Malook Nagar had won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections on BSP ticket. The BSP was then in alliance with the RLD and the Samajwadi Party. Nagar left the BSP reportedly after he was denied the ticket in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Karnataka, which has 28 Lok Sabha seats, will vote in two phases on April 26 and May 7.In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress and JD-S fought together against the BJP and the combine was decimated.
BJP has fielded Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from Madhya Pradesh's Guna seat in place of Krishna Pal Singh Yadav who had defeated Scindia in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections when he was in the Congress.
The Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) ally Nationalist Congress Party took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on the Uniform Civil Code a day earlier.
Rahul Gandhi lost membership in the Lower House of Parliament after a Surat court convicted and sentenced him in a 2019 criminal defamation case. The case pertained to a remark he made using the surname 'Modi' while addressing a campaign event ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Rajasthan Minister Parsadi Lal Meena on Tuesday took a swipe at Congress leader Sachin Pilot and said that the party had not won a single seat in the state in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections under his presidentship.
In 2016, Akhilesh had shown the Samajwadi Party's exit door to his uncle Shivpal due to family disputes.
Shivpal later formed his own party Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya). However, the PSPL failed to win any seat in the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The number of voters in the third gender category has seen an increase in the State Assembly Elections 2022, as compared to the 2017 Vidhan Sabha and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, officials said on Thursday.
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], May 13 (ANI): Jharkhand High Court on Thursday has given relief to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against the warrant issued by a lower court for his alleged controversial remark against the then BJP national president Amit Shah during the 2019 Lok Sabha election
New Delhi (India), April 12(ANI): Sunil Arora, who demitted office on Monday after serving as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for over two years, supervised the conduct of 2019 Lok Sabha elections and also several state elections during his tenure.