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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.
Rahul Gandhi’s UK Visit Clouded as Parliament Event Changes Hosts
Congress president Rahul Gandhi is due to make a two-day visit to the UK next week, but the trip has been overshadowed by a change of hosts for one of his planned speaking events in the Houses of Parliament complex in London. The Parliament event Gandhi is to arrive in London from Germany on August 24. He was originally to speak at an event organised by CF India (Conservative Friends of India), a membership body promoting ties between India and the UK’s ruling Conservative Party. The event will now beRead More
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: The Unhurried Orator With a Sting in the Tail
A personal column on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee remembered him above all as a man who never seemed to be in a rush, whether strolling through the corridors of Parliament, greeting admirers, or walking slowly to the microphone at an election meeting in a small town in north India. Speeches with a twist The writer recalled going, as a 15-year-old, to Shahid Minar in Kolkata to hear Vajpayee address a Jana Sangh meeting, only to leave disappointed when he arrived late. At the time, Vajpayee was seeking volunteersRead More
EC Rules Out Clubbing 2018 Assembly Polls With 2019 Lok Sabha Election
The Election Commission has decided to follow the law and established practice and conduct the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Mizoram assembly polls as one round, finishing before mid-December, when the Mizoram assembly’s term runs out. The decision all but ends suggestions from some political quarters that these polls be merged with the Lok Sabha election due in April-May next year. Room for Maharashtra and Haryana BJP president Amit Shah’s letter to the Law Commission in favour of simultaneous polls is now seen mainly as a way to keep theRead More
BJP Wants Polls in 11 States Held With 2019 Lok Sabha Election, Say Sources
The Centre is keen to hold assembly elections in 11 states at the same time as the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to sources in the Bharatiya Janata Party, who said no constitutional amendment would be required. The plan According to the sources, the party was examining whether some state elections could be pushed back by a few months and others brought forward so that all of them coincide with the Lok Sabha election. The reports came hours after BJP president Amit Shah wrote to the Law Commission on MondayRead More
AAP Plans to Contest Around 100 Seats in 2019, Focusing on Delhi, Haryana, Punjab
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) intends to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha election in a more targeted way, putting up candidates in about 100 seats and concentrating mainly on Punjab, Haryana and Delhi in north India. In the 2014 general election the party fielded more than 400 candidates nationwide but won only four seats, all in Punjab. Where the party will contest AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, who is in charge of the party’s units in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, said the party saw no sense in contesting everywhere.Read More
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