The election team of Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani has put on its thinking caps to conjure up the maximum number of audience for his campaign rallies.Prodyut Bora, the communication wizard who heads the party's IT Cell, is planning to capture Advani's recent spree of Vijay Sankalp rallies on camera and post it on the internet to attract a larger audience.
Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who is a part of India's diplomatic mission abroad, on Monday said it is 'distressing' that people back home are calculating political allegiances and asked if it is 'so difficult to be patriotic'.
Bharatiya Janata Party, the chief opposition to the proposed 33 percent reservation for women in parliament and state legislatures, suggested that parties distribute 33 percent of their tickets to women.
The BJP-led NDA kept up pressure on the Manmohan Singh government on Thursday to take immediate action against all those indicted by the Nanavati Commission despite Jagdish Tytler resigning as Union Minister.
Speaker Somnath Chatterjee completes one year in office on Saturday earning bouquets and brickbats through a tumultous period in which the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance often resorted to disruptions and boycotts
BJP leader L K Advani said the NDA's boycott of Parliament was also to protest against the Centre's 'negative' attitude towards the opposition.
The NDA will raise its apprehensions in both Houses about the possibility of Shibu Soren government nominating an Anglo-Indian before the March 15 trial of strength in the Jharkhand Assembly, BJP deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Sushma Swaraj said.
Kumar's stand is a major setback to the BJP's revival of the Ram temple issue, since he is a powerful leader within the JD(U).
Announcing this, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee thanked the members for their cooperation in passing the Finance Bill 2008, but regretted that 28 hours and 30 minutes were lost due to interruptions and forced adjournments. However, he also noted that the House sat for an extra 36 hours and 38 minutes to compensate for the loss.
Asked why Congress had not reacted to Ramdev's call on black money, Congress media department chief Janardhan Dwivedi said, "It is true that we did not say anything as we cannot speak their language or behave like them. And now it is out in the open how politics is being done in a different guise."
Concerned over the ouster of the BJP-led NDA government, Malaysian companies fear the new government may go slow on the economic reforms which will be a setback to their billion dollar infrastructure projects in India.
The government said on Monday food inflation has started easing and will fall to an acceptable level of 5-6 per cent in due course, even as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance and Left Parties went ahead with a nationwide strike to protest against rising prices.
A meeting of top Opposition leaders on Wednesday night decided to unitedly fight the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre.
The Congress is holding a 3-day conclave in Shimla as part of preparations for the November assembly polls and next year's general election.
At a rally in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, she said the economic policies of the Centre did not spare even farmers.
Speaker Inder Singh Namdhari on Thursday had announced the defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government under controversial circumstances.
When pressed further, as to whether the doors were still open for the former ally, Prasad, who has known Kumar since their days as student leaders in the 1970s, replied "these are always open (khula hi rahta hai)".
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Monday said her party is very hopeful that the results of the Lok Sabha elections will be totally opposite to what has been shown in the exit polls.
Tharoor said there could be a surprise result in the election next year as there is an opposition coalition and there are chances of the INDIA alliance coming to power at the Centre by trouncing the BJP-led NDA in the general elections.
The walkout came after BJP leader V K Malhotra demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh respond to Justice S N Variava's statement that "someone" called him seeking to get the trial judge in the fodder scam case changed.
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The external affairs minister blamed Vajpayee for the Kargil crisis.
The Congress spent nearly Rs 49 crore on publicity.
Failure to address the core issue of development and overconfidence on the 'false campaign' of 'India Shining' led to the debacle of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance in the elections, leading economists said on Thursday.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said she would prefer going to jail than compromise her principles.
He called the NDA a weird combination and said its constituents are opportunists who have come together not for the welfare of the people, but for their own selfish gains.
The two discussed the possibility of the Nationalist Congress Party joining the National Democratic Alliance.
Oppn to take on govt in Parliament session
"I again appeal to leaders of the Opposition to join the proceedings," the prime minister said in the Rajya Sabha.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal-United on Saturday maintained that 'there is no confusion' among the 'Mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) partners in Bihar.
Congress and its allies, the poll said, are expected to gain 35-45 seats from the 140 bagged in the last general election.
In a letter to Governor Anusuiya Uikey, KPA president Tongmang Haokip informed about the party's decision to snap ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Manipur, where ethnic rioting since the last three months has claimed more than 160 lives.
The Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance is planning to celebrate the Ram Temple consecration ceremony, being organised in Ayodhya, in a grand manner in Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, represented by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls scheduled for 2027, political experts are observing an increasing trend of temple-mosque disputes in the state, leading to heightened polarization. Recent bypolls saw the use of divisive slogans, and analysts believe this trend will intensify as the 2027 elections approach. The recent surge in claims about the existence of Hindu temples at the sites of mosques in various cities has fueled this polarization. The BJP-led government has been accused of promoting communal polarization, while opposition parties like the SP have criticized the ruling party's actions. The RSS chief has called for restraint in raising new temple-related disputes. Experts predict that communal polarization is likely to escalate in the coming days.
'Our party has formed governments independently in all neighbouring states except West Bengal; now it's Bihar's turn.'
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