During Saturday’s meetings with his new AICC team, Mr Rahul Gandhi told party officials in no uncertain terms that accountability would follow responsibility.

The Shiv Sena fears Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi could become a liability for the party if he plays the “Gujarat development” in the 2014 Lok Sabha campaign in Maharashtra.

The Congress is yet to formulate a strategy on Mr Narendra Modi, who is being projected as the Hindutva poster boy, a backward caste leader and “vikas purush” by the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha electi

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday virtually declared Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi his successor, suggesting that the young Gandhi would lead UPA-3 if it came to power after the Lok Sabha

Congress president Sonia Gandhi reconstituted her team on Sunday, the same day that the BJP-led NDA split on the issue of secularism.

The Congress party on Saturday described the Janata Dal (United) as a “secular and like-minded party” while the Sharad-Pawar-led NCP appealed to the JD(U) to desert the BJP and join the secular forces

Regional players are refusing to ally with the BJP hoping to come back to power at the Centre.

State leaders seen as prime ministerial material have rarely succeeded in getting the top post. In fact, it has gone to leaders who had a national image, perspective, maturity and the capacity to take along everybody.

The current political equations in Maharashtra and Bihar could change with the political parties reviewing their positions against the backdrop of developments in the BJP, Shiv Sena, MNS and the JD(U) camps.

The Nationalist Youth Congress (NYC), the frontal organisation of the NCP led by Union minister Sharad Pawar, on Thursday appealed to the parent party to “work for political formation which can bring