Will Ajit Doval’s second term as NSA see India’s most-wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim being ‘taken out’? After Uri surgical strikes across the line of control and the Balakote airstrike inside Pakistan in the first term, it’s target Dawood now.
On the eve of counting day, all eyes are on three key states – Karnataka, West Bengal and Odisha, that have the potential to spring a surprise and influence the results of the Lok Sabha elections 2019.
Sadhvi Pragya, an accused in the Malegaon blast case, joined the BJP formally on Wednesday and will contest the Lok Sabha election against Congress' Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal
The big takeaway from the list is announcement of BJP president Amit Shah to contest his first Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, a seat that has been represented by senior leader L.K. Advani for past five terms.
While PM Modi had earlier announced 10% reservation for the economically backward class to keep them in good humour, middle class and farmers have been taken care of in the pre-poll budget.
If the present mood in the Congress persists, more protests are expected in the National Capital and other parts of the country in the run up to 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Theirs is a unique partnership that successfully ground down the anti-BJP narratives around demonetisation, farm distress and job flight, getting people across sections to vote for Modi. And Amit Shah’s realpolitik may now enable the PM to build an inclusive image.
BJP's Kailash Vijayvargia, in-charge of West Bengal since 2015, tells Outlook that it is going to be the survival of the fittest in the volatile state.
With this victory—which has the look of a tectonic plate shifting—Narendra Modi becomes the first non-Congress PM since Indira Gandhi to return to power for a full five-year term.
With neither BJP-led NDA nor the Congress-led UPA sure of forming the government, a fractured verdict on May 23 will bring regional parties into focus. The possibilities are manifold with every party expected to extract their pound of flesh
Indian politics remain a male dominated domain. So much so that women candidates aspiring to be an MP or MLA have to endure sexist comments and even fend off perverted men during their campaign trail
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