General Elections 2019 News

After West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee stopped her convoy to scold people chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans, BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said, "Banerjee seems to have either lost her mind or it's her reality that has come out after the defeat in LS polls." Ghosh added, "Dictators like her cannot accept defeat." Ten people were arrested for chanting the slogan.

Karnataka Congress leader R Ramakrishna accused party's former MLA and his close aides of sabotaging JD(S)-Congress alliance's chances to win in the elections by bribing voters to vote for BJP. "Former MLA Rajanna, youth Congress' R Rajendra (and others)...distributed...funds given by Congress...among voters," he alleged. The alliance won two out of 28 seats in the state in Lok Sabha polls.

Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari has asked party workers to "work hard for dislodging" the Arvind Kejriwal government in the upcoming Assembly elections in the national capital. Tiwari also felicitated party workers for winning all the seven Delhi Lok Sabha seats. Kejriwal, on the other hand, is urging AAP workers to ask votes based on the government's work.

Following the general polls debacle, INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala said that with "hard work and by reinvigorating" itself, the party will "rise again" in the Assembly elections. He added, "I'll visit every place in Haryana and remain in touch with party workers." Chautala further said workers are the "backbone" of the party and will bring the "old days back".

Puducherry Deputy Speaker and Lawspet legislator VP Sivakolundhu was on Monday elected as the new Speaker of the Union Territory Assembly. The Speaker's chair fell vacant after Congress' V Vaithilingam stepped down on March 21 to contest the Lok Sabha elections from the lone Puducherry parliamentary seat. The Congress leader, Sivakolundhu, was the sole contender for the Speaker's post.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said that state Deputy CM Sachin Pilot should take the responsibility for his son Vaibhav Gehlot's defeat from the Jodhpur seat in the recently held-Lok Sabha elections. He added, "There should be...complete post-mortem of the results in Jodhpur seat to find out why we didn't win it." Congress couldn't win even a single Rajasthan parliamentary seat.

Following the Lok Sabha debacle of the Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka, state party President H Vishwanath on Tuesday resigned from the post. He resigned saying, "I take moral responsibility for the (party's) defeat." The Karnataka JD(S) chief was reportedly unhappy over being sidelined and not being taken into confidence by the party on key issues.

BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said that he doesn't think Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government in West Bengal "will go on till 2021" and that this government "will fall on its own". Terming Mamata "an arrogant administrator", Vijayvargiya added that her arrogance has led to TMC's "doomsday" in Bengal. Referring to general polls result, he said BJP won "hearts of masses".

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said the party has conveyed to the BJP leadership that it is the natural claimant to the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker post. Raut added, "This is not our demand, it is our natural claim and right." The statement comes amid speculation over the possibility of Naveen Patnaik-led BJD getting the post.

PM Narendra Modi on Sunday took a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi saying some people still couldn't come out of the impact of general election results. His comment came after Rahul in Kerala's Wayanad alleged that PM Modi's election campaign was full of "lies and hatred". PM Modi said such thinking of the Opposition is "their problem and weakness".

BJP MP Virendra Kumar will be Pro-tem Speaker of the newly elected 17th Lok Sabha. Kumar, who began his political career as an ABVP activist, previously served as a Minister of State in Women and Child Development and Minority Affairs Ministries. The main duty of the Pro-tem Speaker is to administer the oath of office to new LS members.

During a visit to his constituency, newly elected Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi on Monday called the votes he received from members of minority communities a "blessing". Varun said, "I did not receive too many votes from the minorities, but what I have got also proves that people from the community who cast their votes in my favour have blessed me."

Addressing party workers in Rae Bareli on Wednesday, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi said, "I will find out about those who did not work for the party in the elections." She stated, "I didn't want to deliver any speech here but since I have been made to speak, let me speak the truth." Congress won only one UP LS seat.