Rahul Gandhi will lead the Congress from the front in the 2014 general election.

“Secularism” is missing in the campaign for the Gujarat Assembly elections despite the state being known as the Hindutva laboratory.

The process of political realignment has begun after non-UPA parties came together against the government’s decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in retail in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Several top industrial houses are learnt to be favouring Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the Assembly polls. Mr Modi, who is fast emerging as a strong prime ministerial contender in the BJP, has long been a favourite of the corporate sector.

After holding a rally in Delhi and a “Samvad Baithak (dialogue meeting)” at Surajkund, Haryana, last month, the Congress has decided to hold a two-day “chintan shivir” and a one-day AICC meeting in Jaipur from January 18. The AICC meeting will be the first outside Delhi in nearly two decades.

Divisions in the Sangh Parivar on backing chief minister Narendra Modi and growing dissension in the Congress on the selection of candidates could bring some surprises in the Gujarat Assembly election

“Aap ka paisa aap ke haath (Your money in your hands)” is going to be the slogan of the Congress, which is approaching different sections of society through the Centre’s flagship programmes ahead of t

“Aap ka paisa aap ke haath” is going to be the slogan of the Congress party, which is approaching different sections of society through the Centre’s flagship programmes ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

The campaign theme in Gujarat Assembly polls is changing with the main political players focusing more on local issues and development than secularism and Hindutva to polarise voters in the poll battl

Political equations appear to be changing inside and outside Parliament at a time when speculation on the Lok Sabha elections next year has refused to die down in political circles while the governmen