2014 General Elections
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Narendra Modi and Amit Shah: Great minds think alike
National | Jul 13, 2014, 10:33 AM ISTNew Delhi: PM Narendra Modi appointed his most trusted aide, Amit Shah Wednesday as President of the BJP, thus clasping fast and steady the reigns of power of the right-wing party that recently achieved a
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Verma-Punia rivalry comes to fore at Rahul's roadshow
National | Feb 28, 2014, 06:53 PM ISTBarabanki (UP): The rivalry between senior Congress leaders Beni Prasad Verma and P L Punia today came to the fore as party vice president Rahul Gandhi ormally kicked off election campaign through a road show
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HC reserves verdict on foreign funding to Congress, BJP
National | Feb 28, 2014, 03:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday reserved its verdict on a plea against the Congress and the BJP, seeking directions for a probe into donations allegedly taken by the parties from subsidiaries of Britain-based
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Triangular LS contest likely in MP with AAP jumping in fray
National | Feb 28, 2014, 12:19 PM ISTBhopal: With the AAP deciding to contest all 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh, the state is likely to witness a three-cornered contest for the first time in Lok Sabha polls instead of bipolar fights seen
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Modi accuses 'vested interest group' of shielding Congress
National | Sep 22, 2013, 01:17 PM ISTTampa (Florida): Accusing a “vested interest group” of shielding Congress from its “mis-governance”, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today said the UPA was “running away” from giving its performance report and asked the people
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Cong meet on poll strategy tomorrow in Shimla
National | Sep 21, 2013, 10:14 PM ISTShimla: Himachal Pradesh unit of Congress has convened a meeting of senior party leaders and office bearers of Shimla parliamentary constituency here tomorrow to discuss strategy for the 2014 general elections. The meeting has been
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Chavan's poll campaign rally cancelled due to bad weather
National | Sep 21, 2013, 05:24 PM ISTAkola: Heavy rains played spoilsport at the Congress' first ‘vachanpurti' (promises fulfilled) rally, marking the campaign for 2014 elections, to be held at Washim in Vidarbha region.Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who was supposed to
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Modi to address overseas friends of BJP in US
National | Sep 12, 2013, 11:00 AM ISTWashington: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address party supporters and members of the Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) during its annual convention in Tampa later this month as part of his efforts to garner
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Anyone can be declared PM candidate, says Shinde on Modi
National | Sep 11, 2013, 05:25 PM ISTNew Delhi: Congress leader Sushil kumar Shinde today took a dig at BJP over its move to project Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate, saying political parties could declare any ‘Tom,
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Political parties could be behind Muzaffarnagar violence: Shinde
National | Sep 11, 2013, 01:52 PM ISTNew Delhi: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today warned that the country may witness more communal violence ahead of the 2014 general election as he indicated that some political parties could be behind the riots in
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Know Sushma Swaraj “ BJP's aspiring 'PM candidate' who threatened to tonsure her head if Sonia Gandhi became PM
National | Feb 13, 2014, 04:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: Sushma Swaraj is one of those politicians in this country who get emotional on issues and beliefs that are close to their heart. That was the reason why Sushma, after 2004 general elections,
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Bickering continues between JD(U), BJP
National | May 03, 2013, 11:01 AM ISTPatna/Gopalganj, May 3: Bickering between NDA partners JD(U) and BJP came to surface again with BJP workers displaying large advertisements portraying Narendra Modi as prime ministerial candidate at Gopalganj where Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is
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Rahul Gandhi not running for any post: Congress
National | Apr 06, 2013, 07:43 PM ISTNew Delhi, April 6: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will lead the party in the 2014 general elections but he is not running for any post, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot said
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43 per cent of Indians back Modi as next Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi second favourite: Survey
National | Mar 07, 2013, 03:17 PM ISTNew Delhi, Mar 7: Forty-three per cent of Indians backed Narendra Modi as the leading choice for the next Prime Minister, according to an opinion poll by a market research agency. Congress Vice President Rahul
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Congress needs to put its house in order before 2014
National | Jan 07, 2013, 07:18 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jan 7: The Congress party is galvanizing the party machinery to face the challenge in 2014 general elections but the state level leadership is in tatters in many states.The party revamp is expected
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Why Narendra Modi is the only hope for BJP in 2014
National | Dec 26, 2012, 08:24 AM ISTNew Delhi, Dec 26: The emphatic win of BJP in Gujarat assembly elections has not only underlined Narendra Modi's supremacy in Gujarat but has also given the party a ray of hope for 2014 general
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SP and BSP will not rock the UPA govt: Digvijay Singh
National | Nov 12, 2012, 01:11 PM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 12: The Congress has starting preparing for the Lok Sabha elections, kickstarting even the process of picking the candidates, senior leader Digvijay Singh said Sunday.The former two-time chief minister of undivided Madhya
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Government may fall before 2014: BJP
National | Sep 28, 2012, 09:47 PM ISTSurajkund (Haryana), Sep 28: The BJP Friday sounded the poll bugle and demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over coal block allocations, saying the government could fall before 2014, when the next general elections are
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Eyeing 2014,Sonia wants government-party in unison
National | Sep 23, 2012, 07:03 PM ISTNew Delhi, Sep 23: With a cabinet reshuffle and party restructuring in the offing, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is keen that both the government and the organisation work in tandem to fight as many as
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Narendra Modi will not be acceptable as PM, hints Nitish Kumar
National | Jun 19, 2012, 09:00 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jun 19: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish kumar has made it abundantly clear that only a secular person would be acceptable to him as NDA's Prime ministerial candidate. In an interview to 'THe Economic