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Chidambaram, Antony, Pawar, Krishna take charge of their Ministries

Palaniappan Chidambaram, A K Antony, Sharad Pawar and S.M. Krishna took charge of their respective Ministries on Monday. Sixty four year old Chidambaram is one among the 19 cabinet Ministers who were sworn-in on 22nd May, along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Chidambaram, a Harvard educated lawyer, was shifted to the Home Ministry from the [...]

Babri issue solution only through Hindu -Muslim dialogue : Kalyan Singh

Kalyan Singh, who as BJP leader was a prominent member of the Ayodhya movement in the 90s, says a solution of the vexed Ram temple issue cannot be enforced through laws but reached only through a dialogue between Hindus and Muslims. Singh, who recently aligned with the Samajwadi Party and has owned “moral responsibility” for [...]

Nafisa to be SP’s candidate for Lucknow in place of Sanjay

With Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt out of contention, social activist Nafisa Ali was on Sunday announced as the Samajwadi Party candidate from the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat. “Nafisa Ali is a personal friend, and when I asked her whether she would come to Lucknow as SP’s candidate or would like to represent a party (Congress) [...]

Rabri in trouble for using foul language against Nitish

Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Sunday demanded from the Election Commission stern action against opposition leader Rabri Devi for her abusive remarks allegedly at an election meeting against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and state JD-U chief Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh. In its complaint against Rabri Devi, the JD-U demanded that the poll panel [...]

BJP releases its manifesto for Lok Sabha elections 2009

BJP has revived its pet Hindutva themes of rebuilding Ram temple at Ayodhya and abrogation of Article 370 giving special status to Jammu and Kashmir as it released its manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party also promised to give 35 kg rice per month at Rs two per kg for BPL [...]

Congress fields candidate against Ramvilas Paswan

Congress has put up a candidate to take on LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan from Hajipur in Bihar, days after the state party joined hands with RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav to form an alliance to contest the Lok Sabha polls in UP and Bihar. Dasai Choudhary will contest as the [...]

BJP releases its manifesto for Lok Sabha elections 2009

PRP releases first list of candidates

Actor Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam Party on Friday released its first list of 95 candidates for the Assembly polls and nine for the Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh. PRP chief Chiranjeevi, who is currently on a campaign tour in East Godavari district, released the list at Jaggampet. His name is prominent in the list with [...]

Petition against Chawla’s continuance as EC dismissed in SC

The Supreme Court dismissed a petition challenging the continuance of Navin Chawla as Election Commissioner in view of Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy’s recommendation for his removal. “We cannot direct the state to do this (direction for implementation of CEC’s recommendation). There are provisions in the Constitution for appointment and other proceedings of the Election [...]

SP not averse to have post-poll alliance with Cong

With seat sharing talks with Congress for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh hitting a dead end, the Samajwadi party on Friday said there could still be a post-poll alliance with that party despite the absence of a pre-poll tie-up. Failure to have pre-poll alliance in UP will not be an issue after the [...]

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