Tag: Lok Sabha

BJP will cross 300 seats, have already crossed the majority mark: Shah

According to the BJP president, they have already crossed the majority mark after the sixth phase. He also said the proposed opposition meeting can be used to elect the leader of the opposition.

LokSabha Elections 2019:BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday enthused certainty that his gathering has effectively crossed the dominant part mark after 6th period of Lok Sabha surveys and tore into resistance groups over their proposed gathering, saying they may meet to choose a pioneer of restriction.

“I am completely sure that the BJP after fifth and 6th period of the races has crossed the larger part figure. It will cross 300 after the seventh stage,” he told a question and answer session here.

The seventh and last period of the decisions for 543 Lok Sabha seats is expected on May 19. A gathering needs to win 272 seats for a straightforward lion’s share. The BJP had won 282 out of 2014.

Deriding the proposed gathering of resistance pioneers and the move by some provincial gatherings like TRS to shape a government front, Shah said such gatherings don’t influence the BJP whose seats, he included, are not going to descended.

They may meet to choose a pioneer of resistance, he stated, including that outcomes even this time may not give any gathering enough number of seats to choose a pioneer of restriction from its positions.

The Congress, the principle resistance, had won just 44 situates in 2014, not exactly the base 10 percent of seats a gathering needs to win to guarantee the post of the pioneer of restriction in the LoK Sabha.

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Supreme Court junks plea asking EC to advance poll timings due to Ramzan

A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna rejected the plea, saying the notified timings of voting are from 7 am to 6 pm and voters can cast vote in the morning also

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Supreme Court Monday expelled a request looking for a bearing to the Election Commission to propel survey timings to 5:30 am from 7 am for the seventh period of Lok Sabha surveys in perspective on burning warmth and the long stretch of Ramzan.

An excursion seat involving Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna rejected the request, saying the advised timings of casting a ballot are from 7 am to 6 pm and voters can make choice in the first part of the day moreover.

“The timings are for 7 am to 6 pm. Individuals can come in the first part of the day to cast their votes. They (EC) will confront strategic issue (if timings are preponed),” the seat told advocate Mohammad Nizamuddin Pasha who had recorded the appeal.

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After a brief lull, BJP again tops in weekly Facebook advertising spend

The cumulative spends are up from Rs 12.4 crore for the week ending April 6, to Rs 14.8 crore for the week ending April 13

Elections: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is by all accounts pushing up political promoting utilizing computerized media by and by, after a concise lull in the earlier week.

It removed the Indian National Congress (INC) from the highest point of the week by week promoting spends on Face­book. The BJP page represented the biggest spends on the web based life arrange for the most recent week. It likewise beat the rundown of combined spends as indicated by web index Google.

Both discharge occasional updates on promoting, which include political substance or issues of national significance. The move is an offered to present more noteworthy straightforwardness on issues that may impact general society on such issues. Web based life and advanced promoting came in for analysis after charges of intruding in the United States of America’s presidential decisions. It was additionally blamed for being compelling in forming popular assessment on the United Kingdom’s choice to leave the European Union (the purported Brexit).

The BJP’s page represented around a fifth of all Facebook advertisement goes through amid the week finishing April 13. It bested the rundown of top-spending pages. Be that as it may, the various four spots in the best five rundown were territorial or non-BJP pages. They incorporated the Indian National Congress, AP with CBN (advancing Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu), TDP and the Aiadmk Open Forum, for the AIADMK. The assortment in the main five recommends that the online advertisement space is winding up more firmly challenged as decisions are in progress.

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EC bars Mayawati, Adityanath from poll campaigning after SC enquiry

The SC bench referred to submissions of the EC that they can issue notice, then advisory and finally lodge a complaint against an errant politician for violating the Model Code of Conduct

Elections:The Election Commission (EC) on Monday restricted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati from race battling for 72 hours and 48 hours, separately, beginning from 6 am on Tuesday, for damaging the Model Code of Conduct by owning frightful expressions in their addresses, detailed news office ANI.

The EC activity came after the Supreme Court observed the supposed despise addresses made by Mayawati and Yogi Adityanath amid battles and looked to know from the survey board about the activity started against them up until this point.

The Election Commission “firmly censured” Adityanath and Mayawati for their collective comments. The two have additionally been “reprimanded”.

Mayawati was issued the notice for her discourse in Deoband speaking to Muslims to not vote in favor of a specific gathering.

