Do Punjab Civic Poll Results Mean a ‘BJP-Mukt’ State?
3 years, 10 months ago

Do Punjab Civic Poll Results Mean a ‘BJP-Mukt’ State?

The Quint  

The extent is almost unprecedented in recent times. Besides Bathinda, Congress has won a majority in the muncipal corporations of Abohar, Batala, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Pathankot. The Congress' main rival in the state - the Shiromani Akali Dal - could win just 23 out of 350 corporation wards compared to the Congress' 271 in these six cities. The Congress has also won majorities in the urban civic bodies in smaller cities like Barnala, Dhuri, Chamkaur Sahib, Malerkotla, Zirakpur, Mehatpur, Lohian Khas and Phillaur. AAP performed poorly across the state and failed to open its account in several cities.

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AAP wins Patiala in Punjab civic polls, emerges largest party in Ludhiana, Jalandhar
2 days, 5 hours ago

AAP wins Patiala in Punjab civic polls, emerges largest party in Ludhiana, Jalandhar

India Today  

Punjab's ruling party AAP won the municipal elections in Patiala but fell short of a majority in the Ludhiana and Jalandhar municipal corporations even though it emerged as the largest party in the two civic bodies. In Jalandhar, the AAP emerged as the largest party and won 38 wards out of total 85 wards while the Congress, the BJP, the …

AAP secures 55 per cent of total seats in Punjab civic body elections; majority in one corporation only
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3 days, 5 hours ago

AAP secures 55 per cent of total seats in Punjab civic body elections; majority in one corporation only

New Indian Express  

More than 3,300 candidates contested in the civic body polls and a total of 37.32 lakh voters were eligible to vote in the elections. Voter turnout was 65.85 per cent; polling percentage at Phagwara was 55.21 per cent, Jalandhar 50.27 per cent, Amritsar 44.05 per cent, Ludhiana 46.95 per cent and Patiala 32.95 per cent. Congress secured 25 seats, BJP …

Punjab civic polls: AAP wins in Patiala, leads in Jalandhar, Ludhiana; Congress ahead in Amritsar, Phagwara
Top News
3 days, 8 hours ago

Punjab civic polls: AAP wins in Patiala, leads in Jalandhar, Ludhiana; Congress ahead in Amritsar, Phagwara

The Hindu  

Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party won the municipal elections in Patiala and was leading in Ludhiana and Jalandhar, while the Congress was ahead in Phagwara and Amritsar. Punjab AAP President Aman Arora claimed that his party has created history in the local body elections, securing over 50 per cent of the 977 wards that went to the polls. He also …

Punjab Municipal Polls Records 10% Turnout Till 9 AM
3 days, 21 hours ago

Punjab Municipal Polls Records 10% Turnout Till 9 AM

ABP News  

Chandigarh, Dec 21 An average of 10 per cent polling was witnessed till 9 am in the elections to five municipal corporations and 44 municipal councils and nagar panchayats underway in Punjab, officials said on Saturday. There was an average of 10 per cent polling till 9 am, the officials said. More than 3,300 candidates are in the fray for …

The blueprint is ready: Will Maharashtra, Haryana losses spur Congress's radical revamp?
1 month ago

The blueprint is ready: Will Maharashtra, Haryana losses spur Congress's radical revamp?

India Today  

The Maharashtra assembly election has once again laid bare the precarious position of the Congress in India’s political landscape and within the INDIA bloc. This marked a stark contrast to the 76 per cent strike rate achieved during the Lok Sabha elections, where the Congress won 13 of the 17 seats it contested in Maharashtra. Among the six major players …

AAP leads as Congress, BJP struggle in Punjab by-elections, says Punjab AAP President Aman Arora
1 month ago

AAP leads as Congress, BJP struggle in Punjab by-elections, says Punjab AAP President Aman Arora

New Indian Express  

CHANDIGARH: In the four assembly constituencies where by-elections were held, the Aam Aadmi Party garnered 46 percent of the total vote share, surpassing Congress at 33 percent and BJP at 10 percent, according to Punjab AAP president Aman Arora. Arora highlighted the defeat of Congress leaders Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa in their home constituencies, as their …

