Election Campaign 2019

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.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi will hold a rally in Karnataka, where state elections begin on May 10. The April 5 rally will be held in Kolar, the place where Mr Gandhi made the comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname.

BJP President JP Nadda and Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee campaigned, over the weekend, in several areas of West Bengal for the upcoming panchayat polls in the state.

Ahead of the November 2019 election, Sri Lankan presidential challenger Gotabaya Rajapaksa proposed sweeping tax cuts so reckless the incumbent government thought it must be a campaign gimmick.

With a little over three weeks for the first (of a record eight) phase of the Bengal election, the BJP sent UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to campaign in Malda - a former Congress stronghold where the BJP made inroads in 2019

If the Congress is to be believed, the signature Assam gamosa holds good portends for itself in the upcoming assembly polls. The state's main opposition party has, in the past week alone, collected at least a lakh pieces of the traditional clothing, whose name means 'cloth to wipe/dust one's body'. Handed over by those opposed to the Citizen...

For the second time in as many days Prime Minister Narendra Modi - in Bihar to campaign for the NDA - eschewed questions of development posed by the opposition to attack them over their stand on the 2019 Pulwama attack

Iranian hackers suspected of emailing threatening messages to US voters last week and spreading false information about compromised election systems ran a disinformation campaign last year targeting the Middle East, Facebook said on Tuesday.

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...

Congress's Priyanka Gandhi today launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi while campaigning in Jharkhand, questioning whether he was the Prime Minister of the "nation or partition". PM Modi's government, she said, has worked against the interest of the tribals.

A record number of women were elected as lawmakers in Britain's general election, with women's rights campaigners on Friday cheering the result but saying progress towards equal representation must speed up.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday promised to waive farm loan up to Rs 2 lakh and procure paddy at Rs 2,500 MSP if the opposition alliance came to power in Jharkhand like in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

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.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi will hold a rally in Karnataka, where state elections begin on May 10. The April 5 rally will be held in Kolar, the place where Mr Gandhi made the comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname.

BJP President JP Nadda and Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee campaigned, over the weekend, in several areas of West Bengal for the upcoming panchayat polls in the state.

Ahead of the November 2019 election, Sri Lankan presidential challenger Gotabaya Rajapaksa proposed sweeping tax cuts so reckless the incumbent government thought it must be a campaign gimmick.

With a little over three weeks for the first (of a record eight) phase of the Bengal election, the BJP sent UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to campaign in Malda - a former Congress stronghold where the BJP made inroads in 2019

If the Congress is to be believed, the signature Assam gamosa holds good portends for itself in the upcoming assembly polls. The state's main opposition party has, in the past week alone, collected at least a lakh pieces of the traditional clothing, whose name means 'cloth to wipe/dust one's body'. Handed over by those opposed to the Citizen...

For the second time in as many days Prime Minister Narendra Modi - in Bihar to campaign for the NDA - eschewed questions of development posed by the opposition to attack them over their stand on the 2019 Pulwama attack

Iranian hackers suspected of emailing threatening messages to US voters last week and spreading false information about compromised election systems ran a disinformation campaign last year targeting the Middle East, Facebook said on Tuesday.

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...

Congress's Priyanka Gandhi today launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi while campaigning in Jharkhand, questioning whether he was the Prime Minister of the "nation or partition". PM Modi's government, she said, has worked against the interest of the tribals.

A record number of women were elected as lawmakers in Britain's general election, with women's rights campaigners on Friday cheering the result but saying progress towards equal representation must speed up.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday promised to waive farm loan up to Rs 2 lakh and procure paddy at Rs 2,500 MSP if the opposition alliance came to power in Jharkhand like in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.