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| Verdict: Congress upbeat, BJP beats dust | | Congress triumphant in Rajasthan, Delhi, Mizoram; Saffron solace: Chhatisgarh, MP; | | | ET DESK
Jammu, Dec 8: Coming up trumps in the 'semi final' ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Monday delivered a shock defeat to BJP in Rajasthan and swept the polls in Delhi and Mizoram while the saffron party won convincingly to retain Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Scoring a hat-trick in Delhi and getting a two-third majority in Mizoram after a decade in wilderness, the party, however, fell five short of majority in the 200-member Assembly in Rajasthan.
With a number of party rebels and independents winning in Rajasthan, the party hopes to cobble a majority without any difficulty.
Ousting the Vasundhara Raje government, the Congress won 96 seats while the BJP got 78 and BSP six. Independents have won 14 seats while others account for six, including one of Samajwadi Party.
Creating history in the capital, the Congress led by 71-year-old Shiela Dikshit romped home with 42 seats in the 70-member Assembly, leaving BJP far behind at 23 seats with its hopes of wresting power after a decade dashed.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and all six of her cabinet colleague... | |
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| ….aftershocks being felt in Jammu | | | | SAISHA GUPTA
Jammu, Dec 8: Three phases of elections in Jammu and Kashmir are pending and the constituencies up for voting are mostly those where BJP is locked in contest with Congress. Following results coming from five states the shocks and awes are clearly visible in the poll turf of Jammu region.
In all five states which went to polls in the country, ahead of impending Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had its campaign focused on terrorism and expected people to vote for myths. This is what BJP is doing in Jammu and Kashmir –showing people dead and charred bodies from the scenes of terror attacks. As the electorate in Delhi, Rajasthan and Mizoram deal BJP with deadly blow, the party is i... | |
| | | | Mumbai mastermind ‘arrested’ in PoK | | | | AGENCIES
ISLAMABAD, DEC 8: Lashker-e-Toiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhwi, accused of masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks, is among over 20 members of the group arrested by Pakistani security forces during a crackdown in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The security forces, including the army, on Sunday launched a secretive crackdown on activists of the LeT and its front organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah in PoK and other part of the country. Helicopters were used in the operation in Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK.
Ajmal Amir Iman, the lone terrorist captured by Indian authorities after the Mumbai attacks, had named Lakhwi as one of the Lashker commanders who had planned the terrorist strike... | |
| | | | Adieu to Mattoo, Sahni takes over | | CHANGE OF GUARD AT JU | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Dec 8: Noted expert on defence and international politics, Prof Varun Sahni today formally took over as new Vice Chancellor of the University of Jammu amidst warm welcome from teachers and officers at the campus.
Breaking far from traditions of filling vacancies, Prof Sahni was guided to the Vice Chancellor’s chamber by his immediate predecessor Prof Amitabh Mattoo as hundreds of teachers and officers of the University thronged the administrative complex to witness farewell-cum-welcome ceremony of the Vice Chancellors.
The outgoing Vice Chancellor Prof Mattoo was given warm send off at a simple ceremony by various staff members, faculty members and students on... | |
| | | | Azad counts rooms, measures roads, bridges; promises more | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Kathua, Dec 8: Reaching out to the electorate of at least four constituencies of district, the senior Congress leaders and party’s chief campaigner Ghulam Nabi Azad counted almost every kilometer of roads, every running meter of bridges and every room of new buildings built during his tenure as Chief Minister.
Keeping away from the political slogans, Azad read out from a pocket note book every minute figures as one finds in the books of economic statistics. He claimed that the infrastructural development projects carried out during his regime of two and half years were far higher than any work done in past 60 years.
He reiterated that the development of infrastructur... | |
| | | | Vote NC for jobs: Omar | | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Dec 8: Promising jobs, stipends, incentives and sustenance allowances to educated youth and avenues to others unemployed, the National Conference President Omar Abdullah today said that the coalition government of Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party deceived people in name of jobs.
Promising exactly the same which Peoples Democratic Party and National Conference had promised six years and almost failed to deliver, the National Conference president said, “return us to power and we will open gates of employment”.
Reiterating the commitment of the party for opening new avenues for the young unemployed, Omar said party after coming to power will ensure t... | |
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