SHEIKH QAYOOM  Srinagar: The Congress debacle in the Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa will impact the balance of power in Jammu and Kashmir where it is part of the ruling coalition with the National Conference (NC). From analysts to the canny person on the street, the results of the five state elections are ...

PRASHANT SOOD The outcome of the Uttar Pradesh elections is likely to push the Congress into having a better equation with the triumphant Samajwadi Party (SP) in view of the presidential polls later this year, political analysts say. And that's not the only reason. The spectacular success of the SP, which ...

Lucknow, March 7: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati resigned Wednesday following the rout of her Bahujan Samaj Party in the assembly elections. The Samajwadi Party emerged victorious and is expected to stake claim to form government.

Lucknow, March 6: India's most populous state voted out Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and voted in Mulayam Singh Yadav and his SP for a fourth term in office with a triumphant mandate of over 221 seats in the 403-member house. The Congress, which tied up with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), ...

New Delhi, March 6: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday accepted responsibility for the party's disastrous showing in Uttar Pradesh where he aggressively led the election campaign. "I fought, so it is my responsibility (for what happened)," Gandhi told reporters here, as it became clear that the Samajwadi Party was poised to ...

New Delhi, March 6: The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Akali Dal emerged big winners Tuesday, with one poised to govern Uttar Pradesh and the other breaking a four-decade jinx to retain power in Punjab, leaving national parties BJP and Congress to count their losses despite wins in two of the ...

Lucknow, March 6: The Congress Tuesday suffered a disastrous defeat losing all five seats in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli constituency, represented by party president Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha. Four of the seats were bagged by the Samajwadi Party while the fifth went to the Peace Party, Election Commission sources said.

New Delhi, March 6: The dismal showing by the Congress in Uttar Pradesh was "deeply disappointing", Law Minister Salman Khurshid Tuesday said. As it became clear that the Congress would have to settle for a meagre 26 of 403 seats, Khurshid said the party had hoped to perform better in Uttar Pradesh ...

Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), March 6: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) may have lost power in Uttar Pradesh but it reigned supreme in areas which border the national capital. By Tuesday afternoon, BSP candidates had won from three of the five seats in Ghaziabad district: Loni, Muradnagar and Ghaziabad City. The winners were Suresh ...

Lucknow, March 6: Samajwadi Party's new face Akhilesh Yadav said he did not want to be the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, saying his father Mulayam Singh Yadav deserved the job. "I am not in the race for chief minister's post," Akhilesh Yadav told Times Now television channel. "The party feels that the responsibility ...