Congress-BJP slugfest gathers steam as elections near finale
Prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, RJD chief Laloo Yadav, and former union home minister Indrajit Gupta are among stalwarts whose fate will be sealed in the ballot boxes on Sunday when the country goes for the fifth and final round of polling for the 13th Lok Sabha.

Trinamool hopes to lay the base for assault on Marxist citadel
With the Congress on a downslide here, the battle for ballots is expected to be a straight one between the ruling Marxist party and the Trinamool Congress which is aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the October 3 elections.




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