Putting up a brave face in the backdrop of a complete white-wash in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress` state unit on Sunday said it would not be bogged down by the result and thanked voters who had voted for the party.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said he acknowledges people`s grievances expressed through a drubbing of National Conference-Congress coalition in the Lok Sabha polls even though his government served the people of the state with dedication.
The newly elected legislators of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Sunday unanimously elected Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik as their leader.
Delhi Congress on Sunday said it will prefer fresh election in the city to supporting the Aam Aadmi Party again to form a government as favoured by a section of AAP MLAs following the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls.
`Kehsav Kunj`, the RSS office in Delhi, was abuzz with activity as BJP leaders on Sunday kept visiting it ahead of government formation under leadership of Narendra Modi.
Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday ruled out the possibility of it forming government in Delhi again, even as Congress said it would prefer fresh polls to supporting AAP.
Narendra Modi Sunday called on party patriarch LK Advani after holding consultation with a number of party leaders including his key aide Amit Shah.
MK Stalin, DMK treasurer and party chief M Karunanidhi`s son, Sunday offered to quit following the party`s debacle in the Lok Sabha polls, but rescinded his decision following pressure from the rank and file.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Giriraj Singh on Sunday alleged that Nitish Kumar can join hands with any party in order to come to power.
National People`s Party (NPP) president and former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma on Sunday met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh.
Amid reports that the Janata Dal (United) may seek support from the Rashtriya Janata Dal to keep the government afloat in Bihar following Chief Minister Nitish Kumar`s resignation, Lalu Prasad Yadav has denied holding any talks on the matter.
The Lok Sabha election has been a god-sent opportunity for a bruised BJP in Karnataka to bounce back a year after it was dumped, thanks to a "Modi wave" under which the Congress wilted during peak summer.
Whether the Congress wins or loses, one thing the party leaders in Kerala do not miss out on after the elections is washing dirty linen in public.
The Congress-led UDF Government led by Oommen Chandy on Sunday stepped into its fourth year, resolving to go ahead with its "development and welfare" agenda after doing well in the Lok Sabha elections.
Unlike in 2009 when it crashed within minutes, it was a smooth operation this time when the Election Commission website recorded 45 crore hits on the morning of the vote count on Friday, making it the highest number of hits on any Indian website ever in a single day.
Massive advertisements greeted people in their dailies here Sunday morning, highlighting the three-year-old J. Jayalalithaa government`s achievements in Tamil Nadu.
BJP`s PM-designate Narendra Modi is expected to resign as the Chief Minister of Gujarat on May 21 - a day after he will be formally elected as the new leader by the party`s parliamentary board to lead the NDA government.
RSS on Sunday said it will not interfere in the functioning of the BJP-led government at the Centre, dismissing suggestions that it was running the party through "remote control".
The country`s youth, which came out in large numbers on election day to vote, as the BJP led by Narendra Modi offered them hope, opportunities and security in a flagging economy, a shrinking job market and a seemingly uncaring state, now demands that the new government stick to its promises and deliver without failing.
The full Election Commission on Monday called on President Pranab Mukherjee and handed over the list of 543 newly-elected members of Lok Sabha that will enable him initiate the formal process of new government formation.
BJP not only won all seven seats in Delhi by big margins but also emerged victorious in the four seats adjoining the National Capital Region.
The record performance of BJP in the Lok Sabha elections has changed the political contours of the northern and western regions of the country.
A day after several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators proposed forming government with the help of Congress support, BJP leader Dr Harsh Vardhan called the move unethical.
The victory of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in all the three Lok Sabha seats in the Kashmir valley will be a big boost to the party as it prepares for the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections.
This year`s Lok Sabha elections saw many of the sons and daughters of Congress leaders failing to retain their family strongholds as party`s tally dipped to a historic low of 44 seats out of 543.
After its crushing defeat in Lok Sabha polls, the Congress leadership has indicated that it is ready to re-extend support to Arvind Kejriwal`s Aam Aadmi Party to form government in Delhi, reports said on Sunday.
