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Poll forecasts bigger mandate for Modi and another shock for Congress
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K Balakrishnan
THE NEXT ASSEMBLY elections in Gujarat may be more than six months away, but the ruling BJP and the main challenger, the Congress party, are both already actively canvassing the electorate with their yatras and campaigns. |
Poll finds people want leadership change; Rahul Gandhi preferred over Manmohan, Modi over Rahul
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K Balakrishnan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government, mired as it is in a series of scams, unable to gain control over runaway inflation, on the backfoot in its tussle with Anna Hazare and civil society activists on the Lokpal issue, and facing public revulsion over its brutal crackdown on Baba Ramdev and his supporters, has clearly lost public standing across the nation. |
Crackdown on Ramdev unwarranted; PM, Sonia responsible: Poll
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K Balakrishnan
UPA Government ministers and Congress party spokesmen have been coming up with a variety of justifications for the brutal midnight assault on yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his peaceful supporters in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi last Saturday. |
Manmohan’s is the most corrupt government ever
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K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
In an opinion poll conducted by LensOnNews in ten cities across the country, a majority (58 per cent) of the respondents in the poll have described the incumbent Manmohan Singh led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre as the “most corrupt government ever.” Only 30 per cent of the respondents thought otherwise, while 12 per cent had no opinion in this regard. |
TN elections: Intel agencies predict victory for ADMK alliance
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LensOnNews Bureau
When a series of opinion polls predicted that the ruling DMK is set to lose power in Tamil Nadu, and the AIADMK alliance led by Jayalalithaa is coasting to a victory (the LensOnNews poll had forecast a convincing win for the opposition alliance which was projected to win 144 seats against just 88 for the DMK alliance), Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had breezily dismissed them as “fabrications”. |
Jaya on way to convincing win in Tamil Nadu
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K. Balakrishnan
The coming closely watched assembly elections in Tamil Nadu are a high-stakes political game for all the leading players, and have the potential to change forever the political landscape at both the central and state levels in unpredictable ways. |
Tamil Nadu: Jaya heading for majority
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CNN-IBN
It was perceived as a battle between governance and corruption, with the ruling DMK representing both the qualities. According to the CNN-IBN-The Week post-poll survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), the backlash against corruption. |
Assam polls: Gogoi wins it for Congress
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CNN-IBN
What can the odds be for a ruling party in a state where the incumbent Chief Minister has already enjoyed two successful terms and where the Prime Minister of the country starts a vicious debate on political responsibility by not voting in his home constituency? Well. |
West Bengal: Mamata heading for landslide
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CNN-IBN
Even when the expected truth is told, it can come as a shock.
TMC+Congress: 222-234. Left Front: 60-72.
These aren’t so much statistics as they are indicators of a landslide. Behind them lies a sort of closure to the turbulent and violent history of West Bengal under more than 34 years of Left Front rule. |
Kerala surprise: LDF ahead of UDF by a nose
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CNN-IBN
The pattern may be broken. Famous for the consistency with which it has alternated between the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in every successive Assembly election, Kerala may create history this time by not staying true to its swinging ways. |
TN: Karunanidhi gains, Jaya slips in post-poll survey
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Headlines Today
Will it be Amma or Kalaignar? It's exactly 15 days to judgment day, but Headlines Today-ORG post-poll survey points the Tamil Nadu election could go either way. |
Mamata rides wave for change, 215 projected for alliance
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The Telegraph
The Trinamul Congress-led alliance is heading towards a landslide in Bengal, a STAR Ananda-The Nielsen Company opinion poll has forecast. |
54% Say AIADMK alliance will come to power in Tamil Nadu
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Outlook
The exclusive Outlook-MDRA poll in Tamil Nadu ahead of Assembly elections in April brings good news for AIDMK and bad news for DMK |
Cong survey: Win in WB, Kerala; Loss in TN, Puducherry; Assam dicey
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Renu Mittal
It is a mixed bag for the Congress in the upcoming elections to five state assemblies, says a pre-election survey of the 5 assemblies commissioned by the party. |
Grim tidings for 11 WB ministers
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The Telegraph
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee may manage to hold on to his fort in Jadavpur but 11 of his cabinet colleagues may not get re-elected. |
Jaya Nadu and Mamata Bengal
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MJ Akbar, India Today
Mamata Banerjee, who has spent a lifetime trying to rid Bengal of Communists; and Jayalalithaa, who has told Tamil Nadu, perhaps a trifle wearily, that this could be her last campaign. (India Today-Headlines Today-Mail Today-ORG Opinion Poll) |
Poll survey predicts 77 to 87 seats for UDF
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Asian Age
The first poll forecast in Kerala is out, indicating that the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front will end the five-year left Democratic Front reign and come to power, notching 77 to 87 seats in the 140-seat Assembly. |
AICC survey predicts 42 seats for Cong
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Kalyan Barooah
The Congress-led Assam Government may have bombarded the State with a slew of development projects to woo the electorate, but All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-house survey predicts only 42 seats for the ruling party. |
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 When television news anchor Rahul Kanwal got through to Srinivasan and asked him about Meiyappan’s arrest, the BCCI president reacted with thuggish belligerence: 'Shut up, just shut up. I will fix the whole lot of you.' It’s amusing, of course, that “fixing” appears to be uppermost on Srinivasan’s mind even at this stage.This IPL series has shown up the carnival to be a can of worms and India’s cricket administration to be rotten at its core. As a first step towards fixing it over the long haul, Srinivasan and his political patron and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla should be made to resign, and the Chennai Super Kings team disqualified.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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