News General Election 2014 Updates !

[EFI Feed]

Campaigning for LS polls last phase ends, 41 seats to vote on May 12

The curtains are drawn for the campaigning for the last and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The 9-phase elections started on April 7 and will end with the electorate sealing the fate of the candidates for 41 seats in the last phase on May 12. Six seats in Bihar, 18 in Uttar Pradesh and seventeen in West Bengal will go to vote on May 12.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

Modi hits out at 'SABKA' for 'Modi-roko' campaign

Terming the SP, BSP and Congress as 'SABKA' Modi said that the parties were focussing only on stopping him from becoming the PM.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

Delhi, Varanasi set for Modi's grand welcome, victory roadshows today

A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party's overwhelming victory, the party's and the country's soon to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Delhi on Saturday. The BJP has planned a grand welcome for Modi in the national capital.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

Live blog: Modi's victory, Manmohan's exit

A day after the BJP's overwhelming victory, the party's and the country's soon to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Delhi on Saturday. The BJP has planned a grand welcome for Modi in the national capital. Meanwhile, outgoing PM Manmohan Singh is all set to submit his resignation to the President today.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

Naveen, Jaya, Mamata: The three CMs who won big despite the Modi wave

Three Chief Ministers who did beat the trend this election are West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik who won big in their states, holding their own against Narendra Modi.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

EC rejects BJP's bias charge, backs Varanasi DM's call to cancel Modi rally

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) VS Sampath on Saturday defended the Varanasi District Magistrate, Pranjal Yadav, who cancelled a rally by Narendra Modi in the temple town over security reasons earlier this week, saying that he made no mistake. In his first ever interview, Sampath also told IBN18 Network Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai that the decision on cancelling the rally was a unanimous one, denying reports of a split within the EC.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

Ghosi candidate Mukhtar Ansari released on parole for a day for LS poll campaigning

The Controversial Uttar Prasesh MLA Mukhtar Ansari has been released on parole from the Central Jail in Agra for a day to campaign in the Lok Sabha election.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

The battle for India boils down symbolically to the battle for Varanasi

A fierce battle of will between two of the top contenders for the Prime Minister's office has transformed a normally tranquil Varanasi, one of the world's oldest inhabited cities and India's spiritual nerve centre, into a symbolic battleground for political rivals Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi, both hoping to upstage each other in Lok Sabha elections 2014. And then there are the other contenders with their heavyweight party leaders who have also begun to arrive here.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

BSP will emerge as 'balance of power' at the Centre: Mayawati

BSP supremo Mayawati on Saturday exuded confidence that her party will emerge as 'balance of power' at the Centre after the results of the Lok Sabha elections.



Continue reading...

 

[EFI Feed]

How Modi won, dream run to Delhi scripted by the man himself

From the moment that he was anointed the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate to now, Narendra Modi's dream run to Delhi has been scripted by the man himself. In the past eight months, when he declared the election season open, Modi has addressed more than 450 rallies around the country travelling 3,00,000 kilometers in the process. Modi's campaign strategy included technological travel as well. Beaming out to urban audiences via satellite at chats called his Chai pe charcha, a play on the Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's mocking him for his humble roots.



Continue reading...