Defeated in assembly polls they made it to parliament

September 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) general secretary Ajay Chautala will contest from Dabwali constituency in Sirsa district in the forthcoming October assembly polls. INLD political affairs committee member Abhey Singh Chautala announced this while declaring the party's third list, comprising seven candidates, here Monday evening.

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.

September 10th, 2009 PATNA - An estimated 40 percent turnout was recorded in bye-elections to seven Bihar assembly constituencies amid peaceful voting, officials said. The by-polls were peaceful and no untoward incident was reported from anywhere, police officials said here.

September 10th, 2009 PATNA - Voting was underway Thursday in by-polls for seven assembly constituencies in Bihar amid high security. It is seen as a mini referendum for the Janata Dal-United government ahead of state assembly polls slated for next year.

August 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Haryana Cabinet on Friday decided to recommend the dissolution of the State Assembly to Governor Jagannath Pahadia. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

August 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia dissolved the state assembly on the recommendation of the State Cabinet on Friday evening. Earlier in the day Haryana Cabinet recommended the Governor to dissolve the State Assembly.

June 11th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on a visit to her Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said that development would top the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's agenda for the next five years and also urged party workers to gear up for the next assembly elections. "We are not going to compromise with the issue of development as it will continue to remain on top (of the agenda) for our government," Gandhi told a gathering of party workers at the Feroz Gandhi Degree College in Rae Bareli, some 80 km from here.

June 1st, 2009 AGARTALA/ UTTARAKHAND - The Congress has won the by-polls in the Bardwali assembly constituency in Tripura. Asish Saha defeated ruling Left Front and Forward Bloc rival Shyamal Roy by a margin of 3,244 votes.

May 16th, 2009 GANGTOK - Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling was set for a fourth term with his Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) leading as the votes cast for the assembly and the lone Lok Sabha seat were being counted. Counting began at 8 a.m.

May 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Popular Telugu actress M. Vijayashanti of the Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS) was elected to the Lok Sabha from Medak constituency in Andhra Pradesh.

May 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Congress unit president D. Srinivas, state assembly speaker K.R.

April 22nd, 2009 BANGALORE /TIRUPATHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani has expressed confidence that his party led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would get people's mandate in the general polls. Advani, who was unveiling the party's 'Vision Document' on infrastructure development for the country, here on Tuesday, said that the NDA would emerge as the single largest grouping in Parliament.

April 6th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir Monday declared its candidates for two parliamentary constituencies in the valley. The PDP candidates include Mohammed Dilawar Mir for north Kashmir Baramulla constituency.

March 14th, 2009 JAMMU - The National Conference (NC) and the Congress have reached an agreement to share seats for by-elections in Jammu and Kashmir, necessitated after two former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad vacated their assembly seats on being elected to the Rajya Sabha. The NC will contest two of the three assembly seats going to polls.

March 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - By-polls to three assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir will be held April 23 and May 7, the Election Commission said here Tuesday. By-polls in the Hazratbal, Sonawar and Bhaderwah assembly constituencies were necessitated after National Conference's Farooq Abdullah and Ghulam Nabi Azad of the Congress, who were elected from these seats, resigned after getting elected to the Rajya Sabha.