Narendra Modi meets Murli Manohar Joshi reportedly to hold talks on government formation.
About 75 per cent of MPs in the 16th Lok Sabha have at least a graduate degree, while 10 per cent are only matriculates.
The JD-U legislature party is expected to elect a new leader on Sunday as Nitish Kumar, who quit as Bihar chief minister on Saturday following his party`s rout in the Lok Sabha polls, is unwilling to take back his resignation.
BJP`s Meenakshi Lekhi, the only woman representative from Delhi in the 16th Lok Sabha, had a lower vote share than Aam Aadmi Party`s Rakhi Birla among the 13 women candidates who contested from the national capital.
Performance of most of the 57 Independent Lok Sabha candidates from Delhi was dismal with the exception of beauty queen Ruby Yadav from South Delhi and two namesakes of West Delhi`s AAP candidate Jarnail Singh.
Ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday constituted a three-member committee to study and analyse the outcome of the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
In BJP`s tally of 26 seats in Narendra Modi`s home turf of Gujarat, four MPs are women.
After its drubbing in Lok Sabha elections in the national capital, some AAP MLAs on Saturday mooted the proposal for the party to once again form the government in Delhi, with support from either BJP or Congress.
The ruling Naga People`s Front (NPF) supported by Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) won the lone Lok Sabha seat of Nagaland for the third consecutive time since 2004, but its victory margin decreased compared to 2009.
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA`s thumping victory in 2014 General Elections, Narendra Modi, who is set to be the next prime minister, said this would be the first time in parliamentary history that the Opposition will have to form an alliance.
LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan today shrugged off the resignation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a "drama" and claimed that there was internal rebellion in JD(U) and he was left with no option.
Maharashtra BJP will be seeking the "expertise and guidance" of Narendra Modi`s Man Friday Amit Shah, in helping propel the five-party Mahayuti alliance in the state to victory in the Assembly polls, due in just over five months.
After Congress` debacle in the Lok Sabha elections, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi came out in defence of its leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi saying the party has turned stronger under their leadership.
The BJP in Gujarat has this year registered its best ever showing in Lok Sabha polls, winning all 26 seats on the back of a massive 12.6 per cent swing in its favour over the last elections.
Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandopadhyay would be the party`s leader in the Lok Sabha, while Rajya Sabha member Mukul Roy would be the chairman of TMC Parliamentary party in both the Houses, party supremo Mamata Banerjee announced on Saturday.
The 16th Lok Sabha will have a record number of 61 women leaders as compared to 59 women MPs elected during the previous General Elections.
AAP candidate Dharamvira Gandhi who defeated Union minister Preneet Kaur from Patiala on Saturday said growing anger against the ruling SAD on various fronts and disillusionment with Congress had gone in favour of the fledgling outfit.
A dozen of Shiv Sena-BJP MPs have retained their seats in Maharashtra, polling more votes than in 2009 and winning by bigger margins.
Congress candidate from Mumbai North Sanjay Nirupam, who lost by a big margin to his BJP rival in the Lok Sabha election on Saturday questioned the reliability of Electronic Voting Machines.
After a complete wash-out in the Lok Sabha elections where it could not win a single seat in the state, Gujarat Congress on Saturday dissolved the party units in four major cities.
The 16th Lok Sabha will have one of the lowest numbers of Muslim MPs with just about 20 of them emerging victorious in the Lok Sabha polls which saw a saffron surge in the whole north and western parts of India.
Mocking Trinamool Congress`s spectacular performance in the Lok Sabha polls as "good for nothing", BJP state president Rahul Sinha on Saturday said they would have done better if the Election Commission had been active in containing the terror tactics of Trinamool.
Amid many firsts in this Lok Sabha election, not one Muslim has been elected from Uttar Pradesh despite the sprawling state`s 19 percent Muslim population.
TDP and TRS stormed to power with a bang in Seemandhra and Telangana respectively, while Congress ended up as the biggest loser in Lok Sabha as well as Legislative Assembly polls held in undivided Andhra Pradesh.