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In the 2007 polls, BJP came out as largest party with 35 seats, while the Congress won 21 seats Amid tight security, the polling for the single-phase   Uttarakhand assembly elections 2017   began on Wednesday and the one question in everyone’s mind is whether this Himalayan state, which was carved out from the gigantic Uttar Pradesh in 2000, is going to have a new chief minister or the incumbent supremacy will continue. The rebel party leaders, certainly, hold the key in the outcome in the hilly state where two prominent parties – the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Congress — are trying every bit to seek the favour of every section of voters. Both parties expelled many leaders ahead of the elections, who then walked into the rival camps. While the BJP has fielded candidates, who have served the Congress, from 13 seats, the grand old party is trying its luck with seven erstwhile-BJP MLAs. In the last leg of the election campaign, the Congress vice-president Rahul...

Assembly Elections 2016 India - Latest News, Results, Updates, Photos Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his   Kerala Assembly Elections 2016   -Somalia comparison, the CPI-M here today said situation in the state did not become like the African country because BJP never came to power here. "Modi's statement would result in a setback to BJP in the ensuing polls as it has insulted the people of the state," CPI-M state Secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said. Referring to Modi's Somalia remarks, Balakrishnan said "one thing the Prime Minister should understand is that the state has no such situation as in Somalia because, BJP has never come to power". He said "Gujarat Model" development projected by the BJP was actually a false propaganda. "It was the first communist government formed in 1957 that laid the foundation for the development path of the state with its policy on land reforms, education, health and also in o...