Maoists struck with impunity triggering landmines and indiscriminate firing in Jharkhand as polling for the second phase of elections to Lok Sabha got underway, even as moderate to brisk polling was reported from across 12 states. Two poll officials were injured when the ultras exploded a bomb striking an official vehicle in Jharkhand’s Giridih District, [...]
Polling in the second phase of elections to Lok Sabha began on a moderate note on Thursday during which the fate of prominent leaders such as Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, George Fernandes , Ramvilas Paswan and Sushma Swaraj will be decided. Voting began today morning in 140 constituencies spread across 12 states in the second [...]
Tamilnadu Bandh 2009, Tamil Nadu Bandh on April 23, Bandh in TamilNadu Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has called for a 12-hour strike in Chennai(Tamilnadu Capital) on Thursday. Late on Tuesday night, Karunanidhi issued a final appeal and asked all Tamils, irrespective of their political affiliations, to join the strike. He justified his decision [...]
SECOND phase of polling for the 15th general elections of India will be held on April 23, 2009. This phase would see polling in 13 states – Goa, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Orissa, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh – for 140 Lok Sabha seats. Two of these [...]
These people like Srinivasa Manapragada and Prabhu Koduri do not make any sense to me. Both of these parties (TDP and Praja Rajyam) have been very active in organizing their rallies and meeting here in the US. They both sling mud at each other and at Congress. When Srinivasa Manapragada talks about Jr. NTR and [...]
The Congress announced 24 MP (loksabha) candidates for upcoming General loksabha elections, on Wednesday, March 4th in Uttar Pradesh for upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Out of 24 seats, nine candidates are sitting MPs. It is believed that possibility of Samajawadi Party-Congress alliance in Uttar Pradesh has failed as Congress refused to settle for anything less [...]
BSP chief Mayawati has released the list of party candidates for all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and announced that she would launch her nationwide campaign from Kerala tomorrow. “Tomorrow, I will kick-start the BSP national campaign from Kerala with a rally in Thiruvananthapuram,” she told a press conference. The UP [...]
Here is the List of Candidates announced for BSP to participate in the upcoming Loksabha Elections in 2009. S.No. Name of Candidates Constituency S.No. Name of Candidates Constituency 1 Jagdish Singh Rana Saharanpur 2 Mahesh Chandra Verma Kannauj 3 Tabassum Beg Kairana 4 Sukhda Mishra Kanpur 5 Kadir Rana Muzaffarnagar 6 Anil Shukla Varsi Akbarpur [...]
According to Ajay Gandhi of National Election Watch Andhra Pradesh, a report has been submitted to EC. An analysis is made on a total of 214 out of 254 candidates who are in the fray for LS and 1051 out of 1813 contesting for assembly were analysed on the basis of affidavits submitted by the [...]
A Marathon campaign covering 100 villages in 12 hours lead by Ms. Galla Arunakumari of Congress, Chandragiri Assembly Contestant will get a berth in Limca Book of Records. This “Merupu Relay” campaign started at 6 am near Nagalacheruvu Village near Chandragiri and finished at Avilala in Tirupati at 6 pm breaking the record of NCP [...]
