Jammu and Kashmir will witness elections after a gap of ten years. There are a total of 90 assembly constituencies, of which 74 are general, nine are ST and seven are SC.
Shiv Sena (UBT) has made inroads in assembly segments with a sizeable Muslim population. Eknath Shinde's camp calls its outreach to the community a deviation from Bal Thackeray's legacy.
Analysts say result of Lok Sabha polls in Kerala was along expected lines, except for rise in BJP's graph, which affected both ruling Left-led LDF and Opposition Congress-led UDF.
The bypolls were necessitated after 9 MLAs rebelled against Congress in March. Of these, the party has since won in 4 & the BJP in 2. Polls in the remaining 3 will be held on 10 July.
BJP’s Jhabar Singh Kharra said that Congress successfully created an anti-BJP narrative in Rajasthan, which the party could not thwart. BJP won 14 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Such collective repudiation is rare for BJP in the region, where it has grown considerably aided by support of local parties that generally tend to ally with the party at the Centre.
In an article in Organiser, RSS leader says LS poll results reality check for 'overconfident' BJP workers, adds that local BJP leaders didn't reach out to their 'ideological allies'.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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