New Delhi: After losing to Pranab Mukherjee by a huge margin, opposition candidate P A Sangma on Sunday said his team had kept open the option to approach the Supreme Court against Mukherjee's election as the President. "We are meeting day after tomorrow (Wednesday), this matter will also come up for discussion," Sangma said to queries about the petition to the apex court after the poll panel had rejected their...
08:05 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: India's president-elect Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday thanked people across the country for his victory and said that with emotions running high it felt like another general election. "I am very happy. I thank everybody for their love and support. I thank all the people of my country," Mukherjee told a Bengali news channel. "In the last one month I have covered the entire country. And with the emotions...
05:09 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: Faction-ridden ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka suffered a humiliation on Sunday when Pranab Mukherjee secured a backing of 117 MLAs as against P A Sangma's 103, with some BJP members cross-voting in favour of the UPA nominee. Mukherjee had a pledged support from only 98 MLAs " 71 from Congress and 27 from JD(S) " but he managed to secure the support of 19 more legislators....
04:53 PM, Jul 22, 2012
New Delhi: With the Trinamool Congress extending support to the UPA candidate in the Presidential poll, Pranab Mukherjee is likely to garner close to seven lakh vote value leaving his rival P A Sangma way behind in what appears to be a highly one-sided contest. Mukherjee is assured of support from parties which have a vote value of around seven lakh while Sangma has around 3.15 lakh vote value in...
08:31 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Mumbai: With reference to the demand of debate on the lines of US election, made by his rival and opposition nominee P A Sangma, UPA's presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee said in Mumbai that Presidents in India do not decide policy, and there can be no debate on "personality". "On Presidential debates in US and France, the answer is very simple. In those countries, in their constitution, the president, directly elected...
11:25 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Raipur: Dubbing Congress as anti-tribal, BJP-backed presidential nominee P A Sangma on Thursday said he was still inspired by the ideology of the party which "now does not have leaders like Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi". Talking to reporters in Raipur, he said, "Congress suspended its tribal leader Arvind Netam without prior notice when he was seen with me during the filing of nomination paper for the presidential election. This...
10:10 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: A day after former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma challenged the candidature of UPA's Pranab Mukherjee for the presidential elections, the nomination of the latter was accepted on Tuesday. The Returning Officer has decided that the UPA nominee had resigned before filing his nomination. He further said that after the scrutiny of all the nominations filed for the elections, only those of Sangma and Mukherjee were found...
04:50 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: The team of presidential candidate P A Sangma on Monday formally challenged the nomination of UPA's Pranab Mukherjee for the contest, accusing him of holding an office of profit as the head of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). However, the Congress has hit back dismissing all allegations and claiming that the former finance minister had resigned from the position before filing his nomination for the presidential elections. Parliamentary...
06:34 PM, Jul 02, 2012
UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday filed his nomination for the Presidential elections. ...
11:12 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik left for New Delhi from Bhubaneswar on Wednesday to be present while former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma filed his nomination for the presidential election on Thursday, an official said. Patnaik, who is also the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief, was the first to announce Sangma's name for the president's post. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders...
10:15 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee appears to be the clear frontrunner in the race to the Rashtrapati Bhawan with as much as over 60 per cent votes swinging in his favour. However, his rival, former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma has not given up just yet, and is confident of the contest against the veteran Congressman. Sangma, who even resigned from his party, the NCP, to contest...
11:55 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: The race to the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Monday seemed far from over. Even as former president APJ Abdul Kalam opted out of the race saying his conscience did not allow him to contest, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after its core group meeting appeared to be swinging in favour of former Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma. Despite the BJP sending its messenger in the form of Sudheendra...
11:55 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the UPA nominated Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as its presidential candidate, the opposition, NDA, remained divided over backing him in the race to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, even as its leader Ram Jethmalani spoke against the ruling coalition's nominee and threatened to join the fray if his party chose to back the veteran Congressman. The real drama, however, unfolded in the form of NCP leader...
11:45 PM, Jun 16, 2012
New Delhi: Pranab Mukherjee's name as the UPA candidate for the President's post appeared to be gathering further momentum on Friday and an announcement on it is expected next week. UPA sources said Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who has been authorised by the party's Working Committee to pick the candidate, is likely to make the announcement around June 15, probably a couple of days after the expected poll notification by...
08:40 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: There's a new name in the growing list of Presidential hopefuls. For the first time on Thursday, two political parties came out with a joint name for President. Former Speaker PA Sangma, who had been lobbying for a Scheduled Tribe as the next President, has got support from AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. However, Sangma so far has failed to get his own party,...
09:30 PM, May 17, 2012
