BY SUDHIR K SINGH
BHOPAL
Oct. 31: Talk of injecting dynamic new blood notwithstanding, old is gold seemed to be the dominant flavour of the first list of 117 (of the 230) candidates released on Friday by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for the Madhya Pradesh state Assembly elections scheduled for November 27.
The list includes 34 [...]
BY AMITA VERMA
LUCKNOW
Oct. 31: After caste-based politics in Uttar Pradesh, caste-based armies are now appearing in the state.
On the eve of Lok Sabha elections, the Virangana Uda Devi Smarak Sansthan is planning to set up a Pasi Sena to fight against injustice.
"The Pasi Sena will comprise youth from the Pasi community and we will educate [...]
BY PARUL CHANDRA
NEW DELHI
Oct. 31: The BJP annou-nced its first list of candidates for the forthcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, dropping 28 sitting MLAs from the list of 115 candidates the party’s central election committee finalised on Friday evening. The kith and kin of several BJP leaders have wangled their way once again onto [...]
BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Oct. 31: Clearly hoping to reap the political benefits from the Amarnath land stir, the BJP on Friday annou-nced the name of Shilpi Verma, the widow of Kuldip Kumar who committed suicide during the agitation, as one of its candidates from the Jammu region. Her name was among the list of [...]
BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR
Oct. 31: National Conference leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah said on Friday that the Kashmir issue should not be linked with the state Assembly elections being held later this year which, according to them, are necessarily to form a government to run day-to-day administrative matters.
The father-son duo were also of the [...]