Many senior leaders unhappy after being denied tickets for Lok Sabha polls.
Many senior leaders unhappy after being denied tickets for Lok Sabha polls.
Disgruntled members in Gujarat’s two main parties, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, have erupted in unprecedented bedlam over selection of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
How does one prevent hate speeches and inflammatory videos from being shared through applications like WhatsApp and on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM)? Well, that’s what has stumped poll officials.
The AAP Sunday disowned two “fake” candidates claiming to represent the party in Karnataka and said Hemant Kumar was its nominee in the Hubli-Dharwad Lok Sabha constituency.
“This may be the first time someone born after independence will (become) the prime minister,” Lord Desai said here, referring to BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi who was born in 1950.
With most opinion polls indicating a defeat for the Congress-led UPA coalition of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a decade in office, an aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is confident of ushering in a political makeover.
Denied a BJP ticket to contest from Barmer in Rajasthan, Jaswant Singh told IANS that there will be “repercussions” because of the many differences that have come to the fore in the party.
The efforts by political parties to woo the new voters have suffered a setback with the Election Commission coming out against taking campaign to the campus of educational institutions.
Hundreds of volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from Gujarat have flocked to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh by buses and trains ahead of party supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s road show on March 25.
For Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu, the steady influx of senior Congress leaders from Seemandhra into his party should have brought a smile on his face.