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
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
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has accused Team Anna of exploiting the veteran social activist to target the Congress in Hisar. ...
09:33 AM, Oct 17, 2011
Hisar: A three-time MP from Hisar, Jai Prakash, who is the Congress candidate in the current by-poll in the constituency, on Monday ruled out an impact of Team Anna's campaign against the party. As the counting for the seat kicked off, the Congress candidate said, "There will be no effect of Team Anna on the Hisar by-poll." "Anna's team has been fighting the issues of corruption, but they ended up...
09:21 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
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. The big question is whether the voters will respond to Anna Hazare's call to defeat the Congress, making Hisar a turning point. Initial leads show Kuldeep Bishnoi of the Haryana Janhit Congress was leading. He said...
07:23 AM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Hisar Lok Sabha by-elections results will be out on Monday. This by-elections has turned into a high stakes poll for both the Congress and Team Anna after the Gandhian call to defeat the Congress. This is the first poll after Anna Hazare's campaign against corruption and the demand to pass the Jan Lokpal Bill. In the shadow of recent attack on Prashant Bhushan, just hours before the...
10:19 PM, Oct 16, 2011
New Delhi: Reflecting a rift within Team Anna Hazare, Justice Santosh Hegde has disapproved of the anti-Congress campaign by fellow Arvind Kejriwal during Hisar by-polls, saying it was not the right thing to do and "we jumped the gun". Hegde, who was a representative of Team Anna in the Joint Drafting Committee on Lokpal Bill, also took a dig at Kejriwal for his remarks that Hazare was above Parliament, observing...
11:34 AM, Oct 15, 2011
New Delhi: Amidst allegations by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh that Anna Hazare is turning anti-Congress, Arvind Kejriwal said that Anna will not campaign in the Uttar Pradesh polls. Kejriwal, Team Anna member, also said, "Anna wants to give UPA time till the Winter Session." Digijaya Singh responding to Kejriwal's statement said, "If Anna protests in UP then we (Congress leaders) too will sit with him and protest." Anna and his...
10:57 AM, Oct 15, 2011
New Delhi: Amid tight security arrangements, polling commenced in Hisar on Thursday morning for the by-polls to the Hisar Lok Sabha seat, which is witnessing a triangular contest. The Anna factor is looming large in the constituency raising the stakes for the ruling Congress. Team Anna had earlier urged the voters not to vote for the Congress, drawing battle lines in Hisar. They went on a whirlwind tour of the...
07:36 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Hisar: The high pitched campaign for the Hissar by-polls that has been dominated by wranglings between Team Anna and the ruling Congress Party came to an end on Tuesday. Taking the election fight right into the Anna camp, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh in an open letter alleges that Hazare is being used for political motives by his coterie and questioned his silence over BJP's corruption record. Another Congress leader...
09:58 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday continued to attack anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and his team saying Anna has been gheraoed by anti-Congress people. In a letter to Anna, Digvijaya Singh wrote, "Bhushans and Kejriwal are using you for their political motives." Re-iterating that Anna is BJP's presidential candidate, Digvijaya Singh has written, "Your supporters enjoy 5-star culture. The BJP wants to make you their Presidential candidate."...
01:01 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Hisar (Har): Maintaining that they are not campaigning for any party in the Hisar election, Arvind Kejriwal has said Team Anna should not be held responsible if their movement in any way benefits the opposition and dismissed as 'absurd' talk of Hazare nursing an ambition to become President. "We are fighting for systemic changes. We are not campaigning for anyone or asking voters to vote for a particular candidate. We...
12:31 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Hisar: Battle lines are drawn in Haryana as Team Anna is on a whirlwind tour of Hisar going village to village asking people not to vote for Congress in the by-polls on Thursday. It's the last day of campaigning on Tuesday and even as a beleaguered Congress tries to counter the campaign, it's the HJC-BJP combine that's trying to ride the Anna wave. Team Anna has been campaigning in Hisar...
07:46 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Member of Team Anna, Kiran Bedi said that the government must release all the tapes of the Lokpal meetings. ...
10:35 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Hisar: A day after Digvijay Singh described Anna Hazare as "a mask of all anti-Congress parties", Team Anna on Monday hit back at him for levelling "wild and baseless allegations" and asserted that their movement had "nothing to do" with any political party. Addressing a public gathering at Arya Nagar, Hazare aide Arvind Kerjiwal theirs was "not votebank politics, but politics for the people" and lashed out at those who...
03:50 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Bangalore: Team Anna member Santosh Hegde on Monday disapproved Hazare's anti-Congress stance in the Hisar bypolls, saying campaigning against a political party is not correct. Speaking to PTI, the former Supreme Court judge said every political party has "good and honest people" and targeting an outfit as a whole is not correct. He said he is opposed to such an idea (campaigning against a party). "The (use of) word Congress...
02:57 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Hisar: Taking its anti-corruption campaign to the next level, Team Anna on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the Congress asking the people not to vote for the party in the Lok Sabha by-poll scheduled to be held on October 13. Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal said, "This time the Congress should not get even a single vote in Hisar. Don't vote for the Congress." Team Anna is calling on...
11:54 PM, Oct 09, 2011
