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2009 was the year of Rahul Gandhi

By ians • Dec 25th, 2009
Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi, Dec 25, As the party’s youth icon and potential prime minister, Rahul Gandhi brought the most unexpected cheer to the Congress in 2009.



By-elections acid test for rival fronts in Kerala

By ians • Oct 7th, 2009

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7, Kerala’s ruling and opposition fronts will face their biggest popularity test since the May Lok Sabha elections when byelections are held for three assembly seats next month.



Elections in Maharashtra, Haryana, Arunachal on Oct 13

By ians • Sep 1st, 2009

New Delhi, Aug 31, The three Congress-ruled states of Haryana, Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh will elect new assemblies Oct 13 in the first popularity test after the April-May Lok Sabha elections.



‘Varun speeches, Modi’s ‘budhiya’ remarks caused BJP defeat’

By ians • Aug 21st, 2009

Shimla, Aug 20, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday admitted that hate speeches by Varun Gandhi and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s sarcastic remarks on the Congress party during the campaign were among the reasons for its humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.



Sinha, Shourie dropped from BJP meet for pubic criticism

By ians • Aug 11th, 2009
Yashwant Sinha

New Delhi, Aug 11, A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tuesday admitted that former cabinet ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie have been dropped from a key party meeting because of their criticism of the party leadership following the Lok Sabha election debacle.



Congress runs out of membership forms in Uttar Pradesh

By Khalid Akhter • Aug 6th, 2009

New Delhi, Aug 6, For the first time in decades, the Congress is running out of membership forms in Uttar Pradesh as scores line up to enrol for admission into a party that is seeking to reclaim India’s most populous state where it made a dramatic revival in the Lok Sabha elections three months ago.



EVMs tamper-proof, says poll panel, invites naysayers to demo

By ians • Aug 1st, 2009
electronic voting machines (EVMs)

New Delhi, Aug 1, Maintaining that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are “fully tamper-proof”, the Election Commission Saturday invited political parties and others who have raised doubts about the credibility of the machines to come for a demonstration that would set their misgivings at rest “once and for all”.



Top French official praises Indian elections

By ians • Jul 29th, 2009

New Delhi, July 28, A top French official has praised India for the successful conduct of the Lok Sabha elections saying it was a “fresh and dazzling demonstration of the vitality of the Indian democracy”.



Hindutva agenda will not be dropped, asserts Rajnath

By ians • Jul 27th, 2009
Rajnath Singh

Lucknow, July 26, The Bharatiya Janata Party will not drop its Hindutva agenda at any cost, BJP president Rajnath Singh said here Sunday, adding there was no “need for making those factors public” that led to the “party’s unsatisfactory performance” in the Lok Sabha elections.



Ruling Left Front sweeps local government polls in Tripura

By ians • Jul 25th, 2009

Agartala, July 24, Despite the drubbing in the nationwide Lok Sabha polls, the ruling Left Front in Tripura has won handsomely in the three-tier local self-government elections, which the Communists attributed to its “good organisational work” and development programmes in the northeastern state.