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Unprecedented Modi victory triggers meltdown for controversial journalist Rana Ayyub

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Unprecedented Modi victory triggers meltdown for controversial journalist Rana Ayyub

Controversial journalist Rana Ayyub who is known for her unbridled hatred towards  Narendra Modi and Amit Shah couldn’t hide her frustration as the results suggest unprecedented victory to the saffron party. Rana took to Twitter to express her disappointment at the opposition’s abject surrender to the BJP.


Lamenting on Twitter, Rana posted a series of tweets questioning the Congress incompetence against the robust BJP election machinery. she bemoaned that nothing worked for Congress in this election campaign as their numbers remained close to the 2014 digits, reflecting utter decimation for the principal opposition party.

Rana also seemed evidently disgruntled with the Congress’ failure to cash in on the issues purportedly tormenting the country. Rana couldn’t fathom the fact that the BJP still managed to comfortably sail through the required numbers of seats to form a government despite the country being allegedly racked with a number of issues.


Perhaps, the trigger for Rana’s meltdown must have been the prospect of Sadhvi Pragya becoming an MP. Rana levelled unsubstantiated allegations against Sadhvi Pragya who was wrongly accused of ‘Hindu terror’, concocted by Congress and incarcerated based on flimsy charges. Sadhvi Pragya who fought from the Bhopal constituency is currently leading on the seat.


Liberals like Rana Ayyub couldn’t bring themselves to the fact that in spite of their concerted attempts to build a case for the anti-Modi government, the population of the country has rejected their propaganda and once again elected Modi back to power.

Lutyen favourite Prakash Raj, who ‘dismissed’ Exit Polls, ends up at a distant 3rd position

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Lutyen favourite Prakash Raj, who ‘dismissed’ Exit Polls, ends up at a distant 3rd position

‘National leader’ Shri Prakash Raj who has been hogging the limelight and one of the top candidates of Lutyen Media Party of India (hint: not an actual party) has managed to get 25000 odd votes in a constituency of 10+Lakh polled votes.

Prakash Raj till exit polls had been made to seem so big by Lutyens as if he is going to go straight to being one of the top 89 PM candidates of Mahagathbandhan but he has managed to finally poll 2.36% votes and stood a distant 3rd In Bangalore central Constituency where BJP’s P C Mohan polled 595939 votes.

He had some days ago dismissed Exit polls based on his unmatched political acumenprakash raj election central bangalore central

NDTV even managed to get BJP’s Tejasvi Surya (who fought and won from Bangalore South) to debate with Comrade Prakash Raj.

Here’s how the final tally looks like.

bangalore central constituency lok sabha 2019

Congratulations to NDTV and Prakash Raj for the moral victory and best wishes for his 2024 PM candidature.

Dear New York Times, India has chosen Modi 2.0, deal with it

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Dear New York Times, India has chosen Modi 2.0, deal with it

The bulk of leftist controlled international media has always been hell-bent on projecting India as a land of backward, poor, snake charmers. The fact that the world has been changing under their wrinkled-up noses while they keep pontificating from ivory towers has somehow not registered with most of leftist, colonialist media, be it in India or abroad.

The New York Times, in particular, has been constantly, incessantly indulging in anti-India bashing. As a BJP government, which they term as a ‘Hindu nationalist’ government had taken charge in 2014, NYT had just upped their hate India quotient by several notches. From fake narratives about ‘Muslims in fear’ to dismissive, hateful articles on India’s culture, traditions and customs, they have done all they could to further their narrative against our country.

Even as counting for the Lok Sabha elections started earlier today, just take a look at how they have served the news:


PM Modi, the Prime Minister who has brought in the world’s largest health care scheme for the poor, has provided millions of women with free cooking gas, has ensured India surges ahead in infrastructure, technology, foreign investment, economic reforms and what not, is defined as ‘India’s most divisive leader’ by NYT.

