NEW DELHI: The alliance between Congress and Trinamool Congress to take on the ruling Left Front in Lok Sabha poll in West Bengal could beannounced in a day or two."Talks are going on...These are on the right track. I will get back to you with some announcement on the alliance in a day or two," AICC in-charge of West Bengal K Keshava Rao told reporters at the AICC headquarters here.Rao visited the Left-ruled state recently and had talks with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as also with...
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CPM MP Abdullakutty expelled for praising Modi
KANNUR: CPM MP from Kannur A P Abullakutty, who had praised Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's development model, was on Saturday expelledfrom the party on the charge of breach of discipline by "joining class enemies".The action against the two-time Lok Sabha member was taken by CPM's Kannur district committee which accused him of repeated breach of discipline by joining the "class enemies", party sources said.The 44-year-old MP had embarrassed CPM by stating that the efforts of Modi to bring...
TDP strongman Subba Reddy joins Congress
HYDERABAD: In a move that would change political equations in Kurnool district, TDP's sitting MLA and regional strongman S V Subba Reddy has quitthe party and joined the Congress.The development has been balanced somewhat with Manganti Venkateswara Rao (Babu), who till recently was a minister in Y S Rajasekhar Reddy's cabinet, resigning from the Congress and joining the TDP with both events happening late Friday evening.Subba Reddy was the only TDP MLA to get elected from the entire Kurnool district...
IIT, IIM alumni to contest 40 Lok Sabha seats
LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Punarnirman Dal (BPD) - a political outfit floated by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute ofManagement (IIM) alumni - will contest the Lok Sabha election from at least 40 seats across the country, a party leader said Saturday."We are all geared to contesting the election. Till now, we have only announced eight candidates," BPD national working committee member Omendra Bharat said over telephone from Kanpur.Candidates have been named for four seats in...
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