Mp Assembly Elections

Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections: EC replaces 250 faulty EVMs across state; malfunctioning VVPATs affect voting in many booths

Instances of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) malfunctioning or developing technical snags have been reported from several polling booths in Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls: Narendra Modi's 1998 experiments in social engineering might save day for BJP

Modi encouraged a new breed of leadership and goaded the organisaton into expanding its arc of influence to the scheduled castes and tribals whom he regarded as low-hanging fruits. His efforts met with strong resistance from within the BJP’s state leadership.