The 3D broadcasts of the speeches of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi during the 2012 Assembly elections have entered the Guinness Book of World Records, he stated on Thursday. "Gujarat election campaign 2012 becomes even more memorable with the 3D interaction creating a Guinness World," Modi said on Twitter. ...
09:19 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Gujarat is set for the second and final round of polling on Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party has left no stones unturned as it remains apprehensive of a possible dent in its bastion of Saurashtra, courtesy rebel Keshubhai Patel's new party, the Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP). The first phase of voting saw a record 70.75 per cent turnout, with the Congress confident that the high turnout meant a certain "regime-change"....
07:32 AM, Dec 17, 2012
The campaigning has ended. Loudspeakers have fallen silent. However, on the eve of the second and final phase of polling in Gujarat, the underground betting markert in Ahmedabad is buzzing with activity, and it places Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a front runner in the race. ...
07:26 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Ahmed Patel, Congress leader from Gujarat and political secretary to the party president Sonia Gandhi, on Saturday said Chief Minister Narendra Modi was talking like a "dejected and frustrated" person. ...
01:26 AM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: After the Congress it is the turn of the Samajwadi Party to sound the Lok Sabha poll bugle. The Samajwadi Party released a list of 55 candidates for Uttar Pradesh on Friday but there is no announcement on the candidates from the Gandhi bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will contest from Mainpuri while his daughter-in-law and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh...
02:43 PM, Nov 16, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday said its prominent leaders from Bihar will campaign in poll-bound Gujarat, rejecting reports that Chief Minister Narendra Modi had asked party leaders from the eastern state to stay away from electioneering there. "These reports are baseless. Narendra Modi has not said anywhere asking Bihar leaders not to come to Gujarat. A large number of people from Bihar are residing in Gujarat and also campaigning...
08:06 PM, Oct 20, 2012
"I am not registered to vote and frankly I don't care," says 19-year-old Sahira Singh, in her 2nd year at George Washington University in Washington ...
05:59 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Washington: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may pose a challenge to Congress's young scion Rahul Gandhi in India's next parliamentary elections, Time magazine said. Modi, who figured on the cover page of the latest issues of the Asia edition of the prestigious magazine, which hit the stands on Friday could put up a challenge to Gandhi in particular after the recently held Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, where Congress fared poorly....
10:26 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Threatening to launch a 'big protest' for a strong Lokpal bill, Anna Hazare on Friday said the government will have to go if it does not bring a strong anti-corruption law. He said he will campaign for a strong Lokpal Bill till the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and if it does not come by then, he will sit in protest in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi soon...
12:21 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav will take charge on Thursday as the youngest Chief Minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh will take his oath to office in Lucknow. Akhileshs father Mulayam Singh Yadav has indicated that the cabinet will be a small one, with his uncle Shivpal Yadav and Azam Khan the Samajwadi Party's Muslim face being given key portfolios. Both leaders will also be sworn-in...
06:16 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The newly elected Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Vijay Bahuguna slammed Congress 'rebels' on Tuesday for challenging party President Sonia Gandhi's authority. Harish Rawat, the Congress' other chief ministerial candidate and veteran leader, had boycotted the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. On the brink of a major split within the state unit, Rawat sent in his resignation to Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday morning and followed it up with a meeting...
08:40 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: It's been nearly a week since the Assembly Elections results were declared, but Uttarakhand is still without a Chief Minister. The Congress staked a claim to form the government but fierce infighting has delayed the decision of who will head the government in the state. The Congress MLAs are likely to choose a Chief Minister on Monday. On Sunday, State Congress Chief Yashpal Arya, who has emerged as...
06:33 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS has slammed the BJP leadership for its poor performance in the recently concluded Assembly Elections. In its mouthpiece the Organiser, the Sangh said lack of leadership was the cause of the BJP's defeat in Uttar Pradesh. It said that the BJP could have doubled its tally if it had projected a leader of good standing in Uttar Pradesh. The RSS endorsed Narendra Modi by saying the...
06:17 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress was racing against time on Sunday to pick its Uttarakhand chief ministerial candidate. Party MLAs have to decide their CM choice by Monday. State Congress chief Yashpal Arya will meet observer Ghulam Nabi Azad sometime later on Sunday. Sources said Arya was now emerging as the front-runner for the CM's post. Other names doing the rounds included those of MLA Indira Hridayesh and Minister of State...
12:10 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who had first remarked on the potential he evinced in Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's son Akhilesh Yadav, on Saturday expressed happiness at the young leader being all set to take over as Uttar Pradesh chief minister. With a virtual euphoria sweeping Uttar Pradesh following the election of the 38-year-old political heir of Mulayam Singh as legislative party leader, Chatterjee said Indian...
12:02 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party has formally named Akhilesh Yadav as its Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh met Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi and formally staked claim to form the government. Cometh the hour and cometh the man, Akhilesh 38 years of age has become the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, elected unanimously by 225 Samajwadi Party MLAs as the leader of the legislature party. It all went according...
07:20 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: BSP chief Mayawati has called a two-day meeting at her party office on Saturday. Mayawati will be meeting party MLAs and MPs on Saturday, and on Sunday, the leader will be meeting all office bearers and zonal coordinators. The agenda of the meet will be to discuss the reasons of the BSP's poll debacle. Sources say that Mayawati is now aiming for a Rajya Sabha seat for herself...
11:05 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Amidst talks of mid-term elections, an attempt seems underway to regroup the Third Front. Both SAD chief Parkash Singh Badal and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav have invited West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the swearing-in ceremonies in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, respectively. However, there has been no confirmation from Banerjee yet on whether she will be attending the events. The Congress will be watching the...
10:12 AM, Mar 10, 2012
If confirmed, Akhilesh Yadav, 38, will be the youngest chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. ...
09:17 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Saturday condemned incidents of violence in Uttar Pradesh in the wake of Samajwadi Party's electoral victory and hoped that the new government would bring the "political vendetta to a halt". Party spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters that the incidents involving attacks on Dalit houses allegedly by SP supporters were reprehensible and reminded the party that vendetta had no place in a democracy. In Lucknow, the SP,...
07:14 AM, Mar 10, 2012
