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“People blessed us with 104 seats. The mandate wasn’t for the Congress or the JD(S). The governor invited us to form the government because we are the largest party...Till the last breath of my life, I will work for the people of Karnataka,” he said.

"If we have to preserve freedom, we’ll have to defeat forces endangering it. We can’t and we won’t allow sectarian forces to succeed,” she said.

VOTING for India's 16th Lok Sabha will be held in nine phases between 7 April and 12 May. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- the political wing of the Hindutva forces (collectively known as the Sangh Parivar) -- is poised for a landslide win.

POLITICAL leaders of various hues are ready to face yet another electoral battle. Polling booths, you can say, are the laboratories where the candidates are tested. Sometimes, candidates are more anxious and frightened than say the children who face board exams in 10th and 12th grades.

WITH politicians cutting across party lines taking a plunge in the Ganga, the ongoing Maha Kumbh at Allahabad is fast turning into a preparatory ground for political parties, primarily the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party in view of the 2014 Lok Sabha election.