Bhartiya Janata Party

The INDIA bloc is expected to receive a vote share of 47 percent, while the NDA is projected to gain 18 percent, and the LDF is anticipated to receive a vote share of 32 percent.

Assembly Elections 2023: Concise overview of Mizoram's 40 seats & Chhattisgarh's 20 seats: Key details

In Mizoram, the ruling MNF is campaigning fiercely to retain power, facing competition from ZPM, BJP, and Congress. In Chhattisgarh, CM Bhupesh Baghel leads Congress's campaign, while BJP banks on PM Modi in the first phase with 20 contested constituencies.

When NCP’s Ajit Pawar backed the BJP | Maharashtra Politics

Ajit Pawar has brushed off rumours and reports that he’s about to join the BJP with a bunch of NCP MLAs, saying that the meeting he held with 40 NCP MLAs was ‘routine’. However, these events have put the spotlight back on the times when Ajit Pawar has appeared to back the BJP. Watch!

Pension Politics: The old pension scheme threatens the new

Pensions comprise 12.4 percent of the revenue expenditure of the 10 most indebted states. If the NPS is junked in favour of the old scheme, the burden will shift to future generations.

Promise to implement Old Pension Scheme: Most successful arrow in Congress' quiver

Himachal Pradesh is under a debt burden of over Rs 70,000 crore and the new government will find it difficult to raise Rs 16,000 crore for paying arrears to its employees. But they will pursue it nonetheless.

BJP rebels hit bullseye in HP, sink in Gujarat

The time-tested BJP strategy of dropping sitting MLAs and senior leaders while inducting fresh faces has worked wonders in Gujarat where Modi is larger than life, but not so well in faction-riddled Himachal Pradesh.

Big challenge before Rahul, Priyanka to revive Cong: Sanjay Raut

Raut quoted Gandhi as saying that he had requested senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to take charge of the Congress' Jammu & Kashmir unit after his Rajya Sabha term expired, but the latter refused.

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections: PM scheduled to visit more often as Yogi government lines up projects for unveiling

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Uttar Pradesh's Siddhartnagar on July 30 to inaugurate nine new medical colleges. This will be his second trip to the state in July after visiting Varanasi on July 15 for unveiling projects

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birthday will be celebrated as ‘Parakram Diwas’: Centre

Centre has decided to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary year of Netaji beginning from January 2021 in a befitting manner at national and international level

After gritty battle over portfolio, Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel emerges victorious

Saurabh Patel had been assigned the portfolios of Finance and Urban development. Amit Shah defused the tension by assuring Nitin Patel that he would get these portfolios and his number two position in the party would be secured.

Goa Elections: Hung assembly with political instability & 5-year dramatics to unfold

Bhartiya Janata Party and Indian National Congress Party are racing back-to-back to emerge as the single-largest party in the house. However, the trump card is going to be in the hands of almost half a dozen legislators to provide cushion for the power.

Assembly Elections 2017: Why a loss could imperil Mayawati's future

However, the BJP‘s win also spells a hard loss for Bahujan Samaj Party‘s Mayawati, who has been out of politics for 10 years already. Another 5 years from hereon, raises a big question mark over her political future.

COMMENT: In politics, Right ahead, Left behind, Neutrals nowhere

Somewhere along the line in the past thirty months, India cleaved into two, a second partition, a quiet but neat bifurcation that changed no maps, displaced no people and created no new countries.

Very disturbing that people are resorting to vandalism: FM

Jaitley maintained that the leaders should be careful about the statements they make. "Claiming that it is important that people involved be strongly criticized, Jaitley said, "Extremely disturbing trend that some people have been resorting to vandalism to register their point and views."

EC likely to announce Bihar Assembly election dates today

While the Janata Dal(United)-Rastriya Janata Dal-Congress alliance is fighting the elections with Nitish Kumar as CM candidate The Bhartiya Janata Party and allies are yet to announce a Chief Ministerial candidate, and are banking on Prime Minister Modi to win the election for them.

Delhi polls: 'BJP's game now depends on booth-level push'

Even as what was being expected as a clear run for the BJP looks like going down to the wire, CNBC-TV18‘s Menaka Doshi and Anuj Singhal caught up CNBC Awaaz‘s editor-in-chief Sanjay Pugalia to assess the battle.

S&P BSE SENSEX may reach 34500 by CY end 2015: Maximus

According to Maximus Securities, the S&P BSE SENSEX is expected to Rs 34500 for CY end 2015. "We expect the FII plus FDI inflows of the order of $75 Billion in CY 2015. ($72 Bn 2014) We expect dollar index to appreciate further around 4% in CY15 ( 13% in CY14)", says the report.

Fence sitting? BJP manifesto is your go-to investment guide

According to BofAML, most found Budget 2014, well in line with expectations partly because those expectations were themselves conditioned by the BJP‘s poll commitments. At the same time, expectations beyond the party manifesto were not met.

Paswan's return to NDA part of survival plan: HT's Sharma

On Thursday, Paswan‘s Lok Janashakti Party formed a pre-poll alliance with Bhartiya Janata Party-led NDA, 12 years after it had broken away from the group in protest over 2002 riots.

UP, Bihar key to Modi's PM goal; BJP will need 60-70 seats

Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN-IBN feels it is immaterial whether or not Narendra Modi contests from Lucknow. There is a pro-Modi wave already in UP, and contesting from Lucknow would only help send out a message about Modi‘s seriousness as a pan-Indian politician.

Politicos woo India Inc: Who said what at CII forum

Politicians from both major parties -- along with AAP -- made a beeline to the Confederation of Indian Industry‘s conference to outline their respective economic visions. Here‘s what they said.

Defence FDI okay, not retail; scrap coal blocks: Jaitley

The Cabinet in September 2012 had approved up to 51 percent FDI in multi-brand retail, while empowering states to independentally decide if they want to let international chains set shops.

Fund managers to place bold bets on midcaps in 2014: Poll

The survey conducted January 3-7 shows 10 out of 16 fund managers expect to increase their allocation to mid-cap companies in the January-March quarter. The rest plan to leave their exposure unchanged.

BJP has allowed emergence of leaders; Cong hasn't: Gupta

BJP has allowed emergence of strong leaders. Even when it has formed alliance in Punjab, the party has banked on strong leaders, says Shekhar Gupta of Indian Express.

Karnataka Election Results: Congress gets majority, ousts BJP to form govt

The Congress has got majority in Karnataka and has ousted the BJP to form the government in the state. Reacting to the Congress's victory, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "I congratulate Congress for working hard. Certainly corruption by BJP is a message of electorate. Corruption is a big issue for the country."