How Modi Won India

There are 15 instances of sitting Prime Ministers contesting elections: they won on 14 occasions and only one sitting Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, lost her seat, Raebareli, in 1977.

Lok Sabha election results: Mayawati's BSP contested 79 seats in UP election and won zero, but a 9.3 per cent vote share, if it had allied with the opposition, could have created more instability in the widely-expected incoming BJP-led NDA government

The Election Commission of India has declared results for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 seats and the Congress 99.

Exclusive excerpt from '2019: How Modi Won India' by Rajdeep Sardesai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday won an outsized mandate for a second term in office, with his BJP scoring an absolute majority covering large swathes of the country. The BJP has won 300 seats in declared results and is leading in three more in the 543-member Lok Sabha, surpassing its 2014 victory and leaving a shell-shocked opposition stru...

Given how dissident BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha has been criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, it seems reasonably clear that the party will not give him a ticket in the Lok Sabha elections next year. The suspense still remains on whether any other party will field him from Patna Sahib, the seat he won from in 2009...

A day after he took oath as Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar sailed through a trust vote today, with 131 legislators supporting him in the 243-member Bihar Assembly. 108 voted against him. The vote and a discussion before it were held amid protests and slogan shouting by Lalu Yadav's RJD, now the chief opposition party. In a short speech, Nitish Kumar ...

Delhi's mandate for his party in the civic elections last week is the nation's mandate, BJP chief Amit Shah said on Tuesday, saying the massive win is another stamp of approval for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's work at the Centre.

The campaign against the Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs will continue, no matter what anyone says, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party declared today in face of BJP jibes. The ruling party of Delhi, which made its debut in the civic elections two years after its massive sweep in Assembly polls, came a poor second.

Here’s all you need to know about PM Narendra Modi’s Lucky Grahak and Digi Dhan schemes, and steps to find out if you have won.

In a tiny, second floor office at the bustling New Delhi headquarters of India's ruling political party, Vijay Chauthaiwale plots how Prime Minister Narendra Modi can sell India to a diaspora greater in number than Australia's population.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked his party's lawmakers to reach out to the public to explain how his sudden decision to cancel 500 and 1,000-rupee notes will help the country.

On his journey to Olympic qualification, Kidambi Srikanth struggled to cross the opening round of the tournaments that he played, especially this year after he won the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold in January

It took two months of courting, dozens of negotiators and final talks that ran into the early hours, but Maharashtra secured its prize: a $5 billion investment commitment from iPhone maker Foxconn.

Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, has finally won public endorsement from party patriarch LK Advani, who has openly disagreed with him for months.

There are 15 instances of sitting Prime Ministers contesting elections: they won on 14 occasions and only one sitting Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, lost her seat, Raebareli, in 1977.

Lok Sabha election results: Mayawati's BSP contested 79 seats in UP election and won zero, but a 9.3 per cent vote share, if it had allied with the opposition, could have created more instability in the widely-expected incoming BJP-led NDA government

The Election Commission of India has declared results for 542 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies, with the BJP winning 240 seats and the Congress 99.

Exclusive excerpt from '2019: How Modi Won India' by Rajdeep Sardesai

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday won an outsized mandate for a second term in office, with his BJP scoring an absolute majority covering large swathes of the country. The BJP has won 300 seats in declared results and is leading in three more in the 543-member Lok Sabha, surpassing its 2014 victory and leaving a shell-shocked opposition stru...

Given how dissident BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha has been criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, it seems reasonably clear that the party will not give him a ticket in the Lok Sabha elections next year. The suspense still remains on whether any other party will field him from Patna Sahib, the seat he won from in 2009...

A day after he took oath as Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar sailed through a trust vote today, with 131 legislators supporting him in the 243-member Bihar Assembly. 108 voted against him. The vote and a discussion before it were held amid protests and slogan shouting by Lalu Yadav's RJD, now the chief opposition party. In a short speech, Nitish Kumar ...

Delhi's mandate for his party in the civic elections last week is the nation's mandate, BJP chief Amit Shah said on Tuesday, saying the massive win is another stamp of approval for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's work at the Centre.

The campaign against the Electronic Voting Machines or EVMs will continue, no matter what anyone says, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party declared today in face of BJP jibes. The ruling party of Delhi, which made its debut in the civic elections two years after its massive sweep in Assembly polls, came a poor second.

Here’s all you need to know about PM Narendra Modi’s Lucky Grahak and Digi Dhan schemes, and steps to find out if you have won.

In a tiny, second floor office at the bustling New Delhi headquarters of India's ruling political party, Vijay Chauthaiwale plots how Prime Minister Narendra Modi can sell India to a diaspora greater in number than Australia's population.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked his party's lawmakers to reach out to the public to explain how his sudden decision to cancel 500 and 1,000-rupee notes will help the country.

On his journey to Olympic qualification, Kidambi Srikanth struggled to cross the opening round of the tournaments that he played, especially this year after he won the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold in January

It took two months of courting, dozens of negotiators and final talks that ran into the early hours, but Maharashtra secured its prize: a $5 billion investment commitment from iPhone maker Foxconn.

Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, has finally won public endorsement from party patriarch LK Advani, who has openly disagreed with him for months.