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Latest NewsAs the election process in six states got over on Sunday, the Election Commission set its eyes on holding the next general elections around April-May next year.
The PM and the Cong President said the massive turnout was a 'vote for democracy' and Sonia Gandhi said it is a 'lesson to be learnt by our neighbours'.
BJP and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have emerged stronger in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.
Counting of votes for the 87 assembly constituencies began to install a new government ending the Governor's rule in J&K.
The vote fervour may not have matched the long queues across rural Kashmir, but the message rang as loud and clear in Srinagar on Wednesday.
Polling for 21 constituencies in the seventh and final round of the assembly elections began amid tight security and overcast sky.
The NDA was made up of 24 parties when your party joined it in 1999.
After the recent assembly polls, the Election Commission is preparing for the Lok Sabha elections early in 2009.
Two brothers and their cook. The elections for Tral constituency in south Kashmir are unfolding like a Shakespearean plot.
Even as the anti-Naxalite campaign apparently gave the ruling BJP an advantage in the tribal Bastar region, senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma got sandwiched between pro and anti-Maoist forces and lost the electoral battle from his home turf in Dantewada.
Although it may be far fetched to see the recent Assembly polls as an indicator of the general election few months later, if the voting patterns in the four Hindi-speaking states are replicated, the Congress will double its Lok Sabha tally in these states while the BJP will again win the most number of constituencies, though its total tally may fall.
