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Which political party will win the upcoming general elections in India in 2024?

  • Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)

    Votes: 14 93.3%

  • Indian National Congress (INC)

    Votes: 1 6.7%

  • Aam Adami Party (AAP)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Communist Party (CP)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • National People's Party (NPP)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Some other regional party

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    15
Things not looking great. Although BJP would still form the govt, it won't be Modi if they get 250 odd seats. The question right now is whether it will be Modi or who else from non Modi camp within BJP becoming the next PM.
 
CricketCartoons said:
Things not looking great. Although BJP would still form the govt, it won't be Modi if they get 250 odd seats. The question right now is whether it will be Modi or who else from non Modi camp within BJP becoming the next PM.
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BJParty still getting 290 . Trust the EVM , ECI & Govt machinery .
 
CricketCartoons said:
Things not looking great. Although BJP would still form the govt, it won't be Modi if they get 250 odd seats. The question right now is whether it will be Modi or who else from non Modi camp within BJP becoming the next PM.
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All efforts on ground to make sure Gadkari loses.

This is going to be fun though :dhoni
 
Sanjay Kumar, CSDS survey: There is fierce battle between BJP and INDIA alliance as per the trends i have got. It is not one sided election. Opposition is fighting well.

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Meanwhile in Haryana...

Haryana Government Loses Majority As 3 Independent MLAs Support Congress​


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Haryana Government Loses Majority As 3 Independent MLAs Support Congress

In a setback to the ruling BJP in Haryana amid the Lok Sabha elections, three Independent MLAs today announced that they have withdrawn their support to the Nayab Singh Saini-led government in the state.
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Why are MLAs ditching BJP right away? Election results haven't been announced. Who knows BJP could sweep Haryana as per opinion polls? ;);););););)
 
sensible-indian-fan said:
Sanjay Kumar, CSDS survey: There is fierce battle between BJP and INDIA alliance as per the trends i have got. It is not one sided election. Opposition is fighting well.

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Meanwhile in Haryana...

Haryana Government Loses Majority As 3 Independent MLAs Support Congress​


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Haryana Government Loses Majority As 3 Independent MLAs Support Congress

In a setback to the ruling BJP in Haryana amid the Lok Sabha elections, three Independent MLAs today announced that they have withdrawn their support to the Nayab Singh Saini-led government in the state.
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Why are MLAs ditching BJP right away? Election results haven't been announced. Who knows BJP could sweep Haryana as per opinion polls? ;);););););)
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Yeah even Pradeep Gupta is saying 'Picture abhi baaki hai' :ROFLMAO:

Yeshwant Gupta is also looking bit worried who predicted all those landslide victories for BJP in opinion poll. Just look at his face :cry:

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CricketCartoons said:
Things not looking great. Although BJP would still form the govt, it won't be Modi if they get 250 odd seats. The question right now is whether it will be Modi or who else from non Modi camp within BJP becoming the next PM.
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That would be optimum, I wouldn't mind a close BJP victory provided the toxic duo Modi & Shah are removed from Cabinet.
 
Rajdeep said:
People of North are white and people of South India looks like Africans - Sam Pitroda from Congress and close advisor of Rahul Gandhi creates massive controversy. No wonder he is trending no.1 in twitter.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1788092316294799473

Another day another self goal from Congress. Probably @pillionrider will find a way to defend this as well.
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lol Sam is a Gujarati ? Hahaha didn't know this. I thought he was of tribal origin from Orissa or something.

What exactly is wrong with the stereotypical rubbish he spouted apart from showing himself to be ignorant.

Calm down. India doesn't vote based on what some Pitroda says or thinks. But keep yourself happy for a few more weeks if that works for you.
 
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pillionrider said:
lol Sam is a Gujarati ? Hahaha didn't know this. I thought he was of tribal origin from Orissa or something.

What exactly is wrong with the stereotypical rubbish he spouted apart from showing himself to be ignorant.

