The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena alliance was set to retain power for a second consecutive term after it secured 161 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, as per the Election Commission of India (ECI) figures of the results of 286 constituencies as at midnight, Thursday-Friday. ...
The Haryana Assembly poll verdict on Thursday threw up a hung House, with no party reaching the majority figure, in contrast to Maharashtra where the BJP-Shiv Sena combine secured a comfortable majority to retain power. In Haryana, the ruling BJP emerged as the single largest party by winning 40 ...
In the first democratic exercise in Jammu and Kashmir since its special status was abolished over two months back, elections were held on Thursday to Block Development Councils (BDCs), in which the Independents bagged 217 blocks while the BJP got only 81....
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena achieved a majority in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, winning 150 seats of the 260 results declared by the Election Commission till 9 p.m. on Thursday. ...
Notwithstanding reduced number of seats in the Assembly elections of Haryana and Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday lauded Chief Ministers Manohar Lal Khattar and Devendra Fadnavis and said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would continue to work with the same zeal....
Did the Jat voters' disenchantment spoil Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's Haryana game-plans? Experts believe the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had set its eyes on the Punjabi and the non-Jat voters, despite Jats, the land-owning class, accounting for 28 per cent of the population. ...
The Haryana Assembly poll verdict on Thursday threw up a hung House, with no party reaching the majority figures, in contrast to Maharashtra where the BJP-Shiv Sena combine was comfortably placed to retain power....
In probably an unprecedented instance in the nation's electoral history, Congress candidate Dhiraj V. Deshmukh won the Latur Rural constituency in Maharashtra, getting more votes than the 'None Of The Above' (NOTA) option, on Thursday....
In a sudden twist in early trends in the Haryana Assembly election results that threw up a close contest between the BJP and Congress, BJP president Amit Shah cancelled his prescheduled engagements, including an ITBP event that he was to attend in the capacity of the Home Minister....
The Congress on Thursday asserted that the mandate in the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections was against the BJP....
