Poll market unites 'socialists'
The Janata Dal formally split yesterday with the anti-NDA faction electing H D Deve Gowda as president and expelling Sharad Yadav from the post while the pro-NDA group unifying itself with the Samata Party and the Lok Shakti.

Can't trust the Janata Dal so soon, says BJP
The BJP wanted the Janata Dal to finally disintegrate in Bihar, Orissa and Karnataka so that it could pick from the Dal's ruins. But the unity move by the BJP's allies, Lok Shakti and Samata Party, with Janata Dal, has taken the party leadership by surprise.

CPM to contest 3 LS, 23 Assembly seats in State
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has decided to contest three Lok Sabha seats and 23 Vidhan Sabha seats in Maharashtra in the forthcoming elections, according to the party's State unit general secretary Prabhakar Sanzgiri.

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