Election Wrap: Mahayuti’s Decisive Victory Is Big Story This Poll Season. Hemant Scripts I.N.D.I.A Comeback In Jharkhand
Top News
1 month ago

Election Wrap: Mahayuti’s Decisive Victory Is Big Story This Poll Season. Hemant Scripts I.N.D.I.A Comeback In Jharkhand

ABP News  

Maharashtra Elections 2024: The Mahayuti’s massive win in Maharashtra was the big story from the latest election season, even as the Opposition managed to retain Jharkhand with a decisive majority. Led by the BJP’s 132 seats, the Mahayuti looked set to wrest 236 seats in the 288-seat Maharashtra assembly, reducing the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi to 48. Hail Jharkhand!” While …

Results show regional parties are needed: KTR
1 month ago

Results show regional parties are needed: KTR

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The BRS on Saturday sought to capitalise on the election results from Maharashtra and Jharkhand,with its working president K.T. Rama Rao said the rejection of the Congress in Maharashtra and that of the BJP in Jharkhand by voters had yet again demonstrated that it was only the regional parties that work for the people in their states. “The BJP …

Punjab assembly byelections: AAP, Congress leading in two seats each
Top News
1 month ago

Punjab assembly byelections: AAP, Congress leading in two seats each

Hindustan Times  

The Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress were neck-and-neck in the high-stakes byelections to four assembly constituencies in Punjab, leading in two seats each on Saturday. The ruling AAP was leading in Chabbewal and Gidderbaha assembly constituencies, while the Congress was ahead of its rivals Dera Baba Nanak and Barnala, according to the trends in the counting of votes at …

Punjab bypolls Results LIVE: AAP vs BJP vs Congress, which party will emerge as winner? counting shortly
1 month ago

Punjab bypolls Results LIVE: AAP vs BJP vs Congress, which party will emerge as winner? counting shortly

India TV News  

Punjab Bypoll Results 2024 Live: The vote counting for the by-polls to four assembly seats in Punjab will take place today, November 23 at 8 am. Among the key contestants in the fray were former Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Kewal Singh Dhillon, Sohan Singh Thandal and Ravikaran Singh Kahlon, Amrita Warring and Jatinder Kaur, and Hardeep Singh Dimpy …

Desultory Congress campaign may make BJP lose again
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Desultory Congress campaign may make BJP lose again

New Indian Express  

Since 2014 Lok Sabha polls, its evident in every election in Delhi that BJP in assembly polls, with poll not being a direct referendum on the leadership of Narendra Modi, fails to touch the mark of 40 per cent votes in its favour. In 2013 polls, when the Congress had garnered about 15 percent votes, AAP got 28 seats and …

Punjab LoP Bajwa opposes Cong-AAP alliance in Haryana
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Punjab LoP Bajwa opposes Cong-AAP alliance in Haryana

Hindustan Times  

Punjab Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday opposed the potential alliance between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party for the October 5 assembly polls in Haryana. Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa Bajwa told reporters that maintaining distance from the AAP would be beneficial for the Congress. The leader of Opposition in the Punjab assembly, Bajwa, said the Congress …

Rahul Gandhi can pressure Centre to make MSP a legal right: Punjab Leader of the Opposition
6 months, 1 week ago

Rahul Gandhi can pressure Centre to make MSP a legal right: Punjab Leader of the Opposition

The Hindu  

Battling factionalism and desertions, the Congress in Punjab put up an impressive electoral performance in the Lok Sabha election. Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, shares his assessment of the recently concluded General Election. Before the 2022 Assembly election, the Punjab Congress had almost imploded, and the party lost badly. In the 2024 Lok Sabha …

Ravneet Bittu's Rise, Kangana 'Slap' Row: What Lies Ahead for BJP in Punjab?
6 months, 1 week ago

Ravneet Bittu's Rise, Kangana 'Slap' Row: What Lies Ahead for BJP in Punjab?

