Charging the Third Front with bringing &quot;political uncertainty&quot; to the country, the Congress today said even if it managed to form a government, it will not last for more than two years.

Third Front govt will not last for more than 2 years:Mukherjee

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to TV news channel CNN-IBN about post-poll alliance with the Left and who should be the Congress prime minister-in-waiting.

Rahul has all the qualities of a good PM

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DP Tripathi, general secretary, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), tells AASHA KHOSA there is no United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the national level.

&#39;UPA will need both the Left and BJD&#39;

Kashmiris came in hordes to listen to Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi at his rally at Anantnag last week. In fact, wearing Karakuli caps, both Rahul and Omar Abdullah almost looked alike as they flaunted their common Kashmiri lineage and sought votes for Maqbool Beigh, the National Conference candidate. However, Rahul&rsquo;s repeated attacks on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) left the people puzzled.

Rahul obsessed with BJP

Regardless of the competence of the next government, it would make sense to invest in dips from now.

Minimalist expectation

As the country heads for the final round of the elections, the possibility that every opinion poll had ruled out is now very real: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could emerge as the single-largest party.

A party of government

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today said Manmohan Singh is UPA's and Congress candidate for the post of Prime Minister, reaffirming the stand of the party leaders that there is no vacancy for the top job.

Manmohan Singh is UPA's PM candidate: Rahul

The ongoing general elections are the first to be contested under the newly delimited constituency framework. Some recent state elections were conducted within the new arrangements and there is a view that they do have an impact on the outcome. Whether this is true at a national level or not will undoubtedly be revealed by micro-analysis of voting numbers after the election results are in.

Subir Gokarn: Limitations of delimitation

The Congress party has sought a thorough investigation into the alleged irregularities in the recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state.

Congress demands probe into poll irregularities

Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today denied the opposition's charge that state secretariat has been misused in favour of BJP for electioneering purposes.

Misuse of secretariat: CM refutes allegation

Manmohan Singh and L K Advani are mere tokens in entrepreneur Amit Tripathi&rsquo;s political game. &lsquo;Politicking&rsquo;, the all-time favourite &lsquo;Snakes and Ladders&rsquo; with a political twist, is a cheerful escape on Tripathi&rsquo;s new portal indiavoting.com, where allies are ladders and the opposition snakes. This dynamic website is the flagship portal of 32-year-old Tripathi&rsquo;s new venture Insite Digital, which he started in October 2008 with co-founder Ajay Sharma.

Snakes and Ladders of Indian politics

To Prime Minister Manmohan Singh&rsquo;s olive branch that the Left parties were his friends, the Left Front reacted sharply questioning this premise. The Left parties also described as &lsquo;motivated&rsquo; the Congress charge that the red brigade had done nothing for development.

Left counters Congress attack on development

Some men have positioned themselves on the terraces to shower bucketful of petals as thousands of women stand at the gate of their houses with lamp and &lsquo;tilak&rsquo; to welcome the candidate in the traditional Tamil way. They grin in delight, present bouquets or sweets or shawls or even a silver crown as the hoodless jeep passes them.

A 'son rise' in Madurai

Harsimrat Kaur, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate from Bathinda, is probably the only candidate in the country whose cover papers (in case they got rejected for technical inaccuracies) were filed by her mother-in-law &mdash; the wife of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal.

Badal, Amarinder clan pitted against each other in Punjab

Although both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the two main parties in Uttarakhand, are targeting each other for not improving the economic health of the hill state, politics on the real developmental issues is yet to pick up momentum despite the Lok Sabha elections are on.

Election sans development in Uttarakhand

Former chief minister Vasundhara Raje may have been able to placate agitating Gurjar leaders to keep caste equations in her favour but opposition from disgruntled farmers may make things difficult for her son and BJP candidate from here Dushyant Singh.

Local issues, caste formula to decide fate of Raje's son

A thaw appears to have set in in Bihar's bloody record of poll violence going by the statistics of death that emerged after the last three phases of Lok Sabha election.

Break from Bihar's blood-soaked poll history?

Former Union IT Minister and the ruling DMK's sophisticated face, Dayananidhi Maran is fighting a tough battle as he seeks a second term to Lok Sabha from the party's traditional stronghold, Chennai Central constituency.

Maran fights a tough battle in Chennai Central

Poll battles in the state have always been king-size, and now many candidates from royal families have entered the fray in Rajasthan carrying on the tradition.Congress candidate Chandresh Kumari is contesting from the Jodhpur seat against sitting MP Jaswant Singh Vishnoi. She is an erstwhile princess of Jodhpur's royal family and now the daughter-in-law of Himachal's Kangra royal family.

Royal candidates in Rajasthan make poll battle king-size

After former BJP leader Kalyan Singh's claim that he was kept in the dark about the Babri masjid demolition, another temple movement leader Uma Bharti today said that &quot;everyone&quot; was in the dark about the demolition.

Everyone was in dark about Babri demolition: Uma

The Supreme Court today posted for July 28 the hearing on the&nbsp;petition accusing government of inaction in bringing back black money stashed in foreign&nbsp;banks.

SC fixes July 28 for hearing black money issue

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