With just two days left for polling in four seats in Punjab, it seems that it is clash of clans (Badal family and the Amarinder Singh family) rather than a political fight.

Clash of clans

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Like the rest of the country, Haryana with its 10 Lok Sabha seats that go to the polls on 7 May is in a fluid situation. A thin margin can make or mar several political futures.

In fluid situation

His BJP rival Vijay Goel has TV actor Smriti Irani campaigning for him, while his campaign has no glamour quotient. So, Ajay Maken&rsquo;s campaign managers are sending out SMS&rsquo;s highlighting his work: &ldquo;No Saas No Bahu needed to get votes&rdquo;, a reference to Irani&rsquo;s role, first as a bahu and then as a saas in the popular serial Kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi.

No saas, no bahu

Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Shailja found very few people turning up at her election rallies. This, despite Haryana Chief Minister BS Hooda being there. Just the day before, Hooda had told the press that the Congress party faced a pro-incumbency wave in the state.

Pro-incumbency!

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the otherwise lightweight party in the highly polarised political scenario in West Bengal, is gradually becoming the X-factor in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. After the first phase of polls in the state on April 30, leaders of the ruling CPI(M) had conceded that BJP candidate Jaswant Singh had a clear edge in Darjeeling over their own candidate, Jibesh Sarkar.

BJP, the new X-factor in West Bengal

Singur and Nandigram will go to the polls as West Bengal enters the second phase of elections on Thursday. The people&rsquo;s resistance in Nandigram and Singur to the industrialization bid by the Left Front government has already caused a major change in the otherwise stable political equation in the state.

All eyes set as Singur,  Nandigram go to polls

A few days ago, the Union government appointed Arvind Jadhav as the new chairman and managing director of National Aviation Company of India Limited (Nacil). Mr Jadhav, a Karnataka cadre IAS officer, has been given a three-year tenure to run Nacil. The change of guard took place suddenly. Sometime last month, Raghu Menon, another IAS officer who was appointed to head Nacil on April 1, 2008, decided to go on leave.

A K Bhattacharya: The buck must stop at EC&#39;s door

Congress contender Jyoti Mirdha wants to carry forward the family legacy but party rebel and current BSP contender Abdul Ajeez may erode her vote bases, spoiling her chances.

Ex Congressman making fight tough for Mirdha in Nagaur

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has put off her election rallies here and in Puducherry scheduled for today in view of hospitalisation of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, a top Congress leader said.

Sonia puts off election rallies in Chennai, Puducherry

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Senior BJP leader, Sumitra Mahajan who contested from the Indore Lok Sabha constituency for the seventh time in succession said today that the party organisation should take cognizance of the infighting which had plagued her election this time.

BJP should take cognizance of infighting: Mahajan

The fate of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's daughter-in-law and that of the wife and son of his predecessor Amarinder Singh will be sealed in the election to four of the 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state tomorrow.&nbsp;About 52.75 lakh voters would seal the fate of 79 candidates, including three women and 37 Independents for the four seats of Bathinda, Patiala, Sangrur and Ferozepur in the fourth phase of the countrywide polls tomorrow.

CM's daughter-in-law, Amarinder's wife, son fate to be sealed tomorrow

Life was paralysed in Kashmir Valley today due to the 50-hour strike called by separatists ahead of polling in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency tomorrow.

Life hit in Kashmir Valley ahead of polls

The fate of 210 candidates for 10 seats in Haryana, including former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, will be decided by about 1.20 Crore voters in the state during the fourth phase of countrywide polling for the 15th Lok Sabha tomorrow.

Fate of 210 in fray for tomorrow's election in Haryana

As many as 9.46 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise&nbsp;in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls tomorrow in which the fate of BJP President Rajnath&nbsp;Singh, Congress' Pranab Mukherjee, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad&nbsp;would be decided.

Polling to 85 Lok Sabha seats tomorrow

While delimitation has made Dausa a reserved seat forcing Sachin Pilot to shift out, the Congress candidate from the region Laxman Meena still swears by the work done by the Pilot family and says that alone will ensure his victory here.&quot;The voters here know and have seen the good work done by the Pilots&mdash;late Rajesh Pilot, his wife Rama Pilot and son Sachin (who represented the seat in the 14th Lok Sabha). I will gain from that.

Dausa Pilot's legacy will show the way

Congress was keeping all its options open on government formation in the post poll scenario, party general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad said here today.

Cong keeping all options open on govt formation: Azad

Getting the support of the Meena community is key to winning the elections in Dausa, but the problem is there are one too many Meenas in the fray. To be precise three.

Dausa constituency to see the war of three Meenas

The Election Observers took a round of the polling stations in the city and identified 385 sensitive ones out of the total 1,764 booths in the Jalandhar (Reserve) parliamentary constituency.

385 booths identified as sensitive in Jalandhar constituency

District authorities here have ordered an inquiry into the alleged distribution of controversial CDs purportedly showing UP Chief Minister Mayawati making speech in support of Narendra Modi.

Probe ordered into distribution Maya-supports-Modi CDs

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and actress-turned-politician Hema Malini of the BJP have been elected the 'Political Style Icons of the country' by over 14,000 students of a fashion institute.

Rahul Gandhi, Hema Malini top political style icons' chart

&nbsp;Heavy security arrangements, including aerial patrolling in naxal-affected areas, will mark the final round of polling tomorrow in three of the 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar which will see RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha test their electoral mettle.

3 seats in Bihar go for polls tomorrow amid heavy security

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