Election 2019  

The seats going to the polls are 13 each in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, nine in West Bengal, eight each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and one in Chandigarh

The results of Lok Sabha election will be out on May 23. Here are the aspirations of the people in Bengaluru from the MPs and the party that will rule the country for next five years

Rahul Gandhi had said in 2016: “Our soldiers who have shed their blood in Jammu and Kashmir, who have conducted the surgical strikes, you [PM Modi] are hiding behind their blood. You are cashing in on their sacrifice…”

The BJP has been systematic in its approach, and was never in a hurry in the eastern zone, say longtime political watchers. It began earnestly in the late 1990s, and it went about its task with the sincerity of a monk, says a Bengali journalist

Bagga along with many BJP leaders like Hans Raj Hans and Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma are in Kolkata to add a push to its campaign in the last leg of the election

Sonowal said that Mamata Didi has no right to rule the state and the President of India should immediately dismiss the government. He also appealed to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take all possible measures to ensure that there is a peaceful election in West Bengal.

According to reports, after Amit Shah left, the clashes turned violent in and around the Calcutta University. Trouble started after the Trinamool-backed student union leaders tried to wave black flag at Shah.
 

With politicians like Mamata Banerjee too eager to misuse ‘reasonable restrictions’ clause in Article 19, court judgments have often undermined freedom of speech and expression by playing ‘safe’

Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta moved the court against Kamal Haasan for having hurt the sentiments of Hindus without any basis, and for trying to create enmity among the followers of different religions

Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy and former chief minister Siddaramaiah were put up in the same hotel in Kundagol but missed out on meeting each other in person. While the political secretary of the chief minister says the chief minister didn’t have information, the BJP says it is a clash of egos

 

Kamal Haasan has done it again. Recently, in an election rally, the actor turned politician said, "I am not saying this because many Muslims are here. I'm saying this in front of Gandhi's statue. The first terrorist post-India's independence is a Hindu. His name is Nathuram Godse." But this is not the first time that the actor has courted controversy.

BJP MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar signed up as verified "decision maker" with Change.org, an online petition platform, to crowdsource suggestions for their election manifesto

It is not only BJP president Amit Shah whose chopper was not allowed to land in Bengal to hold a political rally. Here's a quick recap.

The growing importance of the BJP in Bengal over the past few years, and the Narendra Modi government turning the heat on Mamata and her cronies over various scams have clearly left Mamata Banerjee jittery

In a free-wheeling debate, Anirban Ganguly, the brain behind the BJP in Bengal hinted that the party may form the government in the state much before expected much before the scheduled date of election in the state.. He reiterated PM Modi's claim that 40 TMC MLAs are in touch with the BJP.