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Gujarat is a bipolar state with only two main parties contesting elections year after year with the result that municipal, assembly and parliamentary polls witness a straight fight between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Congress president uses television to hit out at opposition party, BJP sees lack of confidence on Rahul.

The popularity of Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani is on the wane in Gujarat.

As the April 30 D-day for voting in Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat draws nearer, the no-holds-barred tongue-lashing by desperate candidates is turning worse with the Election Commission of India (ECI) being bombarded with complaints and counter-complaints.

A first information report was on Monday filed against Hema Malini, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Mathura Lok Sabha constituency for violation of model code of conduct.

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi has caused some red faces in his party, which claims that there is a massive “Narendra Modi wave” as the country votes to elect the 16th Lok Sabha, by saying that there was a “representative wave” and not a “highly personalised thing”.

My brother, mother and husband would wholeheartedly support me if I wanted to contest, Rahul Gandhi's sister tells NDTV.

The three-minute TV address was aired at prime time just as an opinion poll showed for the first time that an alliance led by BJP could win an outright majority.

The survey by the NDTV network forecast that the opposition alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win 275 seats in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, 16 more than predicted in the last survey a month ago.