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Congress will not jettison PM

The dramatic developments on Wednesday unleashed by UPA-2 partner Mamata Banerjee on the issue of the presidential poll leave two clear messages.

The first is that there is no way Congress plans to

Miffed PM cancels meet with Mamata

Apparently upset with Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Samjawadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav jointly naming him as one of their preferred candidates for President, Prime Minister Manm

Prez polls: Mamata, SP boil the race

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In a fresh twist to the race for Raisina Hill, the Mamata-Mulayam duo sprang a surprise on Wednesday by proposing the names of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Manmohan Singh and Somnath Chatterjee as their three

Mamata, Mulayam propose Dr Singh's name in Prez race

The presidential race took a dramatic twist today with the Congress declaring Pranab Mukherjee as their preferred choice but two key allies, TMC and SP, came out with a surprise response by suggesting

With TMC, SP rejecting Pranab's name, NDA becomes important

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With Trinamool Congress and Samjawadi Party introducing a dramatic twist into the Presidential race, the stand of BJP-led NDA with over 3 lakh vote value in the electoral college assumes significance

Race for Pratibha Patil successor hots up

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Names of sitting and former presiding officers of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha — Manohar Joshi, P.A. Sangma and Somnath Chatterjee — besides Meira Kumar and Hamid Ansari, are doing the round for

Delhi HC’s attitude to Kalmadi’s plea not conducive: Somnath

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Saturday said the attitude of the Delhi high court over the plea of jailed MP Suresh Kalmadi to attend proceedings of Lok Sabha were “not conducive to strengthening of parliamentary democracy”.

I am still a Marxist and will campaign for Left, says Somnath

Putting behind the bitterness over his expulsion from CPI(M), at least for now, former Speaker Somnath Chatterjee plans to campaign for the party in the Assembly elections as he still feels he is a Marxist.

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