BJP National General Secretary and Punjab poll in-charge J P Nadda has dubbed Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's projection of Amarinder Singh as the next chief minister of Punjab as a desperate move of the party.

Rahul's predicting Amarinder as CM is desperate: BJP

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Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh today visited Dera Sacha Sauda at Sirsa in Haryana and sought support for the party from its head Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh.

Amarinder seeks support of Dera Sacha Sauda

BJP, which has been struggling hard to regain its pre-eminent position in Uttar Pradesh, today revived the Ram Temple issue promising construction of a grand temple in Ayodhya if voted to power.

BJP revives Ram Temple issue ahead of UP polls

Two CRPF personnel on poll duty were killed in an ambush by militants even as four powerful bombs planted near polling stations were seized and defused before polling for the Manipur Assembly began this morning.

Manipur polls: 2 CRPF personnel killed, bombs defused

They share the common wall of their ancestral house, the family name and even the village name. But in the cut and thrust of politics, a common inheritance seems to matter little when it comes to electoral politics.

Punjab polls: Brothers in race for power

An 82% of the electorate today exercised their franchise in Manipur assembly elections marred by militants' violence that claimed five lives and left two injured.

UPDATE: Five killed, 82% polling in Manipur

Around 1.76 crore voters will seal the fate of 1,078 candidates, including the two Chief Ministerial aspirants Parkash Singh Badal of ruling SAD-BJP and Amarinder Singh of opposition Congress, in fray for 117 assembly seats in Punjab where polling will take place tomorrow amidst tight security.

Fate of 1,078 candidates to be sealed tomorrow in Punjab

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said here today that his party and the Samajwadi Party (SP) were the two main contenders in Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, as the ruling &quot;BSP is involved in corruption, while BJP is nowhere in the picture.

Congress, SP main contenders in UP polls: Digvijay

Notwithstanding the controversy over his joining the party, BJP feels that tainted former BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha's support to it could bolster its prospects in the elections in Uttar Pradesh.

BJP bets on Kushwaha's popularity in UP

Extra paramilitary forces have been deployed in Punjab's Banga town in Nawanshahr district after a fight broke out between two groups on the eve of Assembly polls yesterday.

Extra forces deployed in Banga after fight erupts

CPI today predicted a hung assembly in Uttar Pradesh after the February polls in the state and said the charisma pf AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will not work there.

CPI predicts hung assembly in UP

The newly-created Maharajpur Assembly seat will witness a contest featuring a scam-tainted ex-minister and two incumbent MLAs with their reputation at stake.

Litmus test for tainted ex-minister in Maharajpur

The Samajwadi Party and BJP's forumula to woo voters with laptops and tablet computers might work in some south Indian states but would not be of any help in UP where the electorate is &quot;much wiser&quot;, senior Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal said.

Wooing voters with gadgets will not help in UP: Congress

Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, founder of the YSR Congress and son of former chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), has created a record in the electoral history of Andhra Pradesh. He retained the Lok Sabha seat of Kadapa, which he had won in 2009 on a Congress ticket, by defeating the rival Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidates with a margin of 543,053 votes in a by-election.

Jagan, mother win with record margins

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The Congress in Assam has created electoral history with Tarun Gogoi all set to become the state&rsquo;s longest-serving Chief Minister. The regional Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the state&rsquo;s main Opposition party, has also created history of sorts by being routed for the third time in a row, raising questions about the very relevance of regionalism in the North East.

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The state awaits the results with hope and fear &mdash; for this election will change everything for everyone.

Left let in or left let out ?

Competition in freebies dominates

Hard-fought election defies predictions, as UDF and LDF are faced with similar challenges.

Religious groups bet on UDF this time

It may be hard for either the Congress or AGP to form a government alone.

Coalition is the name of the game

Congress, allies score a resounding win in Bengal and Assam, set to form govt in Kerala; AIADMK posts a huge win in Tamil Nadu.

UPA gets muscle to steer reforms

In a reminder of what went wrong for the Left Front in West Bengal, all top four champions of industrialisation in the state lost in these elections.

Industry poster boys lose ground

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