The Election Commission has disqualified 17 candidates from contesting polls for three years for their failure to submit the expenditure of the last elections they had contested.

In an indication of the optimism of the BJP to be part of a ruling combination at any cost, BJP national general secretary Arti Mehra on Saturday said the party is willing to go for a post-poll allian

In what may prove to be a major setback for the ruling Congress party in Assam, former chief minister and veteran Congress leader Anwara Taimur and former minister Abdul Muktadir Choudhury on Friday r

Bogged down by charges of corruption and disproportionate assets of ministers, the ruling Congress party has chalked out an extensive plan to put Congress heavyweights—Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, AICC president Sonia Gandhi and youth icon, Rahul Gandhi to lead the battle from the front.

If the ruling Congress party is playing the Hindu refugee card, the BJP is looking to gain Vaishnavite sentiments to woo indigenous Hindu voters in Assam.
With an obvious objective to capitalise the influence of Satras—Vaishnavite monasteries, the saffron party was focusing its activities on these ancient shrines, which are

AICC general secretary and in-charge of party affairs in Assam Digvijay Singh on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of reviewing the list of Congress nominees for the ensuing Assembly elections in Assam.

The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Wednesday decided to nominate former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta from a second constituency against one of the most high-profile ministers of the Gogoi cabinet Rockybul Hussain.

Suspected Ulfa rebels on Monday triggered a powerful bomb blast at Rajiv Bhavan, the Assam Congress headquarters in Guwahati, leaving five Congressmen seriously injured. These included the state party spokesperson and a PCC general secretary. The attack took place exactly three weeks before the two-phase Assembly elections begin in the state on April 4.

In what may have serious setback for the ruling Congress party in Western Assam districts, the All Koch Rajbonshi Students Union on Monday called upon voters of Assam not to vote for the ruling Congress in the ensuing Assembly election.

Condemning the bomb blast at the Congress headquarters Rajiv Bhavan here on Monday, the BJP Assam unit on Tuesday alleged that the "failure of the state government to maintain law and order" had led to the incident.