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DMK leader MK Stalin is concerned that a no-trust move would force the EPS faction to patch up with not only the OPS group but also the TTV camp and also get the ‘Two Leaves’ poll symbol unfrozen, which could upset his party's electoral apple cart, says N Sathiya Moorthy.   Even as two of the three factions within the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu continue to make on-again-off-again tentative moves at re-unification, the rival Dravida Munnetra ...

When an old Gujarat hand Achal Kumar Joti was named the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) last month to replace retiring Nasim Zaidi, there was hush-hush talk in the opposition circles as to whether the poll panel be able to stave off "undue influence" ...

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who pulled off a victory in the bitterly fought Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat, has the reputation of being a trouble-shooter and strategist for the party. The long-serving political secretary to Congress president Sonia ...

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday won the trust vote with 131 MLAs supporting the confidence motion while 108 legislators from the RJD-led Opposition voting against it. With the BJP-led NDA, having 58 MLAs in its kitty, it was a smooth sail for Nitish ...

The electoral battle for Vice Presidents post took an acrimonious turn on Monday as Congress accused NDA nominee M Venkaiah Naidu of grabbing land meant for poor and favouring his children. Naidu, on his part, described the allegations as "entirely false" and ...

It should not surprise anyone if either of the contending parties in the ‘TN speaker’s case’ comes up with a submission for referring the matter of ‘speaker’s powers’ to a Constitution Bench. In political terms it could buy more time for the Edappadi camp, to settle down and stabilise itself, says N Sathiya Moorthy. Image: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami offers prayers at the Jayalalithaas memorial at Chennai’s Marina beach.

Adityanath is just following political precedent as the list of MLCs who have decided to sit it out rather than face bypolls is long. But there were a few outliers like Narendra Modi and V P Singh who used byelections to make an indelible mark in Indian ...

Anna Hazare will be back in Delhi. And this time Narendra Modi will be in his anti-corruption crosshairs. Hazare alleged that the Prime Minister has paid no heed to repeated letters from the activist urging him to induct a Lokpal and Lokayukta, and to ensure ...

On 6 March 2003, the then chief of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Tarun Das, met the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the latter's office in Gandhinagar. The objective of the meeting was to tender an unconditional apology to Modi on behalf ...