Sushma Swaraj On Congress Poll

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  Sushma Swaraj Retweets Congress Poll, Wins Hands Down

  Sushma Swaraj has re-tweeted a Congress post. Not just any post, but one that invites people to assess her "failure" as a Foreign Minister in handling the case of 39 missing Indians killed in Iraq. The opposition party has been targeting Ms Swaraj since she confirmed in parliament last week that the Indians had been killed by the ISIS.

• Sixth phase of polling today: key heavyweights

  117 seats across 11 states and a union territory are voting today in the sixth round of the national election that ends on May 12. Five union ministers, Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, Samjwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav are among the candidates in this phase.

• Why should Parliament follow Rahul Gandhi's poll agenda: BJP

  The BJP's Sushma Swaraj today took a robust swipe at the ruling Congress when she observed at an all-party meeting that the list of 39 bills that the government has lined up for the two-week session of Parliament beginning on Wednesday, "looks like your leader's (Rahul Gandhi's) agenda and the Congress' election programme."

• Delhi polls: Campaigning ends, parties scramble to woo voters

  As campaigning ended for the Delhi Assembly elections on Monday, parties made a last-minute scramble to grab a bigger share of the voter's attention.

• Don't fritter away votes on small parties: Sushma Swaraj to Delhi voters

  Eyeing a return to power after 15 years, BJP today appealed to the people of Delhi not to "fritter away" their votes on small parties in an apparent reference to Aam Admi Party, while seeking their support to serve them.

• Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi: Will style matter in Karnataka?

  When Narendra Modi is in full flow, he carries his audience with him. He spoke at a rally in south Bangalore on Sunday and the enthusiastic crowd followed his every cue.

• Karnataka elections: Reddy brothers' clout waning, Congress hopes to wrest Bellary from BJP

  The iron-ore rich district of Bellary in Karnataka shot into national prominence politically in 1999 when Congress chief Sonia Gandhi took on and defeated the BJP's Sushma Swaraj in the Lok Sabha elections.

• BJP will not support Pranab Mukherjee for President: Sushma Swaraj

  In a development that will give a major boost to the Congress' bid to garner support for its presidential candidate, the DMK has decided to support its ally's candidate; the ruling Congress is reportedly zeroing in on either current Vice President Hamid Ansari or Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee.

• Congress only knows how to 'grab headlines': Swaraj

  Taking potshots at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's act of tearing up a poll manifesto, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today said the party just wants to "grab headlines" through such acts.