrah during Ram Navami celebrations.

With an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the ruling BJP is planning to hold conferences in various parliamentary constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh starting from Muzffarnagar next month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday tied the bill to ban Triple Talaq to women's empowerment and said the Congress, which missed the bus twice to bring about gender equality, should not be an impediment.

The Rampur constituency in western Uttar Pradesh has been in the headlines over the last weeks for the war of words between its two contenders - Samajwadi Party's Azan Khan and the BJP's Jaya Prada.

Nitish Kumar's decision to vote against the instant Triple Talaq bill, should it come up for passing in the Rajya Sabha, has drawn fire from ally BJP. While the party's central leaders are silent, its Rajya Sabha member and leader from Bihar, CP Thakur, made a jibe within hours of the JD(U) announcement.

In Rajasthan's Ajmer today for the grand finale of Vasuyndhara Raje's 'Gaurav Yatra', Prime Minister Narendra Modi ripped into the Congress, accusing the party of indulging in votebank politics and appealing the people to give Vasundhara Raje a second term in power. Rajasthan has lately followed the trend in southern states like Kerala and Tamil Na...

At a rally in central Kolkata, BJP chief Amit Shah's message and target were clear. "We are here to uproot Mamata Banerjee," he said right at the beginning of his speech that ripped into the Bengal Chief Minister for trying to stop the citizens' list in Assam.

With the Congress aggressively wooing the Patel vote bank, Gujarat's ruling BJP is likely to focus on winning over the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) ahead of next month's elections in the state, say party leaders.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal has ruled out any post-poll alliance with the BJP, enthused by reports that their traditional votebank in western Uttar Pradesh, the Jats, are angry with the BJP and may return to fold. The Jat support had swung to the BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha elections following the Muzzaffarnagar riots, and the RLD - which had won 9 seats in 20...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday invoked Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay to say Muslims should not be treated as a votebank. Rather they should be considered "your own" and be "empowered".

BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today alleged that the 'Grand Alliance' was hatching a conspiracy to take away five per cent reservation quota of the OBCs and give it to minorities to further its votebank politics.

The coming assembly election appears to have split Delhi down the economic lines - with one section supporting the BJP and the other, the Aam Aadmi Party.

Taking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee head on, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today accused her of playing votebank politics and said no real 'parivartan' (change) has taken place in the state during TMC rule.

With a strong eye on backward votes, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today fielded Uma Bharati from the Charkari assembly seat in Bundelkhand in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

It's the battle to capture a votebank, that comprises 16 percent of Bihar 's total population. With Assembly elections in the state starting in four days, politicians are going all out to try and win over Bihar's sizeable Muslim population."People should be wary of forces that try to divide society, and should also be wary of those who side with th...