The Quint  

The results of the 2024 elections reveal both the success and the limitations of the BJP's strategy. First, no single Lok Sabha seat in Punjab can be won purely by consolidating urban Hindu votes as every seat has sizable rural segments. The BJP led in five urban Hindu majority segments in Ludhiana but performed terribly in three rural/semi-rural segments and …

CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey: Modi as PM pitch did not cut much ice in Punjab
6 months, 2 weeks ago

CSDS-Lokniti post-poll survey: Modi as PM pitch did not cut much ice in Punjab

The Hindu  

Punjab saw a multi-cornered contest and a keen electoral battle among key actors. Though both polled roughly equal votes, the Congress was more successful in terms of seats than the AAP with the Shiromani Akali Dal winning one seat and two going to Independents. The BJP seeking vote in the name of the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate did not cut …

AAP-Cong. combine fails to stop BJP from repeating clean sweep in Delhi
6 months, 2 weeks ago

AAP-Cong. combine fails to stop BJP from repeating clean sweep in Delhi

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi for the third time in a row, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress that came together under a 4-3 seat-sharing alliance to consolidate the anti-BJP votes. The voters of Delhi, in their verdict declared on Tuesday, made it clear that while they backed AAP with consecutive …

How Congress regained prominence in Punjab
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How Congress regained prominence in Punjab

Hindustan Times  

In 2022, the Aam Aadmi Party won a three fourth majority in the assembly elections in Punjab. What makes this question even more intriguing is the fact that both the Congress and the AAP have a vote share of 26% in the state. See Chart 1: Median ENOP in Punjab To be sure, the Congress’s performance can also be ascribed …

Punjab: Congress bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Punjab: Congress bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP

Hindustan Times  

A resurgent Congress bounced back in Punjab on Tuesday by winning seven of the 13 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, ahead of the state’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, after a dismal showing in the 2022 assembly elections. The Congress tally, though one less than the eight seats it won in the 2019 parliamentary polls, marked its return as a …

Punjab: Setback for AAP’s ‘mission 13’, but solace on vote share front
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Punjab: Setback for AAP’s ‘mission 13’, but solace on vote share front

Hindustan Times  

Chandigarh: The election results from the 13 Lok Sabha constituencies are a blow for the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab. A consolation for the AAP is that its Punjab vote share in Tuesday’s results is almost equal to that of the Congress, which won seven seats in the state. Though this is an improvement from the single seat it won …

Cong bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Cong bounces back with resounding win on 7 seats, 3 for AAP

Hindustan Times  

A resurgent Congress bounced back in Punjab on Tuesday by winning seven of the 13 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, ahead of the state’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, after a dismal showing in the 2022 assembly elections. The Congress tally, though one less than the eight seats it won in the 2019 parliamentary polls, marked its return as a …

How did the Congress bounce back in Punjab?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

How did the Congress bounce back in Punjab?

Hindustan Times  

In 2022, the Aam Aadmi Party won a three-fourth majority in the assembly elections in Punjab. ENOP is the reciprocal of the sum of squares of the vote share of all candidates in a constituency and a higher value denotes greater political fragmentation in the elections. Median ENOP in LS elections in Punjab To be sure, the Congress’s performance can …

Aam Aadmi Party bags 3 seats in Punjab, loses Delhi seats to BJP
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Aam Aadmi Party bags 3 seats in Punjab, loses Delhi seats to BJP

The Hindu  

The Aam Aadmi Party, having contested in 22 seats across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Assam in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, managed to win three seats in Punjab, increasing its representation in Parliament from the sole seat it won in 2014 and 2019 elections. AAP national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister had been confident that things would go differently …

Punjab Election Results 2024 highlights: Congress wins from Jalandhar, Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Punjab Election Results 2024 highlights: Congress wins from Jalandhar, Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala

The Hindu  

The Congress won seven parliamentary seats in Punjab and the Aam Aadmi Party won three seats. The Shiromani Akali Dal bagged one seat while Independents won two seats. The mood was captured in The Hindu’s earlier report stating, AAP faces critical test, Akali Dal fights to regain relevance and Congress hopes to improve tally. In 2019, Congress had secured eight …

Arunachal Poll Result: BJP Wins 46 of 60 Seats, Congress Trails Behind NCP, Independents — Check Winners’ List
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Arunachal Poll Result: BJP Wins 46 of 60 Seats, Congress Trails Behind NCP, Independents — Check Winners’ List