Calm down. India doesn't vote based on what some Pitroda says or thinks. But keep yourself happy for a few more weeks if that works for you.
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:D
 
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BJP's true vote bank is the people, says Shah​

Amit Shah, further attacking the Yadav family, said, "The Yadav family declined the invitation for the Ram Temple ceremony due to concerns about their vote bank, but we do not fear such considerations. Our true vote bank is the people. PM Modi has not only overseen the construction of the Ram Mandir but has also undertaken the reconstruction of the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir, previously demolished by Aurangzeb. Additionally, work is underway at the Somnath Mandir. The decision to abolish Article 370 was made to integrate Kashmir fully into India".

Source: Money Control
 

Rahul ji is not taking Adani-Ambani names, says Priyanka Gandhi Vadra​

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra addresses a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli she says, "Today he (PM Narendra Modi) said- "Rahul ji is not taking Adani-Ambani names." But Rahul ji talks about Adani-Ambani every day, he puts the truth about them before the public. Every day we tell you that they (BJP) have a nexus with big industrialists. They waived off Rs 16 lakh crores of his friends. In UP, farmers are committing suicide but their loans were not waived off...."

Source: Money Control
 

Why do these people want Babri mosque at the place of Ram temple, says Union Minister Anurag Thakur​


Addressing a public meeting in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur, Union Minister Anurag Thakur says, "Those who used to say, repress Sanatan, won't leave Hindus, Ram is an imaginative figure, Ram Setu doesn't exist and even today they are saying that we will build Babri Mosque at the place of Ram Temple. I want to ask, when the land for Babri mosques has been allotted separately, why do these people want Babri mosque at the place of Ram temple, why these people are doing appeasement politics...Their intentions will never be fulfilled."

Source: Money Control
 
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting highlights: 63% voter turnout recorded across 11 states, UTs in Phase 3

he polling will is being held in 93 Lok Sabha constituencies across 11 states and Union Territories in the third phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 today. As many as 1,331 candidates are in the fray in the Phase 3 polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were among the first voters on Tuesday. Before casting his vote the PM urged all those who are voting in today’s phase to vote in record numbers. “Their active participation will certainly make the elections more vibrant," the PM said in a post on X.

Fate of over 283 Lok Sabha seats would be sealed after the third phase is over today. This means elections to more than half of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will be over in the first three phases.

Voting began at 7 am and ends at 6 pm. About 39.92 % voter turnout was recorded across 93 seats until 1 pm, according to the poll panel in the Phase 3 of polling on Tuesday. West Bengal recorded highest 49.27% turnout till 1 pm.

Voting will be completed in Gujarat and Goa states and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Union Territory on Tuesday. Also with 14 seats voting in this phase, voting for all 28 seats of Karnataka will also be over today. With seven seats voting today, the Lok Sabha Election for 11 seats of Chhattisgarh will also be over.

Among the other seats third phase are four in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, nine in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh and four in West Bengal.

Among the key candidates whose fate will be sealed today include Union Home Minister Amit Shah who is contesting from Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha (MP), Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna (MP) and Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri (UP), to name a few.

Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule taking on his nephew Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar from Baramati seat in Maharashtra is also a keenly-watched contest in third phase.

Union Ministers Mansukh Mandaviya (Porbandar), Parshottam Rupala (Rajkot) and Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad) are also in the fray in this phase of polling.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha Election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies bad won 75 of the 93 seats going to polls on Tuesday. Of these 71 where by the BJP alone. The INDIA bloc parties had won only 8 seats. The Congress had won just four seats. Four seats were bagged the undivided Shiv Sena, three by undivided NCP, two by independents, and one by the AIUDF.

As many as 17.24 crore voters are eligible to vote in the third phase. Around 18.5 lakh Polling officials have been deployed across 1.85 lakh polling stations, the poll panel said. There are over 14.04 lakh registered 85+ year-old voters. Another 39,599 voters are above 100 years of age in phase 3 polling.

The first two phases of elections were held on April 19 and 26. Overall, voting for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases. The remaining phases will be held on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. The counting of votes for all seven phases of Lok Sabha Elections will take place on June 4.

The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is seeking a record third term under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has set a target of winning 400 seats this election. The ruling alliance is challenged by the opposition parties led by the Congress under the banner of the INDIA bloc.

