Backing the Gujarat government's move to make voting compulsory in local body polls, RJD supreme Lalu Prasad on Monday said it should be extended to the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls too.
Voting for the 75 municipalities was held on last Saturday and the results were declared on Monday.
The BSP is contesting on 20 seats in Karnataka election with an alliance with Janata Dal-Secular while the SP is contesting on 27 on its own.
The Centre has asked the President not to give assent to the Gujarat Control of Organised Crime bill as it did not carry the two changes earlier suggested by it.
The Centre on Friday returned the controversial anti-terror Bill passed by Gujarat Assembly to the state, saying without three key amendments it could not be sent for Presidential assent.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah along with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and other party leaders were booed off stage as the members of Hardik Patel's Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti created ruckus and vanadalised furniture at a programme to felicitate Patel leaders in Surat.
The Nationalist Congress Party said on Thursday it will fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Gujarat with the Congress and talks on seat sharing has already started and it is expected to be finalised in next couple of days.
The chief minister is not being hailed as the leader who led the party to a victory in the state.
The BJP has dropped 20 sitting MLAs. There are 13 women candidates in the list, 6 Scheduled Caste and 17 Scheduled Tribe candidates.
All senior leaders will be along with Rahul Gandhi during these programmes and this will be the 'first leg' of the campaign by the Congress president.
Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party will contest on all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, party's state general secretary, Nalin Bhatt said in Vadodara on Tuesday.
He asserted that the BJP does not carry out any action with a vindictive approach.
Defence Minister A K Antony will head a seven-member high-level group constituted by Congress chief Sonia to give suggestions to revive the party against the backdrop of series of debacles including in Karnataka and Gujarat Assembly elections.
The incident of burning S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express on February 27, 2002, which triggered off violent riots in Gujarat, was a pre-planned conspiracy and not an accident, according to the first part of the Godhra Commission report.
"The polling was peaceful and orderly and no major incident was reported," Deputy Election Commissioner Jaiprakash told reporters in Delhi.
The party is, however, yet to name its candidate from Maninagar to take on Chief Minister Narendra Modi. AICC General Secretary B K Hariprasad said the nominee for the seat would be announced on Monday.
Leader of the Opposition in the Gujarat assembly, Shankarsinh Waghela on Wednesday asked Prime Minister elect Narendra Modi to build a Ram temple at Ayodhya within the constitutional framework now that the Bharatiya Janata Party has got an absolute majority, in a speech that was blended with sarcasm and praise.
The meeting was attended also by Modi baiters Keshubhai Patel, Somabhai Patel, Kanshiram Rana among others.
Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma administered the oath of office and secrecy to the ministers at a function on Friday morning in the lawns of Gujarat assembly in Gandhinagar.
"I am sure that in 2018, we will come back to power hundred per cent," he added.
'I am the senior-most, obedient and loyal soldier of the party and it is the party that will decide Gujarat's next chief minister.'
Narendra Modi's impressive show in the Gujarat assembly elections on Sunday stunned the Congress amidst a debate on whether its president Sonia Gandhi's 'liars and merchants of death' remarks were a 'tactical mistake' exploited by the chief minister.
A police complaint has been filed against BJP leader L K Advani by the Election Commission officials for alleged breach of model code of conduct by talking to mediapersons outside a polling booth during the Assembly elections, police officers said.
The MLAs were accused of using abusive language to the assembly staff and threatening them.
Modi, being the experienced and cunning election strategist, has written the role for himself and has trapped not only his party but has captured the minds of Congress leaders too.
Several saffron brigade leaders including Godhra BJP MLA Haresh Bhatt, Shiv Sena leader Babu Bajrangi and VHP leaders Anil Patel and Dhaval Jayant Patel were shown on Tehelka tapes beamed on TV channels bragging their "feats" during the 2002 Gujarat carnage, which, they claimed, had the sanction of Modi.
The Speaker said Congress MLAs had apologised for their unruly behaviour.
In the run-up to Gujarat assembly election, the dipping prices and rising cost of production of sugarcane has become a major poll issue in rural belts of Surat, Navsari and newly-formed Tapi district of south Gujarat.
Two years after Uma Bharti's expulsion from the Bharatiya Janata Party, efforts have been initiated for her return to the party in view of the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls to prevent division of "Hindu votes".
The Bharatiya Janshakti Party of firebrand leader Uma Bharti is likely to field at least 60 candidates in the Gujarat assembly elections scheduled to be held on December 11 and 16.
The Congress vice president asked people if Vibrant Gujarat had helped them in any way.
'It can be said without hesitation that Rahul, Priyanka and Sonia Gandhi enjoy perfect relations of mother-daughter-son all together in the family.' 'But their worldview is different and their style of functioning is different and their favourites in the party are different people.'
Narendra Modi was sworn in as the chief minister of Gujarat on Tuesday. Top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party including L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu and Rajnath Singh attended the swearing in ceremony.
Governor Naval Kishore Sharma will swear in Modi, 57, at 12.50 pm at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Gandhinagar
'Cynicism does not necessarily fetch votes, nor does mindless populism. Good governance, strong leadership and a squeaky clean image now command a premium.'
"People of Gujarat have rejected the negative forces and voted in favour of positive politics. They have defeated all anti-Gujarat forces and supported the mantra of jeetega Gujarat (Gujarat will win)."
With polling of votes for the Gujarat assembly elections drawing to a close on Sunday exit poll results indicate that Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is set to regain power in the state.
The government is mulling a marginal hike in petrol and diesel price along with an excise duty cut on auto fuels to cut the Rs 7,840 crore (Rs 78.40 billion) loss public sector oil firms are incurring every month on selling fuel below cost.
Simpler GST structure will be key poll plank, Congress sources tell Archis Mohan.
Some of the Congressmen, though, are opposing such a alliance saying that the party would waste seats if they have pre-poll alliance with the NCP.
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