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Thursday, November 6, 2025
Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

At his first meeting at his new office, Modi reiterates ‘one nation, one election’

The PM asked the CMs and deputy CMs of all BJP-ruled states to ‘start preparing’ for Lok Sabha and all state assembly polls to be held simultaneously.

What the BJP may have to do to ensure Narendra Modi remains PM after 2019 polls

The big factor the BJP should bank on in the upcoming 2019 elections leads with the question: “Who is the alternative? If not Modi, who? If not BJP, who?”

With stage set for 2019, Prashant Kishor is back in the game

The political strategist calls reports of his collaboration with BJP highly ‘speculative’, is likely to expand footprints, hire more people ahead of 2019.

Speculation about Modi losing in 2019 are driven by an old arithmetic

What many commentators seem to have overlooked the fact that constructing national majorities is no longer just an arithmetical formula consisting of seat-by-seat verdicts.

Modi thinks simultaneous polls will give him a second term, make him invincible

While so much noise is being made, the government is yet to attempt the important challenge of finding a political consensus.

Modi returning as PM in 2019 isn’t certain. India should be prepared for these scenarios

It's not a foregone conclusion who the next Prime Minister will be given there are plenty of voters who could ensure it isn't Narendra Modi.

BJP will mollify NDA allies closer to 2019, when it risks getting a reduced majority

Nineteen states have NDA governments, but the partners have lost their bargaining power because the survival of Modi government does not depend on them.

No big bang changes in Congress under Rahul Gandhi anytime soon

The new party president was expected to bring in his own leadership team, but he’s maintaining status quo at the top and concentrating on the states.

2019 strategy: BJP to deploy trained spokespersons in states to counter negative publicity

BJP has six wings and each wing will select two spokespersons from each state who will eventually tackle questions and charges levelled against party.

Rahul Gandhi finally discovers big data, sets up data analytics wing in Congress

Experienced data analyst Praveen Chakravarty to head the department; Congress is the only party to have a data analytics wing.

On Camera

Nur Jahan to Chand Bibi—Indian women in sports have been erased from history

Dice have been found dating to the Bronze Age in various Harappan sites in present-day northwest India and throughout Pakistan. And it’s very possible that some had female owners.

Vodafone Idea AGR case, explained: SC breather to cash-strapped telco & what it means for industry

Telecom industry keeping close tabs on the case. Government is single largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea, at 49 percent.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.