New Delhi: As Uttar Pradesh gets ready to vote in the first phase of elections on Wednesday, CNN-IBN takes a look at all the star campaigners cutting across party lines, who'll be hoping to have made a difference in the minds of the voter. There are three stars campaigners in the battle for Uttar Pradesh as Samajwadi Party and the Congress have passed on the baton to generation next to...
07:37 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Will Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi campaign in the Uttar Pradesh polls after giving Uttarakhand and Punjab a miss? The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is hopeful he will. However, the BJP's hindutva poster boy, a section feels, is unhappy with the rehabilitation of his friend-turned-foe, Sanjay Joshi. The star campaigner of the BJP has till now given Punjab and Uttarakhand a miss, fuelling speculations that RSS poster boy...
09:56 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: BJP star campaigner and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been conspicuous by his absence from the party's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh. Modi is said to be sulking and upset after his rival Sanjay Joshi was put in-charge of the party in UP. Modi did not campaign for the party in Punjab or in Uttarakhand, which went to polls on Monday. He will also give the poll...
07:39 AM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: As political parties try to outdo one another in offering sops in Uttar Pradesh elections, Mulayam Singh Yadav first promised free laptops and tablets to students if Samajwadi Party comes to power in UP. Going a step further, he has announced free saris and blankets for the needy, and if that was not enough, the Samajwadi Party supremo has also said his government will give jobs to rape...
07:52 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Uttrakhand Chief Minister Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri is doing all he can to woo voters. He's also trying to wipe the slate clean, undoing the effect of corruption allegations against his predecessor. "After winning the elections, Khanduri will be our CM," said BJP President Nititn Gadkari. Khanduri is BJP's last and only hope for retaining power in Uttarakhand and 'Khanduri has zaroori' campaign dominating the party's poll pitch in...
02:19 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Dehradun: As Uttarakhand braces for the crucial Assembly polls, the Rudraprayag constituency has become a centre of attraction with two heavyweights from the same family gearing up for a no-holds-barred contest. The situation stands interestingly poised as Congress has fielded Leader of Opposition Harak Singh Rawat against BJP's Matbar Singh Kandari, a cabinet minister and two-time MLA from the constituency. Rawat is the brother-in-law of Kandari. Rawat, Leader of Opposition...
07:40 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Pauri: The cold wave across the country has hit the Uttarakhand polls, Chief Minister BC Khanduri was forced to trek 7 kilometers in snow to file his nomination. And now parties are worried that voters may not turn up for the January-end poll because of the weather conditions. Most of the political parties including the incumbent BJP have already expressed reservations to the election commission about the January-end polling. "We...
06:52 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: In poll-bound Uttarakhand, migration of youth has always been a major issue but these elections, even the top state leadership seems to be migrating away from the hills. They're contesting elections from the more comfortable Tarai region. Unlike the past, the Chief Minister BC Khanduri this time has been forced to reach out to new voters even the Muslims. The new delimitation forcing Khanduri to migrate himself from...
08:35 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Heavy snowfall in large parts of hilly areas of Uttarakhand has made task of conducting elections very difficult. ...
09:15 AM, Jan 15, 2012
Dehradun: It has been unusually cold winter in Uttarakhand this year. Capital Dehradoon's tony Rajpur Road received snowfall after sixty years as political parties were warming up to electoral battle in this hill state. There is rebellion in all major political outfits; and regional players are lapping up the discarded with both their hands. BJP has denied tickets to nearly a dozen MLAs including some cabinet ministers. Disgruntled elements in...
07:41 PM, Jan 11, 2012
JD(U) has already decided that it will not tie up with the BJP for the upcoming UP polls. ...
08:47 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: After he switched loyalties and moved to the BJP, the CBI on Wednesday raided former Maywati minister Babu Singh Kushwaha. His properties as well as those of several in connection with the National Rurul Health Mission scam were raided. An embarrassed BJP claims the raids are a Congress-BSP plot, but is now struggling to explain the induction of the tainted minister. A day after former Mayawati key aide...
08:40 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Babu Singh and Badshah Singh, close aides of the UP Chief Minister, were booted out as their name figured in corruption cases. ...
11:52 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: Former UP minister and BSP member Avdesh Verma, who has been denied a ticket for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, broke down on camera on Monday and pledged his loyalty to the BJP. In the run up to the UP elections, Mayawati is cracking down on so called corrupt ministers and sacked 21 ministers including Avdesh Verma in the last six months. Fighting a huge anti-incumbency, Mayawati...
08:01 AM, Jan 03, 2012
The passage of the Lokpal Bill could prove to be an uphill task in the Upper House on Thursday. Will the Bill meet the same fate as the Women's Reservation Bill? ...
08:39 AM, Dec 28, 2011
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