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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

Yeddyurappa diaries: Time for Supreme Court to clearly note what constitutes evidence

In the 1991 Jain brothers hawala case, the Supreme Court had said that corroborating evidence is a must to convict the person named in the diaries.

Political parties dominate India’s national elections, not candidates

Number of candidates in each constituency has grown rapidly since Independence but an independent has a very small likelihood of winning a Lok Sabha seat.

Tejashwi Yadav puts alliance dharma over family ties, will campaign for Congress in UP

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s sister Raj Lakshmi is married to Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grand-nephew, but he will campaign against the Samajwadi Party in UP.

Congress announces 9th list for Lok Sabha polls, Karti Chidambaram to fight from Sivaganga

Corruption-accused businessman Karti Chidambaram is the son of former union finance minister P. Chidambaram, who has been the Sivaganga MP seven times.

Sapna Chaudhary says she has not joined Congress, claims pictures with Priyanka are old

A day after the news that Sapna Chaudhary has joined Congress, the singer-dancer said she is not with any party and will not campaign for any political party in LS elections.

Congress lets go of Godda seat, seals alliance in Jharkhand

Congress will contest 7 seats while Jharkhand Mukti Morcha will contest 4 and JVM(P) will fight 2. RJD is being convinced to fight one seat.

BJP veteran Shanta Kumar’s six decade-long political journey comes to an unpleasant end

The BJP didn’t give Shanta Kumar, the 84-year-old former CM of Himachal Pradesh, a chance to defend the Kangra seat, signalling the end of the road for him.

Only L.K.Advani can comment now: Uma Bharti on BJP’s decision to not field him in 2019 polls

Heaping praises on the veteran leader, union minister Uma Bharti said that L.K.Advani never craved for any position in his long political career

Akhilesh Yadav to contest Lok Sabha polls from Azamgarh, Azam Khan to fight from Rampur

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will join four family members in the fray, while senior leader Azam Khan will fight his first Lok Sabha election.

Mulayam Singh Yadav name absent from SP list of star campaigners

Akhilesh Yadav to contest from Azamgarh, the seat represented in the Lok Sabha by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who has shifted to Mainpuri in this election

On Camera

Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?