Lucknow: Congress is in a self-analysis mode after its performance in the Assembly Polls in five states. The senior leadership says that the party has to introspect on the poll rout. Clearly, dynasty politics failed to work, with the children, spouses and siblings of senior leaders, all failing to make a successful debut. Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was pitched as the party's star campaigner, who would singularly revive the...
04:21 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Amethi/Rae Bareli: Amethi and Rae Bareli, the pocket boroughs of Congress since the days of Indira Gandhi, gave a shocker to the party as it managed to win only two of the 10 Assembly seats in these twin Lok Sabha constituencies. The most stunning was the defeat of sitting MLA Amita Singh, wife of Congress MP Sanjay Singh, in Amethi seat where she had to bite the dust by a...
05:55 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Priyanka Gandhi made it clear that she's not entering active politics anytime soon. ...
12:10 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Kanpur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday kicked off the Congress campaign from Kanpur on Friday. Addressing the crowds, he said, "We have sent funds under various national schemes to Uttar Pradesh. Rs 24000 crore have been given to Uttar Pradesh government for roads alone. However, none of it has trickled down to the common man." He added, "The Congress will win UP elections. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi will...
03:16 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Raebareli: The Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Friday took addressed a volley of issues ranging from the NRHM deaths in Uttar Pradesh to alleged funds misuse in the state to Beni Prasad's quota remark. Priyanka was campaigning in Raebareli. While speaking on alleged funds misuse in the state, she said, "Money that is being sent to the UP state under health schemes is not reaching the people. The money...
01:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Raebareli: The Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Friday took addressed a volley of issues ranging from the NRHM deaths in Uttar Pradesh to alleged funds misuse in the state to Beni Prasad's quota remark. Priyanka was campaigning in Raebareli. While speaking on alleged funds misuse in the state, she said, "Money that is being sent to the UP state under health schemes is not reaching the people. The money...
01:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: All eyes will be on Kanpur on Friday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, BJP leader LK Advani and BSP chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati launch their campaigns there. Singh will be addressing a rally at the Moti Jheel grounds in the afternoon. The city has proved lucky for Singh twice - in the General Elections of 2004 and 2009. He is also expected to be in...
07:50 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Kanpur: Taking potshots at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's act of tearing up a poll manifesto, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said the party just wants to 'grab headlines' through such acts. Likening Congress campaign with Bollywood films, Swaraj said the "script" of the party was "very poor" and with such acts, they (Congress) will "grab space only at front pages of newspapers and not in the hearts of...
09:37 PM, Feb 16, 2012
It's a choice that a lot of people may have to make. One of them is the heir apparent in a democracy, itself a contradiction in terms. The other radiates charm and capability in a way that remind people of her grandmother. Neither has been tested yet. Only one of them is in active politics. And yet, sooner than we imagine, they could be the subject of a choice that...
07:05 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Rae Bareli: Exhorting the electorate to vote for Congress to get rid of fear and backwardness, Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday asked people to exercise their franchise for a new trend in politics which is dedicated to people. Addressing an election meeting in Sadar Assembly segment of the constituency from where Akhilesh Singh, the sitting MLA having a criminal record is seeking re-election, Priyanka said the question before...
02:11 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: The stage is set for voting in all the 12 Assembly constituencies of this district where the fate of nearly 250 candidates will be sealed on Wednesday. 1.77 crore voters are expected to cast their ballots on Wednesday. Polling began for 56 seats across eastern UP and the Vindhyachal region in which 1018 candidates have stood up including 77 women and 121 candidates with a criminal background. How...
07:17 AM, Feb 15, 2012
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11:43 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Raebareli: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, along with her daughter Priyanka, addressed a rally in Raebareli on Tuesday. Addressing the crowds, Sonia said that the Uttar Pradesh government was not doing enough for the state. "The funds released for development work in UP has not reached the people of UP," she said. "The money is being siphoned off. Corruption is rampant in the state," she stated. "The UPA has never discriminated...
02:29 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her daughter, Priyanka, are expected to speak at a public meeting on Tuesday in Raebareli as the campaigning for UP Assembly polls reaches its final stages. Two phases of the polls have already been concluded. On Monday, Priyanka Gandhi, while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh had said that while development was taking place in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, both Congress-ruled states, it was nowhere...
01:17 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Rae Bareli: Priyanka Gandhi on Monday committed a faux pas naming Madhya Pradesh, ruled by arch rival BJP, as one of the fast developing states, a 'slip of the tongue' she corrected immediately. Blaming the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh for lack of development, she said while the state has not progressed for last 22 years. "You have seen Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. All these states are progressing...
06:37 PM, Feb 13, 2012
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