New Delhi, March 24, 2024:With less than a month to go for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress released its fourth list of 45 candidates on Saturday. Some of the big names on the list are former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh, Karti Chi...
Why has the Sonia Congress done something that the Congress under Nehru-Indira-Rajiv would not have done, namely, exaggerate the power of the Rajya Sabha and diminish the power of the Lok Sabha? May 21, 2009 — drsubrotoroy We in India did not invent the idea of Parliament, the British...
In the first stage, Conservative MPs voted for selecting the two candidates who would confront each other for the top job. This exercise narrowed the choice down to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, with the former emerging the winner in an election where over 80 percent of over 170,000 ...
BHANDARA —Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday vowed that if voted to power, the party will remain committed to giving ‘nyay’ (justice) to the farmers, women and unemployed youth of the country. Launching the Maha Vikas Aghadi-INDIA bloc’s Lok Sabha election ...
This essay attributes the changing fortunes of the Congress Party to the inability of the party to continue to aggregate the interests of voters and candidates across the Indian states. In the period of dominance, the Congress Party was able to aggregate the "state-based parties," which formed...
As part of its strategy to ensure defeat of Congress, BJP has fielded a number of independent candidates in the states where polling is taking place. The keenest contest is a happening in UP where BJP seems to hell bent on ensuring defeat of Congress nominee Kapil Sibal. Congress has been...
500 candidates representing nearly 300 politi-cal parties, including numerous independent candidates, fi ercely contested for the 545-seat Lok Sabha (People’s House, the lower house of Parliament). Th e elections took place in fi ve phases between April and May in order to accommodate the ...
which is widely acknowledged to be the most miserable part of being in Congress. Expanding the House would pair especially well with a proposal to create a public matching system for small donors, in which candidates get six public dollars in campaign money for every one dollar they raise ...
which currently has 33 party MPs in the Lok Sabha, due to the Telangana fiasco and Jaganmohan Reddy’s decision to quit the party in 2010. The breakaway YSR Congress swept the by-elections in June 2012. The party’s overdependence on the Nehru-Gandhi family to take all major decisions re...
No woman representation from Kerala in 2024 Lok Sabha Trends show UDF wave:Shafi Parambil and MK Raghavan among leading candidates Legal action against spreaders of fake news during vote counting, says District Collector EXTENSION OF SERVICE OF WEEKLY SUPERFAST SPECIALS Kerala pensioners to stage ...