Unhappy with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's "campus recruitment" of candidates for the April 13 elections, many leaders are now bent on upsetting the party's apple cart. HT reports.
With electioneering for the April 13 Assembly polls moving to top gear, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and several other leaders are slated to visit Kerala next week to seek votes for the party-led UDF.
BJP on Sunday said the CBI charge sheet in the 2G spectrum case had left out "core issues" without significantly dealing with loss to the exchequer and alleged that the timetable of investigation was influenced by the April 13 Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.
The local candidate for the United Democratic Front, AT George, greets 'star' campaigner Shashi Tharoor.
Lalita Panicker and
Ramesh Babu report.
On a whistle-stop state tour, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday made a scathing attack on the left saying time has come to shed the outdated ideology.
Looks like chief minister VS Achuthanandan, 87, is trying to make amends after his remark on Tuesday about political rival from Malampuzha constituency Lathika Subhash, 45, of Congress stirred up a controversy.
Ramesh Babu reports.
The Kerala high court today set aside the Election Commission’s decision to stop the ‘Rs 2 one kg rice scheme’ much to the jubilation of the ruling left front.
A day after the CPI(M) denied outgoing chief minister V S Achuthanandan an assembly seat, protests broke out in many parts of the state. At least four district committees of the party aired their protest against the decision to drop him.
The scheme to provide free rail travel to girl students announced by Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in this year's Rail budget seems to have run into trouble for the time being with Chief Election Commission of India ordering an enquiry into the scheme.
A two-decade-old graft case has returned to haunt the Congress, which is eyeing power in southern-most state Kerala. Its chief minister candidate Oommen Chandy, a low-profile politician often known as the alter ego of defence minister A K Antony, is in news for wrong reasons. Ramesh Babu reports.
With election just a month away (April 13) the powerful church, caste bodies and pressure groups have upped their ante. Poll time is the best time to bargain and they are ready with their preferences and wish lists. Ramesh Babu reports.
Former chief minister Oommen Chandy would lead the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in April 13 assembly elections, said union civil aviation minister Vayalar Ravi on Friday while putting to rest rumours about his candidature for Kerala CM. HT reports.
Though the killer waves that struck the Japanese coast on Friday swallowed his house-cum-clinic in far off Sendai, naturopath Jeevan Sreedhar thanks his spiritual mentor for being safe at his home at Cherthala in Kerala as it was his Guru who suggested him to postpone his return journey to Japan after the vacation.
Kerala chief minister VS Achuthanandan and his ministers were slighted during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s three-day visit (February 10-12) to the state, according to a resolution passed in the Assembly on Monday. HT reports.
The Congress on Tuesday re-admitted former Kerala chief minister K Karunakaran’s son K Muraleedharan into the party, strengthening its campaign to wrest power from the Left in the coming assembly elections.