Jagdambika Pal

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  BJP Panel To Visit Violence-Hit Dhulagarh In West Bengal Today

  A team of BJP leaders will visit Dhulagarh in West Bengal's Howrah district today after communal tension flared in the area last week. Members of the team will visit the area, meet affected people and prepare a report and send it to the centre.

• Key Contestant: Jagdambika Pal

  Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader switched his allegiance to the BJP just before the Lok Sabha elections after lavishing praise on its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. He has been nominated again from Domariyaganj, a constituency he won in 2009.

• Colouring the electoral landscape: defectors and dissenters

  Whether it is winnability, political compulsion or safeguarding political interests, dissenters and defectors alike are colouring the political landscape ahead of this election.

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  10 politicians who jumped ship this election season

  Read Mark Twain's thoughts and those of Thomas Jefferson to get perspective on the scramble on right now as politicians quit their parties of many years to join those that they have attacked forever. Twain, the man of words, said, "Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed." Jefferson, man of politics, said, "Whenever a man has cast...

• BJP's new joinees are now candidates

  BJP president Rajnath Singh on Wednesday took time off from a meeting of the party's central election committee to officially induct former Congress MP Jagdambika Pal into the fold.

• Senior leader Jagdambika Pal quits Lok Sabha, Congress

  Amid speculation that he was warming up to BJP, senior Congress leader from Uttar Pradesh Jagdambika Pal today resigned from Lok Sabha as well as from the party.

• After Narendra Modi refers to Rahul Gandhi's 'mama', Congress talks of his 'nana'

  Narendra Modi, the BJP's candidate for prime minister, asked today if Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is receiving funding from his "mama" or maternal uncle.

• Bihar mid-day meal tragedy: 'Food was poisoned'

  Amid the massive mid-day meal tragedy unfolding in Bihar, a nasty political blame-game has begun over who was responsible for the deaths of 21 children. While the Opposition in Bihar has slammed the Nitish Kumar government for being "insensitive" and "callous", the ruling Janata Dal(United) or JD(U) has hit back, alleging political conspiracy.