#Lok Sabha seats

[rightnewshindi]

चारों लोकसभा सीटों पर कांग्रेस से सुफड़ा होगा साफ, प्रतिभा सिंह भी नही बचा पाएंगी अपनी सीट; जानें क्या कहता है सर्वे

चारों लोकसभा सीटों पर कांग्रेस से सुफड़ा होगा साफ, प्रतिभा सिंह भी नही बचा पाएंगी अपनी सीट; जानें क्या कहता है सर्वे

Himachal News: हिमाचल प्रदेश की कांग्रेस सरकार में ‘सबकुछ ठीक’ नहीं नजर आ रहा है। दरअसल, कुछ दिनों पहले कांग्रेस के छह विधायकों ने बगावत कर दिया। उस दिन से ही बागियों और सीएम सुक्खू के बीच ‘शब्द बाण’ चल रहे हैं। ऐसे में लोकसभा चुनाव 2024 को लेकर एक ताजा सर्वे आया है। इस सर्वे में कांग्रेस को एक जोर का झटका लगा है। सर्वे के मुताबिक, राज्य में कांग्रेस की इकलौती सांसद और पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री वीरभद्र…

[townpostin]

Yashwant Sinha Launches Atal Vichar Manch Political Party

Former Foreign Minister forms new party amid BJP ticket controversy Yashwant Sinha announces the formation of Atal Vichar Manch following BJP’s decision on Hazaribagh seat. RANCHI – Former Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has launched a new political party named Atal Vichar Manch, responding to recent BJP ticket allocations. The formation comes after BJP denied a ticket to Sinha’s son, Jayant…

[livenews24x7hindi]

वायनाड भूस्खलन पर चीन ने जताई चिंता, हादसे में मारे गए लोगों को लेकर दिया बड़ा बयान

वायनाड भूस्खलन में मारे गए लोगों को लेकर चीन ने एक बयान जारी किया है। इसके तहत चीन ने केरल भूस्खलन में हुई मौतों पर गहरा दुख और संवेदना व्यक्त की है। इसमें किसी भी चीनी नागरिक की मौत नहीं हुई है। बीजिंग: चीन ने केरल के वायनाड जिले में हुए भूस्खलन की घटना पर गहरी चिंता जताई है। इसके साथ ही बुधवार को भूस्खलन में जान गंवाने वालों के परिजनों के प्रति संवेदना जताई और घायलों के शीघ्र स्वस्थ होने की…

[kimskashmir]

Engineer Rashid takes oath as member of 18th Lok Sabha

NEW DELHI — Jailed leader Engineer Rashid took oath as a member of Parliament on Friday after he was released on a two-hour custody parole by the Patiala House court in Delhi. Engineer Rashid was sworn in as a member of the 18th Lok Sabha following his victory from the Baramulla constituency in J&K. He defeated former J&K chief minister and vice president of the National Conference (NC), Omar…

[9327005315]

हिंदू के साथ🔥 मुस्लिम लड़की Viral video help poor people love donations c...

[signode-blog]

Phalodi Satta Bazar Predicts Tight Race for BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha Elections

The Phalodi Satta Bazar, a prominent and influential betting market in India, has been closely monitoring and predicting the outcomes of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Known for its historical accuracy in forecasting election results, the Phalodi market’s predictions are highly anticipated and scrutinized. As of the latest phases of the election, Phalodi Satta Bazar has adjusted its predictions,…

[gazetteweekly]

Clash of Titans: Kangana Ranaut vs. Vikramaditya in Mandi's Election Battle

Introduction: The picturesque region of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh is currently abuzz with political fervor as two formidable contenders, Kangana Ranaut and Vikramaditya Singh, lock horns in a fierce electoral showdown. This clash of titans has captured the attention of the nation as the Bollywood actress-turned-politician takes on the scion of the royal family in a closely contested battle for the Mandi Lok Sabha seat.

Body: Kangana Ranaut’s entry into politics has been nothing short of dramatic, with her aggressive campaigning style and unwavering determination to make her mark felt in the political arena. Despite facing criticism and controversy, Ranaut has been drawing massive crowds and cheers with her fiery speeches and impassioned attacks on her opponents. With her emphasis on nationalist issues and vocal support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she has emerged as a formidable force in the electoral landscape.

On the other hand, Vikramaditya Singh, the Congress candidate and scion of the Mandi royal family, brings with him a deep-rooted connection to the region and a legacy of public service. With his emphasis on local issues and promises of development, Singh has been rallying support from the grassroots level, leveraging his familial ties and political experience to connect with voters.

