Election News
36 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Election News”, published between May 2018 and March 2026. They are filed mainly under BJP, Congress, Aam Aadmy Party. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Rahul Gandhi Turns to Big Data and Project Shakti to Take On Modi in 2019
Congress president Rahul Gandhi is relying on big data to strengthen his party’s weak booth-level organisation ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. In February he was shown an analysis suggesting that better management of polling booths alone could have raised the party’s vote share by 4%, and lifted its 2014 tally of 44 seats to at least 90. What Project Shakti is Gandhi then set up a team of data analysts led by political economist Praveen Chakravarty, which became the AICC’s Data Analytics Department. It created “Project Shakti”, anRead 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
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Poll Offers a Glimpse of 2019 Alignments
The election for the post of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman has given an early picture of where parties may stand in the 2019 general election, according to an analysis. It argued that the BJP used the contest to reassure cautious allies and to test how united the opposition really was. Why the BJP backed a JD(U) nominee The BJP chose to support Harivansh, the nominee of Nitish Kumar’s JD(U). The analysis said this was meant to soothe smaller partners who have worked under a dominant BJP, and described the moveRead More
NaMo App Poll on NRC Raises Questions About the App’s Purpose
A question about the National Register of Citizens (NRC) that appeared on the Narendra Modi Mobile App, popularly known as the NaMo App, has prompted questions over whether the app is being used to gauge public opinion on live political issues. On Friday, users of the app were asked whether they thought opposition parties were politicising the NRC at the cost of national security. The question and the app The NRC exercise in Assam has dominated political debate across much of the country, and the issue has now reached theRead More
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