AAP candidate from the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency Nina Nayak
AAP candidate from the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency Nina Nayak (centre) and other party workers put their fingers on their lips after a heated argument between Congress and BJP workers during...
View ArticleNone in BJP had asked me to withdraw, says Jaswant
Saturday was the last day for two BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Subhash Maharia to withdraw their nominations, but the two leaders refused to budge. Mr Singh and Mr Maharia filed nominations for the...
View ArticleBJP leaders miffed over seat to Raman’s son
For Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh’s son Abhishek, his political debut is not going to be a smooth sailing. Abhishek Singh’s candidature from Rajnandgaon parliamentary seat has left local...
View Article2nd-rung leaders not in arena yet
Second-rung leaders in the Congress have yet to start campaigning for the party in the field. The party’s campaign is a Rahul Gandhi show this time and the young Gandhi, who is the head of the...
View ArticleModi creates ripples in a silent Nanded
As the Devgiri Express entered the Nanded railway station on Sunday at around 10.30 am, hoards of Narendra Modi supporters heralded their arrival in the town with hysterical slogan shouting that was...
View ArticleModi slams Congress’ claims in ‘dhokha patra’
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi described the Congress party manifesto released recently as a “dhoka patra” and not a ghoshana patra (manifesto) stating that the Congress is trying to...
View ArticleBJP pursuing ‘politics of hate’, ‘talking big’: Sonia
Training her guns on BJP and its PM candidate Narendra Modi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday in accused the main Opposition party of talking big and pursing the politics of hatred. Addressing...
View ArticleEC wants govt to act on opinion polls
Refusing to restrict opinion polls using the power vested in it by the Constitution, the Election Commission (EC) has called upon the government to enact a law to that effect. This was conveyed by the...
View ArticleAntony hints at Left tieup after polls
Senior Congress leader A.K. Antony wants to work with the Left after the Lok Sabha polls to check “communal forces” from coming to power at the Centre. He floated the idea of unity of secular forces in...
View ArticleConfident of Ansari win: QED
The Qaumi Ekta Dal (QED), which will be fielding mafia don-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari from Varanasi against BJP star Narendra Modi, is confident that its candidate, who is presently in jail, will...
View ArticleBJP strategists banking on Paswan
Sensing a resurgence of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s “MY (Muslim-Yadav)” vote base, the BJP is aggressively projecting its tie-up with the Ram Vilas Paswan led LJP in caste centered electoral battle in...
View Article‘Politics in my blood, no rift with brothers’
Misa Bharti, 39, the eldest daughter of former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, is the RJD candidate in Patliputra Lok Sabha constituency. A trained medical doctor and mother of...
View ArticleVaranasi weavers reject AAP, Modi
Varanasi’s three lakh weavers (bunkars) from the Muslim community remain undecided about which candidate they will vote for. A cross-section of weavers outrightly rejected any possibility of voting...
View Article‘Trinamul will control Delhi’
Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her party would call the shots in the new government which would be formed at the Centre in May. “In the future, Trinamul Congress will...
View ArticleAstrologers predict Modi as PM
According to astrologers, the coming year will see BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi occupying the top post, YSR Congress winning 140-145 seats in Seemandhra and Telugu Desam president...
View ArticleResidents get ready for ‘Battle for Benaras’
Varanasi is the new political hotspot with BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal deciding to contest from one of the world’s oldest cities. The Battle for...
View ArticleBJP poll manifesto likely on April 3
The BJP is likely to release its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections on April 3. The poll document is expected to focus on reforms, good governance and strengthening of the security apparatus. While...
View ArticleIs Cong ready to join Left?
Amidst first indications by a senior Congress leader that the Congress was once again ready to join hands with the Left parties, after their bitter fallout in 2008 over the Indo-US nuclear deal, the...
View ArticleAnti-incumbency mars Nitish plan
Bihar chief minister and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar has turned the Lok Sabha elections into a battle of ego to stop his bête noire and BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi from coming to power. However, he is...
View ArticleBadal: Modi is synonym for development
Describing Modi as an acronym for “Movement of Developing India”, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday said that the future generation will remember the BJP prime ministerial...
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