The media outlet does not even bother to acknowledge that Modi’s win means that India, that had been divided and torn over regionalism, casteism, hooliganism for decades had voted overwhelmingly for development and nationalism. Modi’s win proves that India has discarded the shackles of dynasty politics, caste politics and regionalism that had been winning in past elections by pitching neighbour against neighbour, community against community and state against state. Modi’s win thumps the arrival of a unified, assertive and proud India that has finally learnt to bury its faultlines and look forward into the future.

In its attempts to malign India and the NDA’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ government, NYT has left no stones unturned. When India achieved the rare feat of a successful Mars mission in its maiden attempt, NYT had published a cartoon where a poor man ‘India’ in Dhoti Kurta, holding the rope of his cow, knocking at the doors of ‘Elite Space Club’.

NY Times cartoon after India’s Mangalyaan

This year, India added another feather to its hat. The India that NYT had mocked as a poor brown man knocking at the doors of the world’s ‘Elite Space Club’ shot down a satellite at the lower earth orbit with phenomenal precision, becoming not just a member of the ‘elite club’ but a space superpower.

NYT, which rushes in to brand random crimes as ‘Muslims under attack in India’, had presented the news as ‘Modi says that India shot down a satellite’, peddling a sense of disbelief and doubt.

In the case of the Kathua rape and murder that was lapped up by the leftists and was incessantly peddled as a case of Hindu atrocity on Muslims, NYT had published articles blaming the majority community, blatantly ignoring the countless reports that pointed towards a larger conspiracy against the accused. From Hindu lawyers to Hindu housewives, NYT had been in a hurry to put the blame squarely on ‘Hindus of India’, like the pseudo-liberals and their ecosystem.

When one looks at their past reports on India, a distinguished pattern emerges. Issues, data, facts notwithstanding, NYT only loves to malign India. A tax department raid on the promoters of NDTV and NYT comes up with an editorial titled ‘India’s Battered Free Press’. Then in November 2017, NYT hits another level, they run an op-ed on how the Saree, India’s widely popular female attire is in fact, a ‘Tool of Hindu Nationalist Campaign’. Mahindra and Mahindra opens a manufacturing plant in the US and NYT start the same old condescension, totally ignoring the fact that Mahindra has a significant presence in their country already.

No just India’s present, NYT had attacked India’s past too. They have even criticised India’s freedom struggle. From insulting the victims of the Godhra massacre to enabling the bogey of Hindu terror, NYT has done it all.

NYT’s hatred for India stems partly from the inherent colonialistic culture that never stops looking down at the “poor unwashed Indians” and partly from the leftist elitism that holds every aspect of an indigenous civilisation as backward.

So, when India chooses a government that not only accepts but proudly asserts its Indic culture, civilisation and Hindu beliefs, when India shreds the old bondage of caste, community and social faultlines that have been used as sticks by the likes of NYT to beat us down with, when India gives a thumping, unprecedented, overwhelming victory to a man who has made every single Indian feel proud of their nation, identity and heritage, the NYT’s heartburn is expected.

India has arrived dear NYT, and India is here to stay. Deal with it.

Amethi 2019 Election Result Live: Amethi Liberated. Smriti Irani defeats Rahul Gandhi

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Amethi 2019 Election Result Live: Amethi Liberated. Smriti Irani defeats Rahul Gandhi

6:20 PM: Update: Rahul Gandhi concedes defeat and congratulates Smriti Irani.

“I hope she (Smriti Irani) looks after Amethi with love,” Rahul Gandhi said.

6:00 P.M Amethi is liberated. Confirmation is in that Rahul Gandhi has conceded defeat to Smriti Irani.

Vote tally –  Smriti Irani 299001(49.73% vote share), Rahul Gandhi 263102 (43.76% vote share).

EC data:

rahul gandhi election seat 2019

4:20 PM Smriti Irani has polled 208484 votes while Rahul Gandhi has polled 189280 taking the lead to 19204 making the chances of Congress dynasty Scion’s retaining his 2019 lok sabha seat, bleaker.

from 14558 earlier. Still narrow but getting better.

3 PM:

Smriti Irani has extended the lead to 14558 votes from 3717 earlier, with close to 50% votes counted so far going in her favour in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. The current vote share stands at 138160 for Smriti and 123602 for Rahul Gandhi.

