Opposition party leaders met the Election Commission, demanding a verification of VVPAT slips of randomly-selected polling booths a day before counting of Lok Sabha votes.
Congress MLA Roshan Baig calls senior leader K.C. Venugopal a 'buffoon', slams Dinesh Gundu Rao and Siddaramaiah for not handling Lok Sabha campaign 'properly'.
The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.
Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
This submission extends beyond Bengal. It could cover Delhi and Haryana, possibly other states as well. Subject to the caveat that the support base of different parties is not always or easily transferable. 2. After today’s result, the Congress is looking less a national colossus, which the BJP has become, more primus inter pares amongst the regional parties. Had the Alliance succeeded in UP, it could have had more seats than the Congress now does. Allying with the DMK has given the party one of its few saving graces today. The alliance with the RJD has not clicked for the Lok Sabha, but it might work better in the Assembly election next year. Perhaps a working arrangement can be worked out with AAP for Delhi and Haryana. The emotional bond with the NCP in Maharashtra needs to be more mazboot. In some northern states other than UP, the Congress and the BSP can be good for each other. 3. A few days back, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad made the perfectly reasonable point that the Congress would not make an issue of the PM’s post. It would go with the consensus. Within hours, Shri Surjewala contradicted him, saying, No, our President is in the reckoning. Aap aur hum toh casual commentators hain, did these worthies not pick up any indication of the SLBM that was headed their way …
More than news , this looks like a poorly written mourning story . The author has repeated the same thing again and again. Poorly written
This submission extends beyond Bengal. It could cover Delhi and Haryana, possibly other states as well. Subject to the caveat that the support base of different parties is not always or easily transferable. 2. After today’s result, the Congress is looking less a national colossus, which the BJP has become, more primus inter pares amongst the regional parties. Had the Alliance succeeded in UP, it could have had more seats than the Congress now does. Allying with the DMK has given the party one of its few saving graces today. The alliance with the RJD has not clicked for the Lok Sabha, but it might work better in the Assembly election next year. Perhaps a working arrangement can be worked out with AAP for Delhi and Haryana. The emotional bond with the NCP in Maharashtra needs to be more mazboot. In some northern states other than UP, the Congress and the BSP can be good for each other. 3. A few days back, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad made the perfectly reasonable point that the Congress would not make an issue of the PM’s post. It would go with the consensus. Within hours, Shri Surjewala contradicted him, saying, No, our President is in the reckoning. Aap aur hum toh casual commentators hain, did these worthies not pick up any indication of the SLBM that was headed their way …