play_arrow

keyboard_arrow_right

Listeners:

Top listeners:

skip_previous skip_next
00:00 00:00
playlist_play chevron_left
volume_up
Go to album
  • play_arrow

    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

BJP

12 Results / Page 1 of 2

Background
insert_link

World

Indian city tense days after clashes

A city in north India in the country's most populous state is on edge, days after four people were killed and dozens more injured in clashes. The opposition has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party of deliberately stoking communal tensions, and plans to raise the issue in Parliament this week.Neha Poonia has more:  

todayNovember 26, 2024 15

insert_link

World

Indian state goes to the polls

India's richest and second most populous state Maharashtra (prono: MAH-HA-RUSH-TRA) is voting to choose a new government on Wednesday. The election is important for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party, the BJP, after it failed to win a majority India's general election earlier this year. Rebecca Bundhun reports from Mumbai.  

todayNovember 20, 2024 18

insert_link

World

Prime Minister Modi to respond to opposition in Indian Parliament

A day after opposition leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Modi in Parliament, Modi will formally respond in India's Lower House. Modi came back to power this month with a reduced mandate even as the opposition put up its best showing in a decade. A resurgent opposition has been targeting Modi's Hindu nationalist party for failing to address rising prices and an unemployment crisis, and also […]

todayJuly 2, 2024 18

insert_link

World

India’s Modi thanks coalition MPs for ‘complete’ support

      Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked allied lawmakers Friday for unanimously agreeing to back his third term in office, after an unexpectedly close election forced his party to rely on coalition partners to keep him in power. Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled outright for the past decade, but failed to repeat its prior two landslide wins this time around, defying analyst expectations and exit polls. […]

todayJune 7, 2024 20

insert_link

World

Modi makes history, BJP alliance scrapes past majority

Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party along with its allies have made history securing a slim majority in India's elections. The Hindu nationalist party lost its outright majority for the first time in a decade as voters defied predictions of another landslide. India's opposition alliance caused a major upset to the incumbent BJP especially in the party's crucial stronghold regions. Priyata Brajabasi has more.  

todayJune 5, 2024 42

insert_link

World

Modi’s narrow win suggests Indian voters saw through religious rhetoric, opting instead to curtail his political power

Supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party dance at a party office in Guwahati, India, during counting of India’s national election on June 4, 2024. AP Photo/Anupam Nath     By Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University     India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, had hoped for a landslide victory in the country’s six-week general election – the largest display of democracy, by far, in a year of voting around the […]

todayJune 5, 2024 17

insert_link

World

Indian election: Narendra Modi hasn’t delivered the expected landslide – where the BJP may have gone wrong

        By Thankom Arun, University of Essex     Narendra Modi may have led his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a historic third term, but the landslide victory that many had expected failed to materialise. With half of the 640 million votes counted, Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its political allies were on course to win 290 seats. It’s enough to form […]

todayJune 5, 2024 19

insert_link

World

India’s opposition parties reject exit polls predicting a landslide Modi win

India's opposition parties are calling pollsters predicting a third Modi term biased. After voting ended on Saturday in India's general elections, a vast majority of exit polls are predicting a landslide victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But critics say Mr Modi and the pollsters are in for a surprise when the votes are counted on Tuesday. Ishan Garg tells us more from New Delhi.  

todayJune 3, 2024 21

0%