- Friday, April 04, 2025
ATTACKING the Congress and other opposition parties for raising concerns about EVMs, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday (22) said they want to “discredit” democracy as they are unable to digest “defeat of the dynasty”. The minority affairs minister said the “glamour of victory and grace in defeat”…
KARNATAKA state chief minister, Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy has cancelled his scheduled visit to Delhi Tuesday (21), where he was expected to take part in a meeting of opposition leaders over the issue of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), official sources said. "The proposed visit of the chief…
South India’s regional political party, AIADMK Tuesday (21) instructed its counting agents to remain vigilant over archrival DMK's "dishonest practices" during the counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections and assembly by-polls and asked them to ensure all standard procedures were followed. AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam and joint…
TOP opposition leaders will meet in the national capital Tuesday (21) to discuss the possibility of a non-NDA alliance staking claim to government formation and also move the Election Commission to press for their demand of tallying paper trail of votes (VVPATs) with electronic voting machine (EVM) figures. According to…
DELHI chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal talked to Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav over phone on Tuesday (21) to discuss the strategy to be followed after the announcement of the Lok Sabha poll results on Thursday (23). Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh told reporters…
INDIA'S main opposition Congress party has told its workers not to lose heart and to remain vigilant at vote-count centres after exit polls predicted a clear election victory for prime minister Narendra Modi. The counting of votes cast in the seven-phase general election will take place on Thursday (23), with…
BSP president Mayawati termed the BSP-SP-RLD alliance a combine of ideas and said it will not sit silent till the Yogi Adityanath government in the state and the Narendra Modi government in the Centre were uprooted. "Unlike the Bharatiya Janata Party, this alliance is that of ideas and it will…
FACING severe backlash over his recent Hindu extremist remarks, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan last week claimed that the very term 'Hindu' was not a native description, but only a foreign coinage. Neither the Alwars nor the Nayanmars, the famed Vaishnavite and Shaivite saints, had made any note…
EXIT polls painted a grim picture for the Congress but party workers remain unfazed, asserting that the results on May 23 would not be onesided as shown projected, and their party would perform better. Most exit polls Sunday (19) forecast another term for prime minister Narendra Modi, with some of…
EMERGING market stocks and currencies rose on Monday (20), with Indian assets cheering exit polls suggesting a victory for the ruling party in general elections, while the intensifying Sino-US trade war kept the pressure on Chinese equities. Rebounding from last week's declines, MSCI's index of emerging market currencies and shares was…
