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India is in the thick of election season, and tall promises and pretty sops are raining down faster than you can say “Lok Sabha”. The latest offering came from Congress President Rahul Gandhi while he was having an informal…

Can a granular Opposition response be a counter to Prime Minister Modi’s overarching nationalist script, post-Pulwama? So game, set and match to Prime Minister Narendra Modi? With just over two months left for the general election…

The Congress’s weak organisational machinery is hurting it even in states that it won less than three months ago. When the Congress dethroned the Bharatiya Janata Party-led governments in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh…

With Gadkari putting speculations to rest, it’s Modi all the way in 2019 unless Congress can match his game. In the past month, since the Pulwama attack, the behaviour of three Congress leaders and the prime minister have stripped…

EC to get about 10% less security forces; so poll period stretched by 3 days, phases increased for assembly elections. NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) has to conduct the Lok Sabha polls next month with about 10% lesser…

Arfa Khanum Sherwani discusses what is to be the longest running election and what's at stake for the parties contesting. New Delhi: The Election Commission on Sunday announced that the Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven…

Modi and Shah have injected professionalism in the BJP that’s out of step with the ‘chalta hai’ ways of the past India’s West has left an ineffaceable stamp on the BJP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah , the party…

Over 80% of the polling stations in the Valley are already designated as hyper sensitive. The Election Commission of India (ECI) will visit J&K on March 4-5 and take a final call on the possibility of holding state elections…

The BJP has around two lakh Shakti Kendra workers involved in organising, coordinating and managing programmes at about 10 lakh polling booths across the country. AROUND 12,000 callers spread across 170-odd call centres reaching out…

Negotiations have progressed ‘quite far’; PMK’s inclusion a sticking point BJP president Amit Shah and the party’s Tamil Nadu election in-charge, Piyush Goyal, will visit Chennai on Tuesday to broadly finalise the alliance with the…