Pranab Mukherjee elected as the 13th President of India. P A Sangma alleges that the elections were not fair. ...
11:31 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Pranab Mukherjee defeated P A Sangma with a thumping majority to become the 13th President of India. ...
10:51 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday scripted history by becoming the first person from West Bengal to be elected as the President of India. He defeated his opponent, former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma, with a huge margin to be elected as the 13th President of the country. Following the declaration of the results, Mukherjee thanked the people of the "great country" for his win with a record margin...
10:08 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: After losing to Pranab Mukherjee by a huge margin, opposition candidate P A Sangma on Sunday said his team had kept open the option to approach the Supreme Court against Mukherjee's election as the President. "We are meeting day after tomorrow (Wednesday), this matter will also come up for discussion," Sangma said to queries about the petition to the apex court after the poll panel had rejected their...
08:05 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: India's president-elect Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday thanked people across the country for his victory and said that with emotions running high it felt like another general election. "I am very happy. I thank everybody for their love and support. I thank all the people of my country," Mukherjee told a Bengali news channel. "In the last one month I have covered the entire country. And with the emotions...
05:09 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: Faction-ridden ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka suffered a humiliation on Sunday when Pranab Mukherjee secured a backing of 117 MLAs as against P A Sangma's 103, with some BJP members cross-voting in favour of the UPA nominee. Mukherjee had a pledged support from only 98 MLAs " 71 from Congress and 27 from JD(S) " but he managed to secure the support of 19 more legislators....
04:53 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: The ballot has been cast in the presidential elections, with the numbers heavily tilting in favour of UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee against former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma. The results of the elections will be announced on Sunday. As the MPs and the MLAs voted for the 13th President of the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi were among the earliest voters. They...
06:01 PM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: With the Trinamool Congress extending support to the UPA candidate in the Presidential poll, Pranab Mukherjee is likely to garner close to seven lakh vote value leaving his rival P A Sangma way behind in what appears to be a highly one-sided contest. Mukherjee is assured of support from parties which have a vote value of around seven lakh while Sangma has around 3.15 lakh vote value in...
08:31 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Mumbai: With reference to the demand of debate on the lines of US election, made by his rival and opposition nominee P A Sangma, UPA's presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee said in Mumbai that Presidents in India do not decide policy, and there can be no debate on "personality". "On Presidential debates in US and France, the answer is very simple. In those countries, in their constitution, the president, directly elected...
11:25 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Raipur: Dubbing Congress as anti-tribal, BJP-backed presidential nominee P A Sangma on Thursday said he was still inspired by the ideology of the party which "now does not have leaders like Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi". Talking to reporters in Raipur, he said, "Congress suspended its tribal leader Arvind Netam without prior notice when he was seen with me during the filing of nomination paper for the presidential election. This...
10:10 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Mumbai: Presidential hopeful P A Sangma, who is in the city as part of his campaign, today met BJP legislators. Sangma was also felicitated by Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly, Eknath Khadse at the latter's official residence in South Mumbai. He is expected to address a meeting of BJP legislators later in the day. Khadse said he would request the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS) to support Sangma, who...
12:35 PM, Jul 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: As part of their ongoing campaign for the July 19 Presidential election, UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee and his rival PA Sangma will be separately visiting Gujarat in next couple of days. During his one-day visit on Thursday, UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to meet Congress MPs and MLAs, besides paying visit to Sabarmati Ashram and Sardar Patel memorial in Shahibaug locality, Congress office-bearers said. "Pranab Mukherjee has an...
07:16 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: A day after former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma challenged the candidature of UPA's Pranab Mukherjee for the presidential elections, the nomination of the latter was accepted on Tuesday. The Returning Officer has decided that the UPA nominee had resigned before filing his nomination. He further said that after the scrutiny of all the nominations filed for the elections, only those of Sangma and Mukherjee were found...
04:50 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: The gloves are off in the battle for presidency. Former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma on Monday challenged UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee's nomination for the presidential contest, claiming he holds an office of profit as head of the Indian Statistical Institute. The Pranab camp hit back saying he resigned from an honorary post in the ISI in June itself. The rivals of the man with the numbers are...
08:55 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The team of presidential candidate P A Sangma on Monday formally challenged the nomination of UPA's Pranab Mukherjee for the contest, accusing him of holding an office of profit as the head of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). However, the Congress has hit back dismissing all allegations and claiming that the former finance minister had resigned from the position before filing his nomination for the presidential elections. Parliamentary...
06:34 PM, Jul 02, 2012
Shillong: Former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Agitok Sangma is supremely confident of winning the presidential election to become India's new head of state, saying if "Obama, who is a black, can become the president of America, why not a tribal in India?" "I have never lost any election in the past. In fact, every time I contested, my margins have increased with the blessings of almighty God and the people,"...
02:24 PM, Jul 02, 2012
UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday filed his nomination for the Presidential elections. ...
11:12 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Pranab Mukherjee and P A Sangma on Thursday filed their nominations, formally starting the fight for the presidency. ...
09:45 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday suspended its former MP from Chhattisgarh, Arvind Netam, for supporting former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma in the presidential elections. The Congress leader was present when Sangma, who is backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), filed his nomination for the poll. Netam, who is the chief of Tribal Forum of India which is backing Sangma in the presidential election, was earlier issued...
07:10 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik left for New Delhi from Bhubaneswar on Wednesday to be present while former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma filed his nomination for the presidential election on Thursday, an official said. Patnaik, who is also the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief, was the first to announce Sangma's name for the president's post. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders...
10:15 PM, Jun 27, 2012
