Create new states, split huge UP: Cong opens a window

Sunday 8 July '07

A second State Reorganization Commission (SRC) — the first one was in 1953 — which will explore the creation of new states...

Politics over roads: Nitish says no to Centre help

Saturday 7 July '07

Political one-upmanship is turning out to be the bane of Bihar yet again. While construction under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana

Jaswant to be emissary to UNPA, but regional chieftains not keen

Friday 6 July '07

BJP leader Jaswant Singh will meet AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and seek her good offices to win over the support of United National Progressive Alliance partners for presidential candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

Rajnath gets it from Advani: we need to discuss UP, Lok Sabha polls not far

Wednesday 27 June '07

Eighteen months after he was forced to hand over the BJP mantle to Rajnath Singh, senior leader L K Advani had a go at his successor

Emergency was needed, says Emergency’s child Lalu Yadav

Thursday 26 April '07

Whether it was his loyalty to the Congress or whether it was his typical bluster isn’t known but Lalu Prasad Yadav has just given fodder to his critics: his attempt to justify the 1975-77 Emergency, during which he was imprisoned and earned his political spurs.

SC restrains Andhra from freezing assets of media group it went after

Saturday 21 April '07

The Supreme Court today restrained the Andhra Pradesh Government from either attaching or freezing the assets and properties of Margadarsi Financiers and its allied companies owned by media baron Ramoji Rao.

Ignore history talk, Rahul their ‘future’

Thursday 19 April '07

“Uttar Pradesh is out of tune with the new age. But Rahul Gandhi is the hope. He can connect with youths and know their aspirations.”

Not just SP & Cong, more claimants for the Muslim vote in UP this time

Wednesday 18 April '07

Tauqeer Raza Khan, great-grandson of Hazrat Ahmad Raza Khan, the founder of the Barelvi school of thought, travelled more than 500 km on the last day of the campaign.

Going all out, BJP targets new votes: UP’s non-Yadav OBCs, non-Jatav Dalits

Tuesday 17 April '07

Consolidation of non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits on a Hindutva plank—this is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime poll strategy in Uttar Pradesh.

‘Nawab of the Subaltern’ has Rampur divided

Monday 16 April '07

“He used to serve tea in my uncle’s darbar. Now he is ruining Rampur,” says Zafar Ullah Khan, a young Congress supporter.

Everybody is fighting for a jugad

Sunday 15 April '07

“Aapka jugad chal raha hai?” BJP president Rajnath Singh asks his responsive audience on the outskirts of the city as he concludes his speech.

Congress knows what ails it, but cannot take the pill yet

Sunday 8 April '07

Persisting differences among its leaders are costing the Congress dearly, but the party high command is reluctant to crack the whip.

Courts’ role in reservation may come under fire

Wednesday 4 April '07

An All-Party meeting on the recent quota judgment of the Supreme Court is expected to raise some dust and heat over judicial interventions in legislative and executive decisions in recent times.

Restive alliance may corner Cong on stay

Friday 30 March '07

Constituents of the ruling UPA are up in arms against the Supreme Court interim stay on OBC reservation in higher educational institutions and a meeting of alliance leaders is likely to take stock of the situation.

Congress set to rethink alliances

Thursday 29 March '07

All attempts to forge a Fourth Front comprising of non-BJP, non-SP, non-BSP parties in Uttar Pradesh have formally come to an end.

SPG speed-breaker for Rahul’s road show

Sunday 25 March '07

After several anxious moments during the Rahul Gandhi road show last week, the Special Protection Group has raised objections to his making unscheduled stops en route during election campaign.

Farming excuses over the Punjab defeat

Wednesday 21 March '07

For the Congress to blame market reform for its defeat is not just lazy political analysis, it’s a cover-up of organisational inefficiency

If a Gandhi was active, Babri wouldn’t have fallen: Rahul

Tuesday 20 March '07

Raising the pitch in the run-up to the UP Assembly polls, Rahul Gandhi today said that had anyone from the Gandhi family been active in 1992, the Babri Masjid demolition would have never taken place.

Maya’s Brahmin poster-boy is a Gandhi family loyalist

Monday 19 March '07

This is a turnaround that the Congress party is not publicising. In the Nehru-Gandhi family stronghold of Amethi, family loyalist Ashish Shukla has entered the election fray as a BSP candidate.

Rahul begins long UP haul tracing the past

Monday 19 March '07

Congress MP from Amethi Rahul Gandhi — as he began the journey to reclaim Congress’ lost glory in Uttar Pradesh — time...

Day after: CPM feels the heat, Tata fires salvo

Friday 16 March '07

Congress and UPA partners are focussing on the flare-up in Nandigram in a deft move to push the CPI(M) on the back foot. While a UPA coordination committee meeting has been called on March 23

Obaidulla back to doing what he is best at

Friday 16 March '07

There may be conflicting views on his Maulana status, but Obaidulla Khan Azmi’s fiery oratory has never been in dispute.

Fourth Front plan runs into rough weather

Wednesday 14 March '07

Attempts to forge a Fourth Front in UP comprising the Congress, Janmorcha and Rashtriya Lok Dal have run into rough weather with RLD leader Ajit Singh’s bargaining not going down well with Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Ajit, Babbar meet Sonia as UP ‘fourth front’ slowly takes shape

Saturday 10 March '07

Jan Morcha leader Raj Babbar on Friday met Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, as attempts to put together a “fourth front”...

Rahul’s Plan B for UP: 100 youth workers

Friday 2 March '07

So what if it failed to dismiss the Mulayam Singh government in Uttar Pradesh? The Congress has other plans to revive the party in the heartland.