The campaign trail has been marked by heated exchanges and intense scrutiny, with both candidates leaving no stone unturned in their bid to sway voters. Ranaut’s aggressive approach and direct attacks on her opponents have stirred controversy, while Singh has sought to highlight his local roots and track record of governance.

Despite the intense competition, the outcome of the election remains uncertain, with both candidates enjoying significant support bases. As the polling day draws near, all eyes are on Mandi to see which titan will emerge victorious in this high-stakes electoral battle.

Conclusion: The electoral battle in Mandi represents more than just a contest between two candidates; it symbolizes the clash of ideologies, personalities, and aspirations. With Kangana Ranaut and Vikramaditya Singh vying for supremacy, the fate of Mandi hangs in the balance, awaiting the verdict of its voters. As the nation watches with bated breath, one thing is certain — the showdown in Mandi is far from over.

[gajananjogdand45]

https://marmikmaharashtra.com/hingoli-yavatmal-washim-chhatrapati-sambhajinagar-lok-sabha-seat-allotment-results-will-be-announced-tonight/

[rightnewshindi]

17वें लोकसभा चुनावों में हुआ वोटों का घोटाला, 598 सीटों पर कम गिने गए 5.54 लाख से ज्यादा वोट; ADR Report

Delhi News: लोकसभा चुनाव में 538 संसदीय सीटों पर डाले गए वोटों की संख्या और गिने गए वोटों की संख्या में विसंगतियां पाई गई हैं। भारतीय राजनीति और चुनाव प्रक्रिया पर नजर रखने वाले संगठन ‘एसोसिएशन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक रिफार्म्स (ADR) के संस्थापक प्रो. जगदीप छोकर ने सोमवार को प्रेस क्लब में रिपोर्ट जारी करते हुए ये दावा किया। दावे के अनुसार लोकसभा की 362 सीटों पर डाले गए कुल मतों से 5 लाख 54 हजार 598 वोट…

[townpostin]

Dispute Arises Between BJP and AJSU Over Ichagarh Assembly Seat

Conflict between BJP and AJSU intensifies as both parties claim Ichagarh seat. BJP asserts traditional claim while AJSU announces their candidate for the upcoming elections. JAMSHEDPUR – A significant rift has emerged between the BJP and AJSU alliance over the Ichagarh Assembly seat in the Saraikela-Kharsawan district, under the Ranchi Lok Sabha constituency. On Monday, AJSU supremo Sudesh Mahto…

[shaktiknowledgeblog]

rahul gandhi | Rahul Gandhi news | Top News | Wayanad lok sabha seat | CONGRESS

Can Rahul Gandhi Wayanad’s MP still remain? Know from the expert what options they have open? If they get a conversion stay and their membership is returned, the election will also have to cancel their decision। Anyway, the election cannot be held at all। It also takes one and a half months to get the election done। So if the convention can stay in that period then the Election Commission will…

[kimskashmir]

Jugal Sharma bags Jammu seat for third time; credits victory to people, PM Modi

JAMMU — Sitting MP Jugal Kishore Sharma retained his seat and secured a third consecutive victory in the Jammu Lok Sabha seat. He attributed his success to people and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sharma, who has been an MP since 2014, received 6,87,588 votes, defeating his closest competitor Raman Bhalla, Jammu and Kashmir Congress vice president, by a margin of 1,35,498 votes. Bhalla, who had…

[reasonsforhope]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, by some measures, the most popular leader in the world. Prior to the 2024 election, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held an outright majority in the Lok Sabha (India’s Parliament) — one that was widely projected to grow after the vote count. The party regularly boasted that it would win 400 Lok Sabha seats, easily enough to amend India’s constitution along the party's preferred Hindu nationalist lines.

But when the results were announced on Tuesday, the BJP held just 240 seats. They not only underperformed expectations, they actually lost their parliamentary majority. While Modi will remain prime minister, he will do so at the helm of a coalition government — meaning that he will depend on other parties to stay in office, making it harder to continue his ongoing assault on Indian democracy.

So what happened? Why did Indian voters deal a devastating blow to a prime minister who, by all measures, they mostly seem to like?

India is a massive country — the most populous in the world — and one of the most diverse, making its internal politics exceedingly complicated. A definitive assessment of the election would require granular data on voter breakdown across caste, class, linguistic, religious, age, and gender divides. At present, those numbers don’t exist in sufficient detail. 