Mint
 
Rajdeep said:
Btw @pillionrider , Gandhi family is also from Parsi Gujarati community as a FYI. Hopefully you are aware of it right?
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Is that so? Who cares. In any case, I stopped taking your words for fact ever since you posted gems like this :dhoni


Rajdeep said:
Yes majority of Indians didn't vote for Modi yet BJP and his allies has 350+ seats in parliament. I know you aren't that sharp but atleast make some sense sometime. 37% voted for BJP but out of what? You do realize 100% never turns out to vote right? The voters turn out always around 60-65% mark.

Twist or cry how much you want, there is no denying Modi's popularity in India or overseas.

#SabChangaSi
#HowdyModi

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Or that other one about the linear graph :ROFLMAO:
 
'Pulwama Still A Big Mystery…BJP Can Do Anything During Polls’: Cong's Warring On Channi’s Poonch Attack Remark


After Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi’s “poll stunt” remark on the Poonch terror attack in which an IAF soldier was killed and four were injured, the grand old party’s Punjab unit president and its Lok Sabha candidate from Ludhiana, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the BJP can do anything during elections.

Warring went on to say that the Pulwama attack, in which over 40 CRPF personnel were killed on February 14, 2019, is still a “big mystery”.

“Pulwama attack is still a big mystery and story…I’m not talking about Poonch attack but BJP can do anything during elections,” Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said.

The Congress leader also mentioned former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik who raised questions over the Pulwama attack and alleged intelligence failures.

BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla launched a scathing attack on the Congress party accusing it of “playing vote bank ki Rajniti over Rashtraniti (playing politics of vote bank instead of country welfare)”.

“In Modi Virodh giving clean chit to Pakistan and Ajmal Kasab other Jihadis Congress ka haath pakistan ke saath!” the BJP leader said in an X post.

“Anyone who speaks the language of Pakistan should be put in jail, ” Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also reacted to Warring’s statement saying, “Those raising Pakistan slogans should leave the country, not become a burden on India.”

Former Punjab chief minister and Congress candidate Jalandhar parliamentary constituency, Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday had called the Poonch terror attack a “stunt” meant to make the BJP win the Lok Sabha elections.
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pillionrider said:
lol Sam is a Gujarati ? Hahaha didn't know this. I thought he was of tribal origin from Orissa or something.

What exactly is wrong with the stereotypical rubbish he spouted apart from showing himself to be ignorant.

Calm down. India doesn't vote based on what some Pitroda says or thinks. But keep yourself happy for a few more weeks if that works for you.
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Yeah- if this was coming from a bjp leader all hell will break lose. You yourself would have gone crazy about it lol 😂
Different strokes for different blokes i guess - yeah i get it now
 
Hitman said:
'Pulwama Still A Big Mystery…BJP Can Do Anything During Polls’: Cong's Warring On Channi’s Poonch Attack Remark


After Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi’s “poll stunt” remark on the Poonch terror attack in which an IAF soldier was killed and four were injured, the grand old party’s Punjab unit president and its Lok Sabha candidate from Ludhiana, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the BJP can do anything during elections.

Warring went on to say that the Pulwama attack, in which over 40 CRPF personnel were killed on February 14, 2019, is still a “big mystery”.

“Pulwama attack is still a big mystery and story…I’m not talking about Poonch attack but BJP can do anything during elections,” Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said.

The Congress leader also mentioned former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik who raised questions over the Pulwama attack and alleged intelligence failures.

BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla launched a scathing attack on the Congress party accusing it of “playing vote bank ki Rajniti over Rashtraniti (playing politics of vote bank instead of country welfare)”.

“In Modi Virodh giving clean chit to Pakistan and Ajmal Kasab other Jihadis Congress ka haath pakistan ke saath!” the BJP leader said in an X post.

“Anyone who speaks the language of Pakistan should be put in jail, ” Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also reacted to Warring’s statement saying, “Those raising Pakistan slogans should leave the country, not become a burden on India.”

