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Political uncertainty surrounding the electoral outcome, as the battle for Lok Sabha goes through its critical final phase, should caution any premature prophesy on the strength and stability of a new government that should take over after declaration of results on May 16.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is reeling under a crisis immediately after the polling in the Lok Sabha elections from the State.

Never before had top guns of political parties stooped so low in their poll campaigns to catch public imagination for votes. Whatever be the purpose behind these atrocious campaign cries, few will disagree that none of those jokers deserve to be the country’s next chief political executive at least in terms of their public display of mannerism.

Narendra Modi is behaving, as if, he has already become the Prime Minister. He is speaking of the policies his government will follow, will not be vindictive to his opponents. So much so he will not act against Robert Vadra while BJP candidate from Jhansi, Uma Bharti, says Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law will go to jail in the event of NDA coming to power. Modi says he has no enmity either with Jayalalithaa or Nitish Kumar and even extends a hand of friendship to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister.

New Delhi: Admiral RK Dhowan has been appointed as India’s Chief of the Naval Staff here on Thursday replacing the former head who resigned in February owning moral responsibility for a series of accidents.

The debate whether the power sharing experiment between the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has worked in the past ten years or whether he was a weak prime minister is a futile exercise. In effect, since Sonia Gandhi took over in 1998, she was the only power centre. Her leadership was accepted not only by the Congress but also the allies including senior leaders like the DMK chief Karunanidhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and others from 2004 when the UPA was formed at her initiative.

New Delhi: K P S Gill, a former DGP and security adviser of the Government of Gujarat, has said that there was no negative role of Narendra Modi in the Gujarat riots of 2002. Rather, he had started his efforts to control the riots right from the first day of its occurrence.

LUCKNOW: The statement of the prominent Shia cleric of Lucknow Maulana Kalbe Jawaad that the BJP President and the Lok Sabha candidate from Lucknow Rajnath Singh is more acceptable to the Muslims in Uttar Pradesh rather than the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has created a big furore in the politics of the state. The comment has come at a time when Modi is fighting as the BJP candidate from Varanasi and his future is at stake there.

India enters the intense phase in the marathon election for the 16th Lok Sabha on April 17, taking the battle of the ballot from the periphery thus far into the vast hinterland covering all states but Kerala and Haryana where the fate of candidates has already been sealed. The first four phases beginning April 7 covered 111 seats.

BHOPAL: Among the key candidates whose political fate will be decided on April 17 – the day on which ten constituencies in Madhya Pradesh go to polls - are state BJP President Narendra Singh Tomar (Gwalior) and Union Minister of State Jyotiraditya Scindia (Guna).