This year's polls were held in 542 constituencies, after the election was cancelled in one constituency in southern state Tamil Nadu where votes would be polled at a later date. While the BJP seems winning over 300 seats on its own, its pre-poll alliance partners Janata Dal (United) seems...
As the day progressed, it became all the more clear that the BJP was all set to win more triumphantly than it did in 2014. They eventually finished with 303 seats and the total of their alliance NDA stood at a resounding 353 seats. The last five years had seen a number lynchings out ...
While last year's vote saw a record-setting 78 women elected to the Lok Sabha, India's lower house, that's still only 14% of the house's representatives. A bill pushing for a third of parliamentary seats to be reserved for women -- backed by the BJP and main opposition Congress ...