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2019 Lok Sabha Election

News Reports

‘Took 5 cr for Lok Sabha ticket, denied later’: Patna court orders FIR against Tejashwi Yadav, Misa Bharti based on Congress leader’s complaint

OpIndia Staff - 20 September, 2021

The FIR against Tejashwi Yadav, Misa Bharti and others was ordered based on a case registered by Congress leader Sanjiv Kumar Singh.

Opinions

How a ‘liberal’ filmmaker went from criticising Rahul Gandhi to saying ‘I am on your side’ and what it shows

Nirwa Mehta - 13 June, 2021

Congress and their loyalists are still not able to get over the shock of not only losing 2019 elections, but BJP outperforming them and itself from the previous term.

Politics

Rahul Gandhi rarely visited, Smriti Irani is here to stay: Irani fulfils poll promise, starts process to build her home in Amethi

OpIndia Staff - 22 February, 2021

Union Minister Smriti Irani had promised to the people of Amethi that if she won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, she would build a home in the district and be more accessible to them

News Reports

Congress in trouble in its family’s pocket borough Rae Bareli as 35 office bearers resign from the party

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2021

Smriti Irani had warned of a similar fate awaiting another Congress pocket borough, Rae Bareli, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections

Law

‘Petition rightly nipped in the bud by HC’: SC rejects petition of sacked BSF jawan who challenged election of PM Narendra Modi

OpIndia Staff - 24 November, 2020

Delivering its verdict on Tuesday, SC rejected the petition of sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav against Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Opinions

On this day, in 2013, BJP declared Narendra Modi as PM candidate. I never thought he’d win

Nirwa Mehta - 13 September, 2020

13th September, 2013, just few months ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections, then BJP President Rajnath Singh held a press conference in New Delhi. He was accompanied with the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

OpIndia Explains

If Congress had come back to power, delimitation of seats with Muslim population would have been a reality, thanks to Zakat Foundation: Details

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2020

When Congress was in power in 2013, the Zakat Foundation had met the then PM, Manmohan Singh and demanded that seats where Muslims form a large population be 'delimited'

Politics

Congress imploding: Sparks fly during RS meeting, questions raised on if party was ‘sabotaged’, rebels support Modi’s NEP

OpIndia Staff - 31 July, 2020

In a Rajya Sabha meeting convened and chaired by Sonia Gandhi, sparks flew between the young leaders and party veterans over the accountability of party's numerous debacles

Opinions

23 May 2019 – more than just a counting day – when one won over innermost fears

Rahul Roushan - 23 May, 2020

It was not just Modi returning to power with a bigger mandate, it was a day when the ghosts of 2004 were buried.

Social Media

Union Minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani’s befitting reply to Congress IT cell member who mocked her wins the Internet

OpIndia Staff - 16 May, 2020

Smriti Irani, while calmly responding to Gaurav Pandhi, took a shot against Gandhi-scion Rahul Gandhi, who lost humiliatingly to Smriti Irani in Amethi constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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