Congress legislators demand President’s intervention in Gujarat

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gujarat's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wrested four seats from the Congress and was leading in one constituency in assembly by-elections in the state as votes were counted Monday, giving party leaders here a reason to smile. The Congress could win only two seats from the seven constituencies that went to polls Sep 10.

September 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reeling under crises after its debacle in the Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had a reason to celebrate when it won seven of the 12 bye-elections to various state assemblies Monday. The Congress party received a setback, getting only four seats.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress Party MPs today staged a protest against hooch tragedy in Gujarat that killed at least 130 people due to consumption of spurious liquor. Congress has alleged that a BJP Corporator of Mahemdabad Municipality was behind the hooch tragedy.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Friday adjourned the house till 2 p.m. following the protests by Congress MPs from Gujarat, who raised the issue of the illicit liquor tragedy in Ahmedabad which has claimed at least 136 lives so far.

April 23rd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi on Thursday invited Congress President Sonia Gandhi to Gujarat. "Sonia Gandhi is coming to Gujarat for campaigning.

April 20th, 2009 PANAJI - The coalition government in Goa has managed to survive only because of 'divine intervention', says Chief Minister Digambar Kamat. 'As a chief minister there are so many pulls and pressures.

April 7th, 2009 PUDUCHERRY - The PMK Tuesday withdrew support to the Congress government in the union territory of Puducherry, Raj Bhavan sources said. PMK chief M.

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 NEW DELHI - A group of Congress MLAs from Gujarat met with President Pratibha Patil in New Delhi on Monday to demand immediate removal of Gujarat cabinet Minister for Higher Education Maya Kodnani. Kodnani, who is the Women and Child Welfare Minister in the Narendra Modi's Government, is accused for having led a mob in the post-Godhra riots in 2002.

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 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Congress on Tuesday sought the President's intervention in the trial of strength of the BJD government in Orissa. The Campaign Committee Chairman of the State Congress Srikanta Jena also demanded the Election Commission's intervention, saying it was violative of the Model Code of Conduct.

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) 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 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.