General Election  

While Congress president Sonia Gandhi offered to pay for migrants’ train fare, railways has made it clear that it has employed an 85-15% formula which makes train travel free for all migrants. India has lodged a strong protest against Pakistan Supreme Court’s order on holding general elections in Gilgit-Baltistan.
 

One of the biggest tasks post India’s independence was setting up a functional system that would enable common citizens to elect leaders for a true ‘Lok Sabha’. During that time, one person who was instrumental in setting up our country’s electoral system as it is today was Sukumar Sen. Let’s find about more about this civil servant and how the electoral system was setup in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

Nationally, the year 2019 undoubtedly belongs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his phenomenal victory in the 2019 general elections and his epoch-making decisions – be it abrogation of articles 370 and 35A or the passing of the CAA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to congratulate his British counterpart Boris Johnson for his victory in the UK 2019 general elections

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to Hindu temple comes ahead of UK's crucial General Election on December 12, where he is seeking re-election amid Brexit turmoil
 

A Manju, the BJP’s candidate, who lost to Prajwal Revanna of the JDS from Hassan, Karnataka, in the just concluded general elections 2019 will write a letter to the Speaker of Lok Sabha Om Birla not to accept the resignation of Prajwal Revanna after he takes oath as the MP

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Miniter Modi will meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. After the successful Wuhan meet last year, both countries are looking forward towards more improved relations.

In his first public engagement after leading the BJP to a grand victory in the general election, PM Narendra Modi thanked the electorate of Kerala for their contribution to it

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav promised that the grand alliance would offer the country up to five Prime Ministers if voted to power in the next general elections in 2024

Madani is the same individual who had questioned Narendra Modi's Prime Ministerial candidature before the 2014 general election. His stance didn't change much in between, though many thought he softened a bit as far as his views on Modi goes

Though Irani didn't blame the Congress or any of its leaders for her aide's murder, she made it abundantly clear that she suspects the Congress's hand behind it

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Ripun Bora submitted his resignation letter to Congress president Rahul Gandhi citing poor performance of the party in the state

While Khan did congratulate PM Modi, he was not the first. Several world leaders had sent their wishes to PM Modi on the spectacular victory

The latest blow to the party was given by its most popular woman MLA Alka Lamba who not only challenged the party supremo for the party’s performance but also announced to quit the party in 2020 – the year of assembly elections in Delhi

BJP alleges ‘political killing’ as Surendra Singh was quite instrumental in affecting Irani’s victory over Rahul Gandhi. Baraulia was one or the top voters for Irani