The CPI(M) and the Left Front were not seen as a force that could offer an alternative to the Trinamool while the BJP backed by the Central government and with its propaganda bombardment was perceived as the alternative. The Party will forge a united resistance against the neo-liberal policies that are ruining people’s livelihood. The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of India’s bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. In other north-eastern states, the BJP won both the seats in Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura. The Party lost in many of its strong seats. In Chandigarh, Kirron Kher has defeated Congress candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal. The Indian National Congress (INC) alone has bagged 52 seats. The Polit Bureau and Central leadership must take the responsibility for this failure. The rightwing offensive unleashed by the BJP during the last five years has consolidated with this mandate. Congress state unit Chief and Former Chief Minister of Maharastra Ashok Chavan has lost in Nanded while party candidate and film actor Urmila Matondkar was defeated in Mumbai North. The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is a state political party of the Indian state of Odisha led by Naveen Patnaik, the current Chief Minister of Odisha and the son of former Chief minister Biju Patnaik, after whom the party was named. In Uttarakhand, we contested the Tehri Garhwal seat. The projection of the BJP under Narendra Modi as the protector of India against terrorism is completely divorced from the ground realities. The number of votes increased from 75,46,830 in 2014 to 96,28,034 in 2019 – an increase of 20,81,204 votes. In Kokrajhar we polled 28,128 (1.9 per cent) votes and ranked fifth. Part I. Overall in the state, our vote percentage is 0.12. Despite the record high unemployment levels, we are not able to draw youth into militant actions. In Uttar Pradesh, 79 results has been declared and counting is on for 1 seat. As a result, a section of our tribal voters and of IPFT supporters voted for the Congress. Though the efforts of the BJP to win seats in Kerala failed, the NDA was able to get 15.56 per cent of votes, even after transferring a portion of their votes to UDF. In the 2016 assembly elections, the Left Front had polled 26.30 per cent. The Party must take the lead in rallying the maximum sections of the people and launching struggles on these issues. Particular focus must be to ideologically combat communalism. The NDA votes increased from 10.8 per cent in 2014 to 15.56 per cent in 2019 – an increase of 4.76 per cent votes. Clearly, the voting pattern in the assembly elections and the parliament elections is vastly different. Currently, the house has 545 seats which are made up by the election of up to 543 elected members and at a maximum, 2 nominated members of the Anglo-Indian Community by the President of India. Initially there was an understanding that the Congress will support us in this assembly seat in return for our support to their Lok Sabha candidate under which Bonnai falls. No opposition party was able to get the minimum requirement (10% of seats) to claim the position of Leader of Opposition. The main reason for the poor performance of our Party has been our inability to conduct an effective election campaign and reach the people because of the abnormal position prevailing. During the four years between 2014 and 2018, Adani’s net worth more than quadrupled to $11.9 billion from $2.6 billion. BJP candidate from Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat and Union Minister Dr. Harshvardhan won with a margin of 2 lakh 28 thousand 145 votes. Here's why the new lower House will break old patterns. a) With the backing of international capital and domestic corporates, this new BJP government is bound to intensify exploitation of the people through neo-liberal economic reforms. Meenakshi Lekhi is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Party contested these elections on the basis of the electoral line worked out by the Central Committee on the basis of the Political Line adopted by the 22nd Party Congress. The Lok Sabha has its own television channel, Lok Sabha TV, headquartered within the premises of Parliament. [19] BJP members Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur constituency and Santosh Gangwar from Bareilly constituency have been elected to Lok Sabha for the eighth time. The broad platforms that have been set-up by us must actively reach out to likeminded forces in these activities. Check out 2019 constituency list of all states here. Hence in states where the main contest will be between the BJP and the Congress, such as Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and others) we should fight just one or two seats and campaign generally for the defeat of the BJP.”….and. There are certain weaknesses that we must not only note but rectify. The culmination of this was the unprecedented February 2019 Brigade rally. The decline is of 22.17 per cent. The party candidate Meenakshi Lekhi defeated Congress leader Ajay Maken in New Delhi constituency. An exercise to redraw Lok Sabha constituencies’ boundaries is carried out by the Boundary Delimitation Commission of India every decade based on the Indian census, last of which was conducted in 2011. This time, the fear of the BJP and Narendra Modi forming a government at the Centre caused a bigger shift among the secular and democratic minded sections in favour of the UDF, particularly among Muslim and Christian minorities. 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