NDA, grand alliance fielded 9 women candidates in Bihar; only 3 won
India | May 27, 2019 10:40 ISTThe three National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents BJP, JD(U) and LJP had put up one woman candidate each and all of them won.
The three National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituents BJP, JD(U) and LJP had put up one woman candidate each and all of them won.
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Asked about his expectations from the BJP government, Imtiyazbhai told: "I was very happy to hear Modi Saheb's speech yesterday when he spoke about the welfare of minorities.
The BJP has emerged as the single largest party in Arunachal Pradesh by winning 41 of the total 60 seats in the House.
PM Narendra Modi is in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi today, where he will also pay obeisance at the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
Mandya also recorded the highest voter turnout in the southern state with 80.24 per cent of the 13,72,308 votes polled. Sumalatha secured 7,03,660 and Nikhil 5,77,784.
Sonia Gandhi thanked the workers of Congress as well as Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Swambhiman Dal for their support during the elections.
Congress leader Atanasio Monserratte on Thursday won the Panaji by-poll, necessitated due to the death of sitting MLA Manohar Parrikar in March.
She did not say whether she would quit AAP before or after the assembly election due in Delhi next year.
The YSRCP chief had earlier promised the people of Andhra that if his party comes to the power, his government would support whoever promises the state a special category status.
Ahead of the polls, the AAP had accused Gambhir of distributing "obscene and derogatory" pamphlets about Marlena, an Oxford University alumnus.
Most of the winning candidates are from opposition parties while only one candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which won 303 out of 542 seats across the country, could make it to the Lower House.
Baraulia village was in news during campaigning in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, as Priyanka Gandhi had accused Smriti Irani of distributing shoes to the residents in order to insult Rahul Gandhi.
Advani, who attended the NDA meeting in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected as the leader of the BJP-led alliance, said all those who participated in the elections are "delighted" by the results.
It is for the first time that the matching of paper trail machines slips with voting machines was held in a Lok Sabha election.
The saffron party, which had bagged a single seat in 2014, improved its performance this time by winning eight seats. On the other hand, the BJD ceded eight seats from 20 it had won in 2014. The ruling BJD bagged 112 out of 146 Assembly constituencies.
Jagan Reddy, along with some top leaders of the party, will later leave for Hyderabad, where they will meet Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan to submit the resolution of Jagan Reddy's election as the YSRCP Legislature Party leader.
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