Category archives for: Elections 2012

Pranab Mukherjee : A president to be or not to be

The UPA leadership was aggressively wooing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday in order to sew up her support for the presidential elections, and shut any opening for the BJP to cause trouble in the looming political contest. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi went into a huddle with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance [...]

President race: Is it Pranab or Ansari

A Congress nominee, either finance minister Pranab Mukherjee or Vice-President Hamid Ansari, seems set to be elected President, with all indications suggesting that the BJP-led opposition may not be able to put up a credible fight in the polls to determine who should replace Pratibha Patil. Although BJP scrambled to contain the damage from the [...]

Presidential election: Pawar asks Sonia for UPA’s nominee

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday started consultations over the presidential elections, with agriculture minister and NCP boss Sharad Pawar telling Sonia Gandhi that UPA’s nominee for the post should be someone around whom consensus can be crafted. Sticking to his insistence in public on Sunday that the UPA should desire somebody who enjoyed wider [...]

MCD election not a verdict on my government: Sheila Dikshit

New Delhi: In her first response after Congress suffered a huge blow in the recently held Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday tried to shift liability for the party’s poor show, saying that no single individual is responsible for the debacle. “I am responsible for the governance and performance [...]

MCD elections result : BJP wins despite congress gains

Result of MCD election 2012 delhi is out and BJP is a clear winner 148 seats in the bag. The party managed to take gain of all going ups and downs of congress party. The one major concern for the BJP is that though party managed to win the elections but still party is in loss of [...]

MCD Polls 2012 results: List of Winner Candidates

 After the division of MCD into three constituencies it was the first election. Now mcd is into three new constituencies and this are- North, East and South. Now there are 272 wards and 50% of them are reserved for ladies. So it will be interesting to see that how things sum up for the parties [...]

MCD polls results 2012: Tough fight between Congress, BJP

New Delhi: The Fate of Congress and BJP were locked in; a neck to neck competition in the  MCD elections to the three newly carved Municipal Corporations in Delhi, for which counting of votes began Tuesday morning amid tight security. According to the newest trends available until 9.15am for 247 seats out of total 272 [...]

Boycott of M.C.D election in north west Delhi villages

M.C.D election faced boycott by two villages of Delhi. One is ‘Alipur’ from outer Delhi and other major one is ‘Ladpur’ village in notrh-west district under ‘Mundka’ Constituency. The  major reason behind the boycott in ‘Ladpur’ village was that its been more than 108 years since village got its ‘ residential area increased; so its a great [...]

MCD Polls voting percentage: 55-58 % voted peacefully

New Delhi: Delhiites turned out in large numbers for the Municipal Corporation polls, the first for the trifurcated civic body, with an approximated 55 to 58 % exercising their franchise in a peaceful exercise. The luck of 2,423 candidates, vying for 272 wards of the three civic bodies—East, South and North—carved out of the existing [...]

Delhi MCD Elections Tomorrow

New Delhi: Delhiites will seal the electoral luck of 2,400 candidates when they hit the polling booths on Sunday to elect councillors for the newly-carved three municipal bodies in the capital, an selection seen as a semifinal ahead to next year`s Assembly polls. With campaigning finishing at an unusual time of 5:30 AM on Saturday, [...]

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