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Russia, French presidents congratulate Narendra Modi

Presidents of Russia and France have congratulated Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi on BJP's landslide victory in the general election and hoped that bilateral ties will further improve and strengthen under his leadership.



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Uttarakhand CM sacks minister who defected to BJP before polls

The Uttarakhand government seems to be in trouble. Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Monday sacked state tourism minister Amrita Rawat.



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Congress plays safe, rejects Sonia, Rahul's offer to quit over poll rout

Even though Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi offered to resign taking responsibility for the party's debacle in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in typical Congress style it was outrightly rejected by the leaders. "The offer made by Sonia and Rahul to resign was unanimously rejected," said party leader and Amritsar MP Amarinder Singh.



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Deve Gowda congratulates Modi, says he must show his ability

Former Prime Minister and JDS chief HD Deve Gowda, who had declared that he would take "political sanyas" if Narendra Modi could lead the BJP to get 272 plus seats, on Monday congratulated him for his achievement in the Lok Sabha polls and said, he has won a massive mandate.



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Modi, Advani among ten Gujarat MPs facing criminal cases

Narendra Modi and veteran BJP leader LK Advani are among the ten MPs elected from Gujarat, who are facing criminal charges. Out of the 66 candidates from Gujarat, who faced criminal charges ranging from poll code violation to attempt to murder, ten won the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls from the state.



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Congress refuses to learn from poll debacle, Sonia, Rahul not to quit

High drama was witnessed at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Monday as no major changes were carried out in the organisation and party leaders also rejected Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party's Vice President Rahul Gandhi's resignation offer over the party's debilitating rout in the Lok Sabha elections. The meet which was held at the party's headquarters to review the party's worst ever electoral performance and was attended by 41 members neither took any major decision nor held any one accountable.



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1/3rd MPs have criminal records, 82 per cent are crorepatis: ADR

The National Election Watch (NEW) and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 541 winners out of 543 winners in the Lok Sabha 2014 Elections. The following winners were not analysed due to unclear/incomplete affidavits uploaded on the ECI website at the time of making of this report.



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Nawaz Sharif invites Modi to Pakistan, says 'hope BJP win boosts ties'

Pakistan has invited India's PM-elect Narendra Modi to visit the country. Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit told CNN-IBN that their Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had called Modi on Friday to congratulate him on his electoral victory, expressing "hope that BJP's decisive victory would augur well for Indo-Pak relationship" and added invited him to visit Pakistan.



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Modi keen on MHA, Jaitley MEA, Joshi Defence, Shourie Finance: Sources

The Bharatiya Janata Party is holding hectic meetings with the RSS leaders and its allies to chalk out the posts in the Narendra Modi Cabinet. Several BJP leaders are in Delhi to meet Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and party chief Rajnath Singh, eyeing berths in the Cabinet.



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Anger, despair compete as Congress comes to grips with helplessness over rout

In Congress, most of the things don't change. Victory or defeat, they remain the same. The party has been almost decimated and looks like a tsunami-hit house. While most of the media and ordinary voters are suggesting that the Gandhi family must take the responsibility and make way for non-Gandhis to run the party, the situation within the top rungs of the party is entirely different. They are still backing the Gandhis and even want Rahul Gandhi or Sonia Gandhi to take charge as its leader in the Lok Sabha.



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