The BSP boss had by all appearances abused the model set of accepted rules, the survey board found.

Adityanath was served the notice for his “Ali” and “Bajrang Bali” comments while tending to a rally in Meerut.

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Facebook removed 687 pages, accounts linked to Congress, BJP ahead of polls

These include 138 Facebook pages and 549 profiles and have hundreds of thousands of followers

Technology:Under about fourteen days before India’s general decisions, Facebook said on Monday it has brought down more than 1,100 pages, gatherings, and records from the stage just as its unit Instagram in India, connected with India’s two biggest ideological groups and Pakistan, as a feature of its bigger endeavor to stem the spread of falsehood.

In a blogpost by Nathaniel Gleicher, its head of cybersecurity strategy, Facebook said it expelled 103 pages, gatherings, and records on both Facebook and Instagram for participating in composed ‘inauthentic conduct’ as a feature of a system that began in Pakistan.

Further, 687 Facebook pages and records connected to the primary Opposition party Indian National Congress (INC) and 15 Facebook pages, gatherings, and records connected to individuals related with an Indian data innovation firm Silver Touch, which has likewise built up the Prime Minister’s NaMo application, were expelled.

The examination was completed by Facebook’s in-house agents, just as research organization Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), Gleicher told columnists in an approach Monday.

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All-women polling booths in every LS constituency of Maharashtra

As per the Election Commission’s (EC) directions to set up polling stations entirely managed by women, such booths will be set up in all 40 Lok Sabha seats of the state

ELECTIONS: An all-ladies surveying stall will be set up in each Lok Sabha supporters of Maharashtra amid the following month’s surveys in an offered to urge increasingly female voters to practice their establishment.

According to the Election Commission’s (EC) bearings to set up surveying stations totally overseen by ladies, such corners will be set up in each of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of the express, a discharge issued by the race office here said.

“Each one of those sent at such surveying stations – police, decision officers and different workers – will be ladies. These corners, an activity towards sex uniformity and including ladies’ interest in the discretionary procedure, will be called as ‘Sakhi Matdan Kendras’,” it said.

According to the EC’s rules, there would be no particular shading code for such surveying stations, the discharge stated, including that their security will be a top need.

Delicate surveying stations will be kept out of this trial while those close tehsil office or police headquarters will be viewed as overseen by ladies, it said.

Rangoli and other fine arts would be utilized to make these stalls increasingly appealing and to lay accentuation on tidiness, it included.

The quantity of ladies voters this time hasincreased to 911 for every 1,000 men, as against 889 for every 1,000 men in 2014, according to official figures.

Out of the all out 8,73,29,910 voters in the state, 4,57,01,877 are men, 4,16,25,950 ladies and 2,083 third sex voters.

Lok Sabha decisions will be held in Maharashtra in four stages on April 11, 18, 23 and 29 and outcomes will be announced on May 23.

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Mahagathbandhan an alliance of corruption, negativity, instability: PM Modi

Leaders from over a dozen opposition parties gathered in Kolkata Saturday and vowed to put up a united fight in the coming Lok Sabha elections and oust Modi from power
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Taking a dig at the Opposition’s show of unity during a rally in Kolkata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said their “mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) was an alliance of corruption, negativity and instability.

The Opposition was staring at a defeat in forthcoming elections and looking for excuses ahead of their impending loss and thus are vilifying electronic voting machines, Modi said, addressing BJP’s booth-level workers through video-conference.

Leaders from over a dozen opposition parties gathered in Kolkata Saturday and vowed to put up a united fight in the coming Lok Sabha elections and oust Modi from power.

Several opposition leaders at the rally demanded the use of ballot papers instead of EVMs which they said were the source of “all sorts of malpractices”.

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Explainer: What is an interim budget? What FM Jaitley can and cannot do

This will be the last Budget of the current BJP-led NDA government before the 2019 General Elections
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With just a few months left before the Narendra Modigovernment formally completes its tenure, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present NDA regime’s firstinterim budget on February 1, 2019.
As this will be the ruling BJP government’s last budget before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, here’s an explanation of what an interim budget actually means.
What is an interim budget?
An interim budget is presented by a government which is going through a transition period or is in its last year in office ahead of the general elections. Traditionally, an incumbent government cannot present a full-fledged Union Budget in the election year. Instead, the Finance Minister presents an interim budget during the joint sitting of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha in the Parliament, the livemint reported.

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