Elections 2019

India Inked: History’s Biggest Election review — An important documentary overloaded with data

India Inked: History’s Biggest Election is the record of an important milestone of the country’s history and a celebration of India’s passionate spirit of democracy.

SP-BSP gathbandhan on ventilator due to development work of BJP govt at Centre, state, says UP deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

With fissures apparently appearing in the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma Monday said the 'gathbandhan' (of SP-BSP) is today "taking its last breath, and is on ventilator"

BJP leader Queen Oja, who won Gauhati seat, hopes her victory will inspire more women from Assam Movement to join politics

BJP leader Queen Oja, the only woman politician to win the Lok Sabha polls 2019 from Assam, says that her victory would inspire women workers of the Assam Movement to participate in the socio-political change of India

Mamata Banerjee reshuffles West Bengal cabinet after LS poll drubbing; Suvendu Adhikary, Bratya Basu get additional portfolios

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee made major changes in her cabinet on Tuesday following the drubbing her party, Trinamool Congress, received in the Lok Sabha elections

Rahul Gandhi best person to lead Congress, too premature to write GOP's obituary, says Shashi Tharoor

Rahul Gandhi is the best person to pull the Congress out of its predicament following the setback in the Lok Sabha polls, says party leader Shashi Tharoor while declaring that his party is "alive and kicking" and it is too premature to write its obituary

Narendra Modi, new ministers to be sworn-in on 30 May: PM-led Council of Ministers advises President, accountable to Lok Sabha

India will get a new Council of Ministers led by Modi on 30 May, when President Ram Nath Kovind administers them the oath of office and secrecy at Rashtrapati Bhavan

BJP workers killed in West Bengal for their ideology, says Narendra Modi in Varanasi; TMC calls allegation baseless

Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi Monday alleged that BJP workers in West Bengal were being killed only for their political ideology, a charge dismissed as baseless by the ruling Trinamool Congress

In Varanasi speech, PM-elect Narendra Modi sets agenda for new India, need to take along modern vision and legacy together

In his Varanasi speech, Narendra Modi, while pointing out that he is proud of the Indian tradition and 'not embarrassed about it like others' said that he wants India to take along both its 'great legacy' and'modern vision' together

Missing the Mood for the Breeze

The media missed the Modi juggernaut that wasn’t even trying to hide in plain sight, and looked for results in the wrong place—the corridors of the national capital. All exit polls, however, got the direction right: Modi was coming back

Lessons for our Liberals

Narendra Modi’s thumping victory shows that the traditional forces of liberalism and the Left are facing annihilation. Liberals need to develop a new language of politics to stay relevant