Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday joined the chorus for Rahul Gandhi as Prime Ministerial candidate in 2014, saying the demand not only reflected feeling in the Congress party, but also those of millions of youth across the country. ...
05:28 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Decision on Congress scion Rahul Gandhi's leadership role has been deferred sources said on Saturday. The Congress is discussing other issues confronting the party at the moment added sources even as the clamour to make Rahul the party's prime ministerial candidate only grew louder on the second and final day of the Congress's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur. ...
08:06 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be a major talking point during the Congress Chintan Baithak in Jaipur in the wake of his electoral hat-trick that has seen growing speculation about his likely projection as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ...
09:03 PM, Jan 10, 2013
Using development plank, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sought votes for his party from the people of the state for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. ...
08:23 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Slamming the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka for being "determined" in denying Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa on Monday said her party would go alone in the next Lok Sabha polls and secure all 40 seats in order to assert its rights in Delhi. ...
03:57 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Miffed at the way it was treated by the Congress in the just concluded Gujarat assembly elections, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has hinted that it would have to rethink on its alliance with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and assembly polls. ...
12:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
New Delhi: Making a strong case for the direct cash transfer scheme of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which has been termed as a gamechanger, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday said proper implementation of it would help his party. Talking about the worth of the scheme, the Gandhi scion said that if the UPA government implemented the direct cash transfer scheme properly, the Congress would win next...
10:55 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday held discussions with district chiefs of the party on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's "gamechanger" direct cash transfer scheme. According to Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, the Gandhi scion told them that the intention of the scheme was to bring down corruption. Addressing a press conference in the national capital, the Rural Development Minister said, "We always try to...
05:05 PM, Dec 14, 2012
New Delhi: BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Friday quashed the hopes of Narendra Modi's supporters to declare him the party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Gadkari said that the BJP would declare its candidate only after 2014 Lok Sabha elections. At an interactive session organised by a news channel, Gadkari reiterated that the BJP would not project any leader as the PM candidate before the elections....
12:16 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Amid suggestions by some BJP leaders that Narendra Modi was fit to be the Prime Minister, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said the NDA has not yet decided on its Prime Ministerial candidate and this will be done at a later stage. At an interactive session organised by a news channel, the Bihar Chief Minister said the Prime Minister should be the leader of the largest...
05:11 PM, Dec 06, 2012
New Delhi: A day after launching his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he will tour the the country for the next one year to "expose" the Congress and BJP while trying to convince people on why they should support his party. Eyeing the next year's assembly polls and the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Kejriwal made a passionate plea to youth to join him full-time to bring...
05:49 PM, Nov 25, 2012
The Congress has decided that Rahul Gandhi will lead the party's campaign for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
11:12 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress party has kicked off its preparations for the big battle of 2014. And this time it is Rahul Gandhi who'll be spearheading the party's campaign for the General Elections. The Congress on Thursday appointed the Gandhi scion the head of the Coordination Committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Rahul, who is already a member of the Congress war group, will be accompanied by senior leaders...
08:15 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Visakhapatnam: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday alleged that the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre was planning to conduct early general elections to escape from its failures and said that no amount of "make-up" (reshuffle) could prevent its "pack-up" in 2014. Addressing a press conference in Visakhapatnam, the former BJP president said, "There were indications that the UPA government might go for vote-on-account, announce...
06:09 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Ranchi: Asking local-level party leaders to gear up for the 2014 general elections, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said those who had lost three Lok Sabha and Assembly polls during their political career should opt out of the race voluntarily to give others a chance. Rahul's suggestion came when his attention was drawn at a party meeting to how some names of poll aspirants...
10:06 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Rae Bareli: Ending speculations that she could be getting ready to contest the 2014 General Elections, Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday stressed that she was not joining politics. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Priyanka said that it was a general practice for her to visit Rae Bareli and had nothing to do with her joining politics. She said, "I am not joining politics. There is nothing new about my interacting with workers in...
09:24 PM, Sep 12, 2012
New Delhi: Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma has put his party in a spot again by saying that the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 could be a direct fight between Congress general secretary and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi. Verma hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav over his prime ministerial ambitions, saying the next Prime Minister will be either a Congress leader or...
06:05 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Hyderabad: In an apparent warm-up exercise for the 2014 electoral battle, which is expected to be fierce and even ugly, Telugu Desam president N.Chandrababu Naidu has begun cornering YS Jagan Mohan Reddy as he believes that the YSRC Party alone will be his partys main opponent in the coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions. Naidu seems to have come to the conclusion that he will have to weaken Jagan considerably to...
12:22 PM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought an assurance from the BJP that his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi will not be NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections. Kumar made this clear to BJP President Nitin Gadkari when he met him during the oath taking ceremony of Pranab Mukherjee as President last month, sources close to the Bihar chief minister told PTI. The sources said Gadkari...
01:48 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: The indefinite fast by Team Anna against the UPA government on the issue of corruption entered the second day on Thursday. However, the support for Team Anna seems to have dwindled considerably from last year. The focus and organisation needed to sustain a popular movement seems to be lacking this time round. At this year's fast, the turnout from supporters has been dismal. Meanwhile, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare...
10:20 PM, Jul 26, 2012
