Yogendra Yadav of CSDS answers viewers' questions on post-poll survey and election results. ...
11:00 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Will the policy paralysis get worse? Or is there a possibility that Dr Manmohan Singh could take radical initiatives? ...
09:26 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: Congress will hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the poll debacle in the four state. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are expected to attend the meeting at around 11 am. Performance of Congress, which had banked on the charisma and aggressive campaigning by Rahul Gandhi, was dismal in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The outcome of the Assembly polls in five states could be a...
09:34 AM, Mar 07, 2012
The SP gained absolute majority while the Congress finished fourth in UP polls. Rahul Gandhi, who was the face of the party in the poll campaign in UP, has acknowledged the defeat. ...
10:43 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: As Congress suffered a major blow in the elections to five states, Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Tuesday claimed that the opposition to an effective Lokpal cost the party dearly and took a dig at its top leaders. In her tweets, Bedi said when the Congress started to use power "to discredit" anti-corruption movement, it put its own grassroot workers on the defencive. "Congress appeared to be...
08:33 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev on Tuesday sought to claim victory in Congress's poor show in the Assembly elections, and announced another round of anti-government protest on black money during the monsoon session of Parliament. Claiming that the verdict of the people's court was clearly against corruption and Congress's reluctance to act on the demand of bringing back the black money stashed in foreign banks, Ramdev said Congress was now...
08:18 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the results of its candidates for the Manipur Assembly elections and said that those in Uttar Pradesh have also done well. "We stepped into Manipur for the first time. We have won 10 per cent of the Assembly seats. We are the main opposition in that state," the party all-India general secretary and Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy...
08:13 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Imphal: In perhaps the only solace to the Congress government in the state Assembly elections 2012, the Manipur electorate gave a thumping majority to the party, helping it win 42 seats out of 60. The party scored a hat-trick and returned to power in the northeastern state, helped by a fragmented opposition. The Trinamool Congress, part of an 11-party Peoples Democratic Alliance, made an impressive debut winning seven seats, followed...
06:58 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Imphal: Manipur Assembly elections came as the only solace for the Congress after the party fared vary badly in the other four state. The party has scored a hat-trick and returned to power in the Northeastern state. As per the latest trends, the ruling party has bagged 40 seats and is leading in 2 seats in the 60-member Assembly. The Trinamool Congress made an impressive debut winning seven seats followed...
04:06 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Imphal: A clear lead for the Congress in Manipur. Congress is likely to return to power with Chief Minister Ibobi Singh on way to a hat-trick. The ruling party appears set to retain power in Manipur by bagging 29 seats and leading in 12 others in the 60-member Assembly as per the trends available for 59 seats. According to latest reports, Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has defeated his...
12:08 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Imphal: Congress appeared to be retaining power in Manipur with the party leading in 24 seats and winning 11 seats in the 60-member Assembly. The NPF was leading on 4 seats, TMC 3 and others 4. The Congress candidate in Tipaimukh constituency Dr Chaltonlien Amo won defeating TMC's Lalumkhum Fimate. Trinamool Congress nominee Kh Joykishang won the prestigious Thangmeiband assembly seat defeating his nearest Congress rival Jotin Waikhom by over...
10:31 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Imphal: Initial trends indicated the gap between Congress and others getting wider with the ruling party ahead at 19 seats. NPF was leading on 5 seats, PDF 2, TMC 1 and others 2. According to latest reports, Congress candidate Chalonlien Amo won the Tipaimukh assembly seat in Manipur defeating his nearest Trinamool Congress rival L Fimate by over 1000 votes. Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh and Works minister K Ranjit...
09:17 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: Counting of votes in the 60-member Manipur Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday in all the nine districts of the state. Initial trends at 8:40 AM show the Congress leading in six seats. According to Election Commission statistics, the Congress had contested all 60 seats, the Trinamool Congress 48, Manipur State Congress Party 31, CPI 24, NCP 22, BJP 19, Manipur People's Party 14, the National Peoples...
07:38 AM, Mar 06, 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: 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
The Trinamool Congress that has made an impressive debut in Manipur is not ruling out an alliance with the Congress. ...
08:55 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Amid a flurry of exit polls predicting the outcome of Assembly elections ahead of the March 6 results, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Sunday said such surveys should at best be on entertainment channels. "Opinion and exit polls should at best be on entertainment channels!," Quraishi tweeted this afternoon, taking a dig at the surveys. The reaction of the CEC, who made his Twitter debut on February...
06:43 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Imphal: Eleven non-Congress parties have formed People's Democratic Alliance in Manipur, sources in the parties said on Sunday. Sources said the parties which formed PDA included NCP, Manipur People's Party, CPI, CPM and others. CPI secretary of Manipur unit M Nara, a former minister contesting from Wangjing Tengtha seat of Thoubal district, said they were just waiting for the election results. "We are just waiting for the results," Nara said,...
06:29 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Manipur will hold its second re-poll on Sunday after the Election Commission ordered repolling in 67 stations of its nine Assembly constituencies amid reports of irregularities in the January 28 polls in the state. Several non-Congress parties had alleged malpractices in the January 28 election and the first re-poll on February 4. Parties, including the BJP, NCP, CPI, CPM, JD-U, MSCP, Manipur Peoples Party, National Peoples Party and...
08:17 AM, Mar 04, 2012
