New Delhi:Sonia holds meeting to discuss poll outcome

                                                                   
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today held a meeting of party general secretaries and office bearers to discuss the outcome of the Assembly elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, and the reasons behind it.
Congress was hopeful of wresting Punjab from the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP but put up a dismal performance. In Uttar Pradesh also the party could improve its tally by only six seats from 22 in 2007 to 28 this time.
Congress had virtually made UP a prestige issue and Rahul Gandhi and Digvijaya Singh had made all efforts to improve the tally. However, Samajwadi Party swept the polls with an unprecedented 224 seats in its kitty.
Rahul Gandhi had yesterday accepted responsibility for the party’s dismal performance in UP.
 
Gandhi met party general secretaries and office-bearers at the All Indian Congress Committee headquarters here and later discussed the poll results with general secretaries in-charge of the five states.
General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who had campaigned extensively for the party in Uttar Pradesh, kept away from the meeting.
 
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh, in-charge of UP; Chaudhary Birendra Singh, incharge of Uttarakhand; Gulchain Singh Charak, in-charge of Punjab; Jagmeet Singh Brar, in-charge of Goa; and Luizinho Faleiro, in-charge of Manipur, were present in the meeting with Gandhi.

Mayawati:New SP govt will take state backwards

                                  

                                                                                                                                                    
Lucknow: Stunned from a massive defeat, outgoing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday alleged that the Samajwadi Party would take the state backwards by putting her welfare programmes in the cold storage. She blamed the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party of playing communal politics, helping the SP reap the benefits in the elections. She said that 70 per cent of Muslim votes went to the SP as the Congress appeared weak.
      
After the defeat in the elections, former UP CM Mayawati on Wednesday said that she has submitted her resignation to the Governor.

While addressing the media, after her defeat, Mayawati said that she had worked hard to improve the situation in UP since 2007 but the the Centre had not co-operated with her.

The new government will take the state backward, she added.

Mayawati claimed that the SP got the Muslim votes as the Congress played the quota card wrongly.

She thanked the Dalits and the people who have supported her during her tenure as a CM.

Jagan calls up Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, pats them for victory in UP polls

                                                
Nellore:Ys Jagan calls up Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, pats them for victory in UP polls
ongratulated Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on his party's resounding victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election.  "The UP election results are a slap on the face of Congress. By voting SP back to power, people have rejected the corrupt rulers," YSRCP was quoted as saying, taking a dig at both Congress and incumbent BSP

Hyderabad:Power cut today

Hyderabad: APEPDL will impose power cut in the following areas on Wednesday from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. due to maintenance works: Pandurangapuram, Mythrinagar, Officers' Club, RK beach and Kali temple area. The power disruption is caused due to interruption on 11kv Pandurangapuram and 11kv RK Beach feeders for maintenance of four pole structure.

Congress high command responsible for poll drubbing, says YSR Congres party leaders

                                                                   

YSR Congress Party leaders on Tuesday said the Congress had lost the people's confidence across the country and it was proved with the elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and other States“Rahul Gandhi cannot become Prime Minister forever. His tours and speeches have become futile exercise in Uttar Pradesh. Regional parties will dominate the next general elections and YSR Congress Party would play a key role in national politics,” Mr. Ravindrababu and Mr. Kirankumar said. They hoped the YSR Congress would win Narasannapeta seat.

 

. Addressing a media conference, senior leaders of the party Rowtu Seetarama Swamy, Duppala Ravindrababu, and Hanumanthu Kirankumar said the Congress high command was responsible for the party's debacle as it had never allowed local leadership to prove its mettle.

NELLORE:SI, ASI suspended for election duty failure

Mr. Ramana Kumar said that strict monitoring was in place at all 15 check posts set up on borders of district and also Kovur Assembly segment. So far, Rs.81.54 lakh of unaccounted money was seized and handed over to the IT officer of the flying squad concerned.

Mr. Sridhar, who reviewed the latest situation, said that all steps were taken and close monitoring was taking place in co-ordination with banks to see if anybody had withdrawn amounts higher than Rs.10 lakh during the by-poll. DRDA project director had been instructed to monitor and check bank accounts of SHG groups and see if there were deposits from sources other than the district administration. There were complaints that some parties were directly depositing cash in SHG groups' accounts to lure voters.

A sub-inspector of police and an ASI were suspended while some constables were issued memos for not checking the vehicle of Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy at the check post put up as part of Kovur Assembly segment by-election.

SI K. Sekhar Babu and ASI M. Chennaiah were found guilty of allowing the Minister's vehicle to pass without any checking on Sunday. As it proved true during enquiry, they were suspended and election code would be strictly implemented without any partiality, said District Collector B. Sridhar and superintendent of police B. V. Ramana Kumar.

About 150 liquor bottles and some ganja too were seized during the checking.

The District Collector appealed to leaders and candidates of respective parties to not make personalised comments during election and that action would be initiated against those indulging in such remarks as per the election code.

mulayam singh yadav or Akhilesh? SP to name CM today

                                                       
Lucknow: After ousting the BSP government of Mayawati with its impressive comeback in politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, the parliamentary board of the Samajwadi Party will meet on Wednesday to decide who will be the next chief minister.


Although, Mulayam Singh Yadav will be chosen as the leader of the Samajwadi Party parliamentary board, there is a growing clamour for the coronation of his son Akhilesh, who is the man responsible for his party’s resurgence in UP.


Though, Akhilesh himself maintains that the reins of power will remain in the hands of his father, most of the newly-elected party MLAs, senior leaders and party workers fee that it is time for rewarding Akhilesh for pulling the party out of morass and scripting a new image for the party.

The meeting of the parliamentary board of the party is slated to start at 11 am during which name of the party chief ministerial candidate will be decided.

When asked who will be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh told reporters with all humility that Neta ji will be in hot seat. He and other party leaders including Ram Gopal Yadav and Shivpal Singh Yadav also categorically ruled out there was any dispute or any ambiguity over the leadership issue.

However, they maintained that any decision taken by the party chief and the parliamentary board would be acceptable to all of them.

So in this context, in would be interesting to see if SP chief feels the pulse of his supporters and decides to anoint his son-who has been the game changer for Samajawadi Party- the chief minister of the state to carry forward his legacy and fulfil the hopes of the state.