Congress Votes Cancelled

Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar today said that if the grand old party came to power in the assembly elections, it would cancel the scrapping of 4 percent Muslim quota by the ruling government.

As voting ended for two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana this evening, the ruling BJP sought the cancellation of votes cast by Congress MLAs Kiran Choudhary and BB Batra, alleging that they showed their preference of votes to several people.

A Congress delegation met the Election Commission on Friday and demanded postponing the October 30 by-election to Huzurabad assembly constituency in Telangana over alleged use of money power to woo voters.

Supreme Court Karnataka MLA Case: The Supreme Court today confirmed the disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the subsequent takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP. But the court has cancelled the Speaker's decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till...

Whether BJP lawmaker KG Bopaiah is qualified to be the temporary speaker when Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa takes a trust vote in the Karnataka assembly will be heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow morning. The three-judge bench, which had taken up the earlier petition against Mr Yeddyurappa's appointment, will start the hearing at 10.30 a.m, just h...

The BJP's KG Bopaiah will be temporary speaker tomorrow when his party's BS Yeddyurappa, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, will take a trust vote on the Supreme Court's orders. This is one more decision by Governor Vajubhai Valla that the Congress is set to challenge in court.

A day after nearly 10,000 voter ID cards found in a Bengaluru apartment generated a new political flashpoint ahead of the Saturday Karnataka election, sources in the Election Commission called the BJP's demand for cancelling voting in the area "far-fetched" and not possible. "People can vote even without voter IDs by showing other proof. So just be...

Delhi Congress President Ajay Maken on Wednesday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP over the cancellation of the appointment of nine AAP advisers, saying the two parties were working together to make a dent in his party's vote share in the Lok Sabha elections.

The counting for elections for three Gujarat Rajya Sabha started in Gandhinagar after the Election Commission accepted the Congress petition that votes cast by its two rebel lawmakers should be cancelled because they had shown their ballot paper to the BJP chief Amit Shah.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda today said there was a "political conspiracy" to reject the votes of Congress lawmakers who voted for lawyer RK Anand in the Rajya Sabha elections in the state.

Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal today disqualified BJP's Bhimlal Arya and Congress' Rekha Arya from the House under the anti-defection law for voting against their parties during the floor test held on May 10.

A bill to avert the U.S. "fiscal cliff" by canceling most scheduled tax hikes and delaying spending cuts cleared a procedural vote in the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin, indicating strong support for final passage in a vote expected later on Tuesday.

Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar today said that if the grand old party came to power in the assembly elections, it would cancel the scrapping of 4 percent Muslim quota by the ruling government.

As voting ended for two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana this evening, the ruling BJP sought the cancellation of votes cast by Congress MLAs Kiran Choudhary and BB Batra, alleging that they showed their preference of votes to several people.

A Congress delegation met the Election Commission on Friday and demanded postponing the October 30 by-election to Huzurabad assembly constituency in Telangana over alleged use of money power to woo voters.

Supreme Court Karnataka MLA Case: The Supreme Court today confirmed the disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs whose revolt triggered the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular-Congress government and the subsequent takeover by the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP. But the court has cancelled the Speaker's decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till...

Whether BJP lawmaker KG Bopaiah is qualified to be the temporary speaker when Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa takes a trust vote in the Karnataka assembly will be heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow morning. The three-judge bench, which had taken up the earlier petition against Mr Yeddyurappa's appointment, will start the hearing at 10.30 a.m, just h...

The BJP's KG Bopaiah will be temporary speaker tomorrow when his party's BS Yeddyurappa, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, will take a trust vote on the Supreme Court's orders. This is one more decision by Governor Vajubhai Valla that the Congress is set to challenge in court.

A day after nearly 10,000 voter ID cards found in a Bengaluru apartment generated a new political flashpoint ahead of the Saturday Karnataka election, sources in the Election Commission called the BJP's demand for cancelling voting in the area "far-fetched" and not possible. "People can vote even without voter IDs by showing other proof. So just be...

Delhi Congress President Ajay Maken on Wednesday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP over the cancellation of the appointment of nine AAP advisers, saying the two parties were working together to make a dent in his party's vote share in the Lok Sabha elections.

The counting for elections for three Gujarat Rajya Sabha started in Gandhinagar after the Election Commission accepted the Congress petition that votes cast by its two rebel lawmakers should be cancelled because they had shown their ballot paper to the BJP chief Amit Shah.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupendra Singh Hooda today said there was a "political conspiracy" to reject the votes of Congress lawmakers who voted for lawyer RK Anand in the Rajya Sabha elections in the state.

Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal today disqualified BJP's Bhimlal Arya and Congress' Rekha Arya from the House under the anti-defection law for voting against their parties during the floor test held on May 10.

A bill to avert the U.S. "fiscal cliff" by canceling most scheduled tax hikes and delaying spending cuts cleared a procedural vote in the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming margin, indicating strong support for final passage in a vote expected later on Tuesday.