Lok Sabha polls will be performance test of my government: Acuthanandan

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.

July 20th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Monday agreed to include the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) in the opposition combine but said the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is not welcome. UDF convenor P.P.

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 11th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - If the moves by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda are an indicator, the state could go in for assembly elections much earlier than scheduled. Buoyed by the success of the ruling Congress in Haryana in the recent Lok Sabha elections - in which the Congress won nine out of the 10 parliamentary seats, the Hooda government is gearing up to get assembly polls advanced, party sources said.

May 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Shocked by the electoral debacle of Left parties in the Lok Sabha polls, the Communist Party of India (CPI) Wednesday asked communist leaders to shed 'arrogance' and urged the need for 'humility' in their behaviour. A two-day meeting of the party's national executive, which concluded here Wednesday, reviewed the election performance of the Left parties.

May 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday announced that her party's 21 MPs will extend outside support to the new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre 'for weakening communal forces in the country.' 'Despite knowing that the UPA this time too will not provide any financial assistance or take significant steps for development of Uttar Pradesh, we still decided to support it to weaken communal forces in the country and also to keep the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) away from power,' Mayawati told reporters before a meeting of the party's national executive. 'The party has agreed to provide outside support to the UPA government without any conditions,' she said, adding she had authorised senior party leader Satish C.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Fresh from its electoral win, the Congress Working Committee meets here Sunday evening to evaluate its performance in the Lok Sabha polls and the assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Sikkim. 'The working committee would discuss the party's future course of action, including government formation, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's role and the issues related to support from other parties,' a Congress leader close to party president Sonia Gandhi told IANS.

May 16th, 2009 CHENNAI - One asked 1,200 questions in parliament and another would give a yearly report of his performance to voters. But all this did not cut much ice with the electorate as S.K.

May 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Days ahead of Lok Sabha polls here, the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday accused opposition Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee of faring poorly as an MP and lacking any political philosophy. Addressing a meet-the-press programme at the Kolkata Press Club here, CPI-M politburo member Biman Bose pointed out that Banerjee had mostly stayed away from the sessions of the outgoing Lok Sabha.

April 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The filing of nominations for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls will close this evening. In this phase, 141 parliamentary constituencies in 13 States will go to polls on April 23.

March 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The filing of nominations for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls began with the issue of notification today. In this phase, 141 parliamentary constituencies in 13 States will go to polls on April 23.

March 15th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will project a chief ministerial candidate in Orissa in the upcoming assembly polls, a party official said here Saturday. Assembly polls in Orissa will be held together with the Lok Sabha polls.

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 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) late Saturday announced that they would fight Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Orissa separately, ending their decade-long alliance. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who heads the BJD, told reporters here that his party will fight the Lok Sabha and assembly elections alone.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday announced an alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) for the Lok Sabha elections in Assam. 'In the Lok Sabha elections, BJP would be the major partner, but in the assembly elections in the state the AGP would be the senior partner,' BJP president Rajnath Singh said here.