Bhupinder Singh is Congress leader in Orissa assembly

October 1st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The fate of a total of 1,222 candidates will be decided Oct 13 in the election for 90 assembly seats in Haryana. Haryanas Chief Electoral Officer Sajjan Singh said Thursday that 1,222 candidates remained in the fray after withdrawal of nominations and rejection of invalid nomination papers.

September 22nd, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Two ministers of the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana have filed their nominations for next month's assembly election even before the ruling Congress announces the list of candidates. Forests, Environment and Tourism Minister Kiran Chaudhary Tuesday filed her nomination papers as the Congress candidate from Tosham assembly constituency in Bhiwani district.

September 20th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Congress has warned those eyeing a party ticket for next month's Haryana assembly elections not to use photographs of party president Sonia Gandhi and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to promote their candidature. "The Haryana Congress has taken a serious note of the manner in which the photographs of AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda are being used by some persons on their hoardings, posters and pamphlets to pose themselves as prospective candidates of the Congress party and to gain political mileage in view of the general elections to the assembly," party spokesman Surender Singh Hooda said here Sunday.

September 18th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Election Commission Friday issued the notification for the Haryana assembly elections next month. Elections to the 90-member assembly will be held Oct 13.

August 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia Friday evening dissolved the state assembly, just hours after the Haryana cabinet recommended its dissolution. An official spokesman confirmed to IANS that the the governor issued a notification Friday evening, dissolving the state assembly.

July 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Sampat Singh, a former leader of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana, Monday joined Congress at a ceremony here attended by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Sampat Singh, a former finance minister in the Om Parkash Chautala government and a Jat leader, said: "I have joined Congress just as a party worker and have no big expectations.

July 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Sampat Singh, a former leader of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in Haryana, Monday joined the Congress at a ceremony here attended by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Singh, a former finance minister in the Om Parkash Chautala government and a Jat leader, said: "I have joined the Congress just as a party worker and have no big expectations.

July 18th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In the runup to the assembly elections in Haryana, the opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) suffered another major setback Saturday when its legislator Sushil Kumar Indora resigned from the assembly and joined the ruling Congress. Indora, deputy leader of the INLD in the assembly and a close confidant of party president and former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, sent his resignation to Speaker Raghubir Singh Kadian.

July 13th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Orissa assembly was adjourned several times Monday after the opposition parties created uproarious scenes demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into alleged illegal mining by a private company in the mineral-rich Keonjhar district. As the house assembled, Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh raised the issue and questioned the government's announcement of a vigilance inquiry into the matter while the house was in session.

June 17th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Wednesday held discussions with party leaders in Orissa to assess the party's debacle in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state. "Azad held meetings with office bearers as well as with the candidates who were fielded by the party in the election," state Congress spokesperson Kailash Acharya told IANS.

June 11th, 2009 BHUBANESAR - Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Lal Bihari Himrika was Wednesday elected deputy speaker of the Orissa legislative assembly, official sources said. The two-time legislator from the state's impoverished Rayagada district was elected uncontested by a voice vote in the assembly as no other candidate had been fielded against him.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fresh from its electoral win, the Congress Working Committee meets here Sunday evening to evaluate its performance in the Lok Sabha polls and the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Sikkim. 'The working committee would discuss the party's future course of action, including government formation, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's role and the issues related to support from other parties,' a Congress leader close to party president Sonia Gandhi told IANS.

May 16th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Orissa on Saturday said it would explore "all possibilities" after the results. "We stand by what we had said earlier," BJD secretary general Damodar Rout said, adding that his party was hoping to form the government of its own in the state and would support a non-BJP and non-Congress government in the centre.

March 31st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Wife, brother, son, they are all contesting. The Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Orissa in April will be quite a family affair.

January 23rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Former state minister Rama Chandra Ulaka was Saturday named the new Congress legislative party leader in Orissa, a senior leader said. 'Ulaka will be our new Congress legislative party leader,' Jayadev Jena told IANS.