Here’s the EC data as of 3 PM.

Amethi election result 2019

1:30 PM

At the tightly contested Amethi seat of Uttar Pradesh, at 1.30 P.M, Smriti Irani leads Rahul Gandhi by a narrow lead of 3717 votes. Smriti so far as 70015 votes while Rahul Gandhi has 70015 votes. In 2014 Lok Sabha Elections Rahul Gandhi polled 4,08,651 votes with a vote share percentage of 46.71 while Smriti Irani had 3,00,748 polled with a vote share of 34.38.

1,784 NOTA votes were cast in 2014 Vs 697 in this election so far till the 3rd round of vote counting in Amethi seat.

Detailed data as per the Election commission of India is as follows:
An interesting point to note for Amethi constituency is that if Smriti Irani does end up winning this tight contest, Sidhu has announced he will quit politics.

More updates to follow.

Here are some statements by Rahul Gandhi and others about PM Modi’s ‘loss’ that did not age well

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Here are some statements by Rahul Gandhi and others about PM Modi’s ‘loss’ that did not age well

Now that the picture of how different political parties fared in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is becoming increasingly clear, it is time to reflect upon the tall assertions and wild claims that Congress and other opposition leaders made about the elections that yet again routed the grand old party and the regional parties and reinforced that Modi wave, far from losing strength, only transformed into a massive Tsunami.

Despite the coordinated smear campaign against the Prime Minister, gross allegations of graft habitually trotted out against him by Congress stalwarts, PM Modi seems to have surpassed all that criticism and yet again yank the NDA alliance comfortably across the 272-mark imperative to stake a claim at the government.

Notwithstanding exit poll results, which presented a dim view of Congress’ performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the arrogance among the Congress leadership didn’t diminish as the Congress president Rahul Gandhi rejected the results as a sham and urged his followers and workers to keep having their faith in the Congress party. He assured them that their hard work would yield the desired results.


Even during the height of the Election season, Congress President kept claiming that he has been successful in ‘demolishing’ and ‘dismantling’ PM Modi so much so that he asserted that the next Prime Minister will be anyone but Narendra Modi.


Perhaps, one of the greatest casualty of the BJP onslaught on the Results Day has been none other the Congress spokesperson Sanjay Jha. Jha, known for being overly sanguine about the Congress fortunes kept tweeting ad nauseam that the grand old party will stall the BJP juggernaut in 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Even in the face of disappointing exit poll results, Jha maintained his optimism and predicted that though BJP seems to be winning the exit polls, Congress will win the elections.


One of the senior Congress leaders from Delhi, Ajay Maken spoke to ANI stated that the results will be in the favour of the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi will be anointed as the next Prime Minister.


However, as of now, Congress is trailing on all the 7 constituencies in Delhi and as per trend, they don’t seem likely to win even one out of them.

Senior TMC leader Derek Obrien tweeted that BJP will be reduced to 30 seats from their previous tally of 73 in the state of Uttar Pradesh. As of the latest trends, BJP is leading on 57 seats in Uttar Pradesh.


In another assertion that was made by Derek Obrien, he contended that BJP will get 0 seats in the state of West Bengal. It is also pertinent to note that BJP has made massive inroads in the state of West Bengal where TMC has a ruling government. As it turns out, BJP is leading on 16 seats in the state and closely trailing behind the TMC candidates on the other few seats.


The exit poll results should have been a sobering realisation for the Congress leaders to temper down their hubris and assess the lacunas in their poll campaign. Far from realising it, the arrogance rose among the Congress leaders and they started levelling baseless allegations against the EVM and besmirching EC. With an ignominious defeat staring at them, one hopes this will humble them down a bit.

‘We are confident about the fairness and the integrity of the Indian elections’, US State Department

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‘We are confident about the fairness and the integrity of the Indian elections’, US State Department

On Wednesday the United States said that it was confident about the fairness and integrity of the Indian elections. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus while speaking to some reporters said, “I would say from the US perspective, we are very confident in the fairness and the integrity of the Indian elections, and we will obviously work with whoever is the victor and whatever the outcome is there”.

