New Delhi: With early trends depicted a good show by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh, the party on Tuesday said it took up issues which were not "sensational" even as it gave credit to Nitin Gadkari for the performance. The party also said "negating" voters did not help the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. Referring to exit polls, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said numbers would speak "much more...
10:32 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: In a shocker for the Congress, the party is trailing in all five assembly seats in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, and in two out of the five seats in Amethi, the bastion of Nehru-Gandhi family. While Rae Bareli is represented in the Lok Sabha by party president Sonia Gandhi, Amethi is represented by Rahul Gandhi. Wife of Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid, Louis Khurshid is trailing and was...
09:53 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: As the counting of the votes continue, Uttar Pradesh appears to be heading towards a hung assembly with the Samajwadi Party (SP) emerging as the single largest party in the state, falling short of a clear majority. While the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) stands at the second position, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are in a neck-and-neck fight for the third spot. According to the leads...
09:13 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: Trying to insulate Rahul Gandhi from being targetted for any poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh, state party chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Tuesday said she will take responsibility for such eventuality if the party fails to convert Gandhi's presence into votes. As the counting for 403 seats in UP began, Joshi said Gandhi was party's star campaigner and with the kind of atmosphere he created, the party could reach...
08:42 AM, Mar 06, 2012
The elections will change nothing for the aam aadmi declares Team Anna as they announced another agitation plan this year. ...
08:32 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: All roads leading to the residence of Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi, who may take the centrestage in the event of a hung assembly, were barricaded as vote count began on Tuesday. According to senior police officers, major traffic diversions have been put in place in the city, with all major roads leading to the Raj Bhawan sealed. Extra security and traffic personnel have been deputed on Vikramaditya...
08:24 AM, Mar 06, 2012
UP Congress Chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that Rahul Gandhi was just a star campaigner and she will take responsibility if the Congress loses in the state. ...
08:13 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: A day after the Mayawati Cabinet recommended dissolution of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, the governor was yet to receive the recommendation late on Monday, Raj Bhavan officials said. Sources in the chief minister's office, however, said that the resolution, passed by the Cabinet, through a circular method " adopted by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in absence of cabinet ministers at one place at a given time -...
08:09 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Lucknow: Counting of votes in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2012 for 403 seats began at 8 am on Tuesday with the initial trend suggesting early gains for the Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) being a close second. At around 8.45 am, trends for 64 seats were available with the SP leading with 26 seats while the BJP was second at 20. The BSP was leading in...
07:23 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Monday took a jibe at Anna Hazare and his team for asking the party to disclose expenses incurred over hiring choppers especially for Sonia Gandhi and Rahul during Assembly polls in five states and the source of their funding, saying the social activist should instead take care of his health. "Anna should take care of himself and of his blood pressure," party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary said...
10:12 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said that the high voter turnout has not surprised the Commission. ...
10:05 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Punjab topped in the number of cases of paid news reported from five states that went to polls with candidates in 201 instances in the state admitting to the charge. According to the Election Commission, a total of 626 cases of paid news were reported during the just-concluded assembly polls, of which 523 suspected cases were reported from Punjab alone and notices were issued in 339 cases. In...
08:48 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: In a battle that almost every poll pundit predicted to be a four-cornered contest ending with a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) has pulled off a coup, according to the CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by the CSDS. The survey projects the SP to win 232-250 seats in the 403-member Assembly, thereby ensuring a clear majority for the party. Incumbent Chief Minister...
08:00 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh saw the maximum amount of cash being seized during restrictions imposed in the run up to the assembly elections in five states, while Punjab topped the seizures for drugs and illicit liquor. Rs 37.46 crore in cash was seized in Uttar Pradesh during polls, accounting for 72 per cent of the cash seizures. Huge quantities of drugs were seized in border state of Punjab which included...
07:40 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Monday said that the party would prefer to sit in the Opposition rather than supporting the SP or the BSP in government formation in Uttar Pradesh. Reiterating the party's stand, Gadkari said, "We will not support the BSP or the SP. We would rather sit in the Opposition." However, BJP national vice president Vinay Katiyar was hopeful that the party...
07:09 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Lucknow: Even as the Mayawati government seems set to lose power in Uttar Pradesh, the state Lokayukta has for the first time aired his unhappiness with the administration. Lokayukta Justice NK Mehrotra told CNN-IBN that he is not ready to accept Mayawati government's reasons for not taking action against tainted minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui. "There is no question of being upset because under the Lokayukta Act of UP, it is the ...
06:21 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Lucknow: Even as the Mayawati government seems set to lose power in Uttar Pradesh, the state Lokayukta has for the first time aired his unhappiness with the administration. Lokayukta Justice NK Mehrotra told CNN-IBN that he is not ready to accept Mayawati government's reasons for not taking action against tainted minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui. "There is no question of being upset because under the Lokayukta Act of UP, it is the...
06:21 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: With just one day left for the results to declared for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress has all its leaders out in the field shielding General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who campaigned extensively in the state. After Digvijaya Singh and Rita Bahuguna Joshi, Law Minister Salman Khurshid has also defended Rahul saying that he is not to be blamed if the Congress doesn't perform well in the state....
04:16 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday claimed it will play a crucial role in formation of the next government in Uttar Pradesh and dismissed as personal views Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's suggestions for a tie-up with BSP. "We will cross the bridge when we come to it. The results have not yet come...," Congress leader and Union Minister Rajeev Shukla told reporters on the sidelines of an All-party meeting...
03:51 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who had gone abroad for a "routine check up" on Februrary 27 following a surgery six months back, returned here on Monday. Gandhi returned a day before the counting of votes in the elections to five states including crucial Uttar Pradesh. She had extensively campaigned in UP, Punjab and Uttarakhand. "Congress President Sonia Gandhi has come back after her routine check up and she...
02:04 PM, Mar 05, 2012
