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 […]
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress Wednesday announced its candidates for 18 more Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, including Umesh Mishra for the prestigious Rae Bareli constituency which has been electing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi since 2004. Mamata Banerjee’s party has now fielded candidates for 104 seats in 17 states. The Trinamool […]
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Popular stand-up comedian and actor Raju Srivastava Wednesday joined the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), saying it “is the future of Indian politics”. “I think the country has given 60 years to Congress. We must now give the 61st year to Narendra Modi,” Srivastava told IANS, soon after he was admitted into […]
Patna, March 19 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Wednesday filed her nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls from Sasaram constituency in Bihar, officials said. “I am confident and sure that people will support and vote for me. I will again win from here,” she said. A former IFS officer, Meira Kumar is the sitting […]
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Congress leader Jagadambika Pal and stand up comedian Raju Srivastava Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Pal, formerly a Congress MP and the Uttar Pradesh Congress chief, had earlier resigned from the Lok Sabha as well as the party. Pal, 63, has been a three-time legislator and minister in Uttar […]