Congress returns to power in Karnataka after eight years by winning 117 seats in the state. It is also after 10 years that Congress forms a government on its own without support from other parties. JD(S) won 41 seats making it the largest party in the Oppositi...
The Congress party is happy with the elections results in Karnataka. After 2004 this is the first time that a party will form the government without support from others. The split with Yeddyurappa is being touted as one of the main reasons behind the huge loss...
After a gap of nearly 10 years the Congress party will form their own government without any help from other parties in Karnataka. As expected the Congress leaders fell over themselves in giving the credit to the Gandhi family for the victory in the state. Thi...
According to lawyer Ram Jethmalani BJP lost Karnataka because they expelled Yeddyurappa from the party. He also said that Yeddyurappa was innocent and the High Court crushed the case of corruption against the leader.
Congress has come to power in Karnataka after 10 years. The results clearly indicate that the people of Karnataka want a stable government and do not want coalition rule in the state. Congress will form the government with 116 seats. JD(S) edged its way past B...
It is becoming clear that BJP is losing its foothold in South. The results point to the fact that BJP has slid to the third spot with just 38 seats. Another cause of worry for the right wing party is that JD(S) has sneaked up to the second slot with 42 seats w...
Congress has won 105 seats as of now and it is just seven seats away from the magical mark of 112 to form its own government in Karnataka. On the other hand, BJP and JD(S) are running neck to neck with 42 and 43 seats respectively. While Yeddyurappa managed to...
As the counting continues, Congress is becoming the single largest party with majority in Karnataka and BJP's woes continue as they slip to the third spot in numbers. Congress, though leading, might not be able to form the government on its own and it may have...
Congress leader Manish Tewari in his address to the media said that he is a lawyer by profession and he has not studied astrology so he can not predict the outcome of the elections. He also added that he would only comment on the results once the counting proc...
Early trends in the counting for the Karnataka elections indicates that Congress might return to power in the state. Out of 138 seats, Congress has leads in 65 seats while BJP is trailing with just 36 seats.
The counting for the state elections in Karnataka has begun. Good news is coming in for Congress which is leading with 19 seats to its name. BJP has suffered a major setback with the party losing leads on 13 key seats. All eyes are on Yeddyurappa whose party h...
The leads of 18 seats have come out. Congress has emerged as the single party with the maximum number of seats at six and they are closely followed by BJP who have leads in five seats so far. JDS with just one less than BJP stands at four and Yeddyurappa's par...
The counting of the votes begins in Karnataka today. The results will determine which party would reign the state for the next five years. Will BJP retain its hold on the state or will Congress edge out their arch political rivals? Will Yeddyurappa play an imp...
Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is likely to be questioned by the CBI in the case concerning his nephew Vijay Singla allegedly taking a bribe from a Railway Board official. Sources claim that there is enough reason to believe that Singla might not be the ...
Even though the broad picture looks in favour of the BJP in Gujarat, the Congress has managed to take the lead in the early counting trends. The Congress looks aggressive in the early trends. But as the counting is done according to the booth, there is this bi...
In the leads that have come in so far from north Gujarat and Saurashtra, the BJP leads in 20 seats while Congress leads in 9 and One seat for 'Others'. The big picture is that BJP is the favourite but the Congress has managed to eat into BJP areas.
It would be wrong to assume that this or that party would emerge victorious in the end, says two journalists who talk to Aaj Tak anchor Shweta Singh from Ahmedabad. It is 8.30 am and the trends show Congress making a good show. But this can be risky. In 2007, ...
The celebrations have already begun in the BJP camp in Gujarat, as Chief Minister Narendra Modi prepares for a record third-term in power. The BJP is also getting ready a massive party for December 20, when the results of the Assembly elections will be made pu...
The Prime Minister's remark that Gujarat is unsafe for minorities, sparked off an age-old debate of vote-bank politics in Gujarat. Late campaigns by Congress President Sonia Gandhi and an immensely popular Rahul Gandhi in Modi's heartland added to the tensions...
Gujarat's longest-serving Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, looks all set for a hat-trick in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections. The 'India Today ORG Gujarat polls' survey has projected that despite anti-incumbency the BJP will win yet again in Gujarat, and ...
One interesting aspect of the voter survey conducted by India Today-ORG was only 35 % of the Gujarati voter sampled said Rahul Gandhi would be a preferred candidate for the post of Prime Minister. For Narendra Modi, the figure was 56% while Nitish Kumar got ju...
The BJP-JDU alliance in Bihar is more strained than ever before. Another war of words has broken out between the BJP and its ally JDU over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's proposed trip to Bihar next year. The BJP had earlier made it clear that it is pre...
Another war of words has broken out between the BJP and its ally JDU over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's proposed trip to Bihar next year. The BJP had earlier made it clear that it is preparing to contest all 40 seats in Bihar during the 2014 elections...
Who will be the Sardar of Gujarat in the coming Assembly elections? Some would say this answer is superfluous. It is Narendra Modi who will return back to power. But then how will the voters decide? Is Modi's trump card of development totally true? Or a chimer...
The BJP seems to be preparing for life without Nitish Kumar. The party is now preparing to take on its ally in the state. The BJP has announced that it will contest for all 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state, in the process putting up a strong fight against its r...
Is demand for removal of Manmohan Singh not just of the BJP, but also that of the some elements of Congress including its party president Sonia Gandhi? Is the Congress planning to use the hungama over Coalgate to unseat Manmohan Singh and install Rahul Gandhi...
YSR Congress candidate Ballineni Srinivas Reddy who won the Ongole seat says the public has seen through the opposition's allegations on the VANPIC land issue. State BJP leader G Kishan Reddy says that TRS has tried to run a negative campaign against the BJP i...
Stories in this special by-election bulletin are on the use of gold chains to woo voters, popularity of CBI officer VV Lakshminarayana, and the tussle between the TRS and the BJP over the Parakala seat.
The Telanagana Joint Action Committee at its meeting has sought a consensus among its constituent parties over issues of contesting for the Parakala Assembly seat.
Encouraged by success in recent bypolls in winning a seat from Telangana region, the BJP is toying with the idea of fielding Sushma Swaraj from a Telangana seat for the 2014 elections.
Anshuman Mishra, who was forced to withdraw his nomination for the RS seat from Jharkhand after opposition from top BJP leaders, says he did not indulge in horse trading.
Calling his win in the Nagar Kurnool seat a victory for Telangana, independent candidate Nagam Janardhan Reddy took a dig at his former party boss Chandrababu Naidu
Results for all seven Assembly seats: TRS has won 4, YSR Congress has bagged the Kovur seat, BJP has a surprise win in Mahabubnagar and TDP draws a blank.
Jupally Krishna Rao, who joined TRS after resigning from Congress over the issue of Telangana, has won the Kollapur Assembly seat in Mahabubnagar district.
Anshuman Mishra, whose candidature for the RS seat from Jharkhand with the support of the BJP, says he was under pressure to reconsider his decision of withdrawal.
Independent candidate for Rajaya Sabha seat from Jharkhand, Anshuman Mishra, offers to give his candidature, following a dissent in the BJP over party's support to him.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is set to appear before the Supreme Court in a contempt of court case, involving graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, while in India, battles in the poll-bound states are hotting up.
With an eye on the OBC vote bank, the BJP is fielding former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharati in the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The results of the India Today Org Opinion Polls indicate that no party will get a winning majority in UP assembly elections, but SP is likely to emerge as the largest party.