The BJP is also expected to form the next government in Meghalaya too, despite a hung Assembly there. "We will try to form a non-Congress government in Meghalaya as the people of the state have rejected the INC," said senior BJP leader Ram Madhav in Tripura on Saturday afternoon. The ...
The encouraging results of the BJP, the main ruling party in India since 2014, is seen as an outcome of Modi's pro-poor "public welfare schemes," especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when the federal government distributed free food to the economically weaker sections of the society. Besi...
At its peak, the BJP had governments (or was part of the government) in 21 states. With yesterday’s election performance, the Congress now has a government or is part of the government in five states--Punjab, Karnataka, MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh--with 21% of the population, up fr...
Following in terms of under-performing were states of the northeast where none of the respondents were fully satisfied with their respective governments' work and only 41.2 per cent of respondents claimed the government work was "satisfactory to some extent". As many as 58.8 per cent of...
In some senses, India-Bangladesh relations have come full circle in a decade, largely because the BNP has retaken the electoral ground it lost in the first part of the 1990s in Bangladesh; a reversal more significant for the relationship than any change of government in New Delhi during the...
Even major national concerns like inflation, rising fuel prices and government’s failures during the COVID pandemic have had little impact on the overall support for Modi in his home state, said Anil Desai, a diamond trader from Surat, a business hub of Gujarat. ...
Earlier this month, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the BJP will not form any alliances for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls. "Remove this doubt from your mind that we will go with anyone or take anyone's support, rather, we will form the BJP government with an absolute maj...
Firstly, under his leadership and supervision, BJP was able to conquer the previous and the current assembly legislative election in Assam. Also, he has a major contribution to the establishment of the BJP government in other northeastern states of India, including Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, ...
26 (Xinhua) -- India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's sixth consecutive government, headed by 61-year-old Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, was sworn in on Tuesday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. BJP won the recently held assembly elections in the western state where ...
"Dynasty, casteism and appeasement has lost to development," said the BJP chief, in a veiled attack on 47-year-old Gandhi, who took over the reins of the Congress barely two days ago from his mother Sonia Gandhi. Modi was also quick to attribute the party's victory to his government's...