The result of this Lok Sabha election opens up a new political space for the Congress and the opportunity for it to revert to representing a grand coalition of interests.
Yogendra Yadav
The verdict is out, but the mandate is hazy. If the verdict is loud and clear, the weak and hesitant voice of the mandate […]
Samajwadi Party leaders Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh after a Parliamentary Board meeting at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. — Photo: V.V. Krishnan
Gargi Parsai
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh, accompanied by party general secretary Amar Singh, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Sunday evening.
The two leaders are understood to have […]
Party in no mood to accommodate RJD, SP
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi at the Congress Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Sunday. — Photo: Rajeev Bhatt
Anita Joshua
NEW DELHI: Even as the Congress Working Committee (CWC) met on Sunday evening […]
Blogs and social networking have become part of the public vocabulary, particularly in the context of elections, this year. How influential are they in real life? Do blogs present attractive business models? Our writers take a look…
ANANTH KRISHNAN
The media, always looking for easy catchphrases to capture usually complex trends, have dubbed this election […]
Ladoos all the way outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s 10 Janpath residence in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
NEW DELHI: The Congress trounced its arch rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, in all the seven Lok Sabha from Delhi. The party that registered a record third consecutive win in the Delhi Assembly […]
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar showing the victory sign in Patna on Saturday after the good performance of the JD(U) in the Lok Sabha elections in the State. Photo: Ranjeet Kumar
K. Balchand
NEW DELHI: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s good showing in the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday completed his hold on his party and […]
Manas Dasgupta
GANDHINAGAR: The “Modi magic” did not work for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. With the results of one seat withheld, the BJP tally in the State is only 15, just one more than what it got in the 2004 elections.
The Congress has secured 10 seats and […]
T. Ramakrishnan
CHENNAI: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-Congress combine won 28 seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the Lok Sabha election.
While the DMK captured 18 seats, its allies, the Congress and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi won nine and one seat respectively.
As part of the Democratic Progressive Alliance, the DMK contested 22 seats, the Congress 16 […]
Aarti Dhar
NEW DELHI: Chhattisgarh is the only State where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Lok Sabha elections for a second consecutive term, winning 10 of the 11 seats.
Chief Minister Raman Singh led the party to victory in the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 and the Assembly elections in November 2008. His popularity […]
Atiq Khan
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday blamed the Samajwadi Party, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party for plotting the defeat of the Bahujan Samajwadi Party candidates by transferring their votes to the candidates fielded by them. She said the three parties became one for a common cause.
As regards the BSP […]