Assembly Elections 2012

• Akhilesh Yadav: Maintaining law and order is our priority

  Highlights of Akhilesh Yadav's speech: I want to thank the people of UP for giving Samajwadi Party the opportunity to form a government. Azam Khan and Shivpal Yadav moved the resolution and all the legislators supported the resolution. Ram Gopal Yadav conducted the proceedings. I reiterate that the Samajwadi Party will keep all the...

• Who is Akhilesh Yadav?

  Who is Akhilesh Yadav? Uttar Pradesh was spoilt for choice. A crush of political celebrity from all over descended upon it in the last few months in an attempt to win it over. UP chose one of its own - Akhilesh Yadav, the quintessential local lad, who was born here and has learnt his politics on the dusty kuchcha roads of the UP heartland, is the n...

• Age of Akhilesh Yadav: Uttar Pradesh's youngest Chief Minister

  Akhilesh Yadav, 38, will be the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He will also be the youngest ever to hold that position. Mr Yadav's name was proposed by senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan at a legislative party meeting today. Soon after being elected, Mr Yadav thanked UP, promised to fulfill all promises that he had made in his exhaustive...

• Goa: Manohar Parrikar sworn in as Chief Minister

  BJP leader Manohar Parrikar was sworn in for the third time as the Chief Minister of Goa.

• Goa elections: Blame game begins in outgoing Congress

  In the wake of humiliating defeat in the assembly election in Goa, the Congress leaders have started the blame game with outgoing public works department minister Churchill Alemao stating that the Chief Minister Digambar Kamat had worked against him.

• Goa: BJP-led alliance government to be sworn-in on March 9

  Senior BJP leader Manohar Parrikar is all set to become the chief minister of Goa for the third time after the BJP-MGP combine today staked its claim to form the government with the support of 26 legislators and the swearing -in will be held on Friday.

• Sonia Gandhi rules out change of Prime Minister

  The Congress president made a rare appearance today to explain what went wrong yesterday and had all her answers ready.

• Congress emerges largest party in Uttarakhand by one seat

  Uttarakhand elections: The Congress has emerged as the single largest party in Uttarakhand with 32 seats, ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a notch in the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which was routed in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, holds the key to the government formation in the hill state where it ...

• UP election results: Ayodhya rejects BJP, opts for Mulayam's candidate

  BJP has lost the temple town of Ayodhya, considered to be its bastion since 1991, from where it spearheaded the Ram temple movement which catapulted the party at the Centre.

• BJP sweeps Goa, Parrikar front runner to become Chief Minister

  Cashing-in on the anti-incumbency factor in a big way, the BJP-MGP combine has come to power in Goa, ousting the Congress and securing 26 out of 40 seats. While the BJP won in 21 assembly constituencies, seven more than last time, the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party raised its tally from two in the last polls to three seats.

• Child dies in Samajwadi candidate's victory celebration firing

  A 12-year-old boy was killed in Uttar Pradesh's Bhim Nagar district Tuesday afternoon when supporters of the Samajwadi Party (SP) fired in the air to celebrate the victory of party candidate Iqbal Masood in the assembly polls, police said. Mohammad Daniyal was killed in Deep Sarai area in Sambhal. He was standing near some SP workers who were firin...

• Punjab election results: Ex-sportspersons and their relatives win in state

  Former India hockey captain Pargat Singh today scored another victory, but this time on political turf as he became an MLA after winning from the Jalandhar Cantt constituency in the Punjab Assembly elections.

• Congress wins third consecutive term in Manipur

  The Congress in Manipur braved all odds to make it to a third consecutive term by winning 42 of the 60 seats.

• BJP sweeps Goa, Congress concedes defeat

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stake its claim to form the next government in Goa and would welcome the support of all independent candidates, state party president Laxmikant Parsenkar said on Tuesday. Parsenkar was speaking to reporters after winning the Mandrem assembly constituency seat by defeating his nearest rival, the Congress's Dayan...

• Uttarakhand election results: Majority eludes Congress, BJP; smaller parties hold key

  In an extremely close finish, the Congress ended with 31 seats, just one ahead of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly.