Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Ms Sushma Swaraj, said here on Tuesday that the BJP is contesting elections in Assam to form the government on its own.
Refusing to divulge their post-poll strategy, Ms Swaraj said, “When you are in election mode, you are focused only on winning. So we are fighting to form the government.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, who was roped in by the Congress specially to campaign in Bengali-speaking areas of the state, said here on Tuesday that peace and development are the two major issues on which his party is asking the electorate to renew their license to rule the state for a third consecutive term in Assam.

Chief minister and DMK president M. Karunanidhi has said he is open to sharing power should the poll verdict force it, though he believed that his party would win the majority to form the government.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that there had been complaints of money being distributed in a police jeep by some police personnel.

A Congress candidate without the ‘hand’ symbol is as helpless as a horseman without a saddle.
This is a piquant and slippery situation in which KPCC member and former DCC secretary Mambaram Divakaran finds himself.

Former minister and senior Congress leader K.K. Ramachandran Master on Tuesday wept publicly while alleging that PCC chief Ramesh Chennithala and Opposition leader Oommen Chandy had ostracised him since he refused to be ‘corrupt’.

An interesting aspect of the upcoming Assembly election in Bengal is a remarkable attempt at role reversal by the principal rivals — Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

The usually diplomatic CPI state secretary C.K. Chandrappan turned candid on Tuesday and explained that the Left Democratic Front was not projecting a chief ministerial candidate to avoid political embarrassment.

Come Thursday, Malampuzha will witness a new and creative face-off between Achu and “Achumman”.
Achu Oommen, daughter of Opposition leader Oommen Chandy, is cobbling up a street play in the cultural rally organised by the Congress-led UDF in Malampuzha, where Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan is contesting.

Despite the KPCC hurriedly parking its campaign copter, the dust refused to settle down on the issue of campaign funds with the Congress and the CPI(M) igniting a new debate on the hidden hand of lottery kings in the upcoming Assembly polls.