Press Trust of India
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party won 40 seats in the 70-member assembly that includes India’s capital of 20 million people, ousting the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, that ruled New Delhi since 2015.
Family background Born in 1974 in Nandgarh village, Jind district, Haryana, Gupta moved to Delhi with her family at the age of two. Her father worked as an officer at the State Bank of India, and she completed her education in Delhi. Education d...
The latest victories of the BJP are also seen as a stamp on Modi's anti-corruption programs and policies. Addressing a gathering at BJP headquarters in Delhi in a victory celebration Thursday night, Modi said, "We have tried to reach out to the last person in our society with our welfare...
ruled the majority of Indian states, is facing a test of survival, having been on a downward spiral for the past ten years following the rise of the BJP and various regional parties, said Sanjay Rao Ayde, head of the political science department at St Stephen's College in New Delhi. ...
New Delhi: The BJP launched a scathing attack on the AAP government on Tuesday over alleged corruption in the construction of classrooms in Delhi, claiming that the capital city’s ‘twin towers of corruption’ are ‘education and liquor’. ...
NEW DELHI, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Though the election results are yet to be formally announced, it's a foregone conclusion that the ruling alliance in India, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), would secure a nationwide landslide victory in the just...
People celebrate at the headquarters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi, Dec. 8, 2013. BJP Sunday crushed the country's ruling Congress party in assembly polls in four crucial states, seen as a barometer of how the electorate will cast their ballots in the...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- India's main ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday elected Jagat Prakash Nadda as the new president. Nadda, who has been the party's working president for over six months, succeeded Amit Shah to become the BJP's 11th president. ...