Akhilesh Yadav voiced confidence that the Samajwadi Party would be able to form a government in Uttar Pradesh despite marginally falling short of the halfway mark in the 403-member house. Samajwadi Party's new face Akhilesh Yadav said he did not want to be the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, saying his father Mulayam Singh Yadav deserved the job
Okram Ibobi Singh will be the second chief minister in the northeast to make it to the top seat for the third consecutive time in recent times after Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi
Mulayam Singh Yadav had clearly proved lucky again, backed in good measure by his suave and urbane son Akhilesh Yadav who went out of his way to change the party's rustic and tainted image. Anirban Choudhury: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday said the party's strategy for government formation will be decided by the parliamentary board. He thanked the people of Uttar Pradesh for making the SP the leading party in the state elections even as it fell marginally short of the halfway mark in the 403-member house
Amarinder blames rebel mlas for the Congress’ loss in the state. However, that may not be the only reason why the party fared so badly. Many people see Amarinder Singh as unapproachable in comparison to arch rival Prakash Singh Badal. The major grouse was that Amarinder step out to campaign only towards the end of the elections
We have prepared a time-bound agenda which we have promised in our election manifesto and we are going to implement it. Petrol as promised will be sold at Rs.55 in Goa immediately after the budget," BJP leader and hot favourite for chief minister Manohar Parrikar
Beating the traditional anti-incumbency factor, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party combine bagged a comfortable majority with 68 seats in the 117-member Punjab assembly as results were declared. It is for the first time in over four decades that a government has been able to come back to power for a consecutive term in Punjab. "I want to thank the people of Punjab for the faith reposed in us again. I don't have the words to express my gratitude to them. They have given us such a big victory," a visibly happy Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said
Many say this fate was coming for the outgoing UP CM Mayawati. But the question is did she see it too? With no sign of development in the state, coupled with her show of opulence, the BSP’s popularity decreased steadily
Former finance minister and People's Party of Punjab (PPP) president Manpreet Singh Badal, who broke away from his uncle, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in October 2010 to chart his own political course, was comprehensively decimated. The PPP even failed to open its account in the Jan 30 assembly elections, the reults of which were announced
Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for most of its 65 years of independence, had campaigned tirelessly to revive his centre-left party in a politically crucial state where it has not held power for 22 years. The campaign, which thrust him into the rough and tumble of the state's politics, where he even slept in villagers' huts, was seen as a test of his fitness to take over from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after general elections due in 2014
assembly elections for the debacle in which a massive anti-incumbency wave knocked out the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance. Kamat submitted his resignation to Goa Governor K. Sankaranarayanan
Senior BJP leader and Uttarakhand Chief Minister, Major Gen BC Khanduri lost the assembly polls from Kotdwar. He lost to Surendra Singh Negi of the Congress. Khanduri, who was brought in just six months before the polls to rejuvenate the party in Uttarakhand, almost succeeded in his task, but himself lost out in the process