rediff.com: Assembly Elections 2006

Search:

The Web

Rediff

Images

Get the election schedule

Let the celebrations begin

Photograph: Sreeram Selvaraj

• Let the celebrations begin
• At 82, The Comeback Kid
• The veteran who overcame the odds
• Chasing Vijayakanth
• Fisherfolk root for Amma
• Will Buddha have the last laugh?
• Weaving sorry tale in Kancheepuram
• Welcome to Kolkata Shining
• Congress forgotten where Rajiv was felled
• Karunanidhi: Sachin of TN politics
• Son rises in Chennai's Thousand Lights
• Elections in forgotten India
• Simran campaigns for Amma
• Thalaivar on a sticky wicket
• In elephant and Maoist country

Despatches From our Reporters

• Kolkata's 10 most important constituencies
• Coimbatore: Mill workers disillusioned
• Tiruppur: EC has reduced business by 90 per cent
• Dindigul: Are elections really on?
• 'I don't want any other woman to suffer like me'
• 'No one will kill each other for polls'
• Karunanidhi disappoints rural voters

Specials

• 29 years in Bengal, still going strong
• A new Bengal, rising in Howrah
• Jaya: Still riding the MGR wave
• Kannur: A history of violence
• Kerala: Simply politics & nothing else
• In Kerala, it's CPI-M versus CPI-M

Columns

• God had better watch out for Kerala!
• Will Jayalalithaa split the DMK alliance?

Poll archives

• West Bengal Assembly Elections, 2001
• Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections, 2001
• Kerala Assembly Elections, 2001
• Pondicherry Assembly Elections, 2001
• Assam Assembly Elections, 2001
• Elections Home Page

West Bengal

• Buddhadeb invited to form govt
• 29 years in Bengal and still going strong
• Analysis: The message from Bengal
• 'CPI-M not out to destabilise UPA'
• PM should think why are we winning: Yechury
• Buddhadeb wins; celebrations begin
• 5-phase poll in Bengal yielded results: CEC

More...

TN and Pondicherry

• N Rangasamy appointed Pondicherry CM
• Freebies' offer in TN not justified: CEC
• Graphic: How the DMK wrested Tamil Nadu
• What a coalition means in Tamil Nadu
• DMK manifesto hero of 2006 election
• Why Jayalalithaa lost
• Pondicherry: Congress retains power
• Jayalalithaa resigns as chief minister
• Celebration at Karunanidhi residence; Jaya's deserted
• Pondicherry: PMC wins in 2 constituencies
• Exit polls: DMK front to sweep TN
• EC displeased with AIADMK, DMK

More...

Kerala

• Kerala: Where change is static
• Kerala: Sons of two former CMs bite the dust
• Kerala: UDF stalwarts face humiliating defeat
• 13 proves unlucky for Gowri
• BJP does not open account in Kerala
• LDF sweeps Kerala

More...

Assam

• Assam CM will be from Congress: Gogoi
• Congress sends Digvijay, Kidwai to Assam
• Assam: It's tea tribe again for Congress

More...

Poll Pundit

Ask the Pundit
The biggest election process in recent times is coming your way. Clueless? Confused? Confounded? Ask any question related to the election and rediff.com's Poll Pundit will provide the answers. Click here to submit your questions.