Former Punjab chief minister and Congress candidate Jalandhar parliamentary constituency, Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday had called the Poonch terror attack a “stunt” meant to make the BJP win the Lok Sabha elections.
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As usual -- traiter level talks from Congress- nothing unusual
 
Whoever wins should win with smashing majority. Coalition of parties never works and the Government will not be able to implement anything in their manifesto.

All the best to India.
 
Sam Pitroda seems to be another buffoon allied to Congress. He would complement Rahul baba really nicely.

I can picture both Rahul and Pitroda cracking jokes and laughing their tails off all day.
 
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We see how congress works now.

Separate Hindus in India on the basis of caste so they remain un-united, separate Indians based on skin complexion.

Divide and rule...

But it's all good I am backing the Italians to win in 3 weeks time and watch the Indians get ruled by an invaders again :dhoni


No wonder Pakistan and China are desperate for Puppu to be PM🤡
 
‘My vote snatched’: India election clouded by mysterious candidate pullouts

Prince Patel cancelled his vacation plans after the dates were announced for India’s ongoing weeks-long elections. The 61-year-old retired engineer said he had waited patiently for five years to cast his vote in Surat, India’s diamond hub in the western Indian state of Gujarat, “to give my referendum against the policy failures of [Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s] government”.

But when the May 7 date arrived for the city to vote along with 92 other constituencies in the third phase of India’s election, there were no polling booths set up in Surat.

Two weeks earlier, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had already called the seat in favour of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after cancelling the nominations of the opposition Congress party’s candidate and five others. The eight remaining candidates all withdrew.

Patel said he was devastated. He had voted for the BJP in 2014, lifted by Modi’s promises of “acche din” (good days). But by 2019, disenchantment had set in. Unemployment and price rise are some of his biggest worries, he said – sentiments that mirror recent opinion polls.

“I would rather vote for a pigeon than choose the BJP,” he said. “My children have graduated but there are no jobs.”

Yet, Surat is only the most extreme example of a peculiar phenomenon that is playing out in multiple constituencies across India: opposition candidates dropping out, joining the ruling BJP or alleging threats to their lives. Even as the BJP has denied any foul play, opposition candidates claim these instances are evidence of an uneven political playing field.

“The government is their [BJP’s] own, and the election commission cancelled several nominations on one point or another,” said Vijay Lohar, who was the candidate of a regional party, the Bahujan Republican Socialist Party, before his nomination was rejected by election authorities. “The BJP is the referee of this game. Where should I complain?”

‘Show of dominance’

More than 400km (250 miles) miles away from Surat, the city of Indore in the central state of Madhya Pradesh is also preparing for what is shaping up, effectively, as a non-contest.

The city’s vote is scheduled for May 13. But Akshay Kanti Bam, the candidate for the Congress, withdrew his nomination on April 29, the last date for withdrawal of candidatures – after the deadline for filing nominations had passed. In essence, that has meant that the Congress cannot contest against sitting BJP member of parliament Shankar Lalwani, who is also the party’s nominee this time around. Bam, meanwhile, has also quit the Congress and joined the BJP on election eve, claiming that the party that nominated him for the constituency did not support his campaign on the ground.

The Congress party has called on voters in Indore to pick the ‘None of the Above’, or NOTA, option on electoral voting machines – which allows them to show displeasure with all candidates who are contesting – even as it accuses the BJP of pressuring Bam to switch sides on election eve. Bam did not respond to repeated requests from Al Jazeera for an interview.

The BJP insists it has had no role in the decisions of opposition candidates who have withdrawn their nominations.

“People have withdrawn as per their discretion and these are absolutely baseless allegations,” said Zafar Islam, a national spokesperson for the BJP. “Thousands of candidates are fighting in this election across hundreds of seats peacefully – these allegations are only aimed at maligning the BJP’s image.”

But some analysts see a pattern in the constituencies affected by candidate withdrawals. Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are both bastions of the BJP: The party won all 26 of Gujarat’s seats in the Lok Sabha – the lower house of India’s parliament – in 2014 and 2019. It won 27 out of Madhya Pradesh’s 29 seats in 2014 and improved that to 28 wins in 2019.

