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Rashtriya Alpsankhak Vikas Morcha backing Congress

NEW DELHI: With a week to go for polling in Delhi, all the candidates for the Lok Sabha from the North-East Delhi constituency have intensified their campaigning. While Congress candidate J. P. Agarwal sought support from the Muslim community on Thursday, his BJP rival B.L. Sharma “Prem” raised […]

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NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday described the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani as a “night watchman” for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Interacting with reporters here, party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said: “Mr. Advani is nothing but a night watchman for Mr. Modi. How long will the night watchman bat is […]

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‘He has surpassed the expenditure limit of Rs.25 lakh’

NEW DELHI: The Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate for the Lok Sabha from New Delhi, Trilok Chand Sharma, on Friday accused Union Minister of State for Urban Development and Congress candidate Ajay Maken of “flouting” the Election Commission’s norms.
The BSP candidate said a large number of […]

Bhojpur (Rae Bareli): Campaigning for her mother Sonia, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday advised people not to deify politicians and vote strictly on the issue of development.
“Don’t look at any politician as God. Never ever become a worshipper (to any politician). Politics will improve only when you will understand that politicians are your servant,” Gandhi […]

Neena Vyas

Accuses UPA government of making a ‘total mess’ of it

Criticises high interest rate economy under UPA
Charges RBI with mere “tinkering” of repo rate

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha has said that the National Democratic Alliance government had left the economy in the “pink of health,” whereas the United Progressive Alliance had […]

Manisha Jha
NEW DELHI: “Now the real fun in these elections will begin,” said Lok Janshakti Party vice-president Shoaib Iqbal after announcing finalisation of his candidature for the Lok Sabha from the North-East Delhi constituency on Wednesday. He was earlier planning to contest the Chandni Chowk seat.
In a deja vu of sorts, Mr. Iqbal had similarly […]

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
NEW DELHI: With the Jat community comprising nearly 8 per cent of the total electorate in Delhi, both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are trying to woo this voter base that has a sizeable presence in the rural areas of the Capital. Both these parties are also eager to assuage the […]

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Sheila Dikshit
CHENNAI: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit does not rule out the possibility of Left parties supporting the Congress in forming a non-Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha elections. Communist Party of India general secretary A.B.Bardhan had already made it clear that his party would not support the […]

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
 

(From left to right) Vijender Gupta, Ramesh Bidhuri, Vijay Goel, Jagdish Mukhi and Chetan Chauhan
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday laid its cards on the table ahead of its arch-rival, the Congress, by announcing the names of all seven candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Delhi.
To avoid infighting, […]