General Elections 2019  

A video has gone viral on Twitter in which the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is shown batting for Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the upcoming general election

The Congress replaced senior leader Rashid Alvi with Sachin Choudhary as its candidate for Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh's Amroha after Alvi refused to contest the polls due to poor health.

Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir joined the BJP on Friday, just days before the national election and with several candidates still to be announced, ending months of speculation.

Eminent Indian liberal columnists like Shiv Visvanathan, Pawan Varma, Santosh Desai had cautioned their lot against perverting secularism, sneering at the majority’s culture and faith, holding nationalism in contempt, distorting history. Each bit of introspection went unheeded last 5 years

The Assam Gana Parishad (AGP) has amended ties with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam following a two month split over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

On the brink of the general elections 2019, BJP has successfully managed to impress several members from other parties to shift loyalties and join the saffron party.

Conceding that Rahul Gandhi himself does not expect much from the Priyanka factor, he said, “We will play on front foot not on back foot. Obviously, the aim is Lok Sabha polls, but I have told Priyanka and Scindia that the bigger aim is to win UP in 2022"

The Modi government has provided an amount of Rs 1,330 crore in the budget for 2019-20 for the Mission for Protection and Empowerment for Women. This is an increase of Rs 174 crore over the revised estimates of 2018-19 for the mission.

Finance minister Piyush Goyal on Friday is presenting the Interim Budget of the Narendra Modi government for 2019-20. 

Though people have high expectations from Modi government's sixth and final Budget,  Fitch ratings on Thursday warned of a second consecutive year of fiscal slippage.

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, it is expected that the Budget will focus on concessions and give a big push to investment in agriculture, industries and the health sector. 

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav met Mayawati in Lucknow on Sunday to congratulate her on the new tie-up. He seemed 100% certain that BJP will lose Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 general elections.