In the public eye, the pull-out of opposition candidates from key contests in these states is akin to “booth capturing”, said Neelanjan Sircar, a senior fellow at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research (CPR), referring to the illegal practice of seizing control of a polling station during elections, which used to be common in parts of India until a few decades ago.

“At a level of the booth, you capture the booth you are strongest at, and that is done to demonstrate dominance,” said Sircar. The idea, he said, is to “signal to the opposition that we can win elections whenever we want”.

And however the ruling party wants, if Jitendra Chauhan, a candidate who withdrew his nomination from the Gandhinagar seat in Gujarat, is to be believed.

‘Threat to our lives’

Chauhan’s name was supposed to be among the options on the voting machine on May 7, when Gandhinagar voted.

But the 39-year-old painter, who was contesting as an independent candidate, pulled out of the election against India’s powerful Home Minister Amit Shah, who is widely seen as Modi’s deputy.

“There has been extreme pressure upon me, and I have been mentally tortured to the point where I gave up,” Chauhan told Al Jazeera. He claimed that “BJP people” approached his extended family to pressure him to quit. If they could reach his family, they could hurt them too, he feared.

“So I backed off and withdrew my nomination,” he said.

Father to three daughters, Chauhan released a video on April 21, sobbing and alluding to a threat that he received of consequences – including for his very life – if he did not back down. Many other candidates also pulled out from the contest against Shah.

“I have a responsibility to raise my daughters,” he said, adding that he moved his children to safety outside Gujarat, which is ruled by the BJP, before coming back to vote on May 7. “I’m not financially well-off and I cannot afford to resist the BJP because anything can happen to our lives.”

The BJP has not lost the Gandhinagar seat since 1984. In the 2019 elections, Shah won the seat by a margin of 550,000 votes, and there is little evidence that he would have faced any risk of a loss even if all candidates had contested as they had planned to. But his campaign has set its eyes on doubling Shah’s 2019 victory margin, and fewer contestants could help.

In the 2014 and 2019 elections, “there was a booming turnout for anticorruption promises and nationalism”, but the BJP has lost that wave, said Sircar of the CPR. “The BJP is certainly the most popular party in India, but you have to manufacture some ways of keeping these markers of dominance,” he said.

A Gujarat-based political analyst, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of fears over their safety, said these incidents pointed to holes in India’s claims to be the world’s largest democracy simply because of the scale of the election it holds. “The worst of democracies also have elections – you cannot do away with elections,” they said. “But the question is about the fairness of the electoral process, and that seems compromised in India.”

It is a sentiment that Chauhan echoed. He said he had thought of contesting because, as a common man who had grown up in poverty, he felt politics was the only vehicle for change.

“But it will always be like a hole in my heart that I was forced into withdrawing,” said Chauhan, his voice cracking, as he spoke on May 7 after voting. “When I voted today, I did not feel like an independent citizen. I felt like a subject of King Modi.”

‘Future in darkness’

In India, a walkover is rare for candidates. An uncontested win has only been recorded 23 times since the country gained independence in 1947.

But for a little more than a decade, Indian elections have also offered the NOTA option. That’s what the Congress is pushing voters in Indore to pick on May 13.

Anuj, a 60-year-old from Indore, who wished to be identified by his first name, was first drawn to the Congress when he drove the campaign jeep of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as a young man more than three decades ago. Since then, he has been loyal to the party, he said, and has campaigned for the Congress this time too.

“We all will vote NOTA. My party candidate is not there, and the other option is the BJP,” he said. “It may not change anything, but it will give comfort to my heart that I resisted.”

Meanwhile, a group of lawyers working with civil society activists are also planning to take India’s election commission to court for calling the result of the Surat election without allowing people to vote on NOTA.

“Is NOTA not seen as an independent candidate on the machine?” one of the lawyers said in a conversation with Al Jazeera, requesting anonymity, citing fears of pressure aimed at pre-empting the petition.

Back in Surat, Patel, the retired engineer, was more blunt about his frustration.

“My right to vote has been snatched,” he said.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA
 
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