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
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh has said that there is no question of a pre-poll alliance in 2014 in Uttar Pradesh. ...
08:07 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Ahmedabad: In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress' fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP. In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to...
11:00 PM, May 29, 2012
Narendra Modi always hogs the headlines and always generates sharp responses of two kinds. One from the people who believe Modi is the future of ...
05:52 PM, Apr 25, 2012
After reports of policy paralysis hitting reforms, which was attributed to his speech in the US, Kaushik Basu, the Chief Economic Advisor to the PM now claims he was misquoted. ...
12:26 PM, Apr 24, 2012
The Time magazine recently, through a controversial cover story on the BJP mascot and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, made the argument that Modi may be the biggest threat Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would face in the 2014 general elections. "Modi, 61, is perhaps the only contender with the track record and name recognition to challenge Rahul Gandhi," says the story. Indian politics at the Centre today is largely between...
12:05 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: "Dum hai ya nahi, 2014 mein pata chalega. (Whether the movement still has the steam, we will come to know in 2014)." This was how Anna Hazare on Wednesday responded to queries whether his anti-corruption movement still has the support and not fizzled out. The 74-year-old activist, a veteran of several protests, was releasing a book titled 'Anna: 13 Days That Awakened India' written by TV journalist Ashutosh...
08:12 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said that his party will continue to support the Congress in order to defeat communal forces. In an interview to IBN7, he said there is no point in withdrawing support now as Union elections are coming in 2014. "We support Congress to stop communal forces. What's the use now to withdraw support? Now the elections are coming after two years. we won't...
06:19 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Amid speculation that BJP leader L K Advani is undertaking his yatra to be in the fray for the next Lok Sabha polls, the senior leader on Friday endorsed a US Congressional report that says Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may be the next Prime Ministerial candidate of the party. "Now, American lawmakers and the State Department are being primed for the return of the BJP to power...
03:38 PM, Sep 16, 2011
Washington: As the debate on potential prime ministerial contenders for the 2014 elections picks up in India, a US Congressional report says it might just turn out to be a direct contest between controversial Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. A latest report on India by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a bipartisan and independent research wing of the US Congress, finds Modi a strong prime...
12:58 PM, Sep 14, 2011