ABP News  

Itanagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party achieved a significant victory in Arunachal Pradesh, winning 46 seats in the 60-member assembly, thus securing a clear majority for the third consecutive term. Of the 50 seats contested, the BJP clinched 36, with Chief Minister Pema Khandu being one of the 10 candidates who won unopposed. This continues the saffron party's stronghold in the …

A crowded party scene in Punjab
6 months, 3 weeks ago

A crowded party scene in Punjab

Hindustan Times  

The campaign in Punjab, unfortunately, has only revealed the limitations of the political mainstream in addressing the multiple crises confronting the state. Gains from agriculture have plateaued while the social and economic crises that engulfed the state following the rise of terrorism continue to cripple the state’s political economy. The BJP has credible leaders in the state but the embers …

Fighting alone in Punjab, what's the BJP pinning its hopes on
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Fighting alone in Punjab, what's the BJP pinning its hopes on

India Today  

In 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi filed his nomination papers in Varanasi for the Lok Sabha election, several leaders of the National Democratic Alliance were present there in a show of strength. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the BJP's fight is primarily against the Aam Aadmi Party, which runs the state government in Punjab, and the resurgent Congress, …

HT Explains: A 5-point FAQ on the Lok Sabha battle in Punjab
7 months, 1 week ago

HT Explains: A 5-point FAQ on the Lok Sabha battle in Punjab

Hindustan Times  

Punjab’s all 13 Lok Sabha seats will go to the polls in the seventh and the last phase of the polling on June 1 with farm crisis emerging among the major issues. The BJP is looking to expand beyond its traditional base in urban pockets by contesting all 13 Lok Sabha seats for the first time since 1996 after its …

AAP slams its Delhi ally Congress while seeking votes for party in Punjab
7 months, 1 week ago

AAP slams its Delhi ally Congress while seeking votes for party in Punjab

India TV News  

Amid the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, political parties have engaged in a stringent war of words, with attacks and counter-attacks dominating poll campaigns nationwide. With its leader, Arvind Kejriwal, already visiting the state, particularly after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in the Delhi Liquor case, the AAP kicked off its campaign with a roadshow in Punjab's Amritsar. Punjab …

Interview | Punjab will vote on our performance, BJP’s polarisation card won’t work: Bhagwant Mann
8 months ago

Interview | Punjab will vote on our performance, BJP’s polarisation card won’t work: Bhagwant Mann

Hindustan Times  

The arrest of Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal since March 21 has thrust Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, 50, into a challenging task in the run-up to the general elections. As one of the key faces in the opposition INDIA bloc, he is pivoting the AAP’s sweepstakes on 22 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, …

Only AAP can finish off BJP: Kejriwal launches party's Lok Sabha poll campaign in Gujarat
9 months, 1 week ago

Only AAP can finish off BJP: Kejriwal launches party's Lok Sabha poll campaign in Gujarat

India TV News  

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday launched the Aam Aadmi Party's Lok Sabha election campaign in Gujarat, where he said only his party can finish off the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party from the country. He also urged people to help his party win the two Lok Sabha seats that it is contesting in Gujarat so that the issues faced …

AAP gains ground in Punjab, BJP to sweep Haryana, neck-and-neck in J-K: India TV-CNX Poll
9 months, 2 weeks ago

AAP gains ground in Punjab, BJP to sweep Haryana, neck-and-neck in J-K: India TV-CNX Poll

India TV News  

India TV-CNX Opinion Poll predicted that the Aam Aadmi Party is likely to win 6 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, while, rival Bharatiya Janata Party may settle with 3 seats. Total Seats: 13 AAP: 06 Congress: 03 BJP: 03 Akali Dal: 01 Sukhbir Singh Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal is likely to win just one seat in 2024 Lok …

AAP and Congress hope to trounce BJP in Delhi with their 4-3 seat-sharing arrangement
10 months ago

AAP and Congress hope to trounce BJP in Delhi with their 4-3 seat-sharing arrangement

The Hindu  

: While announcing their alliance on Saturday, leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress, which drew a blank in the last two Lok Sabha elections in the national capital, expressed confidence in their ability to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming parliamentary election. Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely said the two parties will soon …

