NEWS
PM ready to face Sugargate probe
Vajpayee said the Congress did not raise
this matter in Parliament but suddenly took it up during electioneering for
political gain.
INTERVIEW
'Jayalalitha removed her slipper and showed it to me'
'She abused me. She told me to join the DMK. She says there was no place in the ADMK for me as long as she was there.' Tamaraikani on why he rebelled against Amma.
THE REDIFF SPECIAL
Despite the odds, backward Bellary may back Sonia
She probably doesn't need urban voters to win; she is comfortable as long as the people are "70 per cent backward" and most of those are in the slums, in the ghettos and in the villages.
THE ELECTION SPECIAL
In the killing fields of Rayalseema, fear dominates the election scene
Though many say the situation is improving, the police are not taking any chances. Nearly 20,000 policemen and a large contingent of paramilitary forces have been deployed in the region for poll duty.
NEWS
Naxals strike fear in Maharashtra's border districts
Speak to villagers in the interiors and
they will tell you that they vote only because there is
pressure from the police, something the men in khaki deny hotly.
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
'Today there are many divisions, but after the elections we must be one family'
On the Campaign Trail with Union Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam.
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Death and the maiden
Dr Sudha Yadav hopes to ride Kargil, and her husband's martyrdom, to a parliamentary seat. Om Parkash Chautala gives her a helping hand. But bosh, wait a minute, says the Congress, her husband was never even posted in Kargil.
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
'What would be the state of our country if there was a war? He protected us'
During the Kargil conflict, fearing war, the villagers had taken their goats, cows, camels and everything previous, and walked all the way to Gujarat, where they had stayed for over a month. Its only a fortnight since they returned. Chindu Sreedharan reports from Barmer.
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Rebel gives J H Patel a contest to remember
Vadnal Nagaraj was asked to withdraw his candidature by the BJP. He refused. Some JD-U cadres now indicate his refusal enjoyed the backing of the BJP's state leadership in Bangalore.
CONSTITUENCY WATCH
NCP may dig Sushilkumar Shinde's grave in Solapur
Though Dr Abdulpurkar is not viewed as a winning candidate, he is
expected to gnaw into Shinde's votebank and no one else is more happier than the BJP's Valyal.
THE REDIFF SPECIAL
Of net gains, and pregnant pauses...
Cyber campaigns. Helicopters whizzing around the country. And acidic, personal rhetoric. The last election of the millennium gets into overdrive...
THE ELECTION SPECIAL
Pawar play
Vidarbha used to be an easy one to call. Till the Pawar rebellion -- and whispers of a secret pact with the BJP -- came along to muddy the waters.
ISSUES
'Our countryside is crying
for attention, our countryside is crying for investment'
'What we lack is not technology or finance
but political vision, political will and political action,' says Dr M S Swaminathan
THE REDIFF COLUMNIST
Why is it that not a single Nehru-Gandhi family head has chanced his or her luck with Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, or Calcutta?
'There is a direct correlation between voting for the Congress and the place where you live in Bellary. The more prosperous and more educated a voter is, the less likely he or she is to choose a Congress nominee,' says T V R Shenoy.
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