By Mayank Chhaya Some 200 million Indians have voted in the first two phases of the country’s mammoth general election. The first two phases of the election on April 19 and 26 accounted for 325 million voters represented by 191 Members of Parliament or MPs. The voter turnout this time between the first two rounds […]
Sandeep Vangala– (Sandeep Vangala is the General Secretary of the Indian Overseas Congress. The views expressed are his own) India’s 2024 general elections are unfolding in an atmosphere charged with economic challenges and political renewal. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, finds itself at a critical juncture, grappling with severe […]
Justice Markandey Katju writes: The 2024 Indian election may lay the groundwork for a people’s struggle led by patriotic modern minded leaders to arise in India. This struggle will be long and arduous, probably lasting 10-15 years, in which tremendous sacrifices will have to be made, before tasting success. By itself, the current election will have no immediate impact on the lives of the people, but its significance lies in the fact the process of India’s transformation into a modern, highly-industrialized state by a mighty people’s struggle will have begun.
Appealing to the voters to vote in large numbers in the first phase of elections, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, along with several political leaders, said that every vote of the public has the power to create a secure, developed, and self-reliant India. A record 968 million Indian citizens are registered to vote in this year’s national election.
Launching the electoral process in the world’s biggest and most vibrant democracy, polling in the first and largest phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 is set to begin on Friday morning for 102 constituencies in 21 states/UTs, spanning various terrains including hills, jungles, islands and bustling urban sprawls from Jammu and Kashmir to Andaman and Nicobar, Bihar to Lakshwadeep, and Maharashtra to Mizoram.
The historic trial of Donald Trump started on Monday, making him the first former President in US history to face a criminal case, throwing several questions over the November elections. In a trial watched with interest around the world, Trump faces the possibility of criminal conviction and a prison term on charges of falsifying business records of his company to hide hush money payments to a porn actor to silence her allegations that they had sex.
The Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) San Francisco Chapter organized a car rally on March 31, championing the cause “Abki Baar 400 Paar” (“This Time, We’ll Cross 400) for India’s upcoming Lok Sabha election. The ‘400’ reference is to Modi’s party BJP trying to win more than 400 seats in India’s 543-seat lower house of Parliament. OFBJP was formed in the early 1990s to support the party’s ideology and its propagation around the world, especially in the US, the UK and Canada.
Arjun Batra, the Indian American councilmember of the San José City Council for District 10, was pleased to see himself heading to November election with 8343 votes, even while his opponent George Casey won 8788 votes.” Batra, a former IT executive, told indica, “The two of us are going into the runoffs.”
Google on Tuesday announced new measures to support the general elections in India, claiming to provide high-quality information to voters, safeguard its platforms from abuse and help people navigate AI-generated content.
Weeks before the Lok Sabha elections, Election Commissioner Arun Goel, resigned from his post on Saturday.
According to the officials in the know of things, Goel’s resignation has been accepted by President Droupadi Murmu.
Indian American Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, will suspend her campaign for the Republican nomination for President after a severe drubbing in the primaries held in more than 10 states on Tuesday. Former President Donald Trump will now become the presumptive Republican nominee to take on President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in the November election.
Justice Markandey Katju writes: It is almost universally accepted that the Pakistan parliamentary elections held on February 8 were rigged on the orders of the army generals, and had the elections been free and fair former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) would have won close to 225 out of the 266 seats being contested, instead of the 100 independents being declared winners.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Pran Pratishtha ceremony for Ayodhya’s new Ram Temple on January 22 is “an election and political function” and that’s why the Congress has decided to skip the event in Ayodhya. On the third day of his ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (BJNY) which has now reached Nagaland, the Congress leader said that the event in Ayodhya is a political one as it is an RSS-BJP function.
The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) launched a campaign to promote Indian American engagement in the 2022 general election on Nov 8.
Indica News Bureau – As India gets ready to flex its muscles in the upcoming general elections, Facebook is working round the clock to fight fake news and ramp up its ‘integrity efforts’ in the country. In an interview to the Economic Times, Facebook’s Global Politics and Government Outreach Director, Katie Harbath, said that the […]
Seeking re-election, the trustee wants to keep students and teachers, and increase revenues Ritu Jha Getting more students enrolled is the first priority for Balaji R Venkatraman, who is seeking re-election to the Evergreen Elementary School District board of trustees in San Jose, California. The next is to retain teachers. He said that […]
Among the losers was Peter Jacob, the Bernie-backed Congressional candidate in New Jersey indica Washington Bureau Indian-American US representatives Ami Bera and Ro Khanna won their respective primaries in California on Tuesday, while three Indians running for Congress in New Jersey — Hirsh Singh, Goutam Jois, and Peter Jacob – lost their Congressional bid […]
