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LUCKNOW: BJP has launched the preparation for Lok Sabha polls from two-day state executive meeting held in the holy place of Chitrakoot.

Even as the Congress workers are already confused about the conflicting statements made by some senior leaders, including the Gandhi scion Rahul, the Congress media cell chairperson Janardhan Dwivedi has created yet another debate by insisting that the present model of power sharing between the Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may continue in future.

New Delhi: India and Azerbaijan almost set up a framework for legal and juridical cooperation between themselves by signing three relevant treaties.

BHOPAL: The constitution of the Rajnath Singh team has evoked mixed reactions in Madhya Pradesh. There were high hopes in the camp of the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan that he will find a place in the Parliamentary Board of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His followers used to feel elated whenever his name was mentioned along with that of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Among others, BJP stalwarts like LK Advani, would also refer to Chauhan, whenever tributes were paid to Narendra Modi, as a competent Chief Minister.

After being anointed as the Vice President of the Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi is concentrating on his party organization, but some news reports which relate to him, suggest that all is not well for him. He himself, after becoming the party VP, had revealed that the post of Prime Minister is not his priority and what he wanted was to strengthen Congress.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: When you try to be over smart, you end up courting trouble. That is the fate which has befallen Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who finds himself in a devil of a political hole in the aftermath of the resignation of Forest Minister Ganesh Kumar.

When the Trinamool Congress, the second largest component of the United Progressive Alliance, with 19 MPs, walked out of it last September, nobody thought that its departure would immediately destabilise the government. Although the UPA’s Lok Sabha strength suddenly fell to 254, well below the effective half-way mark (271), it seemed confident of retaining the ‘outside support’ of as many as 28 MPs belonging to Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (21), Mr Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (4) and the HD Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal-Secular (3).

Since LK Advani’s pale imitation of Atal Behari Vajpayee’s moderation had failed to impress the voters in the last general election, the BJP has evidently decided to be more forthright in its approach to the next big test, which may be in 2014 or earlier. Hence, Narendra Modi’s return to the parliamentary board after a gap of six years. If the same man, viz. party president Rajnath Singh, who kept him out earlier has now facilitated Modi’s rehabilitation, it means that the Gujarat strong man has emerged as the first among equals in the organisation.

New Delhi : India and Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) have agreed to open talks negotiating a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) between India and the Customs Union (CU) that comprises of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.

New Delhi : India is planning to send two senior ministers to Saudi Arabia to assess the impact of the new 'Nitaqat' employment policy announced by the Kingdom. It is expected to affect thousands of non-resident Indians (NRIs) who are working in Saudi Arabia without valid employment or visa documents.