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BHOPAL: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is finding the going tough in Vidisha - one of the two constituencies from where he is contesting the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh. While his position is quite comfortable in Budhni - the other seat from where he is in the fray - things are not at all smooth for him in Vidisha. Fully aware of the loss of prestige a defeat in the polls will entail for him, the chief minister has deployed an army of party workers, led by his wife, for campaigning in the constituency. His wife is camping in Vidisha - a district headquarter town about 60 km away from Bhopal - and going from door to door, seeking votes for her husband.

Elections to five state assemblies have reached a decisive stage with the battle lines having been finally drawn up. Though predicting the poll outcome is a gamble, one can, however, have a look at post-poll scenario. The elections are being held in Madhya Pradesh on November 25 and in Chhattisgarh polling has already been completed. Both the states are ruled by the BJP. The Congress-ruled Rajasthan and Delhi are also slated to go to poll on December 1 and on December 4 respectively. Poll is due in Mizoram on December 4.

New Delhi: The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh cautioned the nation that there may be terrorist attacks aimed disrupting the ongoing polls to the five state assemblies and the forthcoming general elections to Lok Sabha due in 2014.

LUCKNOW: The impressive mobilisation by Congress party to protest against non-implementation of the Food Security Act by Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh boosted the moral of rank and file as well as senior leaders.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Oommen Chandy-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government has, for all practical purposes, become a government of controversies, by controversies and for controversies.

If the prices of food articles in October this year increased by an overall 18.19 per cent as per the government data, things look much worse this month with food and vegetables prices reaching an all-time high and sudden spurt of over 100 per cent in salt prices in several markets across northern, eastern and north-eastern India following reports of shortage of this indispensible cooking ingredient sending shivers among housewives, restaurants, dabbawallas, cooked food suppliers and, of course, gourmets. The common man’s disposable income to buy non-food items is constantly shrinking affecting demand for manufactured products.

New Delhi: India’s plan to raise a strike corps along its border with China in the north-eastern region has antagonised Beijing and this was conveyed to the Indian side during the recent visit of the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to that country.

New Delhi : Vietnam has offered five offshore oil and gas exploration blocks in South China Sea to the Indian public sector ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL). The OVL also gets Kossor block in Uzbekistan without bidding.

BHOPAL: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and the senior-most Minister in the Shivraj Singh government, Babulal Gaur, is into his tenth consecutive electoral battle from the Govindpura Assembly constituency in Bhopal. Defeat does not figure in the lexicon of the 84-year-old Gaur, who has, so far, fought nine elections and won all of them – and that too without a break. A record that could well be the envy of any politician.

The election season has brought to focus once again whether the political class wants cleaner elections. The answer is an emphatic no. It is because political parties need to wake up to the fact that people no longer have faith in them or even in the system. Vexed with non-governance, corruption, price rise and inflation people say they have had enough, and that is happening all across the country right now.