According to India’s Election Commission, BJP has won 156 out of the 182 seats in the Gujarat legislature, securing more than 80 percent seats, the biggest electoral success by any party in the state’s history. The main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, or INC, once India’...
After three years in power, the Janata party dissolved in 1980 with the members of the erstwhile Jana Sangh reconvening to form the BJP. Although initially unsuccessful, winning only two seats in the 1984 general election, it grew in strength on the back of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. ...
This reflected in the fact that the BJP has fielded just 670 candidates against 2,302 wards, meaning it is not contesting 71 per cent seats. Also, many BJP leaders prefer to contest as an Independent. In total, there are 9,222 candidates in the fray for the polls to eight Municipal Cor...
Also earlier this year, the BJP suffered a humiliating defeat in northern state of Punjab, which is now ruled by the Congress party.
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Chandigarh, Oct 24 (IANS) In a setback to the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ahead of the bypoll to four Punjab Assembly seats on November 13, its former
In the 2018 Assembly elections, out of the total 223 seats in the state, BJP had won 104 seats but the then Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa could not prove a majority in the Assembly. That year, the Congress, which won 78 seats in Karnataka, extended its support to the JD(S), whi...
New Delhi:For the ruling BJP, the general election of 2019 jump-starts now. This is where the BJP takes the knife to the prison yard fight, for in 2014, it won 161 of the 240 seats on view. As middle and north India goes to the polls over the next four phases, the BJP's resolv...
While 17.1 per cent respondents were not satisfied with the Punjab government's work, 9.1 percent in Haryana and 1 percent of respondents in Tamil Nadu thought their state government was not good at all. On the contrary, respondents from states like Odisha, Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand...
"The government bowed down only because their defeat was clearly visible in Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. After the elections in five states, they will bring back this law from the back door," Congress party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told a press conference while reacting to ...