558 candidates line up for 26 Gujarat seats

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Campaigning in 107 constituencies that will go to polling in the third phase of elections on April 30 will come to an end this evening. A total of 1,567 candidates would contest in nine states and two Union Territories in the third phase.

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Campaigning in 107 constituencies that will go to polling in the third phase of elections on April 30 ended on Tuesday. Congress President Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency Rae Bareilly and Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The second phase of general elections will witness a total of 2,041 candidates, including 121 women contestants' political fate being put to vote for the 141 Lok Sabha seats. Polls for the second phase are scheduled for April 23.

April 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The second phase of the staggered 15th Lok Sabha elections is scheduled for April 23. But in Manipur, the poll will be held April 22 due to a holiday on April 23, the Election Commission said.

April 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has come out with its first list of 18 candidates from Gujarat for the Lok Sabha elections. 'As already announced the BSP would be fielding candidates from all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat.

April 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday announced the names of eight candidates in Gujarat for general elections. The party's decision indicated that its tie-up with the Congress in the State has broken.

April 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The seat-sharing arrangement between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has failed in Gujarat, with the latter Saturday saying it would fight the Lok Sabha polls on its own. 'We have already decided on eight Lok Sabha seats from which our candidates will contest the Lok Sabha polls in Gujarat,' NCP Gujarat chief Jayant Patel told IANS.

March 17th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Gujarat has kept up its demand for contesting at least two Lok Sabha seats in the state, even as ally Congress has already announced its own candidates in 12 constituencies. The Congress is expected to make an announcement on candidates for the remaining 14 seats from Gujarat in the next two days.

March 13th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Gujarat unit has shortlisted about 30 nominees for the state's 26 Lok Sabha seats and will submit the names to the party's central parliamentary board in Delhi Saturday for finalising the candidates, party officials said here Friday. The shortlist was finalised in a meeting of the BJP's state parliamentary board, chaired by Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in state capital Gandhinagar Thursday.

March 5th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) wants to field candidates from seven significant Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat even as negotiations are on with the Congress, which wants to fight on all the 26 seats in the state. The key Lok Sabha seats being demanded by Sharad Pawar's NCP are Rajkot, Dahod, Anand, Godhra, Bharuch, Ahmedabad (East) and Kutch.

March 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Tuesday said it will field candidates in all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat. 'Gujarat is an important state for the BSP high command.

March 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has decided to field candidates from all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, it said Tuesday. 'Gujarat is an important state for the BSP high command.

March 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Mahagujarat Janata Party (MJP), formed by dissident Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators, will focus on the problems of Gujarat's nearly two million diamond workers during its campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, for which it will pick candidates after the big parties have announced their nominees. 'We will wait for the BJP and Congress to announce their list of candidates for the 26 Lok Sabha seats and then decide which of our candidates should be fielded,' MJP president Govardhan Zadhapia told IANS.

March 3rd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee will form a four-member panel of senior leaders to start the process of selecting probable candidates for the 26 Lok Sabha seats in the state, a party source said here Monday. A party source said that the panel would be announced by Tuesday evening.

March 2nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday began discussing its probable candidates from Gujarat for the Lok Sabha elections. The process was launched with a three-day meeting of BJP's Gujarat unit parliamentary board which opened here.