Why Congress failed to win in the Hindi heartland
1 year ago

Why Congress failed to win in the Hindi heartland

Hindustan Times  

The election results on Sunday came as a rude shock to the Congress. It won Telangana for the first time since the UPA government created the state in 2014, but was outperformed by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan. The Congress won Karnataka because: One, the BJP government in the state …

Congress’ win means I.N.D.I.A bloc’s victory, good days have come: Sanjay Raut after exit poll predictions
1 year ago

Congress’ win means I.N.D.I.A bloc’s victory, good days have come: Sanjay Raut after exit poll predictions

India TV News  

A day after the Congress party was predicted to win Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Rajasthan in the exit polls of the five Assembly elections held last month, Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said that the grand old party’s win will be the victory of the I.N.D.I.A bloc, which comprises of over 25 Opposition parties. Vote share: Congress 42.43 …

What’s at stake for Congress: Polls put caste census demand, INDIA to test
1 year, 2 months ago

What’s at stake for Congress: Polls put caste census demand, INDIA to test

Hindustan Times  

Hours before Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced the dates for the next round of state elections, the Congress’ top leadership had gathered in Delhi to firm up their election strategy. The Congress Working Committee had only one big agenda, with chief ministers Ashok Gehlot, Siddaramaiah, Bhupesh Baghel and Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu joining the deliberations of the highest decision-making body …

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal diversity
1 year, 3 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal diversity

Deccan Chronicle  

The Congress Party is entirely truthful when its leader Rahul Gandhi acknowledges that the party is not an organisation; his take is that it is a movement. The three challenges are -- one, to convert the “movement” into an organisation to fight the five state elections in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha battle; two, iron out wrinkles, frictions, …

Congress’ stance against Delhi ordinance gives ammunition to BJP, SAD in Punjab
1 year, 5 months ago

Congress’ stance against Delhi ordinance gives ammunition to BJP, SAD in Punjab

The Hindu  

The Congress party’s decision to vote against the Centre’s ordinance on the control of services in Delhi in Parliament has provided the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab with ammunition to target both the Congress and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party. Taking a dig at the Congress, BJP national spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said, “It is now official that …

What is ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and why it is still very much in progress
1 year, 6 months ago

What is ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and why it is still very much in progress

Firstpost  

Around December of 2017, the BJP and its supporters would take much delight in sharing the political map of India. And now it is the turn of the Congress and its supporters to mock the BJP with things like “BJP-mukt South India”. In Andhra Pradesh, the Congress now has just 1 per cent of the vote. In 1997, Kalyan Singh …

Results of Muzaffarnagar urban local body polls hint at social reconciliation
1 year, 7 months ago

Results of Muzaffarnagar urban local body polls hint at social reconciliation

The Hindu  

The success of Muslim candidates who recently emerged victorious in six out of the 10 seats for chairpersons of urban local bodies in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh hints at a social reconciliation in the district that witnessed large-scale Hindu-Muslim riots in 2013. Muzaffarnagar district has two Nagar Palika Parishads — Khatauli and Muzaffarnagar — and eight Nagar Panchayats — …

Lokniti-CSDS survey | How the Congress won an absolute majority in Karnataka
1 year, 7 months ago

Lokniti-CSDS survey | How the Congress won an absolute majority in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Since 1985, Karnataka has never voted back a ruling party. It is clear that the Congress received more or less uniform support across age groups, while the BJP drew greater support from younger voters. The Congress drew greater support as compared to the BJP from those with different educational achievements, except those who had a college degree — a section …

U.P. urban body polls | BJP wins 813 seats of corporators, Samajwadi Party bags 191
1 year, 7 months ago

U.P. urban body polls | BJP wins 813 seats of corporators, Samajwadi Party bags 191

The Hindu  

The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has won 813 out of the 1,420 seats in the corporators category in the State's urban local body polls, while the Opposition Samajwadi Party bagged 191 and the Bahujan Samaj Party 85. According to the State Election Commission, Samajwadi Party's Wasim defeated BJP's Rupesh for the post of Nagar Panchayat chairperson of Khetasarai in …

'BJP Mukt South India': Kharge Hits Back At Saffron Party's 'Congress Mukt Bharat' Jibe
1 year, 7 months ago