Due to the strong independent credentials of the Election Commission of India, the US doesn’t send in its election observers, unlike what happens in other countries. Ortagus said, “we have a very strong relationship and a lot of cooperation with the Indian government on a full range of issues, and the Secretary (of State, Mike Pompeo) has said numerous times that we have a true strategic partner in India”.

She was fascinated by the fact that such a massive exercise could be conducted peacefully. She said, “Someone pointed this out to me today that India’s election is the largest exercise in democracy in human history. I think with everything going on in the world, that’s a thing that we can pause and think about and certainly commend the Indian people”.

Despite the well-known credibility of the Election Commission, opposition parties and journalists have sought to repeatedly malign the institution ever since the Exit Polls were released. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking 100% matching of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) with the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the counting of votes on 23rd May, terming it as nonsense.

Yesterday, Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RSLP) leader Upendra Kushwaha called for violence over allegations of EVM tampering to protect votes. Shehla Rashid went ahead made a bizarre suggestion of ‘invoking’ the UN and other international bodies.

The allegations are raised despite the clarifications from the Election Commission. Various courts also on several occasions declared the EVMs cannot be hacked and that they are tamper proof, and the process followed by ECI is robust.

23rd May 2019: When the future of Bengal politics was changed forever

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23rd May 2019: When the future of Bengal politics was changed forever

The trends are in for all the seats in West Bengal. And thus far, at the time of writing this report, the BJP had a vote share of around 38%. Thus, the impending saffron surge in the land of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo is finally upon us.

Whatever the ultimate result may be, one thing is for certain, going into the 2021 Assembly Elections in the state, for the first time in history, West Bengal will have a party of saffron hue as the primary opposition. The Left is currently leading at zero seats and it’s extremely unlikely it will be able to open its account, Congress, too, is unlikely to beyond it’s currently leading in.

The results will have profound consequences for the future of Bengal politics. We will definitely see religious polarization in the state. There was considerable Hindu consolidation in favour of the BJP to counter the Muslim consolidation behind the TMC. Going forward, the polarization is likely to only exacerbate.

Not too long ago, Mamata Banerjee was harbouring dreams of becoming the Prime Minister of the country. Now, her own state is under siege. A jump from 2 to even 15 for the BJP in five years is a huge achievement. And that was despite the blatant efforts at rigging elections by the TMC.

Another noticeable trend is the fact that the Left votes have shifted completely to the BJP. It only goes on to show that people, primarily Hindus, who voted for the Left on the ground are extremely conscious of their Hindu identity. And it is in stark contrast to the sentiments of the top communist leaders.

The addition of Bengal to the list of states where Hindutva is a mainstream political force has profound implications for the future of Hindutva itself. Also, it’s important to note that BJP’s rise has been primarily backed by the Hindu youth in the state and this youth is greatly inspired by Narendra Modi. Therefore, it’s unlikely that the inroads BJP has made will evaporate anytime soon.

The rise of BJP in Bengal is also a testament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity as well as his stature as a national leader. It’s a testament to Amit Shah’s organizational skills as well. And in this moment of victory, the numerous sacrifices made by the Karyakartas on the ground ought to be borne in mind as well. Because at the end of the day, it is the ordinary Karyakarta on the ground who implements the grand plans of the top leadership.

YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy set to rule Andhra, early trends show a massive lead over TDP

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YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy set to rule Andhra, early trends show a massive lead over TDP

While counting is still in the process, a strong anti-incumbency whiff seems to be blowing in Andhra Pradesh. According to the early trends, YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy has taken a clear lead. Andhra Pradesh seems to have chosen Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress over the incumbent CM Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP).

People of Andhra Pradesh had gone in to vote for both Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. Polling for the 175 assembly constituencies as well as 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh had taken place simultaneously on April 11. Counting of votes for the 2019 Lok Sabha election and Andhra Pradesh Assembly election commenced at 8 am on Thursday.

In the Vidhan Sabha elections, the projections have come in for 166 seats out of 175 seats. Out of which Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP takes a whopping lead in 135 seats while incumbent CM Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is leading only in 27 seats.

