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The 2017 presidential election was held in India on 17 July 2017 with the votes counted and the results announced on 20 July 2017. President Pranab Mukherjee , whose term of office was due to expire on 24 July 2017, [ 2 ] declined to seek re-election due to health concerns and old age.
Various organisations/agencies have been conducting Exit polls to predict voter intentions in the legislative assembly elections. Hindi newspaper Dainik Jagran had published an exit poll promoting BJP, after first phase of the election. This led to its editor being arrested for violating the ban on exit polls during the election. [25]
← Summary of the 4 February 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election results [12] Parties and coalitions Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−; Indian National Congress (INC) 5,945,899 38.5 1.4 117 77 31 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 3,662,665 23.7 23.7 112 20 20 Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) 3,898,161 25.2 9.4 94 15 41 Bharatiya Janata ...
The nominated members of the mentioned houses are also eligible to vote in the election process. [4] In the election, voting will be done by a secret ballot and the members of parliament will use a "special pen" to mark their preference. [5] For the 2017 election, the electoral college consists of Rajya Sabha members: 233 elected and 12 nominated
20 July – Ram Nath Kovind won the 2017 Indian presidential election with 65.65% votes against Meira Kumar, the presidential candidate of the opposition. [33] 25 July – Ram Nath Kovind took oath as 14th President of India. 26 July – Nitish Kumar resigns as Chief Minister of Bihar, breaking the coalition with RJD & Indian National Congress ...
The Bharatiya Janata Party became the single largest party in the 2017 Municipal Corporation elections with 17 out of the 34 seats, falling short of a majority by just 1 seat, creating history by winning in the bastion of the Indian National Congress and formed the new city government. It was the first time in the history of Shimla Municipal ...
The Reuters/Ipsos poll of 6,426 people, taken from Dec. 27 to Jan. 18, shows the number of respondents who argued with family and friends over politics jumped 6 percentage points from a pre ...
Divya Bhaskar (transl. the divine Sun) is a Gujarati newspaper in Gujarat, India, owned by D B Corp Ltd. It is one of the highest circulation Gujarati dailies. [when?] With the most local editions in Gujarat, [citation needed] it is published from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Mehsana, Bhuj, Bhavnagar (as Saurashtra Samachar) and Junagadh (as Sorath Bhaskar).