Samajwadi Party today said Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma's stand of post-poll tie-up between Congress and BSP in Uttar Pradesh smacked off a "tacit understanding" between the two parties.
The Congress has downplayed remarks made by the Union minister for steel, Beni Prasad Verma, on the BSP being a better option for an alliance partner than the Samajwadi Party.
As poll pundits predict a hung assembly in UP, Akhilesh Yadav said his party is hopeful of securing a majority.
Exuding confidence that Congress will win 70-plus seats in the 117-member Punjab assembly, PCC President Amarinder Singh today ridiculed the claims of exit poll surveys.
CNN-IBN-The Week poll conducted by CSDS put the number of seats for Mulayam’s party between 232 and 250; BSP’s at 65-79.
He also said that party general secretary Rahul Gandhi believed in long term engagement of Congress in Uttar Pradesh.
The media blitz predicting Chief Minister Mayawati’s rout in Uttar Pradesh doesn’t seem to have dented the BSP worker’s confidence.
The exit polls conducted by TV channels have projected SP in the lead in a hung house while one channel has given Yadav's party a clear majority.
Governor BL Joshi, a former IPS official who has worked in the Ministry of Home Affairs, has maintained a low profile through his tenure but might find himself firmly in the limelight
It was Arvind's Kejriwal's turn to ask the Congress party to declare its sources of funding for the election campaign.
The 2012 elections emphasise that caste is no longer overwhelmingly important. Class is beginning to play a part. And national parties have to think regional to win.
The Chief Election Commissioner's tweet on exit polls may have raised eyebrows but here are some reasons why he may have said exit polls should be on entertainment channels.
The party cannot dismiss Beni Prasad Verma’s suggestion simply because it makes political sense.
The champion of 2007, Mayawati's downfall is being widely predicted by exit polls and poll pundits alike. Here's a look at what may have gone against Behenji this assembly election.
CNN-IBN's Shreya Dhoundial, reporting on ground from UP says that while none of the parties are publicly announcing their parleys for possible alliances, some are already in talks with their political foes.
The elections, held between the middle of the last Lok Sabha election in 2009 and the next in 2014, are being considered some sort of "semi final" for the UPA and the NDA.
The decision by Mayawati comes as multiple exit polls have predicted a sharp drop in seats for the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Following exit polls indicating that Mulayam Singh Yadav's SP was leading the race to form the UP government, the RLD chief's son Jayant Chaudhary was said to have broached talk of the possibility of a fresh tie-up with SP in Lucknow.
Nearly two months after they were draped on orders of the Election Commission, authorities today started unveiling the statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and BSP's election symbol, elephant.
It’s time for the Congress to learn that politics in the country has changed, that the voters have changed and that the Indira Gandhi style of managing elections is gone forever.
Brisk voting in the Goa polls today as Digamber Kamat and Manohar Parrikar vie for power in the state.
Barring a few minor incidents the turnout for the polls has been high with 50 per cent voting in some areas.
With as much as 70 percent of Goan voters turning out at polling booths till afternoon, BJP today said it would be able to form the government in the state.
Exit polls on television channelsprojected Samajwadi Party emerging as the single largest party in Uttar Pradesh assembly poll with one of them giving it a clear majority.
The BJP, while fighting admirably against anti-incumbency, have managed to retain their 2007 vote share of 32 percent.
Putting aside all permutations and combinations, Samajwadi Party looks set on the path of clear majority.
According to a CSDS survey, the vote share of the party is likely to dip four percent.
Congress is likely to retain the North-East state with incumbent Okram Ibobi Singh as chief minister.
SP to lead, Congress and BJP to make gains and BSP to collapse in these polls. So says the exit poll by Star News.