In the Lok Sabha elections, the trends are no different. YSRCP leads in 23 seats while TDP in 2 seats.

Moods in the YSRCP camp already seems exuberant. Banners were put up outside Reddy’s residence on Thursday, congratulating him for being the next chief minister of the state.

The exit polls had predicted a close competition between incumbent CM Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSR Congress (YRSCP) in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections. Several had predicted that Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP would have an edge over incumbent CM Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP.

Going by the trends, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Chandrababu Naidu will not only lose his CM position but his dream of becoming the kingmaker at the national level also seems to be fragmentizing.

Meanwhile, early trends show NDA leading in 344 seats while the UPA leads in 91 seats at the centre. The election commission has already declared the BJP’s leads alone has crossed 277 seats out of the total of 542 seats.

‘Liberals’ have a meltdown as result day trends indicate a massive victory for PM Modi

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‘Liberals’ have a meltdown as result day trends indicate a massive victory for PM Modi

Recently after the exit polls predicted a landslide victory for PM Modi, Liberals had neutral journalists couldn’t hide their frustration of a possibility of another term of PM Modi. Now that the early trends of election results are firming up an inevitable BJP victory, the Liberals and ‘neutral journalists’ are having a spectacular meltdown on Twitter.

Congress apologist and a foul-mouthed self-proclaimed professor Ashok Swain couldn’t digest the fact that BJP is yet again democratically elected to form a government at the centre. In an attempt to undermine the voters, Swain asserted that voters had even Hitler, Mugabe, Marcos, Trump, Putin and Erdogan to power.


Controversial journalist Rana Ayyub cannot bring herself to the fact that Sadhvi Pragya, who was wrongly incarcerated for the Samjhauta Express Bomb blast is leading the Bhopal constituency.


With PM Modi’s march to the power inevitable, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta lamented that no matter who wins, India will remain battered and divided.


A troll masquerading as a journalist, Swati Chaturvedi was utterly astounded that the BJP has pulled off a victory as easily as it appears to be achieving.


JNU freelance protestor-turned-full-time-politician Shehla Rashid was dejected that the early trends gave BJP a comfortable lead to form a government yet again. She asserted that in 2014 she felt Arvind Kejriwal will be PM and the public would reject a ‘mass-murderer’.  Clearly, Rashid is on the verge of catastrophic mental failure as results are establishing that another term for PM Modi is imminent.


One Congress sympathiser discredited the 2019 elections altogether and expressed a forlorn hope that people realised it.


Even before the Results started to trickle in, some journalists were quick to offer explanations about their job as journalists.


According to Congress supporter Tehseen Poonawala’s infinite wisdom, BJP manipulated the EVMs in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh polls to increase their voter percentage, but not the seats.

Amit Shah set for his maiden Lok Sabha victory from Gandhinagar by a record margin

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Amit Shah set for his maiden Lok Sabha victory from Gandhinagar by a record margin

Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, who is contesting from the Gandhinagar in Gujarat is headed for a big victory in his first Lok Sabha election. As we write this report, he is ahead of his rival Dr CJ Chawda of Congress by more than 1,75,000 votes.

Since the exit poll results, BJP camp has been in a celebratory mood. The early counting trends predict a comeback for BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for a second consecutive term.

Gandhinagar is considered a politically prestigious seat that has in the past been represented by party veterans including LK Advani. Advani had won this key seat six times, and five times consecutively since 1991.

This is the first time Shah is contesting Lok Sabha elections and is inching towards a historical win. Shah is a four-time MLA from Sarkhej winning in 1997 (by-election), 1998, 2002 and 2007. Considered a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah’s stature rose in national politics after BJP captured 73 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh during 2014 general elections. Shah at that point was in charge of Uttar Pradesh. Subsequently, he went on to become the party president of BJP.

Under his leadership, the BJP achieved success in Legislative Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand and Assam in 2016, but lost the elections in Delhi, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.

He led his party to victory in state elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Gujarat. He also worked to strengthen the party’s position in Manipur.

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