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With most opinion polls indicating a defeat for the Congress-led UPA coalition of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after a decade in office, an aggressive Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is confident of ushering in a political makeover.

Denied a BJP ticket to contest from Barmer in Rajasthan, Jaswant Singh told IANS that there will be “repercussions” because of the many differences that have come to the fore in the party.

The efforts by political parties to woo the new voters have suffered a setback with the Election Commission coming out against taking campaign to the campus of educational institutions.

Hundreds of volunteers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from Gujarat have flocked to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh by buses and trains ahead of party supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s road show on March 25.

For Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu, the steady influx of senior Congress leaders from Seemandhra into his party should have brought a smile on his face.

The regulations regarding paid media would be implemented for the first time in Andhra Pradesh in the coming simultaneous elections to the assembly and Lok Sabha, the Director-General of Election Commission of India Akshay Rout has said.

Popular Tollywood film star Pawan Kalyan, who launched a political party “Jana Sena” last week, appears to be warming up to the Bharatiya Janata Party for an alliance in the coming simultaneous elections to assembly and Lok Sabha.

The two warring factions in the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) have set the ground for a united fight in the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala by declaring a temporary truce.

Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has sought to win support of all sections for the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) headed by his party in the Lok Sabha election by indicating a reshuffle in his government after the elections.