Indian Election

Lucknow, 27 April-2014(PTI): Controversial Yoga guru Ramdev today faced more heat over his controversial “honeymoon” remark against Rahul Gandhi, with authorities banning all his programmes in Lucknow till the elections are over and Congress demanding that he be arrested. Ramdev’s programmes banned in Lucknow, Cong demands arrest It came a …

New Delhi, 24 April-2014(IANS): Barring the Kashmir Valley, millions voted Thursday across a dozen states in India to elect 117 MPs even as the BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi filed his nomination in Varanasi, turning the Hindu holy city into a sea of saffron. Millions vote in seventh phase …

Patna, 22 April-2014(IANS): Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who will be honoured with the IIFA award, today said “Modi wave” was sweeping across the country and going by the present trend it would not be surprising if BJP achieved 350 mark in the elections on its own. “BJP initially had thought of …

Mumbai, 22 April-2014(PTI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today accused BJP’s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi of “lowering” the standard of political discourse in the country like never before by resorting to unprecedented “vicious personal criticism”. Narendra Modi lowered standard of country’s political discourse: Prithviraj Chavan The kind of “negative and …

New delhi, 22 April-2014(IANS): LS Election Campaigning for the Lok Sabha election ended Tuesday across 11 states and one union territory where 179 million voters are eligible to decide the political fate of over 2,000 candidates in 117 seats. LS Election Campaigning ends in 11 states, one union territory at 4PM …

New Delhi, 20 April-2014, Arun Kumar(IANS): As American media reports on the sounds, colours and smells of India’s crucial parliamentary election, Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is the flavour of the season. Modi is the flavour of Indian election coverage in US : Editorial by Arun Kumar …

New Delhi, 17 April-2014(PTI): Moderate to brisk voting was today recorded in the first five hours of polling across 12 states covering 121 constituencies in the fifth phase – the biggest of the nine-phased Lok Sabha polls amidst Maoist violence in Jharkhand where rebels injured a CRPF jawan, blew up …

Patna, 15 April-2014(Indilens web Team): Article of the Indian Constitution 325 and 326(allow every citizen of India can franchise his/her vote. There will be no difference on the basis of religion , race , color, creed or gender and no one can be deprived of the franchise . Muslim and …

Washington/Bhopal, 14 April-2014(FT/Reuters/Dean Nelson) : Narendra Modi is widely expected to become India’s next leader. But for the country’s Muslims, he is indelibly linked to the 2002 Gujarat riots in which 1000 people – mostly Muslims – died. The FT’s Amy Kazmin visits the school at a 127-year-old mosque in …

Agartala, 13 April-2014,Sandeep Phukan: Tripura chief minister and senior CPIM Politburo member Manik Sarkar has asserted that the Third Front efforts have not suffered a setback because of the AIADMK refusing to have a seat-sharing deal with the Left parties. CM Jayalalithaa’s refusing Seat Sharing With Third Front have not …