|
Presidential candidate Purno Sangma met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa here today.The meeting assumes significance as it comes just a day ahead of the presidential poll where Sangma is contesting against ruling United Progressive Alliance's candidate Pranab Mukherjee.Speaking to reporters after meeting the chief minister who had first proposed his name for the nation's top post, Sangma said:...
|
|
|
Mamata Banerjee's support for Pranab Mukherjee might not ease tension between Congress & TMCKOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee's announcement to vote for the UPA presidential candidatein West Bengal. In fact, Mamata herself had indicated about this on last Tuesday when she had announced her party's support for Mukherjee."Some Congress leaders in Bengal are attacking us with more abusive languages generally used...
|
|
|
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has decided to abstain from voting in tomorrow's presidential election, top party sources said today.The sub-regional outfit would not like to support UPA- backed Pranab Mukherjee's candidature due to the alleged indifferent attitude of the Congress-led Government towards the separate Telangana demand, they said.TRS, which has two Lok Sabha members and 17 MLAs in Andhra...
|
|
|
Presidential candidate Purno Sangma met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa here Wednesday.The meeting assumes significance as it comes just a day ahead of the presidential poll where Sangma is contesting against ruling United Progressive Alliance's candidate Pranab Mukherjee.Speaking to reporters after meeting the chief minister who had first proposed his name for the nation's top post, Sangma...
|
|
|
was only for her son and party general secretary to decide on taking up a bigger role."No one can take a decision on his behalf. He has to take a decision," Sonia Gandhi told reporters in parliament house.She was accompanying United Progressive Alliance (UPA's) vice presidential candidate M. Hamid Ansari who filed his nomination papers for a second five-year term.The remarks from the Congress chief...
|
|
|
Presidential candidate Purno Sangma met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa here Wednesday.The meeting assumes significance as it comes just a day ahead of the presidential poll where Sangma is contesting against ruling United Progressive Alliance's candidate Pranab Mukherjee.Speaking to reporters after meeting the chief minister who had first proposed his name for the nation's top post, Sangma...
|
|
|
electoral college for the July 19 presidential poll comprises 4,896 voters - 776 members of parliament and 4,120 members of the state assemblies. Between them they have 10,97,012 votes and the winning candidate needs at least 50 percent of these.With the Trinamool Congress now backing UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee he is clearly emerging a winner.* The ruling United Progressive Alliance, in its present...
|
|
|
Trinamool Congress extending support to the UPA candidate in the Presidential poll,is likely to garner close to seven lakh vote value leaving his rival PA Sangma way behind in what appears to be a highly one-sided contest.Mukherjee is assured of support from parties which have a vote value of around seven lakh while Sangma has around 3.15 lakh vote value in an electoral college of 10,98,882. If all...
|
|
|
Winding up his campaign for the Presidential election, National Democratic Alliance candidate P A Sangma on Wednesday met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa ["I came here to thank Jayalalithaa for giving full support to me," Sangma, pitted against United Progressive Alliance's [], told reporters after calling on the chief minister at her Poes Garden residence.Jayalalithaa and her Odisha counterpart...
|
|
|
is likely to garner over 88% of the 11,140 vote value from 80 MPs and MLAs of Delhi in the presidential poll tomorrow for which elaborate arrangements have been made in the capital.Seventy Delhi MLAs and 10 MPs, including three Rajya Sabha members, can vote in Vidhan Sabha and Parliament House complex respectively.Congress has a clear edge against rival BJP in the poll in the national capital as it...
|
|
|
Winding up his campaign for the Presidential election, NDA candidate PA Sangma on Wednesday met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and thanked her for supporting his candidature for the top post."I came here to thank Jayalalithaa for giving full support to me," Sangma, pitted against UPA's nominee Pranab Mukherjee, told reporters after calling on the chief minister at her Poes Garden residence...
|
|
|
Winding up his campaign for the Presidential election, NDA candidate PA Sangma on Wednesday met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and thanked her for supporting his candidature for the top post."I came here to thank Jayalalithaa for giving full support to me," Sangma, pitted against UPA's nominee Pranab Mukherjee, told reporters after calling on the Chief Minister at her Poes Garden residence...
