New Delhi, April 5 BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s close aide Amit Shah has raked up a controversy with a remark on the Muzaffarnagar riots, with political parties attacking him Saturday and the Congress seeking his arrest. But the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) defended Shah, saying they see “nothing wrong in his remark”. Shah […]
Hyderabad, April 5 (IANS) Hectic talks were continuing between top leaders of the TDP and the BJP for a poll alliance in Andhra Pradesh here Saturday even as the BJP leaders from Telangana want the party to go alone. With just four days left for the deadline for filing of nominations in Telangana, leaders from the […]
Gandhinagar, April 5 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will become the next prime minister of India but cannot be compared to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani said Saturday. “Modi will become the PM of the country…I would not compare him (Modi) to Vajpayee ji,” the former deputy prime minister […]
Agartala/Guwahati, April 5 (IANS) The six are part of the 543 constituencies where polling will take place from April 7 to May 12. The result will be known May 16. The Congress is the major force in Assam which it rules while the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is the dominant force in Tripura. But the […]
Kolkata, April 5 West Bengal’s Left Front chairman Biman Bose conceded that many of those who switched allegiance to the Trinamool Congress three years back are yet to return to the Communist fold but saw a “little change” favouring the opposition in the outcome of the Lok Sabha polls. Bose claimed the Trinamool did not […]
Bhubaneswar, April 5 Odisha received more central funds during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule than what it got during the term of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Saturday. Addressing an election rally at Khariar town in Nuapada district, about 550 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, Gandhi said the […]
New Delhi, April 5 India will begin voting Monday in a staggered national election widely tipped to give a decisive edge to a confident BJP, led by Hindutva mascot Narendra Modi, which may however still fall short of a parliamentary majority. It will be the world’s biggest democratic exercise, involving a staggering 814 million voters […]
Why has the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) not been able to release the party manifesto as yet, even though the first phase of balloting begins Monday? For Narendra Modi, this lapse is a major embarrassment. Not only does it point to a cloudiness of the outlook which is holding up its release but also that […]
Hyderabad, April 5 The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Saturday released first list of candidates for Lok Sabha election. The party, which has decided to go alone in simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and Andhra Pradesh assembly, announced candidates for seven Lok Sabha seats. It named A.P. Jitender Reddy as the candidate from Mahabubnagar, which is […]
New Delhi, April 5 Congress Saturday complained to the Election Commission against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s close aide Amit Shah over his alleged “provcative hate speech” relating to last year’s Muzaffarnagar riots. The party also demanded that Shah be arrested and banned from campaigning for “creating animosity between communities” in western Uttar Pradesh that […]