size="2"> Namrata Biji Ahuja
New Delhi
Nov. 21: The ideological rift within the CPI(M) surfaced once again with politburo member Sitaram Yechury targeting the concept of the Third Front, which apparently was the brainchild of party boss Prakash Karat.
He attributed the humiliating defeat of the Left parties in the 2009 general elections to the "projection...
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Bahujan Samaj Party led byMayawati failed to click once again in Maharashtra. Though it contested from 281constituencies in the state, it could not open its account. But this was more onan expected lines because of the cobbling of a unity among 14 factions of theRepublican Party of India under leadership of Ramdas Athavale which split theDalit votes."It was a well-orchestrated move of the Congress-NCP.They...
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No outsourcing here Congress leaders say the UPA government has no plans to outsource decision-making on key government appointments. This means the efforts of some ‘non-state’ players to project former top cop Kiran Bedi as the new chief information commissioner will not make any headway. It should not surprise anybody given how Ms Bedi had rubbed many in the Congress brass the wrong way when she...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Friday held discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a day after the party sealed a deal with ally NCP to form government in the state.Chavan is understood to have discussed allocation of portfolios at the meeting where senior Congress leaders A K Antony and Ahmad Patel were also present.Congress and NCP announced Thursday night that they had reached...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today held discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a day after the party sealed a deal with its ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form a government in the state.Chavan is understood to have discussed the allocation of portfolios at the meeting. Senior Congress leaders A K Antony and Ahmad Patel were also present.The Congress and the NCP...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today held discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a day after the party sealed a deal with ally NCP to form government in the state.Chavan is understood to have discussed allocation of portfolios at the meeting, where senior Congress leaders A K Antony and Ahmad Patel were also present.Congress and NCP announced last night that they had reached an...
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day after Union ministerof parliamentary affairs and water resources Pawan Kumar Bansal unleashed avolley of furious verbiage against UT administrator Gen (retd) S F Rodrigues,the Bharatiya Janata Party grabbed the opportunity of opening a third front.Demanding a judicial probe into the matter on Saturday, senior BJPleader Satya Pal Jain dragged the name of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi into thecontroversy.‘It...
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the BJP gropes for answers to explain its drubbing in Maharashtra as well as its wider atrophy, it is tempting to draw an analogy with Pakistan. The party leadership’s instinct is — as it has been since the defeat in the May 2009 Lok Sabha election — to point fingers elsewhere.In May, the BJP prime ministerial candidate argued that the party had not lost but only suffered collateral damage as the Left...
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Congress on Monday turneddown CPM veteran Jyoti Basu’s appeal for support to his party in theNovember 7 assembly byelections in West Bengal, and asked the former UPA ally tointrospect as to why the alliance had broken down.The 95-year-oldMarxist leader had urged Congress to rethink its tie-up with Trinamool and backthe Left in bypolls for 10 assembly seats claiming that such a gesture would bea rebuff...
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Today, Raj is doing what he learnt from his uncle, as he too lacks political issues. His politics revolves around the Marathi Manoos and he did everything to create a divide among Marathis and people of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.THE LONG awaited and much debated Maharashtra assembly polls are over and the Congress led UPA has retained power. Actually, people were anxiously waiting for the polls after...
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