Politics

The BJP won all the seven seats in Delhi routing both the Congress and the AAP in the Lok Sabha elections.

With rahul Gandhi remaining adamant, a presidium system to govern the party is being considered, wherein a group of senior leaders will run the show.

There is a view within the BJP that Shah may join the government after playing a crucial role in the party's return to power with an unprecedented majority.

In the letter, Jakhar mentioned that despite the support of party's senior leadership, including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Amarinder Singh, he could not retain the seat.

Gautam Gambhir's comments however did not go down well among a few of his partymen in Delhi who said the words of the cricketer-turned-politician may be used against the BJP by the opposition parties.

Hundreds of SKM supporters who were at the stadium cheered the 51-year-old party chief when he was taking the oath in Nepali la

The meeting comes in the backdrop of the rout of the Congress-JD(S) alliance in the Lok Sabha polls and simmering discontent within the party.

What makes their victories more noteworthy is that many scions of politicians in the North and one in Karnataka bit the dust, chief among them being former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's son and Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who lost from the party's ba...

During campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls, Delhi Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia had alleged Gambhir was using a "duplicate" to campaign for him in order to avoid the heat.

The BJP candidate, who defeated Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in his family bastion, said that preparation for the 2019 race started all the way back in 2014.

Mallikarjun Kharge has tasted his first electoral defeat in his fiefdom Gulbarga. He never lost an election till May 23 and in the past, had won nine assembly and two Lok Sabha elections in a row.

As several studies suggest, Muslims do not vote en bloc in favour of one party or candidate. So the argument of Hindu consolidation propelling BJP's success in Muslim majority seats seems to hold substance.

Patnaik, who led the party to a thumping victory for the fifth time in a row, will meet the newly-elected MPs and MLAs on Sunday, BJD spokesman Sasmit Patra said.

Paswan said he had predicted his ministerial colleague Smriti Irani's victory from Amethi against Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

Irani proved herself to be a giant-killer as she dethroned Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Amethi by a margin of 55,120 votes, while controversial BJP candidate from Bhopal and Malegaon blast accused Pragya Thakur defeated Congress' bigwig Digvijay Singh t...

The Punjab Forest Minister also hit out at the cricketer-turned-politician, asking him to quit if he could not work with the Chief Minister.