The Congress-led United Democratic Front came back to power in Kerala on Friday with the slenderest majority in the history of the Assembly, winning a mere 72 of the total 140 seats. The ruling Left Democratic Front, on the other hand, put up the best performance by any incumbent since 1977, winning 68 seats. The BJP yet again failed to open its account in the Assembly.

It is currently a million dollar question. Not only within rail Bhavan but outside it as well. Who will occupy the coveted rail mantri (railway minister’s) seat) once Mamata Banerjee demits office?

As he had promised, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi led his party to a hat-trick victory, with the Congress winning an absolute majority of 78 in the 126-member Assembly.

The former top cop, 66-year-old H.D. Safwi, an avid reader, who also loves his golf, was handpicked by Mamata Banerjee for the Assembly elections to contest from Uluberia East constituency in Howrah.

It’s advantage Congress. The Assembly election results have come as a breather for the party, now riddled with scams and charges of corruption. Its electoral triumph in Assam and Kerala will give it a major political boost. The party has also heaved a sigh of relief with the DMK, its powerful southern ally, biting the dust in Tamil Nadu.

A blamegame has started within the Left as the Marxist citadel finally fell at the hands of its arch rival Trinamul Congress on Friday. The CPI(M) central leadership pinned the blame on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left Front government saying that the “mistakes’’ committed in Nandigram and Singur and other “local’’ factors led to the

It’s a grand win for J. Jayalalithaa and her AIADMK party, but the victory of the people of Tamil Nadu is grander still. For quite some time now the rest of the country had been looking down on them as an electorate up for sale. Many of them at the poll booths on April 13 might have taken money but they still went ahead and obeyed their

The drubbing and debacles of the Marxist party in the polls seem to have completed a full circle with all the bigwigs in the previous Cabinet, including chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Nirupam Sen, Gautam Deb, Ashok Bhattacharjee ending up as big losers in the polls. The million dollar question which has now cropped up

A virtual tsunami unleashed by Trinamul Congress chieftain Mamata Banerjee made history here on Friday — dethroning the longest-serving democratically-elected Communist government in the world. The star of Vladimir Lenin — to whom the state’s CPI(M)’s rulers routinely paid public tribute and whose photograph had pride of place in their offices — had well and truly dimmed after 34 long years.

When Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee became sanguine of dislodging the Left Front from power and taking over the reins of West Bengal, one concern still kept gnawing her: the sagging economy of the state. To salvage the sagging financial position of the state, she zeroed in on Amit Mitra. She thought that if any one could