New Delhi: Blaming DMK for the drubbing in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Assembly elections, Congress has said there is a need to take a "relook" at its strategy in the southern state as the party must not lose its vote bank due to "mistakes of its coalition partners".
The remarks made in the editorial and an article of the latest issue of party mouthpiece 'Congress Sandesh' have come at a time when DMK chief M Karunanidhi is holding an emergency meeting of the party's high-level Action Committee.
"The results in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were affected by the 2G scam and these states were lost to other parties," the editorial said.
Another article in the journal says, "The Congress has to have another look at their strategy in the southern state. It must not lose its vote bank due to the mistakes of its coalition partners." Congress was part of the DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu....
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Puducherry: The 30 members elected to the Puducherry assembly are a mix of first-time legislators and veteran old timers making a comeback as the 12-year long Congress rule came to an end in the Union Territory. The Assembly will have nine first-time MLAs along with a host of veterans that will reenter the House after varied periods of absence. Of the nine new entrants to the Assembly, six were elected...
05:14 PM, May 14, 2011
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11:57 PM, May 13, 2011
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04:45 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Congress is the biggest loser in this election. Number 13 has proved bad for the party! Two women will be controlling the national politics from two British built cities on the East Coast. Mamatha Banerjee from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and J Jayalalithaa from Chennai (formerly Madras). Both have got a massive mandate. Jaya is tried and tested. Mamatha is not tested in the matters of state administration. The...
11:55 AM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Even though only the initial leads have started to emerge from the key states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu it has become amply clear that Rahul Gandhi's dream of a Congress majority in the 2014 general elections is already in tatters, according to eminent historian and CNN-IBN poll analyst Ramachandra Guha. Guha's observation is also seconded by the other eminent anlaysts who believe that there is...
08:39 AM, May 13, 2011
Puducherry: Unseating the Congress alliance, All-India NR Congress-AIADMK combine was on Friday gained a two-third majority winning 20 constituencies in the elections to the 30-member Assembly in the Union Territory of Puducherry. Steering his party to on impressive electoral debut, former chief minister N Rangasamy, who broke away from Congress to float his own outfit on poll eve, won both seats he contested. The Congress front including DMK managed to...
08:11 AM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Friday the 13th will be lucky for some. By mid-day, one of the two alliances fighting for power in each of four states and one Union Territory will know whether theyre the lucky one. After months of campaigning in the heat and dust, the contenders will know whether they shall ride in triumph to the seat of government, or slink away to lick their wounds in private. What...
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11:56 PM, May 11, 2011
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11:39 PM, Apr 13, 2011
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02:33 PM, Apr 13, 2011
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06:14 PM, Apr 12, 2011
Puducherry: Election authorities on Monday said arrangements for connecting all polling booths in Puducherry through 'web casting technology' have been made to ensure the entire polling process on April 13, except vote casting would be monitored by Returning officers and Chief Electoral Officer. Chief Electoral Officer Belatee Pertin said in a release on Monday this was the first time that such web casting was being set up. Around 595 students...
01:25 PM, Apr 12, 2011
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01:05 PM, Apr 05, 2011
Puducherry: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will address an election rally on April 5 in Puducherry to garner support for the Congress-DMK alliance in the Union Territory. Speaking to reporters in Puducherry, Union Minister of State for Planning and Prime Minister's office V Narayanasamy said AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would also campaign for alliance candidates on April 7 and 9 respectively. Congress is contesting in...
11:56 AM, Apr 04, 2011
Puducherry: The Puducherry government has suspended six of its employees for allegedly participating in poll-related activities of political parties in this Union Territory. Jesudoss (an employee of Agriculture Department), Ilango (Khadi and Village Industries Board), Mangayarselvam (Education Department), Velmurugan (Puducherry State Marketing Committee), Singaram (State-owned Corporation for Development of Minorities and Backward Classes) and Sankaralingam (Directorate of Stationery and Printing) have been suspended as they participated in activities of certain...
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