More about Modi’s BJP, Rahul Gandhi’s Congress and other parties that are central to world’s largest electoral exercise.

India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, set off on the world's largest electoral exercise on Friday. The country has more than 2,500 political parties but just 10 of them hold 86% of all seats ...

All political parties rave and rant against nepotism and dynastic politics; in practice they do exactly what they oppose in public ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has built one of the most formidable electoral machines in recent history ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party are expected to lead a serious struggle between a few parties.

Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP are trying to destroy India's Constitution and change India's Constitution.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat exercised his franchise at a polling booth in Nagpur, Maharashta, during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections on Friday.

In the last Lok Sabha election, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) – many of whose members are now part of the INDIA grouping – won 45 of the 102 seats that will vote on April 19.

In the following decades, India’s dominant political party, the centrist Indian National Congress, worked to limit the RSS’s influence. When a Hindutva activist and RSS member assassinated Gandhi ...

Close to a billion Indians are eligible to vote in a 44-day national election beginning today. It will be the largest democratic exercise in history.

In Philippines, the authorities have arrested suspected members of a Sikh separatist group banned in India. In a statement, the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center Executive Director ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eyeing a historic third consecutive term in general elections being held in April and May.