|
|
|
come around and support the UPA nominee for Presidential poll Pranab Mukherjee.Soon after Banerjee announced her decision to support Mukherjee, going back on her earlier opposition to his candidature, BJP admitted it was disappointed at the development and sought to know under what "compulsion" she had taken this stand."We are disappointed to hear that TMC is going to support Pranab Mukherjee. We ...
|
|
|
Trinamool boss Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday declared her support to UPA nominees Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari for president and vice-president in a stunning climbdown.KOLKATA: Trinamool boss Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday declared her support to UPA nominees Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari for president and vice-president in aclimbdown which exposed the limits of her gunboat politics and that can...
|
|
|
Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her Trinamool Congress (TMC) will vote for United Progressive Alliance (UPA)'s Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the upcoming election."We have decided to vote for Pranab Mukherjee," Mamata said while addressing a press conference here...
|
|
|
Presidential Candidate, Presidential Poll, UPA, Mamata BanerjeeTwo days ahead of the presidential poll, the UPA today claimed its nominee Pranab Mukherjee will win comfortably with Mamata Banerjee also extending her support even if grudgingly. "Pranab will win comfortably," said a UPA minister who did not want to be named. Both Mukherjee and his rival P.A. Sangma had been wooing the Trinamool Congress...
|
|
|
President poll: Mamata Banerjee agrees to back Pranab Mukherjee on Congress dadagiri, the ruling coalition's candidate for President, a complete U-turn from her earlier stance and one seen as strengthening a government that has been unable to implement many reform measures because of opposition fromBanerjee's volte face, 48 hours before the election, came after senior Congress leaders made it clear...
|
|
|
minutes of the Trinamool Congress Tuesday deciding to support his presidential bid, ruling United Progressive Alliances (UPA) presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee welcomed the announcement made by Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee....
|
|
|
Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today announced that her party would not contest the vice-presidential poll and it would decide on Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs appeal to vote for Hamid Ansari for the post. The issue of vice president will be decided later on. Krishna Bose would have been a good choice. But for the greater interest, we are not contesting. Even the Prime Minister requested...
|
|
|
Congress Tuesday welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjees announcement about her partys support to UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential election and said it will enable him to be successful with a bigger margin....
|
|
|
Expressing his delight with West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjees decision to back UPA nominee in the presidential election, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said Pranab Mukherjee is a man who will not only make her whole state proud, but is the most deserving candidate having acceptance across the nation....
|
|
|
Congress Party on Tuesday expressed its gratitude to Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) for backing Pranab Mukherjees candidature in the Raisina Hill race, and said that the UPA nominee would emerge successful and victorious in the presidential...
|
|
|
Mamata Banerjee made a dramatic u-turn after the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary party meeting here on Tuesday, saying she has decided to vote for UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the upcoming...
|
|
|
Dal-United chief Sharad Yadav Tuesday said he did not contest the vice presidential election because he did not want to leave the farmers....
|
|
|
days ahead of the presidential poll, the UPA Tuesday claimed its nominee Pranab Mukherjee will win comfortably with Mamata Banerjee also extending her support even if grudgingly....
|
|
|
expressed disappointment over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees decision to back Congress-led UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the July 19 Presidential election. We dont understand under what pressure Mamata Banerjee decided to support Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential poll, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters. Hitting out at Ms Banerjee, she asked whether her...
|
|
|
Strains in Congress-Trinamool ties seem to be disappearing with Mamata Banerjee today announcing her party's support to UPA Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherje and the AICC now hopes that the TMC would also back Hamid Ansari in the Vice Presidential race."We welcome the support declared by Mamata Banerjee to Pranab Mukherjee's candidature. We thank her for her Trinamool Congress' support in the P...
|
|
|
)-Mamata Banerjee says her party Trinamool Congress would be voting for Congress candidate Pranab Mukherjee in the presidential polls.However, the West Bengal Chief Minister is not very happy about the step. Indian media NDTV quoted her on Tuesday as saying: "We did not have a choice. We are not supporting him individually. It is a political decision."The last-minute decision was taken at a meeting...
|
|
