NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party on Sunday declared 10 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh taking the number of itsnominees to 74, but left six constituencies for the Congress despite the stalemate in seat sharing talks.Of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state, the Samajwadi Party left Rae Bareli, Amethi, Ghaziabad, Dharora, Mathura and Kanpur City for the Congress.Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said his party would not field candidates in these parliamentary...
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Congress sorry for Babri Masjid demolition: Digvijay Singh
LUCKNOW: Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Saturday apologised for the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 when the party was in power at thenational level."We would once again like to say sorry to the nation for the demolition of the Babri Masjid as at that time the P.V. Narasimha Rao led-Congress was in power.""We would also like to clarify that we will not have any kind of association with (former Bharatiya Janata Party leader) Kalyan Singh who was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when...
NCP extends support to Patnaik government in Orissa
NEW DELHI: Sharad Pawar-led NCP today extended support of his party's two MLAs to the Naveen Patnaik ministry in Orissa, which was reduced to aminority after the BJP pulled out of the alliance."The MLAs of Nationalist Congress Party in Orissa will support the BJD Government headed by Patnaik," NCP spokesperson D P Tripathi said in a statement.Patnaik has claimed in Bhubaneshwar that he has a majority in the 147-member assembly with the support of more than 74 ML...
BJP-BJD ties break down, NDA shaken
BHUBANESWAR: In what is a major setback to the NDA campaign, the BJP-BJD ties broke down on Saturday night with Orissa chief minister NaveenPatnaik announcing that he would go to polls on his own and his 11-year understanding with the saffron camp was off. ( Watch )The talks between Patnaik and BJP ended on an abrupt note when the BJD leader made a "humiliating" offer of just about half a dozen Lok Sabha seats of the 21 seats in Orissa. While BJP kept mum after the talks ended, the party's senior...
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