CPI (M) charts out strategy for the forthcoming assembly elections

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Thursday cancelled a scheduled media briefing after a cabinet meeting in view of the model code of conduct in force due to the forthcoming state assembly elections. The briefing was cancelled at the last minute due to the model code of conduct, sources said.

September 26th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said that his party would win the Assembly elections with a thumping majority. Filing his nomination papers from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi assembly constituency in Rohtak district for the October 13 polls, Hooda who is also a senior leader of Congress party exuded confidence that his party would storm to power with thumping majority.

September 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Thursday said that Congress party member Sunil Deshmukh could face disciplinary action if he contests forthcoming Maharashtra State assembly elections against President Pratibha Patil's son Rajendra Singh Shekhawat. Deshmukh, who has been winning seats from the Amravati and Bhandara Districts of Vidarbha in Maharashtra for the last ten years was replaced by Shekhawat for the October 13 Assembly elections.

September 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Poonam Mahajan, daughter of slain Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, on Wednesday filed her nomination for the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Poonam would be contesting as BJP candidate from Ghatkopar constituency in suburban Mumbai.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance's seat sharing formula for the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections has been announced at a press conference in Mumbai on Saturday. The Shiv Sena will contest 169 of the 288 Assembly seats, while the BJP will contest from the other 119.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena on Saturday expressed confidence about emerging victorious in the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. "It is 45 years since Shiv Sena came into being.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, who met at the residence of party president Rajnath Singh here on Tuesday, discussed the forthcoming assembly elections in three states. M. Venkaiah Naidu told reporters after the meeting that in the wake of the State Assembly elections being held in Haryana, Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh on October 13, it was deemed necessary for the BJP to discuss preparations for it.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) central election committee will meet here Friday to chalk out a strategy for the assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. BJP leader M.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet here tomorrow to discuss the drought situation in many parts of the country and rising prices of essential commodities. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has called for the meeting to discuss ways to deal with the situation.

May 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Triumphed with his party's success in the Lok Sabha elections, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Sunday said that he wants the Congress party to go alone in the upcoming assembly polls. "We want to contest assembly elections in Maharashtra without aligning with any other party.

May 16th, 2009 GANGTOK - Counting of votes cast for elections to the 32 assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat of Sikkim began Saturday morning, poll officials said. Counting began at 8 a.m.

March 16th, 2009 BHOPAL - Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Monday dismissed the possibility of him contesting the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. "All speculation in the media about my contesting the elections is both baseless and meaningless," said Singh.

February 22nd, 2009 ITANAGAR - The Arunachal Pradesh government has requested the Election Commission to conduct polling for the 60-member state assembly simultaneously with the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, a minister here said. 'The state cabinet headed by Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu at a meeting here late Saturday endorsed the decision of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) to prepone the assembly polls and hold them along with the Lok Sabha elections to save money, time and energy,' state Parliamentary Affairs Minister and government spokesman Tako Dabi said Sunday.

January 23rd, 2009 RANCHI - Former chief minister and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Democratic) party president Babulal Marandi has ruled out the possibility of his return to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). 'There is no question of me joining any political party or undertaking any alliance with any party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former MP Om Prakash Kohli Thursday took charge as the new president of the Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a month after his party lost assembly elections in the city to the Congress. Kohli succeeds Harshvardhan, who came under criticism after the party lost the battle for power in assembly elections.