Election 2019  

The 69-year-old Badruddin Ajmal, who wears many hats like politician, businessman, philanthropist, healer, scholar – his party has contested in only three seats in the state – Dhubri, Karimganj and Barpeta

Even BJP has always pitched lightweights from this constituency. But 2014 changed everything when Smriti Irani was fielded from this Gandhi bastion. Smriti gave a tough fight to Rahul Gandhi. In the end, Smriti may have lost the election, but it was no longer a cakewalk for the Gandhi scion. Gandhi won by a margin of just 1.07 lakh votes

Apart from PA Sangma, his daughter Agatha Sangma had won the seat in 2008, 2009 and his son and present Meghalaya chief minister Conrad won the by-election, which was necessitated by the demise of PA Sangma. In 2016, he defeated Dikkanchi D Shira by a margin of over 1.9 lakh votes

In 2014, Sushmita Dev, the daughter of late Santosh Mohan Dev had won the seat defeating BJP’s Kabindra Purkayastha

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge won the last Lok Sabha election against BJP's Revu Naik Belamagi and has also won the assembly election 10 times. This time, he faces his former colleague and now arch-rival Umesh Jadhav of the BJP
 

JD(S) chief, former prime minister Deve Gowda will contest against BJP's GS Basavaraj. 

Ahead of the Lok Sabha election result today (May 23), the BJP has ordered cakes made of laddoos. Cake and ladoos are the strangest bed fellows. Cakes are supposed to be fluffy, light on the tongue while laddoos are rich full bodied presence in your mouth and eventually in the tummy. The difference is not like choc and cheese but definitely of butter and ghee

Two stars of Sandalwood contesting the election for the first time face each other in Mandya. The constituency is considered sensitive and section 144 will be in effect in the entire district tomorrow (May 23).

 

Approximately 900 million voters from across the country will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament called the ‘Lok Sabha’. The party or coalition that gets a simple majority of 272 seats is invited to form the government

Organised by a committee called the NRI Political Action Committee, there will be a live broadcasting of the counting, and the final results between 9-30 am and 5 pm on May 23 in Minnesota

Popular wrestler and motivational speaker Sangram Singh in a recent interview with MyNation gave us his take on the Lok Sabha election 2019

Aside from the commonsense logic, the EVM bashing has been going on for long. Rahul Gandhi's backers say that he did point that he had reservations with the EVMs even when the Congress won in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan December last

According to the police, social media accounts and several political pages are being used by miscreants for rumour mongering at a large scale to disrupt the electoral process

In Borivali area alone, 2000 kg of laddoo has been ordered by Gopal Shetty, an MP from Mumbai North and BJP candidate from the seat
 

The former president praised the Election Commission and added that the institutions in the country have been built over time and are good. A good workman, he said, knows how to work well with the tools.