But after looking at the information that is available and speaking with several leading experts on Indian politics, there are at least three conclusions that I’m comfortable drawing.

First, voters punished Modi for putting his Hindu nationalist agenda ahead of fixing India’s unequal economy. Second, Indian voters had some real concerns about the decline of liberal democracy under BJP rule. Third, the opposition parties waged a smart campaign that took advantage of Modi’s vulnerabilities on the economy and democracy.

Understanding these factors isn’t just important for Indians. The country’s election has some universal lessons for how to beat a would-be authoritarian — ones that Americans especially might want to heed heading into its election in November.

-via Vox, June 7, 2024. Article continues below.

A new (and unequal) economy

Modi’s biggest and most surprising losses came in India’s two most populous states: Uttar Pradesh in the north and Maharashtra in the west. Both states had previously been BJP strongholds — places where the party’s core tactic of pitting the Hindu majority against the Muslim minority had seemingly cemented Hindu support for Modi and his allies.

One prominent Indian analyst, Yogendra Yadav, saw the cracks in advance. Swimming against the tide of Indian media, he correctly predicted that the BJP would fall short of a governing majority.

Traveling through the country, but especially rural Uttar Pradesh, he prophesied “the return of normal politics”: that Indian voters were no longer held spellbound by Modi’s charismatic nationalist appeals and were instead starting to worry about the way politics was affecting their lives.

Yadav’s conclusions derived in no small part from hearing voters’ concerns about the economy. The issue wasn’t GDP growth — India’s is the fastest-growing economy in the world — but rather the distribution of growth’s fruits. While some of Modi’s top allies struck it rich, many ordinary Indians suffered. Nearly half of all Indians between 20 and 24 are unemployed; Indian farmers have repeatedly protested Modi policies that they felt hurt their livelihoods.

“Everyone was talking about price rise, unemployment, the state of public services, the plight of farmers, [and] the struggles of labor,” Yadav wrote...

“We know for sure that Modi’s strongman image and brassy self-confidence were not as popular with voters as the BJP assumed,” says Sadanand Dhume, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies India. 

The lesson here isn’t that the pocketbook concerns trump identity-based appeals everywhere; recent evidence in wealthier democracies suggests the opposite is true. Rather, it’s that even entrenched reputations of populist leaders are not unshakeable. When they make errors, even some time ago, it’s possible to get voters to remember these mistakes and prioritize them over whatever culture war the populist is peddling at the moment.

Liberalism strikes back

The Indian constitution is a liberal document: It guarantees equality of all citizens and enshrines measures designed to enshrine said equality into law. The signature goal of Modi’s time in power has been to rip this liberal edifice down and replace it with a Hindu nationalist model that pushes non-Hindus to the social margins. In pursuit of this agenda, the BJP has concentrated power in Modi’s hands and undermined key pillars of Indian democracy (like a free press and independent judiciary).

Prior to the election, there was a sense that Indian voters either didn’t much care about the assault on liberal democracy or mostly agreed with it. But the BJP’s surprising underperformance suggests otherwise.

The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, published an essential post-election data analysis breaking down what we know about the results. One of the more striking findings is that the opposition parties surged in parliamentary seats reserved for members of “scheduled castes” — the legal term for Dalits, the lowest caste grouping in the Hindu hierarchy.

Caste has long been an essential cleavage in Indian politics, with Dalits typically favoring the left-wing Congress party over the BJP (long seen as an upper-caste party). Under Modi, the BJP had seemingly tamped down on the salience of class by elevating all Hindus — including Dalits — over Muslims. Yet now it’s looking like Dalits were flocking back to Congress and its allies. Why?

According to experts, Dalit voters feared the consequences of a BJP landslide. If Modi’s party achieved its 400-seat target, they’d have more than enough votes to amend India’s constitution. Since the constitution contains several protections designed to promote Dalit equality — including a first-in-the-world affirmative action system — that seemed like a serious threat to the community. It seems, at least based on preliminary data, that they voted accordingly.

The Dalit vote is but one example of the ways in which Modi’s brazen willingness to assail Indian institutions likely alienated voters.

Uttar Pradesh (UP), India’s largest and most electorally important state, was the site of a major BJP anti-Muslim campaign. It unofficially kicked off its campaign in the UP city of Ayodhya earlier this year, during a ceremony celebrating one of Modi’s crowning achievements: the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of a former mosque that had been torn down by Hindu nationalists in 1992. 

