Apart from testing the combined strength of the Omar Abdullah-led ruling National Conference-Congress alliance for the first time, the coming Lok Sabha election in Jammu and Kashmir would be keenly watched for the future plans of pro-Pakistan separatists in the wake of the drubbing they had received in the recent Assembly elections.

LS elections to put focus on J-K separatists' plans

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Even as the process of filing nomination papers for the coming Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra begins next week, the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are yet to complete seat-sharing formalities.

Seat-sharing in limbo, Cong may go solo in Maharashtra

Bahujan Samaj Party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is planning to add a touch of tech to her election campaign. While the BJP is trying to get its prime ministerial candidate, LK Advani, on blogosphere in a big way, Mayawati is going to be calling you on your mobile to canvass your vote &mdash; that is, a recording of her appeal will be used while calling up as many mobile phone users as possible.

Main Mayawati bol rahi hoon

Lalu&rsquo;s brother-in-law unhappy, wants to join Congress.

RJD, LJP announce seat-sharing pact...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Varun Gandhi, a member of the Gandhi-Nehru family, today fell foul of the Election Commission (EC), which directed the police to file a criminal case against the young BJP leader for allegedly making inflammatory remarks with communal overtones during an election campaign.

Varun faces criminal case for communal tirade

BJP denies tickets to 19 sitting MPs in Gujarat

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Bemused ambassadors of countries that are part of the European Union (EU) confessed they heard an admission from a politician they would not get to hear back home. Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the largest of the four Left parties in the outgoing Lok Sabha, cheerfully told a gathering of EU envoys earlier this month that he did not expect his party to do as well in 2009 as it had done in the 2004 general elections.

CPI(M) won't do as well as in 2004, Karat tells EU envoys

The chief electoral officer (CEO) for Orissa, Alka Panda has sought the co-operation of all political parties of the state in the smooth conduct of general elections. This includes the observance of the model code of conduct during the election process.

Political parties urged to co-operate during polls

Cong teaches Lalu lesson in Jharkhand

When reporters called former Union minister Kanshiram Rana at his home this morning, they found him virtually in tears.

'Rebels' do not figure in BJP's Gujarat list

The hill state goes to polls on May 13, the last of the five-phase electoral exercise.

In Himachal, BJP to focus on tax holiday withdrawal

I don&rsquo;t use the word tit for tat. It&rsquo;s too much of a clich&eacute;.

'Jharkhand pact was based on parties' strength'

Everyone knows that a Common Minimum Programme (CMP) is critical for any alliance, which is why a lot of thought goes into drafting it. One CMP&rsquo;s fine, but two? Congress Party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi had most journalists confounded when he said the so-called Third Front would be well advised to draft not one, but two CMPs, before making tall claims about being able to form a government after the elections.

Tale of two CMPs

At most press conferences, Left leaders are inevitably asked who will be the prime minister in a possible Third Front government. CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat was asked which woman would be the prime minister &mdash; BSP chief Mayawati or AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa.

They're men too

It is unusual, to say the least, for the general secretary of a political party to have such serious differences with his party president that he is required to kiss and make up with him. That is what has happened in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Arun Jaitley, who began his career as a student activist and is today arguably one of the most powerful second-rung leaders in the BJP, met party President Rajnath Singh on Thursday in an apparent bid to resolve differences.

Newsmaker: Arun Jaitley

There was no major surprise in the Shiv Sena&rsquo;s first list of 15 candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections as the party did not drop any of its sitting MPs from the list nor issued tickets to any newcomer.

No surprise in Sena's first list

In an apparent bid to keep itself away from further controversy arising out of the anti-Muslim remarks of Varun Gandhi, the BJP has dropped him from the official list of party campaigners for the Lok Sabha polls.

BJP drops Varun from list of party campaigners

The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has nominated Vijay Goel, former union minister, for the prestigious New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency and six other veteran leaders, including former cricketer Chetan Chauhan, for other constituencies in the capital.

BJP fields veteran leaders from Delhi

The babu of brinkmanship, Shatrughan Sinha, talks to Aditi Phadnis about his nomination as the BJP candidate from Patna Sahib.

'If not Bihar, where else would I contest from?'

For the first time since the Gujarat riots, Kumar&rsquo;s party is making a distinction between the NDA and the JD(U).

Aditi Phadnis: Can Nitish swing Bihar?

Party may have to face pressure to field PM.

Sonia unwilling to see her Rajya Sabha MPs in polls

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