Party may have to face pressure to field PM.

Sonia unwilling to see her Rajya Sabha MPs in polls

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From banking to politics &mdash; Meera Sanyal is the latest power-woman to put her hat in the election ring.

ABN Amro chief goes on leave to contest elections

Keeping her promise to field maximum upper-caste candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today included 20 Brahmins, as against 17 Dalits, in the party&rsquo;s list of candidates for the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

BSP to fight all 80 seats in UP

The Cash Transfer Scheme (CTS) announced by the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) could well be the mother of all sops being offered by various political parties to woo the electorate in the ensuing Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh.

Ahead of polls, TDP unveils mother of all sops

A new CPI(M) website was launched on Wednesday, a couple of days after the party&rsquo;s election manifesto was released. The manifesto is notable in that it does not promise outcomes (what rate of growth, how much increased equality, what level of reduction in unemployment, etc), but makes a list of random observations without any coherent framework: give the states more rights, protect the public sector, offer everyone guaranteed employment, etc.

T N Ninan: Relentless posturing

Though BJP President Rajnath Singh is not known for his sense of humour, during a speech at the meeting of the BJP-Sena workers in Mumbai on Friday, he described the Third Front with an anecdote that made the audience burst into laughter.

Third Front is a 'dog-mosquito' alliance: RAJNATH

Every one from Mayawati to Jayalalitha to Sharad Pawar are throwing their hats in the ring for prime ministership in this election season. And Pawar is even getting support from unexpected quarters like the Shiv Sena, which wishes to see a Marathi manoos as the prime minister (PM). Now, another PM aspirant from Maharashtra, which has not given any PM to the country, is Mahadeo Jankar, president of a little-known Yashwant Sena.

Deprived maharashtra has two pm candidates this time

After collapsing in two big states of North India &mdash; Bihar and Uttar Pradesh &mdash; the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is on the verge of splitting in Tamil Nadu. While Lalu Prasad of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today ruled out any re-negotiation in Bihar, defying pressure from various quarters, Left sources indicated that the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) was set to quit the UPA and join hands with AIADMK chief J Jayalalitha for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

After Bihar and UP, UPA breaking up in Tamil Nadu too

The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will contest 26 and 22 seats, respectively, of the 48 parliamentary seats in Maharashtra, Chairman of Congress&rsquo; media cell, Veerappa Moily announced today.

Cong, NCP reach pact on seat sharing

The move also means a division of the UPA vote in Bihar, creating an unpredictable situation.

RJD, LJP to contest all 40 seats in Bihar

The changing dynamics of election campaigns have made the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shift its chair-and-table equipped election war-room to a hi-tech computerised office, which is manned by young professionals from diverse fields, who are working as volunteers.

BJP shifts election 'war room' from headquarters

All the six sitting MPs, including two Union ministers Ajay Maken and Kapil Sibal, figure in the Congress list announced for the coming Lok Sabha polls in Delhi.

All sitting MPs find place in Congress list for Delhi

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We will make it tough for the Left Front in all the 42 seats in West Bengal. In the last election, we had only one seat (Mamata Banerjee from South Kolkata). This time we will certainly reach the double-digit mark.

'We will win at least 70% seats'

BJP MP from Belgaum Suresh Angadi who has been renamed party&rsquo;s candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections has entered into an avoidable controversy. He has drawn flak from his own party men besides the opposition parties.

LS polls: Belgaum BJP MP in a muddle

Maharashtra BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh bumped into each other in the elevator in the state&rsquo;s Vidhan Bhavan. Deshukh held Gadkari&rsquo;s hand and thanked him for giving the Congress the courage to stand up to Sharad Pawar&rsquo;s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) while discussing seat-sharing in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

Self-goal?

Young Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi today faced yet another charge of making a hate speech in Pilibhit even as the Election Commission (EC) deliberated for the second day on his reply defending allegations of making inflammatory remarks with communal overtones in the same constituency.

Varun charged with making hate speech, again

The election notification for the 10 Lok Sabha and 70 assembly seats in Orissa has been issued.

Poll notification issued for phase-I

Actor Sanjay Dutt&rsquo;s election campaign may already have run into a bit of rough weather. Dutt has applied for an exemption from the Supreme Court, given that he has been convicted by the Tada court in Mumbai. A group of lawyers has filed a petition in the apex court challenging the application from grant of exemption.

Gandhigiri interrupted

Better governance, food security, monetary policies top priority.

NDA's agenda promises cure-all

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) prevented further hemorrhage in its ranks as the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) finalised their seat-sharing arrangement for Maharashtra on the first day of filing nomination papers.

Cong-NCP seat pact saves the day for UPA

Within hours of finalising seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today declared candidates for 18 seats out of the 22 it would contest in Maharashtra in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

NCP releases first list of 18 candidates

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