The Congress on Friday launched its “Mission 2013” to wrest power from the ruling BJP in Chhattisgarh in the coming Assembly polls, in style, by beginning its campaign for 11 Bastar seats — considered crucial to return to power at Raipur — on the “auspicious” time of 11 hours 11 minutes and 11 seconds on the “lucky” date of 11.11.11.

Butter, known as “makkhan” in local parlance, is believed to be the main political ingredient during elections. Candidates use it on their leaders who, in turn, lavish it on the voters.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee vice-president Lal Singh on Friday announced that Capt. Amarinder Singh will be the next chief minister.

The Congress on Friday, though refrained from going into speculation about AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s larger role in the party, made it clear that the young leader will “unfold” electoral plank at Phoolpur in Uttar Pradesh on November 14 to project the oldest political outfit as an alternative to the misrule of the Mayawati-led BSP in the state.

As former West Bengal chief minister and senior CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattachar-jee once again skipped the party central committee meet which began here on Friday, the CPI(M) leaders began deliberations on the draft

In order to reach out to the largely untapped segment of female voters, the BJP in Uttar Pradesh will now unleash women power in the state to tap this segment.
According to party sources, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma

On the basis of a pre-poll survey commissioned by the BJP ahead of next year’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the saffron party claims that it will win 110 to 135 seats in the state. The party has also zeroed in on corruption and price rise as two big election issues as indicated by people in the pre-poll survey.

While the common man is suffering due to high inflation in every sector, the MLAs and ministers in Delhi government are set to get their 100 per cent hiked salaries. The bill was passed in the monsoon session of the Delhi Assembly.

Former Union minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party president Ram Vilas Paswan has said that sadhus, saints and their religious trusts and NGOs should also be brought within the purview of the proposed Lokpal Bill.

In view of the prevailing circumstances in Delhi, the Congress in UP will be playing safe on the corruption issue in the coming UP Assembly polls.
The Samajwadi Party, in total contrast, will be focusing only on the corruption issue in order to put the BSP in the dock and add to the discomfort in the Congress camp.