DMK to contest 21 seats, Congress 16

October 11th, 2009 NAGPUR - Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi has blamed the opposition for playing divisive politics in Maharashtra. Gandhi, who was addressing a public rally here on Saturday, charged the opposition with trying to fulfil their narrow interests in the name of religion, region and language.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party on Thursday announced that it will contest 174 seats in the October 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, while its partner, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will contest 114. Addressing the media here, Chaudhary Virendra Singh, who oversees Congress affairs in the state of Maharashtra, said, the seat-sharing arrangement has been finalised after several rounds of talks.

July 24th, 2009 CHENNAI - The two communist parties - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Communist Party of India (CPI) - have decided to contest in the by-elections in Tamil Nadu despite their Lok Sabha election alliance leader AIADMK deciding to boycott the bypolls to be held Aug 18. In a meeting of their high level committee held in Tiruchirapalli Friday, around 300 km from here, the two communist parties decided to contest four out of five seats.

March 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After its failure to cobble a poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar, the Congress party Monday stuck a deal over sharing of seats with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra. 'We will fight unitedly as alliance partners in Maharashtra.

March 24th, 2009 PATNA - Lok Janshakti Party President and Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday announced that his party would contest five Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand along with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Virendra Pradhan will contest from the Dhanbad constituency, while Nityanand Mahto and Sala-Uddin Ansari will try their luck from the Hazaribagh and Godda Parliamentary seats respectively.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party on Saturday announced that it will contest 37 of the 40 seats in Bihar, leaving only three seats for the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). "We have decided to contest 37 seats in Bihar.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Deciding to go it alone in Bihar, the Congress Saturday said it would contest 37 of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The decision comes days after a jolt from its allies Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) which unilaterally decided to stitch up a pre-poll tie-up in Bihar and contest 37 seats between themselves.

March 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - If the Congress decision to contest 26 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, against the three offered to it by the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Lok Janashakti Party combine, leads to division of secular vote, it would not be 'of our making', Congress general secretary Jayanthi Natarajan said here Friday. The Congress will contest 26 seats in Bihar as the offer of a mere three seats by the RJD-LJP combine is unacceptable, Natarajan said.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI -Putting all speculation to rest, the Congress party Wednesday announced that possibilities of a poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh were over. 'Certainly the possibilities of alliance with Samajwadi Party are over now.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Putting all speculation to rest, the Congress party Wednesday announced that possibilities of a poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh were over. 'Certainly the possibilities of alliance with Samajwadi Party are over now.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Smarting from the humiliation inflicted by its key partners, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) in Bihar, the Congress retaliated Wednesday by giving only two seats to the RJD in Jharkhand. The Congress, however, claimed while announcing the seat sharing formula for Jharkhand that this was no retaliation.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - No adjustment was possible with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) after its unilateral announcement with the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) about seat distribution in Bihar, the Congress said Wednesday. 'Any adjustment is not possible with the RJD at this stage.

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 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party will contest 14 out of 42 seats of West Bengal, where as its ally the Trinamool Congress (TC) will contest from 28 seats. Announcing the seat sharing agreement, AICC in-charge of West Bengal K Keshav Rao that they have entered into a seat sharing pact with the TC with the objective of ending the over 30 years of misrule of the CPI-M, which has shattered the economy of West Bengal.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday struck an alliance in Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan told reporters that the two parties had arrived at a seat-sharing arrangement for 40 of the 48 seats in the state.