New Delhi: The fissures in Team Anna are out in the open even as anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and his associates are involved in an all-out war against the UPA government over the Lokpal Bill. Anna Hazare's fight against corruption started on a non-political platform, but his call to the Hisar electorate to not vote for the Congress party seems to have split his team with some members opening questioning...
05:53 PM, Oct 18, 2011
The HJC candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi with the backing of BJP bagged the Hisar Parliamentary constituency by-election. ...
10:59 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: A severe drubbing for the Congress in Hisar and two other losses in Assembly bypolls, Khadakvasala in Maharashtra and Banswada in Andhra Pradesh. The party is continuing to put up a brave face, dismissing suggestions that Team Anna which campaigned against the party played any role in the Battle for Hisar. In Hisar, Haryana the Congress candidate lost his deposit with Kuldeep Bishnoi supported by the BJP winning....
08:28 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Hisar: Kuldeep Bishnoi of the Haryana Janhit Congress (Bhajan Lal) won the Hisar Lok Sabha by-elections defeating his nearest rival Ajay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal by 6323 votes. Bishnoi was also supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Congress candidate Jai Prakash was a distant third despite his party being in power in the state. Jai Prakash (58) is a former Union minister and three-time MP...
02:27 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Banswada: TRS candidate Srinivas Reddy on Monday won the Banswada Assembly by-poll in Telangana by a majority of 48,000 votes. He had won the seat in the 2009 elections as a candidate of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). The former minister in the N Chandrababu Naidu cabinet quit TDP and also assembly membership a few months ago to join TRS, which is spearheading the movement for a separate state. TRS...
12:20 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Hisar: All eyes are on Hisar in Haryana where the results for the by-polls for the Lok Sabha seat will be announced on Monday. Stakes are high for both the Congress and Team Anna, which had given a call to not vote for the ruling party candidate. Kuldeep Bishnoi of the Haryana Janhit Congress has taken a big lead over his nearest rival Ajay Chautala of the Indian National Lok...
10:51 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Hisar: Haryana Janhit Congress candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi on Monday said that Team Anna's campaign in Hisar was completely anti-Congress, which indicates negative politics. "Team Anna should have campaigned against all corrupt politicians, asking people not to vote for corrupt candidates. But they asked voters not to vote specifically for the Congress," Bishnoi said. However, he said that the campaign will have no substantial impact. "The Congress was already weak in...
09:40 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Hisar: Indian National Lok Dal candidate in Hisar by-polls Ajay Singh Chautala, on Monday, said that Anna Hazare's team's campaign will benefit his party in the polls. The results of the by-polls will be announced on Monday. Chautala also claimed that the initial leads were in his favour. He added, "The chargesheet against me was prepared by the Congress. No one can prove any corruption charges against me." Ajay Singh...
09:07 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Hisar: The results for the Hisar by-polls for the Lok Sabha seat will be announced on Monday. It remains to be seen whether Team Anna's campaign against the Congress will be effective. The candidates in the fray: Jai Prakash of the Congress is a three-time MP from Hisar. He finished third in the the 2009 elections. Every pro-Anna and anti-Congress ballot polled will benefit Kuldeep Bishnoi of the Haryana Janhit...
08:42 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Kadapa: Polling began on Sunday morning for the by-election to Kadapa Lok Sabha and Pulivendula Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh amid tight security. There are 13.29 lakh voters in Kadapa Lok Sabha constituency and 1.89 lakh in Pulivendula Assembly segment. About 12,000 policemen have been deployed for the smooth conduct of the polling process. Among the over 1,500 polling stations in Kadapa, 584 have been identified as sensitive, 187 as...
11:37 AM, May 08, 2011
Hyderabad: Congress quitter Jagan Mohan Reddy is gearing up for the Kadapa by polls on Sunday in Andhra Pradesh. A litmus test for his newly formed party is his family stronghold. But the Congress is leaving no stone unturned to defeat him. It's a battle Jagan Reddy has long been waiting for. The son of late chief minister YSR Reddy is all set to take on the Congress in by-polls...
10:41 AM, May 08, 2011
Raj Babbar won by a huge margin of 85,000 votes against Dimple Yadav. ...
01:31 AM, Nov 12, 2009
Congress has failed to make inroads into Mayawati's bastion Uttar Pradesh. ...
03:24 AM, Nov 11, 2009
The results of some crucial by-polls were announced on Tuesday. ...
03:54 PM, Nov 10, 2009
BSP won six of the eight declared seats in Uttar Pradesh. ...
03:21 PM, Nov 10, 2009
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