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Thackeray Jr breaks Sangh’s silence: Gujarat cost Firus dear
  His father blamed the disinvestment policy and tom-tomming of the India Shining theme for the NDA’s defeat. Now the son has thrown in an additional factor: Gujarat.
 
BJP lost Hindu vote, and it’s not why VHP thinks it did
  ‘‘You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time,’’ though said by Abraham Lincoln long time ago, it is what the electorate seems to have pronounced loud and clear to the high and mighty both in the media and in power at the Centre.
 
Trusted & rusted
  After the euphoria generated by the nomination of a person of experience and integrity like Manmohan Singh as prime minister, the mixed bag of experience and expediency in the Union council of ministers had already dampened popular enthusiasm.
 

Those who can pay more or travel on company account don’t have to use the railway. They can fly... One priority will be to take trains to regions where people have never seen them.
—Laloo Prasad

I’m a liberal, not a libertine. Moral policing is not the job of the government. Family elders, educational institutions should decide what is appropriate viewing.
—Jaipal Reddy

Her (Bharti's) behaviour was not only childish and immature when she opposed moves to make Sonia Gandhi Prime Minister, but also involved an insult to the Constitution.
—Digvijay Singh
 
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Lifting the curtain on Jaswant’s sop opera
 
 
   
Last Updated Friday, May 14, 2004
Rewind to ’96: The PM signs off
 Mr Speaker, I shall feel highly obliged if the House listens to me with patience after having witnessed so much uproar. I want to express my thanks to all those who have participated in the discussion on my motion.
Download Cong manifesto immediately
 One of India’s wealthiest stockmarket players is worried as he heads to his spanking new top floor office that overlooks the grand sweep of Mumbai’s Marine Drive. He’s usually an expert at calling the market, someone with great gut feel and sound knowledge of technicals.
Mr Vajpayee’s high ground, Mrs Gandhi’s road ahead
 It’s always so easy to tell the loser what he did wrong. But you can’t do that to Atal Behari Vajpayee. He packs just too much charm, old-world decency and dignity as also personal popularity and magisterial control over public opinion for you to raise questions like that about him.
Amma arrogance to blame for rout: rebel ex-minister
 Minutes after it became clear that the BJP-AIADMK alliance had been completely routed in Tamil Nadu, former Union minister S.Thirunavukkarasar gave vent to all the frustrations and misgivings that he had kept bottled up during the campaign.

 
DIARY FROM NARODA PATIYA: For the first time, they don’t feel alone
Road to PMO: Left at work
Baramati’s king can’t play kingmaker
Defeat takes over 11 Ashoka Road
Mauled in Metros
Didi responsible for Trinamool debacle
Moditva: Why it didn’t work this time
Business waits at Cong HQ
It’s knives out against Modi, Keshubhai leads charge
Voters have spoken
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AB Vajpayee We Have Lost But India Has Won, Says Vajpayee
Jayalalithaa After whitewash, Jaya locks herself up
Jyoti Basu Left Leaders Open To Joining Sonia Govt
 
 
Express hits the road
RAJGARH: Battling the palace feud
HAPUR: May as well be ’79 in western UP
KARNAL: With the Devi’s blessings
MORENA: Arre oh samba, kitney aadmi thhey?
SALEM: Keeping Dubey’s dream alive
BARDHAMAN: Killed in Bihar, Dubey lends life to campaign next door
MALERKOTLA: The Muslims and the maverick
SHALLA PATTAN (GURDASPUR): A bridge between politics and people
RAUDA (SHIVPURI): The pump of votes runs dry
KONCH: A question for Mayawati
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Cong to line up Priyanka, Rahul for phase two
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‘I haven’t seen feel-good anywhere. It must be in the pockets of govt’s cronies’
‘Suicides by farmers are the result of feel-bad actions by former governments’
Bijli Sadak Advani
 

 
   
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