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Election Commission to give list of winning LS candidates to President

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu will on Thursday evening hand over the list of candidates who won the Lok Sabha elections to President Droupadi Murmu, sources said Thursday. Once the list is handed over to the President, the formal process to constitute the 18th Lok Sabha will commence. Accepting the recommendation of the Union Cabinet, the President had ordered the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to form the government at the Centre for a third consecutive term after the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won majority in the just-concluded parliamentary polls. The NDA has won 293 seats, while the opposition INDIA bloc 234 seats. After handing over the list to the President, the Commission will pay floral tributes at Raj Ghat.

Pawar vs Pawar: Ajit makes inroads in Arunachal, Sharad wins Maharashtra

Lok Sabha election 2024: General Election result shows Sharad Pawar's national influence despite Election Commission officially recognising Ajit Pawar's faction

Haryana CM Nayab Saini administered oath by Speaker Gian Chand Gupta

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini was administered oath of legislator by the Assembly Speaker on Thursday here. Speaker Gian Chand Gupta administered the oath to the BJP leader in his chamber. Saini recently defeated his main rival, Congress's Tarlochan Singh to win the bye-poll for the Karnal Assembly seat, which was earlier held by party colleague Manohar Lal Khattar. In the 2019 Assembly polls, Khattar had retained the seat defeating Tarlochan Singh. Saini, the outgoing MP from Kurukshetra, had contested the by-election for the Karnal assembly seat after he replaced Khattar as chief minister. The bypoll was necessitated by Khattar's resignation as MLA from Karnal after his removal from the post of chief minister. Polling for the state's 10 Lok Sabha seats and the Karnal assembly constituency was held in the sixth phase of the general election on May 25 and the results were declared on June 4. Saini was sworn in as the chief minister on March 12. Khattar, who was field

18th Lok Sabha formation: CEC to provide list of new MPs to President

In the meantime, President Droupadi Murmu dissolved the 17th Lok Sabha on Wednesday, following the recommendation of the Union Cabinet

LS polls 2024: Candidates from 41 parties elected, up from 36 in 2019

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections witnessed an increase in political parties' participation, with candidates from 41 parties being elected, compared to 36 in the 2019 general election. According to an analysis by the think-tank PRS, national parties secured 346 seats, accounting for 64 per cent of the total, while the state-recognised parties won 179 seats, representing 33 per cent. Unrecognised parties clinched 11 seats, and independents won seven. According to an analysis by the poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms, there has been a 104 per cent rise in the number of political parties from 2009 to 2024. In 2024, a total of 751 parties participated, compared to 677 in 2019, 464 in 2014, and 368 in 2009. The ADR and National Election Watch conducted a comprehensive review of the self-sworn affidavits of 8,337 candidates contesting the just concluded elections. The candidate pool comprises 1,333 from national parties, 532 from state parties, 2,580 from registered unrecog

Lok Sabha elections: Modi 3.0 in coalition, BJP in Kerala. 10 key takeaways

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu have emerged as the kingmakers in the elections as the BJP only secured 240 seats, which is below the 272 majority mark

President Murmu dissolves 17th Lok Sabha on advice of the Cabinet

President Droupadi Murmu dissolved the 17th Lok Sabha on Wednesday on the advice of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet, according to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Cabinet, in its meeting held on Wednesday, advised the President to dissolve the current Lok Sabha with immediate effect, it said. "The President has accepted the advice of the Cabinet on 05.06.2024 and signed the Order dissolving the 17th Lok Sabha in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by Sub-clause (b) of Clause (2) of Article 85 of the Constitution," a communique issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan read. The term of the current Lok Sabha was to end on June 16. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi tendered his resignation to President Murmu, who accepted it and asked him to continue till the new government assumes office. The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a majority in the Lok Sabha election. While the NDA is comfortably above the majority mark of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the BJP

'Win, defeat part of politics': Modi tells outgoing cabinet in final meet

Narendra Modi chaired the final meeting of the outgoing union cabinet on Wednesday, a day after Lok Sabha election 2024 results were announced

On BJP's 272 miss, Raghuram Rajan praises 'wise' voters, shares roadmap

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: Raghuram Rajan said that by electing a strong Opposition, India has a "fighting chance of securing the economic future"

From Smriti Irani to Arjun Munda, Modi ministers who lost 2024 LS polls

Lok Sabha elections 2024 results: Smriti Irani lost to Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma by a margin of 167,196 votes in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi

Lok Sabha polls 2024: Janata Dal (U), Telugu Desam Party winners full list

With the humbling verdict for the BJP, NDA partners Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu will step in with their 12 and 16 Lok Sabha seats respectively to help the coalition reach the majority of 272

Modi resigns from office, to take oath as PM for the third time on June 8

Lok Sabha elections: Narendra Modi's BJP is expected to form a government for the third time with the help of its coalition partners, the JD(U) and the Telugu Desam Party

No discussion within INDIA bloc so far on reaching out to TDP, JDU: Pawar

NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said there has been no discussion within the INDIA bloc yet on reaching out to the TDP or JD(U) to shore up the numbers of the alliance for government formation. His remarks came ahead of the meeting of INDIA bloc leaders at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence this evening to deliberate on the Lok Sabha poll results and whether to bring on board the Janata Dal (United) (JD-U) and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to cobble up a government. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is poised to form the government for a third consecutive term with the BJP-led NDA getting a majority in the Lok Sabha, notwithstanding crushing losses in three Hindi heartland states after a bitterly fought election that was projected as a referendum on his popularity. While speaking on the Lok Sabha poll outcome, the 83-year-old Pawar told reporters here that besides the resentment against the functioning of the Modi government, the voters were also unhappy about handling

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Party-wise result status of total seats won

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: The BJP and its allies are ahead on 295 seats while the Congress-led INDIA coalition is leading on 231 seats, 3 pm data showed

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Which candidates won by the lowest margins?

Lok Sabha elections 2024 results: The BJP-led NDA is returning to power for a third term at the Centre as it surpassed the majority mark of 272 and won 292 seats

PM Narendra Modi just learned that hype can only carry you so far

Small-town India has not seen the sort of revolution in infrastructure that cities of equivalent size in China or Southeast Asia have enjoyed over recent decades, writes Mihir Sharma

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Constituency-wise winners list for Uttar Pradesh

Lok Sabha polls 2024 result: The Congress won six seats while the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats by itself, marking a phenomenal return for the both the INDIA bloc parties

Rahul Gandhi sweeps Wayanad, Raebareli, Congress wins 99 Lok Sabha seats

Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest from Raebareli aims to uphold his party's long standing influence in this constituency, historically dominated by Congress

Lok Sabha polls: Ex-CMs Channi, Akhilesh win; Baghel, Digvijay face defeat

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: Manohar Lal Khattar, Charanjit Singh Channi, Akhilesh Yadav, Basavaraj Bommai are some of the former chief ministers contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Which candidates won by the biggest margins?

Five candidates, including four from the BJP and one from Congress, broke all previous records for the highest victory margin in a Lok Sabha election