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In a major blow to the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party was trounced in the bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats, including the citadel of Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Though the BJP claims that by-elections do not reflect the mood of the country, ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took over, the party has lost nearly nine seats in Lok Sabha by-polls, slashing its tally from 282 to around 272 - the half-way mark in...

Official nominees of major parties were elected unopposed in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttarakhand.

Giriraj Singh's controversial remarks invited strong comments from opposition parties, with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav saying the BJP should withdraw support from Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar if it did not believe in his leadership.

In contrast, the Congress has won five of these bypoll battles — more than any other party. The Trinamool Congress, however, has the best strike rate.

The dinner takes place in the backdrop of the stupendous wins by the BJP in Tripura and having managed to form alliance governments in Meghalaya, where Congress was the single largest party, and Nagaland.

Apart from the RJD, the BJP has announced the name of Union Minister for Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad as its candidate for the RS poll, whereas the JD(U), the BJP's ally, has not named its candidates for two seats.

Nitin Gadkari remarks came a day after the Congress accused the Narendra Modi government of "compromising" on national security and causing a loss of Rs 12,632 crore to the state exchequer on account of purchase of 36 Rafale jets under the inter-governmen...

Ateeq Ahmed is said to have a good hold on the Muslims votes in north and south Allahabad and can cause a considerable dent to the Muslim votes in Phulpur which can be a cause of worry for the SP candidate, who is being supported by the BSP and other regi...

Apart from Pawar, other regional leaders to float the idea of anti-BJP front include Telangana Chief Minister K Chadrashekhar Rao. UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is also hosting a dinner for opposition leaders in Delhi next week.

Holding an emergency press briefing, Naidu said that Arun Jaitley’s statement was the last straw.

Declaring the party's intent to "eliminate the BJP", BSP's Allahabad coordinator Ashok Gautam and Gorakhpur zonal coordinator of the party, Ghanshyam Chandra Kharwar, had said that the BSP would back SP's Nagendra Singh Patel in Phulpur and Praveen Kumar...

A row had erupted in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday over Raja's remarks indicating that statues of Periyar could be pulled down next after a Lenin statue was razed in Tripura following the BJP's victory there.

Rajeev Shukla was visiting Patna recently, but kept it under wraps and chose to avoid any media interaction. Party insiders told News18 that in all likelihood, he would be Congress’ Rajya Sabha candidate from Bihar.

The Facebook post was in reference to the incident in South Tripura where alleged BJP supporters used a JCB to bring down a statue of communist revolutionary Lenin, two days after the party won the assembly elections in the state.

“All these rumours about me being a Rajya Sabha candidate are false. Some people are spreading these rumours just to increase their TRP,” Mayawati’s brother Anand Kumar, who is also the party’s vice-president, said.