2024 Lok Sabha Election Campaign Trail

Who are BJP’s allies in NDA? What are the chances of them switching sides?

The BJP will be relying on its NDA coalition partners including the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Janata Dal United (JDU) to form the next government. Here’s what you need to know about them, how they fared in recent polls, and their past alliances

Why Delhi rejected AAP’s combative campaign to vote for BJP

While the BJP citadels around Delhi in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab crumbled, the saffron party repeated its ‘sweeping performance’ of 2014 and 2019 in 2024 too, winning all seven seats

What does Modi 3.0 coalition government mean for economic reforms?

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed that his third term in office would be one of tough decisions, the BJP’s reduced numbers in Parliament may complicate matters. Experts say that ‘big bang’ reforms on land, labour, and agriculture will likely be placed on the backburner

Ayodhya shocker: BJP lost in Ram Mandir constituency of Faizabad. Here's what it means

The BJP lost Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad – the Ayodhya constituency in which the Ram Mandir has been built – with its candidate Lallu Singh being beaten by Samajwadi Party's Awadhesh Prasad. Experts say that the Dalit vote in the state favoured the INDI alliance and that issues of development and unemployment trumped religion

India's elections have a strong message for the West and it is ....

The Lok Sabha elections of 2024 have sent a message to everyone, especially to the West, that India's democracy is healthy, and to the Global South that democracy still works

7 key takeaways from Indian general elections 

Elections are all about making the right choices, and everyone expected these polls to be a referendum on the NDA’s 10-year rule, but the campaign veered away from it

When Modi equals Nehru’s stupendous record and yet BJP is seen as losing

This is a credible performance for a government that has been in power for two consecutive terms—a feat that has been repeated only once in India’s post-Independence history and that too, over six decades ago

BJP’s ‘severe setback’ is actually an incredible achievement

After two consecutive ‘wave elections’, Bharat votes for coalition dharma at Centre

No majority for BJP in Lok Sabha: What happens next? How important are Naidu and Nitish?

While the BJP is the single-largest party in the country, it is still well short of the 272 'magic mark' in the Lok Sabha needed to form the government. Experts say the BJP finds itself in an unfamiliar position and will need to take a more conciliatory approach with its allies

Maha shocker for NDA: How Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar came out on top

The Opposition MVA alliance comprising the Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP SP) has taken a big lead over the ruling Mahayuti of the Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena, the BJP and the Ajit-Pawar-led NCP. While Sharad Pawar said the voters rejected the ‘BJP’s politics of destroying parties’, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde blamed vote bank politics