BJP leader Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday that he was confident the party would sweep elections in Uttar Pradesh. Rejecting the survey by CNN-IBN-The Week that showed a clear victory for the SP in the state Assembly elections, Gadkari said, "A survey is just a survey, not a result." ...
09:21 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: While the CNN-IBN-The Week exit polls have predicted a victory for the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, the party seems to be in no mood to let out its chief ministerial candidate's name. When asked whether SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's son, Akhilesh Yadav will be made the chief minister, party leader Shahid Siddiqui said the question was "still open". "It (Akhilesh Yadav becoming the chief minister) is...
07:41 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: UPA General Secretary Rahul Gandhi may have attracted the crowds in Uttar Pradesh but not the votes with the Congress vote-share set to dip. Congress General secretary Digvijaya Singh put up a brave front and said that he and not Rahul will be responsible if the party does badly in Uttar Pradesh. "I have always held that leadership can create a wave, can create the enthusiasm but it...
07:29 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and those of her party's poll symbol, the elephant, will be back in public view from Sunday. The Election Commission has given the Uttar Pradesh administration the go-ahead to uncover the statues. The statues were draped on January 7 after opposition parties alleged the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
06:12 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Saturday night let off Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma with a warning for his remarks on Muslim sub-quota and closed the model code of conduct violation case against him accepting his "remorse and sincere regret" for the utterances. The Commission said it was ending the matter in view of the regrets expressed by the Steel Minister and in the wake of the complainant BJP...
12:17 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Lucknow/Panaji: A highest ever voter turnout marked the staggered Assembly elections in five states, which ended on Saturday with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking all previous records. Counting of votes in the elections in the five states which also included Manipur will be taken up on March 6 as political parties wait with bated breath to know the fall out of rise in voter turnout...
10:44 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: It's a Samajwadi Party (SP) wave in Uttar Pradesh. In what is most likely to be one of the biggest electoral victories in UP in the last 20 years, Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP is bound to surprise by garnering an impressive 34 per cent of the votes in the Assembly elections 2012. The CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by CSDS also says that a vote-share of 34 per...
09:24 PM, Mar 03, 2012
In a survey conducted by CNN-IBN, 38 per cent people want Mulayam as the UP Chief Minister followed by Mayawati with 22 per cent. ...
06:57 PM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Around 62 per cent votes were polled amidst sporadic incidents of violence on Saturday for the seventh and final phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, marking the end of the month-long exercise recording an all time high overall turnout of around 60 per cent. The highest voter turnout so far was in 1993 when 57.13 per cent voters cast their ballots, while a turnout of only 46.07 per...
06:34 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Congress leader Rashid Alvi said Rahul Gandhi is not to be blamed if Congress doesn't win in UP. ...
02:16 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Rampur: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ruled out any post-poll alliance with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). BJP MP Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "There is no question of a post-poll alliance with BSP." He also said that the BJP was confident of forming a government in Uttar Pradesh. "We are confident of forming a government on our own. We won't go for a post-poll alliance with the BSP or...
11:19 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Rampur MP Jaya PRada said that to stop Mulayam Singh Yadav from coming to power she will support any party but him. ...
10:39 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Two month long exciting phase of elections in India's five states has finally come to an end. These elections have been a nightmare for the ...
10:14 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Polling for the seventh and final phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections covering 60 constituencies began on a slow note on Saturday with around 52 per cent of voters exercising their franchise till 3 pm. Polling on 60 seats in ten districts began at 7 am and would continue till 5 pm, chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha said. The Election Commission expects heavy turnout in this phase also...
06:14 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: After Sriprakash Jaiswal, another Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday suggested that the possibility of President's rule in Uttar Pradesh in face of a hung assembly cannot be ruled out altogether. "Every political party if it has majority has the right to form government. If two, three or even 14 parties or 16 parties can together notch up a majority they have a right. "And if no party...
12:57 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday said he and not Rahul Gandhi should be held responsible if election results in Uttar Pradesh are not in favour of the party. He also refused to put the blame on Rahul, who had led the party's campaign in Uttar Pradesh, in case of such an eventuality. Singh said that he as the AICC general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, Rita...
10:00 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma has written to the Election Commission saying he did not violate the poll code. The Election Commission had asked Verma to explain his minority sub-quota remarks during a rally in Uttar Pradesh. The Congress leader is believed to have said that he was only talking about his party's manifesto. BJP leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain, who had complained to the EC,...
02:38 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Lucknow: Polling for the final and seventh phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections covering 60 seats spread over 10 districts would be held on Saturday that would decide the fate of 962 candidates including Samajwadi Party's Muslim face Mohammad Azam Khan. The final phase would cover Bijnore, Moradabad, Bheem Nagar, Rampur, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Badaun, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur Kheri in which more than 1.82 crore voters are expected...
10:44 AM, Mar 02, 2012
Rampur: The Uttar Pradesh Police carried out a raid on actress-turned-politician Jayaprada when she was at a hotel in Rampur on Thursday. The police claimed it was a routine check to see whether she and others like her had illegally stocked up cash. The former actress, however, said all the complaints against her were fake. "These are fake complaints against me. The police came yesterday also. I am not fighting...
10:12 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma is expected to appear before the Election Commission on Friday. This is to response to its show cause notice. Verma will have to give an explanation for his minority sub-quota remarks. BJP leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain who had complained to the EC are likely to be present as well. The EC had earlier issued notice to Verma over his...
07:17 AM, Mar 02, 2012
