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 […]
Panaji, April 5 The BJP will initiate a central government probe into Goa’s drug mafia if voted to power, said three-time MP and the party’s candidate for the North Goa seat Shripad Naik Saturday. “I assure you I will get a CBI inquiry into the entire drug scenario in Goa once we form our government […]
Agra, April 5 (IANS) Environmentalists have demanded an audit of the total expenditure, including the foreign loans received, for cleaning the Yamuna river and appealed to candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election to include the issue in their agendas. “The latest loan of Rs.937 crores provided by the Japan International Cooperation Agency will also go into […]
Bangalore, April 5 (IANS) Half of the 46 million voters across Karnataka are below 40 years and the enrollment of first-time voters in the 18-19 years age group has been “remarkable this time”. The southern state goes to the polls in a single phase April 17 to elect 28 lawmakers to the 16th Lok Sabha. “Our […]
Panaji, April 5 (IANS) Upset over an unsolved minor girl’s rape, constant police harassment and an inflation-stricken kitchen may have given Goa its only illiterate candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Out of the 19 candidates contesting the general elections from two constituencies in Goa, Balkrishna Salgaonkar, 42, is the only one listed as […]
Bhubaneswar, April 5 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi Saturday spoke of land reforms and women’s safety at a rally in Odisha’s Khariar Nuapada district and attacked the BJP, saying it had made allegations without any proof. “The Congress has always fought for the ‘aam aadmi’, specially the Dalits, the poor, the adivasis and the backward […]
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will address three rallies in Delhi and Haryana on Sunday, a statement said Saturday. Party workers are pulling out all stops to ensure the rally in south Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar is a success. Gandhi’s last outing in the resettlement colony, weeks before the Delhi assembly […]