The first list has 100 seats currently held by BJP and the party has replaced 21, giving tickets to the remaining 79 MPs.

For the Congress, much will depend on whether the chief minister can expand his famed Ahinda formula, the Kannada acronym for minorities, b...

BJP’s Uttarakhand unit has four former chief ministers — BC Khanduri, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Vijay Bahguna.

One argument against dynastic politics is that ostensibly better qualified and more sincere candidates lose out to sons and daughters.

Unlike Uttarakhand and Goa, where the party projected chief ministerial candidates, in UP the party went into the polls with three leaders.

We cannot look for mega explanations in such measured responses. We are not in the age of routine re-elections or blind anti-incumbency.

Congress hopes anti-incumbency will give it an edge in Jan 30 poll; neck-and-neck fight in many seats expected in the state.

UP, where the principal political players have staked their reputation, as well as Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur are likely to go to...

The change at the helm of affairs in the state followed hectic parleys in the Capital after which the BJP top brass took the decision.

The BJP will neither remove Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank nor project him as the CM candidate for the 2012 assembly e...

The UPA-Left-BSP candidate, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, was elected on Friday as the new vice-president of India.

A resurgent BJP and a demoralised Congress makes the ideal political screen saver for the day.