'BJP Mukt South India': Kharge Hits Back At Saffron Party's 'Congress Mukt Bharat' Jibe

ABP News  

New Delhi: After registering a massive victory in Karnataka Assembly elections on Saturday, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said in a democracy, political parties are bound to listen to the people and "bow the heads" before the voters who "show the right path". Speaking on the party's performance, Kharge termed it a "big victory" and said, "Those who wanted to make …

Jalandhar by-poll results | People of Punjab have voted of politics of work and defeated dynasty politics: Arvind Kejriwal
1 year, 7 months ago

Jalandhar by-poll results | People of Punjab have voted of politics of work and defeated dynasty politics: Arvind Kejriwal

The Hindu  

Aam Aadmi Party chief and New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on May 13 said that AAP’s win in the Jalandhar by-poll was an unprecedented victory. The whole of Punjab’s mood is captured in the Jalandhar result and people of Punjab have given a stamp of approval to the AAP government in Punjab and they believe that we are doing …

Can AAP make a dent in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls?
1 year, 9 months ago

Can AAP make a dent in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls?

India Today  

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, on March 14, addressed an Aam Aadmi Party public meeting at Bhopal’s BHEL Dussehra Maidan. Besides reiterating that AAP would contest all 230 assembly seats, party supremo Kejriwal raked up the issue of the Jyotiraditya Scindia-led crossover of Congress MLAs to the BJP in 2020, which had led to the …

Confident AAP presents a national narrative as main challenger to BJP after Gujarat gains
1 year, 11 months ago

Confident AAP presents a national narrative as main challenger to BJP after Gujarat gains

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 29, 2022 10:50 IST “Now it will be Narendra Modi versus Arvind Kejriwal in 2024,” the Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh declared as he celebrated the party’s impressive performance in Gujarat in early December. In a paper analysing the 2020 Delhi elections, Ankita Barthwal and I had demonstrated three related points: one, the median voter of …

Assembly result lessons: BJP can’t be defeated by divided Opposition
2 years ago

Assembly result lessons: BJP can’t be defeated by divided Opposition

Firstpost  

There are legitimate discontents of the ordinary citizen — unemployment, price rise, authoritarianism — that the Opposition can harness to build a national narrative. Moreover, the BJP almost got a walk over, since the Congress campaign was in tatters, and the Opposition vote was further divided by the over-hyped entry of the Aam Aadmi Party. One of the inevitable consequences …

Capital victory: The Hindu Editorial on AAP’s win in 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls
2 years ago

Capital victory: The Hindu Editorial on AAP’s win in 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls

The Hindu  

The Aam Aadmi Party has ended the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 15-year term at the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, winning 134 of the 250 seats. The mounting problem of solid waste in the capital city’s three landfills, in Okhla, Bhalswa and Ghazipur, was a major poll issue raised by AAP, in turn putting the BJP on the defensive. AAP’s electoral victory …

BJP, AIMIM, AAP fought together in Gujarat, says Congress
2 years ago

BJP, AIMIM, AAP fought together in Gujarat, says Congress

The Hindu  

The BJP contested the Gujarat Assembly elections in alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party and All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen, the Congress said a day after results of the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh were declared. We filed several complaints about electoral malpractices, which were ignored,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said at a press conference in party headquarters …

In electoral arena, BJP remains the party to beat
2 years ago

In electoral arena, BJP remains the party to beat

The Hindu  

On the face of it, the results of the Assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, and the municipal corporation elections in Delhi, gave every contender what they wanted — an even-stevens draw, with the BJP winning its seventh straight, record-breaking victory in Gujarat; the Congress wresting Himachal Pradesh; and the Aam Aadmi Party finally capturing the MCD. The disparate …

Data | AAP performed better in rural areas than urban seats in the 2022 Gujarat Election
2 years ago

Data | AAP performed better in rural areas than urban seats in the 2022 Gujarat Election

The Hindu  

As voting concludes, performance in rural and urban seats shows the extent of a party’s regional influence in Gujarat. Surprisingly, AAP’s vote share was higher among rural seats than urban seats. Click to remove AMP mode Table 2 lays out the number of seats that each party won/led in the urban and rural areas. The numbers now show that the …

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