Mumbai, March 20 (IANS) Anupam Kher says neither he and nor his wife Kirron Kher were disturbed when she was greeted with eggs and black flags on her arrival in Chandigarh as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Kirron landed in Chandigarh on Tuesday. She was reportedly greeted with slogans […]
Jaipur, March 20 (IANS) Former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin, the Congress candidate from Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency, is facing opposition from party workers who are holding demonstrations and demanding the ticket be given to a local party worker. Some of the party workers burnt posters in Tonk and held demonstrations at Patel Circle on Wednesday. […]
Chandigarh, March 20 (IANS) This week marked the virtual end of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s innings on Punjab’s political wicket. The high-profile star campaigner of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been yanked off the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat and replaced by senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley. Sidhu, the only BJP Lok Sabha MP from Punjab, […]
Fatehpur Sikri, March 20 (IANS) Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) candidate Amar Singh, who is contesting for the Fatehpur Sikri seat in Uttar Pradesh, has offered to campaign for Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav in Azamgarh, the latter’s hometown. Amar Singh told mediapersons Wednesday evening he did not want the Bharatiya Janata Party to win from […]
Wangjing (Manipur), March 19 (IANS) Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday questioned the BJP’s plan to impose the Gujarat model of development on all states. He asserted the best model for each state was one that reflected people’s aspirations. “The opposition talks about the Gujarat model everywhere. What has it got to do with Manipur or […]
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Accusing the Congress and the BJP of appeasing some religious communities during electoral battles, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday claimed her party would play an important role in the formation of the central government. Addressing a party workers’ meeting in Itahar in North Dinajpur district, Banerjee said the Congress, Bharatiya Janata […]
Patna, March 19 (IANS) Filmmaker Prakash Jha said Wednesday that he was contesting the Lok Sabha polls from West Champaran in Bihar at the request of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. He said it was because of Nitish Kumar that he changed his earlier decision to give up politics. “I was determined to retire from politics. But […]
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest the Lok Sabha polls from a second seat of Vadodara in Gujarat, along with Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Tirunelveli (Tamil Nadu), March 19 (IANS) AIADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged people to trounce the Congress and make its candidates lose even their election deposit in the coming Lok Sabha polls. “The Congress should lose its deposit in all the constituencies as it paved the way for price rise by hiking oil prices every month,” […]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 19 (IANS) Congress leaders should answer why no complaint has been registered against union minister Shashi Tharoor in connection with his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s mysterious death, CPI-M leader V.S. Achutanandan said Wednesday. “It’s time that Defence Minister A.K. Antony and other senior leaders in the Congress break their silence on the mysterious death of […]