Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said the decision to join the UPA government at the Centre in the changed political scenario would be taken by SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav. Mulayam is going to Delhi and will decide on the SP stand regarding joining UPA”, Akhilesh told reporters at Rajbhawan. He was [...]

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan, who was recently sworn-in as minister in UP cabinet, will have to take the oath again on Saturday after it was found that he had not taken the pledge of secrecy and office as per Constitutional procedures. The decision to conduct a swearing-in ceremony was taken after a [...]

The political crisis in Uttarakhand Congress refuses to die down. After sulking Union Minister Harish Rawat said he had not received any ‘concrete’ proposals from the Central leadership to compensate him. Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, meanwhile, tried to play it down. Mr Bahuguna said that the Congress was facing teething problems. As such no such [...]

Minister of State for Agriculture and Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat, who lost in the race for Uttarakhand Chief Ministership, sent his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress sources said. The move comes after the the Congress High Command overlooked his claims for the Chief Minister’s post which has gone to another MP Vijay Bahuguna. [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday invited his Tamil Nadu counterpart J Jayalalithaa to participate in his swearing-in ceremony on March 14. The AIADMK supremo, however expressed her inability to attend the ceremony as she was scheduled to undertake campaign for the March 18 Sanakarankoil assembly bypoll on that day. The ruling SAD-BJP [...]

Shiromani Akali Dal’s leader Parkash Singh Badal’s son Sukhbir Singh Badal taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi said he will encourage the Congress General Secretary to campaign more. “Wherever Rahul Gandhi goes, Congress loses…we will encourage him to campaign more,” said the SAD president. The Congress, in Uttar Pradesh, where Rahul had turned the revival [...]

The Trinamool Congress expressed satisfaction with the results of its candidates for the Manipur Assembly elections and said that those in Uttar Pradesh have also done well. Mukul Roy, who earlier met party chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said its candidates in UP have not fared badly. ”One of our candidates polled [...]

Initial trends indicated the gap between Congress and others getting wider with the ruling party ahead at 15 seats. NPF was leading on 3 seats and PDF 4.

Manohar Parrikar has been sworn in as the Chief Minister of Goa at a ceremony here attended by the top party leaders on Friday. Senior BJP leaders including BJP president Nitin Gadkari, LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Shahanawaz Hussain, Gopinath Munde, Venkaiah Naidu, Sadanand Gowda and Arti Mehra [...]

Congress, which emerged as the single largest party in Uttarkhand, is making a serious bid to rope in independents and BSP MLAs to achieve the magic tally. He maintained that Congress is in touch with everybody and hopeful that they will give their support to the party. In the 70-member House, Congress has got 32 [...]