PM casts vote in Guwahati, confident of Congress win

June 26th, 2009 Rep. Tauscher casts key vote before leaving HouseWASHINGTON — Rep. Ellen Tauscher made it a memorable last day in Congress.

May 13th, 2009 CHENNAI - Celebrated music composer of the Oscar winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' fame, A.R. Rehman created quite a stir on Wednesday when he came to cast his vote in Chennai.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday cast her vote at the polling booth at Nirman Bhavan in New Delhi. She was accompanied by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her party's candidate Ajay Maken.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi cast his vote along with other voters in the fourth round of a general election on Thursday. Accompanied by security guards, Rahul came to the polling booth, and cast his vote even as media persons tried to catch a glimpse of the dimpled leader.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI /PATNA - President Pratibha Patil cast her vote in the fourth round of the five-phased general elections to the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Amid tight security, Patil came to cast her vote at the polling booth located in the Rashtrapati Bhavan along with other voters.

April 23rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - Voting for the second and final phase of elections in 11 of the 14 parliamentary constituencies in Assam ended peacefully Thursday with millions of people casting their votes, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur. 'Voting has ended rather peacefully with heavy polling recorded,' an election official said.

April 23rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - There was tremendous excitement among voters at the polling station in the Dispur Government Higher Secondary School in the heart of Assam's main city of Guwahati, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur are expected to cast their votes for the parliamentary elections Thursday. Heavy security arrangements have been made at the school, polling station number 156, for Manmohan Singh's visit.

April 22nd, 2009 GUWAHATI - Authorities in Guwahati have beefed up security at a school where Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected to cast his vote in the second phase of Lok Sabha polls.

April 19th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday rejected Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad's charge that the Congress too was to blame for Babri Masjid, saying the BJP was solely responsible for the 1992 mosque demolition. Addressing a press conference in Amin Gaon in Guwahati, the prime minister also said he would prefer to put an end to the slanging match with Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K.

April 16th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Two Assam ministers had a miraculous escape Thursday as the helicopter in which they were travelling for election campaigning made an emergency landing at the Guwahati airport following a major technical snag. Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain, along with Assam Youth Congress president Pijush Hazarika, were returning to Guwahati after addressing an election meeting in Nagaon district of eastern Assam when the four-seater helicopter developed a snag mid-air.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - At least six people were killed and 30 wounded, eight of them critically, when a powerful bomb exploded at a crowded market in this Assam city Monday afternoon. Police blamed the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) for the attack and said it took place in the busy Maligaon area of Assam's main city of Guwahati around 1.45 p.m.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Six people were injured when a blast ripped through a crowded marketplace in Assam's Dhekiajuli town Monday, barely two hours after an explosion in Guwahati killed six people. Dhekiajuli is about 150 km north of Assam's main city of Guwahati.

April 4th, 2009 GUWAHATI - The Assam Tea Tribes Students Association (ATTSA) has appealed to tea garden workers not to vote for the Congress party in the general elections. "We have appealed our people to boycott the Congress party," ATTSA President Prahlad Goala said on Friday.

January 23rd, 2009 GUWAHATI - Political parties in Assam are already in poll mode with both the ruling Congress party and the opposition - the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine - charting out strategies to fight the upcoming general elections. 'Economic development will be our main agenda during the polls besides other issues like agriculture, education and solving the unemployment problem,' Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told IANS.

December 23rd, 2008 JAMMU - Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was among the first 15 to cast his vote in the Jammu East constituency where polling began early Sunday in the last phase of the state assembly elections. He said he was sure the Congress would come to power in the state.