Lok Sabha Elections. Elections 2014

The BJP is set to form governments in Maharashtra and Haryana in the first round of assembly elections following its landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections. In Maharashtra, it got majority with ally Shiv Sena, though falling short of the score in the 2014 election. Haryana delivered a split verdict, where the BJP was the single largest party....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "India's wins yet again" after the BJP's massive victory in the national election.

Backed by exit poll predictions, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav today said that his party will surprise political analysts with a performance in West Bengal similar to that of Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The ruling BJP will form a government comfortably, as it did in 2014, predicted the poll of exit polls yesterday, after the completion of the final phase of elections. The poll of polls, an aggregate of the exit polls, said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance or NDA, will win 302 of 542 Lok Sabha seats.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi came as "Ganga's son" in 2014 but will go as an "agent in Rafale" after the ongoing elections.

Enforcement agencies have so far seized cash, liquor, drugs, gold and other contraband worth Rs 2,500 crore with voting underway for the Lok Sabha elections, already double the value of goods seized in the entire 2014 elections.

With names of several candidates being declared on Friday, the most interesting battles in Mumbai are shaping up as contests that will pitch the same candidates as in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The key factors of caste and religion are likely to have a multiplier effect in Uttar Pradesh, with a divided opposition ranged against the ruling BJP, indicates data from last elections. It is very likely that a split in these votes may play into the hands of the BJP.

The BJP in Karnataka has won more than half of the state's 28 Lok Sabha seats in the last three general elections. In 2014, the party won 17 and this time round, state party president and former chief minister, BS Yeddyurappa, saidthat the BJP will do even better.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Samajwadi Party today named three women -- including party chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav -- in its list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The 41-year-old will contest from Kannauj, a constituency from which she had already been elected in the 2012 bypolls and the 2014 genera...

The Samajwadi Party has released its first list of six candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest from Mainpuri. In 2014, Mulayam Singh fought from both Mainpuri and Azamgarh, but chose to retain the latter. The Mainpuri seat was then won by Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, a member of the Yadav family.

BJP president Amit Shah Thursday announced that his party and its old ally the Akali Dal will fight the Lok Sabha polls together and contest on the same number of seats in Punjab as in the 2014 general elections.

Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday that he had offered his resignation as a member of parliament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the BJP's win in 2014 as he had said that he would quit if PM Modi gets more than 276 seats in the elections.

Activist Anna Hazare said on Monday that he was "used by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)" to win the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his promise of providing employment to 2 crore youths during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP is set to form governments in Maharashtra and Haryana in the first round of assembly elections following its landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections. In Maharashtra, it got majority with ally Shiv Sena, though falling short of the score in the 2014 election. Haryana delivered a split verdict, where the BJP was the single largest party....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "India's wins yet again" after the BJP's massive victory in the national election.

Backed by exit poll predictions, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav today said that his party will surprise political analysts with a performance in West Bengal similar to that of Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The ruling BJP will form a government comfortably, as it did in 2014, predicted the poll of exit polls yesterday, after the completion of the final phase of elections. The poll of polls, an aggregate of the exit polls, said the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance or NDA, will win 302 of 542 Lok Sabha seats.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi came as "Ganga's son" in 2014 but will go as an "agent in Rafale" after the ongoing elections.

Enforcement agencies have so far seized cash, liquor, drugs, gold and other contraband worth Rs 2,500 crore with voting underway for the Lok Sabha elections, already double the value of goods seized in the entire 2014 elections.

With names of several candidates being declared on Friday, the most interesting battles in Mumbai are shaping up as contests that will pitch the same candidates as in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The key factors of caste and religion are likely to have a multiplier effect in Uttar Pradesh, with a divided opposition ranged against the ruling BJP, indicates data from last elections. It is very likely that a split in these votes may play into the hands of the BJP.

The BJP in Karnataka has won more than half of the state's 28 Lok Sabha seats in the last three general elections. In 2014, the party won 17 and this time round, state party president and former chief minister, BS Yeddyurappa, saidthat the BJP will do even better.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Samajwadi Party today named three women -- including party chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav -- in its list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The 41-year-old will contest from Kannauj, a constituency from which she had already been elected in the 2012 bypolls and the 2014 genera...

The Samajwadi Party has released its first list of six candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest from Mainpuri. In 2014, Mulayam Singh fought from both Mainpuri and Azamgarh, but chose to retain the latter. The Mainpuri seat was then won by Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, a member of the Yadav family.

BJP president Amit Shah Thursday announced that his party and its old ally the Akali Dal will fight the Lok Sabha polls together and contest on the same number of seats in Punjab as in the 2014 general elections.

Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday that he had offered his resignation as a member of parliament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the BJP's win in 2014 as he had said that he would quit if PM Modi gets more than 276 seats in the elections.

Activist Anna Hazare said on Monday that he was "used by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)" to win the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his promise of providing employment to 2 crore youths during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.