Sonia Gandhi consulted Pranab Mukherjee,A K Antony and Ahmed Patel at 10,Janpath before driving down to 7,Race Course Rd to discuss ministerial candidates and portfolios with Manmohan Singh.

A day after he was expelled from the Samajwadi Party for six years for indulging in “anti-party activities”,Azam Khan urged the party leadership to reconsider the decision.....

RSS journal Organiser has launched a thinly veiled attack on L K Advani’s Internet election campaign.

The slow and zealously guarded decision process in the Congress has caused deep anxiety in the top echelons of the party and its allies with almost everyone,barring the six whose portfolios have been announced,waiting for that elusive phone call informing them of their fate.

Left leaders — highly visible before May 16 — were conspicuous by their absence at Manmohan Singh’s swearing-in on Friday. Here’s why.

Apart from acceptable,established images,local caste factors have also been weighed by the Congress while deciding the Cabinet berths.

In RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s defeat from Pataliputra,lies a story about an old friendship gone sour.

With Third Front rendered a non-entity by election results,the JD-S,a key player in the front,is going the whole hog in its attempt to join UPA.

Ignored by the Congress,the SP and RJD appeared reconciled to extending outside support to the government to ensure a comfortable UPA majority in the Lok Sabha.

The Trinamool Congress on Monday announced Mamata Banerjee as its parliamentary party leader and declared its support to the next Congress-led...

Uncertainty gripped the BJP after its defeat in the elections with party leaders failing to convince Advani to reconsider his decision not to be the next Leader of Opposition,sparking off a race among senior leaders for the post.

With most exit polls pointing to a UPA-NDA photo-finish,the BJP has decided that if NDA emerges as largest pre-poll alliance,it will stake claim even if it’s not the single-largest party.

For all their brave faces on display,the UPA and the NDA were working overtime to try and stitch an alliance that adds up to 272.

Union Minister Prem Chand Gupta,a confidant of Lalu Prasad,called on PM,signalling RJD’s readiness to break bread with the Congress again.

Exit polls at the end of the fifth and final round of the Lok Sabha elections on Wednesday projected a fractured verdict on May 16 when counting takes place.

Two days after an advisory panel rejected NSA charges levelled by Mayawati govt against him,cancellation of a rally to be hold by Varun Gandhi may blow up into another confrontation between the two.

Days before the verdict of 2009,the NDA put up a show of unity,bringing together on stage Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar,and welcoming TRS into the fold.

Congress switched to damage control,declaring that its 'priority' was to firm up its alliance with parties 'who have been with us from 2004 to 2009'.

Just hours after Rahul Gandhi claimed he was confident the Left would support a Manmohan Singh govt,his party’s ally in West Bengal struck back criticising him for his remarks — and their timing.

Almost two decades after Mandal Messiah and former prime minister V P Singh was elected from Fatehpur...

Former MP Ganga Charan Rajput is the BSP candidate against BJP’s Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit after Mayawati announced the last-minute change,dumping Budhsen Verma.

He is a Dalit Paasi who made it big abroad before returning home to work as a political analyst on Rahul Gandhi’s new-generation team.

NDA Prime Ministerial candidate L K Advani has said the BJP is confident of getting newer allies after the elections.

As shoe-throwing gains popularity among Indians facing politicians - a chappal thrown at L K Advani missed its target in Katni.