Following massive corruption charges against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party cherry picked the topic of EVM Tampering, instead of responding to the graft charges in Delhi Assembly.
France on Sunday elected its new President, centrist Emmanuel Macron, who defeated his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen by a margin of more than 30 percent. 39-year-old Macron, who became the youngest leader of the country since Napoleon, secured 66 percent of the votes in the second and final round of voting on 7 May. The En Marche! leader’s victory puts to rest concerns about France adopting an anti-European Union and anti-immigration agenda, which National Front’s Le Pen had advocated during the bitter campaigning that betrayed deep divisions in the country.
A national outrage had sparked after a viral video of CRPF jawans on election duty being heckled and attacked by Kashmiri locals had surfaced. Vicky Vishwakarma, who was among those jawans said that it was due to his training that he was able to show so much restraint.
BJP to form government in Uttarakhand with 57 seats out of 70 seats. Congress VP Rahul Gandhi congratulates PM Modi and BJP for their victory and Modi replies to this with a "long live democracy" tweet. Harish Rawat tendered his resignation from the post of Chief Minister of Uttarakhand and said, "Congress has lost under my leadership in Uttarakhand and I take full responsibility for the mandate."
Congress is all set to form government in Punjab after winning 77 seats out of 117 seats. SAD and BJP alliance won 18 seats and AAP won 22. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi thanked the people of Punjab for their support.PM Modi on the other hand congratulated Amarinder Singh on his victory. SAD veteran leader Parkash Singh Badal congratulated and extended his regards to matters related to Punjab.
Attacking Rahul for his DDLJ and Gabbar jibes on PM Modi, Uma Bharti said that jokers like him belong in the Kapil Sharma's show. Music: Big Bang Fuzz For more videos, subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aIcith Check out The Quint for more news: https://www.thequint.com
Uttar Pradesh might currently be focusing on its ongoing Assembly elections, but the students of various universities – including Lucknow University, Banaras Hindu University, etc – have been keenly following the protests at Delhi University following the Ramjas College and Gurmehar Kaur row. Music: Big Bang Fuzz For more videos, subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aIcith Check out The Quint for more news: https://www.thequint.com
Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off his roadshow in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi on 4 March. Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and other senior leaders greeted PM Modi when he arrived at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in a special Indian Air Force chopper. After a brief interaction with the leaders, PM Modi left the campus for a guest house. BJP supporters lined up along the routes, cheering as PM Modi’s cavalcade passed them by. At the rally in Jaunpur, Modi criticised the political parties that questioned the surgical strikes.
In a clash of rallies at Varanasi, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to woo the people of his constituency before it goes to polls in the last phase, Akhilesh-Rahul duo left no stone unturned and managed to put up a brilliant electoral show indeed. Even as everyone guesses, which way the wave will turn in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, the mega rallies by the BJP and SP-Congress alliance was a curtain-raiser for the 2019 general elections.
Voting for 51 seats across 11 districts started in Uttar Pradesh. Heavy security was deployed at polling booth number 127 and 128 in Ayodhya to maintain peace.
The weavers of Gorakhpur, mostly from the Muslim community, have put out a poster outside their mohalla asking the candidates not to enter the area. The weavers are angry about the sad state of the economy and closing down of power-looms. Around 1 lakh weavers reside in the area surrounding the Gorakhnath temple. These voters have decided that they will vote on 4 March, but will boycott the candidates. Instead of voting for a party, they will choose NOTA. In 1995, there were 8,500 powerlooms in Gorakhpur, but only 250 have survived. Music: Big Bang Fuzz For more videos, subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aIcith Check out The Quint for more news: https://www.thequint.com
