The two-day meeting, attended by top leaders including Union ministers Amit Shah and J P Nadda, as well as chief ministers Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam), Bhajanlal Sharma (Rajasthan), and Mohan Charan Majhi (Odisha), provides a platform for the leaders to engage in deliberations and exchange ideas on effective governance and development.  

Opposition parties slam BJP's appointment of election incharge, allege it's a tactic to push back polls.

This decision, reached at a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting, comes ahead of the government’s swearing-in ceremony on Sunday.

Special status translates into higher central transfers for welfare schemes, preferential allocations, and sometimes tax incentives. Analysts warn that these additional expenditures could inflate the fiscal bill at a time when India aims to achieve a 4.5% fiscal deficit-to-GDP ratio by FY26.

TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, LJP(R) leader Chirag Paswan and NCP leader Praful Patel were among those who attended the meeting.

BJP plans grand victory event after exit polls predict landslide win for NDA in Lok Sabha 2024 elections. Scheduled for the weekend, it's expected to draw 8,000-10,000 attendees at Bharat Mandapam or Kartavya Path.

The Jan Ki Baat poll gave 362-392 seats to the ruling NDA and 141-161 to the opposition alliance.

JP Nadda, the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), convened a late-night meeting with party leaders at his residence on Monday to assess the voter turnout in the initial phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

Targeting the Modi government, Congress leader Chidambaram said there is a "grave erosion" of freedom of speech and expression happening under the ten years of Modi rule and urged the people to "restore democracy".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that Indian citizens are casting their votes in unprecedented numbers in support of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

BJP's state unit general secretary K Sarat Kumar told mediapersons that Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, the Congress candidate of Manipur Inner LS seat, accompanied by large number of his supporters, visited several polling stations and provoked officials and voters leading to multiple commotions.

The political atmosphere in Puducherry is charged as the Union Territory prepares for the Lok Sabha elections set for tomorrow. This first phase of the seven-phased national elections brings to the forefront a prolonged debate over the full statehood for Puducherry, a key electoral issue contested fiercely by both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress.