Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has said that his primary concern is not the 2014 General Elections but the state Assembly polls. He also accused the Congress of misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). "With my Gujarat experience (referring to 2002 riots), I can say that the Congress is misusing the CBI. The Congress cannot win Gujarat on their own. So hey are misusing CBI," he said. He further ...
02:57 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Chandigarh: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to Punjab in October during which he will be interacting with a cross-section of people including party workers, office bearers, MLAs and MPs, State Congress President Amarinder Singh said on Wednesday. He said that Rahul will be visiting Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala during his tour of the state on October 10-11. Singh said, being Rahul's first visit to...
01:23 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hoped that Anna Hazare would support him in his endeavour to form a political party, saying that there could be ideological differences on the issue but the goal is same. He said that his group would announce the future roadmap of the political party on October 2. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Kejriwal also made it clear that he would not support...
04:45 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has kept his 2012 poll campaign centred on spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda, attempting to keep his Hindutva image intact while reaching out to other communities, to make himself more acceptable at the national level even as the Opposition dubbed it as a ploy to garner political gains. Modi has taken out a month long political yatra naming it Swami Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra and...
01:14 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi/Bangalore: A group of 20 present and former Congress legislators from Karnataka is set to meet party president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on Tuesday to urge her to replace state unit president G. Parameshwara, a Dalit, with the 81-year-old veteran leader, Shamanur Shivashankarappa, a Lingayat. Caste considerations in party leadership are assuming strategic importance as assembly polls in the state are due in May 2013. There is speculation,...
03:10 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Gujarat Congress is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to win over the people in the state ahead of the Assembly polls that are likely to be held in November end. Releasing a three-page document titled 'Gujarat Praja Vikas Darshan-2012', the state Congress chief Arjun Modhwadia announced sops for the unemployed youth, the IT sector, agriculture, handicrafts and tourism. The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, in their...
02:45 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Bangalore: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has expressed confidence that he will return as the Chief Minister after the Assembly polls next year. As long as I have peoples support, nobody can finish me. I will return as the CM with the blessings of you (people) after the Assembly elections, Yeddyurappa said at a BJP workers meet at Hirekerur in Haveri district on Sunday. He also took an indirect...
01:36 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has decided to embark on a month-long yatra from September 11 in poll-bound Gujarat, which will cover major parts of the state. Interestingly, the name of Modi's yatra is Vivekananda Yuva Vikas Yatra, which will begin on the day when spiritual leader Swami Vivekanada made his historic speech at the Chicago Conference of World Religions, 150 years ago. "The yatra will start from Becharaji...
03:02 AM, Sep 08, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections, Chief Minister Narendra Modi has gone back to his Hindutva roots. In his latest blog, Modi accused the UPA of promoting cow slaughter and export of beef. The comments are being seen as Modi's attempt to woo the majority community, his traditional vote bank in the state in an election year. Just last week, the Opposition Congress had dismissed Modi's claim that...
12:31 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Election Commission arrived in Ahmedabad on Sunday as part of preparations ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections scheduled to be held later this year, official sources said. The Commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath, election commissioner HS Brahma, deputy election commissioner Vinod Zutshi, and other officials, arrived in Ahmedabad on Sunday evening, they said. During their one-day visit beginning on Monday, the officials will meet representatives...
09:10 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Shimla: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will be in Shimla on a two-day visit to Himachal Pradesh beginning June 27 during which he will hold meetings with party leaders and workers. Rahul will reach Kullu on June 27 and hold discussions with Congress workers. He will fly to Shimla the next day to participate in similar meetings, party sources said. The visit assumes significance in view of the upcoming Assembly...
12:59 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...
09:44 PM, May 29, 2012
Bangalore: Ruling Karnataka for the first time, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will complete four years in power on May 30 with little to cheer and much to worry about seeking another mandate in the assembly elections less than a year away. The state's first BJP chief minister, B S Yeddyurappa, is facing a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, as directed by the Supreme Court on Friday, into corruption...
01:46 PM, May 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday expressed confidence that Congress party would put up a good show in next month's by-polls to one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats. "Our endeavour is to win the one Lok Sabha and the 18 Assembly segments," he told reporters in Visakhapatnam. He would be campaigning in Srikakulam, East and West Godavari districts for three days in support of...
10:02 PM, May 06, 2012
Amethi: Undeterred by the poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday advised party workers to shun groupism and strengthen the organisation. "You all should shun groupism and work unitedly to strengthen the party. Some changes are in the offing to strengthen the organisation...I want to see the strong organisation at village level", Rahul told party workers while reviewing the party's performance in Amethi...
02:36 AM, May 02, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a bid to woo youth ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections, the Congress on Tuesday held a rally marking the state's 52nd Foundation Day. "Youth of the state are in a flux due to policies of the ruling BJP government at it has failed them on every front. They are being made to pay very high fees for their higher education and once they pass out there is nobody...
01:23 AM, May 02, 2012
Bangalore: Karnataka capital Bangalore boasts of being home to over two million graduates and diploma holders, but still cuts a sorry figure as only a few thousand of them care to vote to elect a representative to advocate their interests in the state legislature. The Karnataka legislature consists of two houses - the 225-member assembly and 75-member council. The council is made up of 25 members elected by the assembly,...
01:03 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited the Tumkur region in Karnataka on Saturday apparently in a bid to woo the Lingayat community ahead of the 2013 bypolls in the state. Sonia attended the birthday celebrations of the highly respected Lingayat seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga math', which is reportedly one of India's oldest. However, a woman protestor at the rally waved black flags at the leader and was immediately...
01:12 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi discussed the party's poll debacle with party leaders from Uttar Pradesh, the buzz now is how will he revamp the party organisation within the state. Party MLAs have blamed central leaders and their comments for the Congress' poll debacle. But will Rahul Gandhi now restructure the organisation to ensure a different result for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls? Two days...
08:59 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Chandigarh: Factional feud in Congress in Punjab in the wake of party's debacle in assembly poll came to the fore on Wednesday as some senior leaders walked out of a meeting presided over by PCC President Amarinder Singh. Seventy one candidates who lost the state Assembly elections held recently in Punjab had been called to the meeting held in Chandigarh to discuss the party's poll defeat. Former MLA Sukhpal Khaira,...
07:23 PM, Apr 04, 2012
