As Varun Gandhi hogged the limelight for delivering a hate speech in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh, his mother, Maneka Gandhi, was raising issues about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The reclusive Maneka, who is Bharatiya Janata Party&rsquo;s candidate from neighbouring Aonla constituency, chose a Punjabi television channel to air her views. This was apparently aimed at wooing the Sikh voters, who form a good chunk of the electorate in both the constituencies.

Mothers patch up

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The day Election Commission censured Varun Gandhi for his alleged anti-Muslim speech in Pilibhit, he called a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader past midnight. Varun, living up to his reputation, shocked the leader when he started asking him how he should be speaking to the television channels on this issue.

Varun takes tv tips

BJP Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi has been charged with attempt to murder, rioting and other offences in an FIR filed in connection with violence that erupted in Pilibhit even as police on Sunday maintained a close vigil to maintain law and order in this district.

Varun charged with attempt to murder, rioting

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President Pratibha Patil today accepted the resignation of Union Ministers Anbumani Ramadoss and R Velu, who stepped down after their party PMK in Tamil Nadu quit the UPA, and asked Minister of State Panabaka Lakshmi to look after the health department.

Ramadoss resignation accepted; Lakshmi new Health Min

BJP MP Maneka Gandhi today said registration of cases against her son and the saffron party's Lok Sabha candidate Varun were part of a &quot;political conspiracy&quot;.

Cases against Varun part of "political conspiracy": Maneka

In a bid to regain lost ground in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has fielded Bollywood actor Salman Khan for party's election campaign.

Congress fields Salman in UP for election campaign

The state unit of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today declared names of 17 candidates, who will contest from various seats in Gujarat during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

LS polls: BSP declares names of 17 Guj candidates

The Rashtriya Swayemsevak Sangh (RSS), which claims a membership of 2 million, has asked cadres to work for the success of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

BJP gets a shot in the arm, RSS hints at full backing

Advani promises to bring back money from Swiss banks

It is not just the alliance of the Third Front that is open-ended (so that as many allies as possible can join). Some of the constituents want its prime ministerial candidate&rsquo;s selection to be an open affair as well.

Third Front PM candidate may have to pass 'acceptability test'

HD Deve Gowda, chief of the Janata Dal (Secular) and former prime minister, is prepared to forgive all past humiliations, all intended slights &mdash; in the interest of the nation.

Gowda ready to forgive Left

Now that election season is upon us, we&rsquo;ll be bombarded by all manner of analyses, pre-election surveys on voting behaviour, post-election analyses on whether people voted their caste or just cast their vote; and so on.

Sunil Jain: Rich MPs, poor people

Post Nandigram and Singur, the CPI-M is likely to face its toughest electoral battle in West Bengal where Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has entered into an alliance with the Congress.

Post Nandigram, Singur, CPI-M may find going tough in LS poll

The bail application of BJP Lok Sabha candidate Varun Gandhi, who has been booked under the stringent National Security Act (NSA), will be heard by a judge inside the district jail here in the wake of apprehensions on the law and order front, officials sources said today.

Varun's bail plea to be heard inside district jail

Khadi-clad politicians queuing up on the world-wide-web, headcount of election rallies being replaced by hits on party dedicated sites, social networking forums are building opinion for candidates.....This is electioneering 2009, the signature impact of cyberage.

Battle for ballot in cyberspace

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will undertake a whirlwind election tour of the country beginning tomorrow from Wardha in Maharashtra, a place associated with Mahatma Gandhi.

Rahul to start election tour from Wardha

Senior BJP leader and party nominee from Vidisha Lok Sabha seat, Sushma Swaraj has said that the party would not involve Varun Gandhi in election campaign in the state as there was no demand for him from any seat.

BJP won't involve Varun in poll campaign in MP: Sushma

Tightening regulations concerning public display of election canvass material, the Election Commission (EC) has issued specific directives to remove all pictures and calenders of leaders, including the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers.

EC tightens rules for display of leader's posters

A court here today granted bail to embattled BJP leader Varun Gandhi in two separate cases relating his alleged hate speeches but he will remain in jail because of his detention under the National Security Act.

Court grants bail to Varun, but he will not be free

BJP today launched two television advertisements as part of its campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls.

BJP launches two TV ad campaigns for LS polls

The Election Commission (EC) today slapped a notice on Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav for his alleged threatening remarks against the District Magistrate of Mainpuri from where he is contesting the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh saying such action were &quot;obstacles&quot; in conduct of free and fair polls.

EC notice to Mulayam for threatening district magistrate

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