Star struck ; Actor and Trinamool Congress candidate from Birbhum Lok Sabha seat Shatabdi Roy has tough competition ahead.Abhijeet Dasgupta
In state after state, party functionaries preferred to go along with Mallikarjun Kharge, seen as the “high command” candidate, despite his contention that he has his independent position on various issues. The party old guard did not look too kindly on the younger interloper, and it is ...
BSP supremo Mayawati on Saturday announced that her party and SP will fight together in an alliance in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. (Photo: IANS) Lucknow, (IANS): Arch rivals for over 25 years, the BSP and SP announced on January 12 that they will contest the coming Lok Sabha ...
Thiruvananthapuram, April 09, 2024:Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister AK Antony wished that his son, Anil K Antony, who is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, should lose the election. The 83-year-old Congress ...
The Indian NationalCongress candidatefor BelagaviDr.V SSadhunavar has released themanifesto for Belagavi. Industrial Development in Belagavi Loksabha Constituency Will be the Voice for Kalasa Banduri Project Railway Network to Saudatti Yallama Temple ...
Civil Defence Mock Drill to begin at 4 pm Operation Sindoor: Indian Armed Forces carry out precision strike at terrorist camps in Pakistan Civil defence mock drill to be held across 14 districts in Kerala on May 7 India’s response to Pahalgam attack should be effective: Owaisi Get prepared ...
Embarrassment of riches ; The latest grist for the political opponents of Shashi Tharoor, Congress candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat, is his wealth.M.G. Radhakrishnan
The gender bender ; In the most high-profile contest, the Congress wrested the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat from the SP as its candidate Raj Babbar trounced Dimple Yadav, daughter-in-law of the SP supremo, by over 85,000 votes.Priya Sahgal...
The party did slowly increase its number of seats in the Rajya Sabha (upper chamber of parliament), from four in the 2006 election to seven in the 2010 and 2012 contests, but it suffered a setback in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, when its representation there was reduced to six seats. Some...
s government. In the parliamentary elections held in March 1977 at the end of the Emergency, the oppositionJanata (People’s) Partyscored a landslide victory over the Congress Party, winning 295 seats in theLok Sabha(the lower chamber of the Indian Parliament) against 153 for the Congress ...