India: Congress Party Claims Victory in Punjab, Uttarakhand Assembly Polls

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NEW DELHI</span></st1:city><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (NNN-IANS) -- The Congress Monday claimed victory in Uttarakhand and <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> assembly polls.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Reports from <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> and Uttarakhand ... clearly speak that the party is winning and forming governments," Congress leader Mohan Prakash said at a party briefing here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He said the Congress will also form the government in Uttar Pradesh, where the seven-phased polls begin Feb 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Congress is the main opposition party in both <st1:place w:st="on">Punjab</st1:place> and Uttarakhand, where polls were held Monday. -- NNN-IANS<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India: Congress Party Claims Victory in Punjab, Uttarakhand Assembly Polls

NEW DELHI (NNN-IANS) -- The Congress Monday claimed victory in Uttarakhand and Punjab assembly polls. "Reports from Punjab and Ut...

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India: Willing to Form Any Alliance to Oust Cong - Badal

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">CHANDIGARH</st1:place></st1:city> (NNN-PTI): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal was willing to forge alliance with any like-minded political party with the "sole objective" to defeat the Congress in the forthcoming Assembly polls. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a function here, Badal said, "SAD would always welcome such leaders and alliances to join its crusade to wipe out Congress from the state and the country in the larger public interest." <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">He was replying to a question about the possibility of Lok Bhalai Party President and Former Union Minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia joining the SAD. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The Chief Minister claimed that people had lost faith in the Congress due to its "anti-poor policies, rampant corruption, unemployment, poverty and rising inflation".-NNN-PTI </div></div>

India: Willing to Form Any Alliance to Oust Cong - Badal

CHANDIGARH (NNN-PTI): Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has said the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal was willing to forge alliance wit...

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