Chandigarh: The BSP on Monday announced to go it alone in January 30 Punjab polls, putting to rest all speculations about the party forging pre-poll alliance with People's Party of Punjab. "We did not have any meeting with (PPP head) Manpreet (Singh Badal) and neither did he meet us," BSP general secretary Narender Kashyap said after releasing the first list of 90 candidates. Barring a former MP, the candidates are...
07:17 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Sitapur: With just a month left for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Sitapur on Monday kicked off the third phase of campaign, exhorting people to bring about a change in the state by untying "the hands which have remained tied for the past 22 years". "Untie the hands which have remained tied for the past 22 years. You people have given 22 years to them...
07:04 PM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Monday said that the Team Anna will be monitored for poll expenditure in the upcoming state assembly elections. "In law anyone who has spend money in support of a candidate or a party is liable for action. The law says that anyone who spends more that Rs 10 on a candidate, he first has to do so with written permission from the...
02:55 PM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Alliance talks for the Uttar Pradesh polls between long-time allies the BJP and the JD(U) have failed. The JD(U) has decided not to field any candidate as a mark of protest against the BJP after the party did not concede to the JD(U)'s demands for at least 3 dozen seats in the state. The JD(U) leadership has, however, said that the party workers are free to contest as...
02:12 PM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Ahead of the UP elections Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has asked all party MPs and ministers from the state the number of times they have visited their constituencies. Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal will now have to submit a fortnightly report to Rahul Gandhi on the MP's and ministers' visits to their constituencies, also ministers and mps have been made in charge of their areas in UP. This...
07:19 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Chandigarh: The Congress is yet to announce its candidates for the January 30 Punjab Assembly polls, even as ruling Shiromani Akali Dal has already announced its first list of candidates. "We will announce the candidates' name in the next 3-4 days," Congress in-charge for Punjab, Gulchain Singh Charak said in Chandigarh on Sunday. When asked if the delay would give an edge to SAD, he said, "SAD is a regional...
03:30 PM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna's conduct will be monitored during the assembly elections in five states, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said on Sunday, adding that its campaign against a 'particular party' could become an issue of propriety. "They (Team Anna) will be monitored like everybody else," Quraishi said. "So far they have not violated any election law as they did not say that vote for Y instead of X. They...
02:20 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Mumbai: Ahead of Anna Hazare's fast, the AIDS Society of India has dubbed as "misinformation campaign" the threat to inject the Gandhian and his supporters with HIV-contaminated needles, saying such fears were unfounded. "It is difficult to contract HIV, as the virus does not survive outside human body for long. Virus dies as soon as blood dries. HIV contaminated blood, supposedly used for pricks like the ones described, doesn't pose...
11:08 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: With battle lines drawn between the government and the civil society over the Lokpal Bill, Team Anna is likely to discuss on Sunday the strategy for the next big Anna Hazare campaign, slated to start on December 27. Hazare is also likely to unveil details of his upcoming three-day fast on Sunday. This will be Hazare's fourth fast for a strong Lokpal Bill. Team member Arvind Kejriwal told...
10:31 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Budget is likely to be delayed by a few days, government sources have said. The Union budget and Railway budget are likely to be tabled in the first week of March, they said. That's only after assembly elections in five states " Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur - are over. Earlier it was reported that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present the Union Budget...
09:49 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: Not just political parties, but Anna Hazare too will hit the campaign trail in all five poll-bound states but not for votes. Team member Arvind Kejriwal said that Anna Hazare will go to the people if Parliament doesn't pass a strong Lokpal Bill. "I hope Parliament will pass a good Lokpal Bill. Let's hope for the best. It should not be passed in its current form," Kejriwal said....
07:45 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: The big fight has begun. Within moments of Election commission announcing the poll dates, parties defined their strategies. The biggest battled of them is in Uttar Pradesh, which goes to polls in 7 phases. It's now turning out to be Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati vs Rahul Gandhi. Rahul hopes to bring his party back in reckoning after over 2 decades. The BSP, reeling under corruption charges, a...
07:30 AM, Dec 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday alleged that the Congress was trying to make a place for itself in the Uttar Pradesh polls through reservation. "Congress is trying to give people the opium of reservation to hijack votes. Today, they are remembering Muslim and Jat reservation. Tomorrow, they will remember some other reservation," BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told in the national capital. Speaking to a TV...
09:07 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: The railways and the general budgets for the year 2012-13 may have to be deferred by a few days due to the model code of conduct for assembly polls in five states being in place till March 9. The railways and the main budgets are usually announced by February-end soon after parliament's budget session opens in the third or the last week of February. Chief Election Commissioner SY...
08:32 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: The elections in Uttarakhand will be held on January 30 for 70 seats. The battle for Uttarakhand will also be a straight fight for the Congress and the BJP. Corruption will be the major poll issue in Uttarakhand. The poll will also be a test of the on ground impact of yoga guru Baba Ramdev's anti-graft movement. It remains to be seen whether Khanduri's ploy of Team Anna...
06:34 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Former BJP president Rajnath Singh ruled out any possibility of an alliance between his party and BSP or SP. ...
06:27 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday announced the polling date for the Assembly elections in Manipur. The state will be the first to vote on January 28 and the elections will be held for 60 seats. The battle for Manipur will be a straight fight between the Congress and the Manipur People's Party (in alliance with other parties). Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said that Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)...
05:56 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Bhopal: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 88th birthday will be celebrated in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday with programmes being organised all over the state, particularly at his birth place in Gwalior. A 'Maha Mrityunjaya Paath' will also be organised at Indore, in which 108 priests would take part, government sources said. The Madhya Pradesh government has already issued orders to have portraits of the former Prime Minister displayed in...
05:40 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday announced the dates for the Assembly elections in five states " Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. While Uttar Pradesh will go for a seven-phase election, the other states will have one phase each. The elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held on February 4, 8, 11, 15, 19, 23 and 28 while the polling will be done in Punjab and Uttarakhand...
05:09 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh came down hard on Anna Hazare and the main Opposition BJP on Saturday, saying the Congress was not scared of him and that the party would fight him electorally. He said that most of the demands made by the anti-corruption activist had been incorporated in the draft Lokpal Bill. He asked them to have faith in the judgment of the elected representatives of...
12:21 PM, Dec 24, 2011
