She's the 'Amma' of Tamil Nadu and she has resurrected herself once again. Jayalalithaa has defeated the grand old man of Tamil Nadu politics and her bitter rival M Karunanidhi. ...
06:31 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: First the 2009 General Elections and now the Assembly elections - CPI(M) seems to be rolling downhill in the political spectrum. This is reflected from the drubbing the party received in West Bengal, its bastion of over three decades, as also Kerala, another stronghold. The Assembly polls have been the worst for the party whose reins were taken by Prakash Karat in 2005. In 294-member West Bengal Assembly,...
06:30 PM, May 13, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will submit his resignation to Governor R S Gavai on Saturday, accepting the verdict of the assembly polls which gave a slender majority of 72 seats to UDF in the 140-member house. Sources in the Chief Minister's office said Achuthanandan would be back in the state capital on Saturday morning and hand over the resignation to the Governor by the forenoon. The 87-year-old...
06:13 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: CPI(M) leader and Land Reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah, one of the few ministers who retained their seats, on Friday held state's Commerce and Industry minister Nirupam Sen squarely responsible for the debacle of the Left front in the Assembly election. Reacting to the Front's poll reverses, he said the chief minister was not to be blamed alone for the failure. Stating that his suggestion on "faulty" land acquisition...
06:13 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: The poor state of economy in West Bengal will be one of the immediate challenges for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee who is set to become the next chief minister after her resounding win in polls. West Bengal, once amongst the top industrialised states, has lost its pre-eminent position in the country following controversies over land acquisitions for projects like Nano and opposition to special economic zones. Ficci...
06:06 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: Left Front's decimation in West Bengal was complete on Friday with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee losing the Jadavpur seat to Trinamool Congress candidate Manish Gupta, a former chief secretary. Manish Gupta, who was chief secretary in 1998 during the tenure of Jyoti Basu and retired in 2001 serving one year under Bhattacharjee, defeated his former boss from the Left bastion of Jadavpur by 15,727 votes. Gupta polled 96,625 votes...
05:09 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister A Raja on Friday appeared upset over the results of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections in which his party DMK got severe drubbing at the hands of arch-rival AIADMK. "I am in judicial custody so I cannot answer questions. How can you question me?" Raja, who looked disturbed, retorted when mediapersons sought his comment on the poll outcome. On persistent queries by reporters in courtroom,...
05:04 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: After seven straight victories, the Left Front government in West Bengal on Friday came crumbling down, unable to withstand the 'paribartan' (wave for change) of the Trinamool Congress. The CPI(M)-led Front built on it's strength as the harbinger of land reforms, was the champion of the poor for 34 years of uninterrupted rule, till it hit a brick wall over it's decision to acquire land for industry. The tenure...
04:59 PM, May 13, 2011
Puducherry: N Rangasamy, nicknamed 'Junior Kamaraj' for his simple living and unassuming style, took a sweet revenge on his former party Congress which unceremoniously removed him as Chief Minister of this tiny Union Territory. Sidelined by the Congress, Rangasamy felt humiliated and launched his own outfit All India N R Congress on the eve of the Assembly polls and signed a poll pact with AIADMK. A soft-spoken and 'simple' Rangasamy,...
04:45 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who will take over the reins of power in West Bengal from outgoing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on Friday said that her party would like to retain the Railway Ministry. "Prime Minister will take a decision. I will be meeting him and the Congress President Sonia Gandhi soon," Banerjee said in Kolkata. Banerjee, who is the Railway minister, said that she would like the...
04:31 PM, May 13, 2011
Chennai: AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa said on Friday that her first priority would be to restore the rule of law and governance in Tamil Nadu where her party won a handsome victory routing the DMK-Congress alliance in the Assembly elections. Addressing a press conference in Chennai after the AIADMK-led alliance secured a massive win the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, Jayalalithaa thanked the voters of the state and called it a...
04:12 PM, May 13, 2011
Vijayawada: Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said people in West Bengal favoured TMC as they were tired of the "Left's dictatorship", while in Tamil Nadu AIADMK benefited as the ruling DMK was hit by the 2G scam. "People were tired of the dictatorship by the Left. Many sections of the society in West Bengal suffered due to the decisions taken by the state government, which is why...
03:58 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: Tables have turned on Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with the demise of the Left Front in West Bengal after its 34-year-old rule in a dramatic reversal of fortunes just five years after the CPI-M stalwart himself led the alliance to a landslide win. Bhattacharjee, a CPI-M stalwart, has been dealt a body blow in the the winds of change that swept across the red bastion with the Mamata juggernaut...
03:50 PM, May 13, 2011
Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress-Congress combine has swept aside the Left Front in the elections for the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly.
03:41 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Ousted from power in West Bengal after three decades, the CPM on Friday said Trinamool Congress has reaped the benefits of people's aspiration for "change" to inflict the "big defeat" on the party but admitted that it too has committed "mistakes". The party also said the results of West Bengal and Kerala will be a disappointment for the "Left and democratic forces" but this will not make the...
03:32 PM, May 13, 2011
Chennai: Facing a rout in the Assembly polls with his bitter political foe AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa storming back to power, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Friday submitted the resignation of his ministry. Conceding defeat without waiting for the final tally, Karunanidhi submitted the resignation of Council of Ministers as trends showed that the AIADMK-led front was poised for a landslide win. Governor SS Barnala accepted the resignation of...
02:49 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress rose like a phoenix from the Singur and Nandigram movements chipping away at the hold of the Left Front to sweep into the portals of power in West Bengal after 34 years of uninterrupted Marxist rule. The land agitation in Singur and Nandigram spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress chief is widely credited for Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee's meteoric rise and the dramatic change in her...
02:15 PM, May 13, 2011