Yet not only did the BJP lose UP, it specifically lost the constituency — the city of Faizabad — in which the Ayodhya temple is located. It’s as direct an electoral rebuke to BJP ideology as one can imagine.

In Maharashtra, the second largest state, the BJP made a tactical alliance with a local politician, Ajit Pawar, facing serious corruption charges. Voters seemingly punished Modi’s party for turning a blind eye to Pawar’s offenses against the public trust. Across the country, Muslim voters turned out for the opposition to defend their rights against Modi’s attacks.

The global lesson here is clear: Even popular authoritarians can overreach.

By turning “400 seats” into a campaign slogan, an all-but-open signal that he intended to remake the Indian state in his illiberal image, Modi practically rang an alarm bell for constituencies worried about the consequences. So they turned out to stop him en masse.

The BJP’s electoral underperformance is, in no small part, the direct result of their leader’s zealotry going too far.

Return of the Gandhis? 

Of course, Modi’s mistakes might not have mattered had his rivals failed to capitalize. The Indian opposition, however, was far more effective than most observers anticipated.

Perhaps most importantly, the many opposition parties coordinated with each other. Forming a united bloc called INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance), they worked to make sure they weren’t stealing votes from each other in critical constituencies, positioning INDIA coalition candidates to win straight fights against BJP rivals.

The leading party in the opposition bloc — Congress — was also more put together than people thought. Its most prominent leader, Rahul Gandhi, was widely dismissed as a dilettante nepo baby: a pale imitation of his father Rajiv and grandmother Indira, both former Congress prime ministers. Now his critics are rethinking things.

“I owe Rahul Gandhi an apology because I seriously underestimated him,” says Manjari Miller, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Miller singled out Gandhi’s yatras (marches) across India as a particularly canny tactic. These physically grueling voyages across the length and breadth of India showed that he wasn’t just a privileged son of Indian political royalty, but a politician willing to take risks and meet ordinary Indians where they were. During the yatras, he would meet directly with voters from marginalized groups and rail against Modi’s politics of hate.

“The persona he’s developed — as somebody kind, caring, inclusive, [and] resolute in the face of bullying — has really worked and captured the imagination of younger India,” says Suryanarayan. “If you’ve spent any time on Instagram Reels, [you’ll see] an entire generation now waking up to Rahul Gandhi’s very appealing videos.”

This, too, has a lesson for the rest of the world: Tactical innovation from the opposition matters even in an unfair electoral context.

There is no doubt that, in the past 10 years, the BJP stacked the political deck against its opponents. They consolidated control over large chunks of the national media, changed campaign finance law to favor themselves, suborned the famously independent Indian Electoral Commission, and even intimidated the Supreme Court into letting them get away with it. 

The opposition, though, managed to find ways to compete even under unfair circumstances. Strategic coordination between them helped consolidate resources and ameliorate the BJP cash advantage. Direct voter outreach like the yatra helped circumvent BJP dominance in the national media.

To be clear, the opposition still did not win a majority. Modi will have a third term in office, likely thanks in large part to the ways he rigged the system in his favor.

Yet there is no doubt that the opposition deserves to celebrate. Modi’s power has been constrained and the myth of his invincibility wounded, perhaps mortally. Indian voters, like those in Brazil and Poland before them, have dealt a major blow to their homegrown authoritarian faction.

And that is something worth celebrating.

-via Vox, June 7, 2024.

[lok-shakti]

Mainpuri Bypoll 2022: आज नवीन मंडी से रवाना की जाएंगी पोलिंग पार्टियां, कल होगा मतदान

Mainpuri Bypoll 2022: आज नवीन मंडी से रवाना की जाएंगी पोलिंग पार्टियां, कल होगा मतदान

मैनपुरी उपचुनाव 2022 – फोटो : अमर उजाला ख़बर सुनें ख़बर सुनें मैनपुरी लोकसभा क्षेत्र में पांच दिसंबर को होने वाले उपचुनाव के मतदान के लिए रविवार को नवीन मंडी से पोलिंग पार्टियां रवाना की जाएंगी। पुलिस बल के साथ वाहनों के माध्यम से 1756 मतदेय स्थलों के लिए पोलिंग पार्टियों को भेजा जाएगा। प्रत्येक पोलिंग पार्टी में एक पीठासीन अधिकारी समेत कुल चार कार्मिक शामिल रहेंगे। जिले के चार विधानसभा…