Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener Vaikom Viswan has said the LDF is putting up a united fight in the byelections as all those sections who opposed it during the Lok Sabha elections have now come closer to the front.Speaking at a ‘meet-the-press’ programme organised by the Press Club here on Thursday, Mr. Viswan said the United Democratic Front (UDF) had politically utilised the weakness in the LDF...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could have won the Lok Sabha elections this year if he had chosen to contest, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said in New Delhi on Monday.Tharoor, who was at the World Economic Forum-India Summit in New Delhi to participate in a debate on politics, said he himself chose to contest the Lok Sabha polls this year because "I thought I need to earn the...
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possible arrangements are in place for smooth polling in the Firozabad constituency of the Lok Sabha and 31 Assembly segments in different states where by-elections are due this Saturday., Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said the Commission would be keenly watching developments during the day and would do everything to ensure that the voters exercise their franchise in a free and fair manner...
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cinestar Raj Babbar was today declared elected from teh Ferozabad Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, drubbing Samajwadi Party nominee Dimple Yadav by a margin of 85,343 votes in a triangular contest.Dimple is the daughter-in-law of party president Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Congress nominee received 3,12,728 votes. Dimple got 2,27,385 votes in her favour. BSP candidate S P Singh Baghel was at the third...
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Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi's next political target for the Congress will be Bihar where assembly polls are scheduled late next year. Mr Gandhi will be concentrating on Bihar after his success in UP, which includes his role in the victory of the party in the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election, party sources said. Due to Mr Gandhi's efforts, the party had won 21 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in May...
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leadership of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the CPI have claimed improvement in their vote base compared with that in the Lok Sabha elections.In separate statements here on Tuesday, the CPI(M) State secretariat and CPI State secretary Veliyam Bhargavan said the byelection results showed that there was an increase in popular support for the Left Democratic Front (LDF).Pointing out...
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edge in the last Lok Sabha elections the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has retained all three assembly seats - Kannur, Ernakulam and Alapuzha - in Kerala.Among the three Kannur (north Kerala) received much attention after the Congress fielded former CPM MP AP Abdullakutty against firebrand Marxist MV Jayarajan. Abdullah Kutty defeated his CPM rival over 12,000 votes.In Eranakulam...
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Buoyed by its success in recent Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, Congress is using star campaigner Rahul Gandhi and Union ministers in 11 assembly and one Lok Sabha seat going to bypolls in the state on November 7.An exception was made by Rahul when he campaigned in Firozabad last week for party nominee Raj Babbar against SP candidate Dimple Yadav, daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam...
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Seeking to play down the defeat of the Left Democratic Front in the three Assembly by-elections, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today said the United Democratic Front's (UDF) victory should be viewed in the context of the last Lok Sabha Elections which saw a clean sweep by the UDF. The UDF could not perform at the same level as they did in the last Lok Sabha Elections in which they bagged...
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External Affairs Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today said Lok Sabha membership of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda should be cancelled after the latter's name appeared in the Rs 2,000 crore scam.Addressing a press conference here, Mr Sinha alleged that the former chief minister, who now represented Chaibasa Parliament seat, was involved in the scam.''Mr Koda has been charged...
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