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168 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “BJP”, published between February 2018 and October 2019. They are filed mainly under BJP, Congress, news. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Rajasthan polls: BJP’s first list of 131 names has 25 new faces, Raje in Jhalrapatan
The Bharatiya Janata Party late on Sunday named 131 candidates in its first list for the Rajasthan assembly election, again fielding Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from Jhalrapatan, her usual seat. The names include 85 sitting MLAs and 25 new faces. How the list was finalised Senior leader JP Nadda read out the names after the party’s central election committee met, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah, other top leaders and Raje. The list was reportedly delayed by differences between Shah and Raje. Nadda told reporters that candidatesRead More
Why Uttar Pradesh matters so much to the BJP in 2019
A column argued that, for all the complexity of India’s general elections, the 2019 outcome would turn largely on one question: how the Bharatiya Janata Party performs in Uttar Pradesh. The answer, it said, would decide whether India got another BJP majority government, a BJP-led coalition without a majority, or a government of non-BJP parties. The weight of Uttar Pradesh The column noted that analysis of the 2019 contest involved many factors: leadership, alliances on both sides, regional fault-lines and caste dynamics in each constituency. But it said UP hadRead More
Congress looks for new chiefs in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal and Mumbai
The Congress has started looking for new heads for its Mumbai, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh units, according to a party functionary aware of the process. The aim is to end infighting in some units and give others a fresh start. The party is out of power in all these places, and the new chiefs’ first job would be to rebuild the organisation before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Delhi Delhi chief Ajay Maken, who went abroad last month for a medical check-up, has told the leadership it willRead More
Assembly elections 2018: full schedule for Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram are heading into assembly elections in late 2018, a round billed as a semi-final before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The contest pits the BJP against the opposition, and the key dates for each state are set out below. The political backdrop The BJP governs the three Hindi heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, having swept them last time in a campaign led by Narendra Modi, then Gujarat Chief Minister and the party’s prime ministerial candidate. In Mizoram, the Congress wonRead More
BJP units in MP and Rajasthan seek Yogi Adityanath as star campaigner
The BJP‘s units in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are keen for Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, to campaign in their states in the upcoming assembly elections, with the aim of consolidating Hindu votes, according to people familiar with the discussions. Demand for Adityanath Adityanath, who became UP Chief Minister last March and heads the Gorakhnath mutt, campaigned in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh in 2017 and in Karnataka in 2018. Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Rajneesh Agarwal said the central leadership would decide his schedule, but the state unit hopedRead More
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