Each Left party to review poll reverses individually

July 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Sunday asked the party's youth wing to remain committed to the ideology of "cultural nationalism" and not be disappointed with the electoral reverses. "We are proud of being part of a party that has a strong ideological base.

June 17th, 2009 RAIPUR - The Congress would undertake a thorough review of its Lok Sabha poll debacle in Chhattisgarh, senior party leader Motilal Vora said here Wednesday. "The Congress performance in the Lok Sabha polls (in the state) was below our expectations.

June 15th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday held a meeting to review its poor Lok Sabha poll performance in Uttar Pradesh but top leaders like party president Rajnath Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi, Maneka Gandhi, her son Varun were conspicuous by their absence. Nearly 50 party members attended the meeting chaired by state BJP president Ramapati Ram Tripathi and senior leader Kalraj Mishra.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Under fire for the Left parties' poll debacle and also for floating the Third Front grouping, which came a cropper in the Lok Sabha elections, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat Thursday said the decision to forge a non-Congress, non-BJP electoral alliance had been taken by the party central committee. Karat, whose CPI-M got 16 Lok Sabha seats from 43 in 2004, said that both national and state level factors have to be analysed to find out the reasons for the party's poor show in West Bengal and Kerala.

May 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday said all Left parties are 'not bad', in what is seen as an overture to some partners of West Bengal's ruling Left Front which has suffered major reverses in the 2009 Lok sabha polls. 'We have said the Left is not bad.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's victorious ruling coalition Sunday prepared to usher in a new multi-party government under the leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as opposition parties, decimated by the electoral rout, began a familiar blame game. Congress president Sonia Gandhi presided over an evening meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) here attended by the prime minister and senior leaders to discuss government formation amid speculation that her son and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi could get a ministerial berth.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a bid to review their dismal performance in the Lok Sabha Elections, leaders of of Left Front met here on Sunday. The communists, who till now had a stronghold in West Bengal and Kerala, managed to get only 24 seats as compared to 59 seats in 2004.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Third Front leaders' meet planned for Monday has been cancelled as the Lok Sabha election results have given a clear mandate to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to rule the country for the next five years. 'There is no urgency in holding the meetings of Left parties and other likeminded parties,' said Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) general secretary T.J.

May 17th, 2009 AGARTALA - The electoral reverses suffered by the Left parties in their traditional bastions of West Bengal and Kerala may affect the Communist movement in the whole country, a senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader said here Sunday. 'Both at political, organisational and administrative levels, serious corrections are required, otherwise the Left parties' growth and the movement, besides their national importance, would be affected in a considerable manner,' said Bijon Dhar, a CPI-M central committee member and head of the party in Tripura.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Admitting that the Congress party was in a position to form the next government, Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan Saturday said that they would, like always, sit in opposition and fight for poor people's causes.

April 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - Election Commissioner V. S. Sampat and his Deputy R.

April 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Samajwadi Party Sunday said it was open to a tie-up with the Congress after the Lok Sabha polls but ruled out any truck with the Third Front and the Left as they were aligned with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). 'As long as our arch rival BSP chief Mayawati is with the Left parties or the Third Front, we are not going for any post-poll tie-up with them,' said Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, in the city to canvass for his party candidates.

March 30th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - With exactly a month to go before Gujarat holds elections April 30, poll officials will meet here Tuesday to review arrangements for polling. Deputy Election Commissioner J.P.

March 3rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - Major political parties in Assam are angry with the schedule of the two-phased parliamentary election announced for the state as it coincides with Bohag Bihu, the Assamese New Year, and will appeal to the Election Commission (EC) later Tuesday to review the poll dates. Chief Election Commissioner N.

February 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's main opposition Trinamool Congress Tuesday said the party had no connection with any big political party in the state. 'Since the past four years, we are not attending any political programme organised by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).