New Delhi: In Uttarakhand, there is a positive inclination among the voters towards the opposition Congress, according to the post-election survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) ) in association with The Week and CNN-IBN. The party is projected to win 31-41 seats, a massive improvement upon its 2007 performance when it won 22. The ruling BJP, on the other hand, may end up with...
07:14 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Mathura: Can Mamata Banerjee open her account in Uttar Pradesh? One of her candidates is up against the formidable Rashtriya Lok Dal President Ajit Singh's son Jayant Chaudhary in the Jat heartland of Mathura. Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress is pulling all stops to open its account in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Six times MLA and sitting member of Vidhan Sabha Shyam Sunder Sharma has been entrusted with the task. Sharma...
10:40 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Tonight at 10 pm CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, if Akhilesh Yadav emerging as the game changer in UP?
04:23 PM, Feb 23, 2012
The BJP has been facing serious problems in Karnataka and Gujarat. Experts discuss whether the party is in trouble. ...
09:04 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Chennai: Bringing the curtains down on the uneasy alliance with actor Vijayakanth led DMDK, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said it was a mistake by AIADMK to have aligned with him in the last year Assembly polls and she felt "ashamed" and "regretted" it. "I am ashamed and regret the fact that AIADMK faced the polls with unqualified persons who don't even know how to behave after...
03:33 AM, Feb 02, 2012
Uttarakashi: BJP leader LK Advani on Friday accused the Congress-led UPA government of failing to control price-rise and corruption in the country, and said only his party can give a "real Ram Rajya." "On the orders of the Supreme Court, a couple of ministers of the Congress-led government at the Centre went to jail. This amply shows that Congress is neck-deep in corruption," Advani said here at an election rally....
12:08 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Manipur, India's most disturbed state after Kashmir, will on Saturday elect a new 60-member assembly to mark the start of make-or-break elections in five states. The staggered exercise, which ends with the vote in Goa and Uttar Pradesh on March 3, will be this year's first major test for political parties. Along with Uttarakhand and Punjab, a grand total of 137 million voters will be eligible to exercise...
03:44 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Paderu: N Balakrishna, actor and son of TDP founder NT Rama Rao, once again made clear his plan of joining active politics and contest the next assembly polls. Addressing a public meeting after unveiling the statue of his father in the agency area of the Paderu in the district on Sunday, he stated that he had decided to enter into active politics to serve the people. "TDP had launched several...
12:26 AM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna on Monday unveiled its campaign plans for the Assembly polls in five states starting with Uttarakhand on January 21 and spending a major part of February in Uttar Pradesh but will not ask people to vote in favour or against any particular party. However, they will not target a single party during the campaign but put forward the need for a strong Lokpal. "During these tours,...
08:10 PM, Jan 16, 2012
Lucknow: Notification for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly election would be issued on Monday with which the nomination process would also start. The second phase would test the fate of many senior leaders, including speaker Sukhdeo Rajbhar, revenue minister Phagu Chauhan, state presidents of BSP and BJP, deputy leader of SP Ambika Chaudhary, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers. Polling for the second phase of polls covering 59...
04:51 PM, Jan 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused the Congress of playing divisive politics ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls, singling out its promise for a sub-quota for backward minorities. Continuing with his party's opposition to minority reservation within the other backward classes (OBC) quota, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said good governance, law and order and corruption were the main issues for the poll-bound state but Congress was...
12:16 AM, Jan 15, 2012
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11:55 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Ralegan Siddhi: Team Anna has decided to tour the five poll-bound states, but will not campaign against any particular political party. Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan met Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi on Tuesday and said that they were never anti-Congress. Claiming that their anti-corruption movement is not targeted against any particular political party, Kejriwal said, "We were never anti-congress. There is not a single party which is clean and...
02:48 PM, Jan 10, 2012
New Delhi: Black money has always been a big issue in elections, but the recovery of a huge amount of cash, mainly from Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, has raised questions of fairness in the coming Assembly polls. So far, more than Rs 30 crore in cash has been recovered from Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. On an average Rs 2 crore in cash is being recovered every day from these poll-bound...
06:21 AM, Jan 10, 2012
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11:56 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Team Anna's Core Committee met on Monday amidst suggestions that they should not target a single political party in the future. ...
10:37 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN on Monday said that he will hit the campaign trail in all the five poll-bound states from January 14. Ramdev said, "We will tell people that not one person responsible for the loot of the country should be elected to state assembly or Parliament." Ramdev said that he will raise issues like black money, corruption and government's attempt...
05:49 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Keeping Mamata in good humour is crucial for the Congress especially with the budget session not too far away. ...
09:40 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Lucknow: Less than a month to go before the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the curtains could come down on Chief Minister Mayawati's biggest public promotion campaign yet, that includes the statues of herself and the BSP's election symbol, the elephant. The Election Commission is likely to take a decision on Saturday on whether to cover up all the statues. A decision will be taken at its meeting on Saturday...
09:13 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Watch the discussion with Karan Thapar on road ahead for the UPA government in 2012. ...
11:51 PM, Jan 06, 2012
