Argentine transportation secretary 2nd to quit following election defeat of ruling party

October 6th, 2009 JIND - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday saw itself forced on a backfoot in Haryana after the party's candidate for the Jind assembly seat said that he was withdrawing from the contest and wanted to quit politics. BJP candidate Swami Raghvanand said he took the decision to leave the party and politics since party leaders and workers were not taking the election in Jind seriously.

August 31st, 2009 Japan's Aso steps down as head of ruling partyTOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso says he will quit his position as head of the country's ruling party. Aso apologized Monday for his party's major losses in national elections.

August 30th, 2009 Top Japan ruling party officials to quitTOKYO — A top official in Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party says that he and other officials plan to step down from their posts over its apparent crushing defeat in parliamentary elections. LDP Secretary-General Hiroyuki Hosoda said Sunday that he and two other top officials plan to submit their resignations to Prime Minister Taro Aso, who serves as president of the party.

August 30th, 2009 Ruling party concedes defeat in Japan electionTOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat in elections Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change. "These results are very severe," Aso said in a news conference at party headquarters, conceding his party was headed for a big loss.

July 14th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - One of the senior-most leaders of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana, Sampat Singh Tuesday quit the party citing differences over the way it was being run by the family of former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala. Sampat Singh, a former finance minister in the Chautala government and a Jat leader, said that he was quitting due to the "commercialisation of the INLD".

July 13th, 2009 Japan PM to call vote, faces no-confidence motionTOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told ruling party leaders Monday he will dissolve parliament and hold general elections next month, following a crushing defeat for his party in Tokyo municipal polls considered a barometer of voter sentiment. The decision came as opposition parties, emboldened by a surge in popularity, submitted a joint no-confidence motion in parliament against the prime minister and his Cabinet.

June 29th, 2009 Argentine dynasty suffers losses in electionBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Cristina Fernandez has suffered a stunning setback in Argentina's congressional elections, losing absolute majorities in both houses of Congress. Her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, lost his own bid for a seat from Buenos Aires province in Sunday's election.

June 10th, 2009 Money too funny: Argentine court forgives forgeryBUENOS AIRES — An Argentine man who tried to use two counterfeit bills has been found innocent, by reason of incompetence. A federal court in Buenos Aires says the forged bills presented by Marcos Ribles were "so clumsy and crude" that "they could not be accepted by most people." The court says the 65-year-old man tried to pass a false 100-peso Argentine note, nominally worth about $26, as well as a false U.S.

May 29th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Friday asked Kerala's ruling Left government to quit in the wake of its debacle in the general elections. Speaking to reporters here after the opposition alliance won 16 of the state's 20 Lok Sabha seats, UDF convenor P.P.Thankachen said it would be better if the ruling Left Front government in the state quit.

May 21st, 2009 RANCHI - Durga Soren, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha's (JMM) national general secretary and son of former chief minister Shibu Soren, died in his sleep in his Bokaro home Thursday. Durga, 39, who fought for the Godda seat in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election and lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, went to sleep Wednesday night and didn't wake up, said sources close to the family.

May 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) general secretary Allu Aravind Thursday offered to resign from the post, owning responsibility for the humiliating defeat in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Aravind, brother-in-law of PRP founder and president Chiranjeevi, offered to quit during the meeting of political affairs committee of the party when some party leaders blamed him for the poll debacle.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday denied that its leader L.K. Advani had plans to quit following the defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.

March 25th, 2009 RANCHI - Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren is undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi and has been advised against campaigning for the elections. But he still will woo voters - through a specially made video.

January 17th, 2009 RAIPUR - Several Congress leaders have targetted party veteran and former chief minister Ajit Jogi for his alleged role in the defeat of many candidates in the recent Chhattisgarh assembly elections. At a meeting to review the probable causes of the Congress' failure in the November elections, several party candidates blamed Jogi for their own defeat.

January 2nd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Two Andhra Pradesh cabinet ministers have resigned, owning moral responsibility for the defeat of the ruling Congress party in by-elections to local bodies. Minister for marketing M.