Zambia Ruling Party Denies Report Predicting Opposition Victory in August

Edit Voa News 16 Apr 2016
Zambia’s ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party has dismissed a political report by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), published by the British-based magazine The Economist, predicting that main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development, (UPND) will win the August 11 presidential election....

Prohibition on liquor sales: Javadekar questions sincerity of both Dravidian parties

Edit The Times of India 16 Apr 2016
Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar questioned the sincerity of the Dravidian parties in promising total prohibition of liquor sales in the state ... He alleged that the parties that now promised to bring in prohibition of liquor were behind the growth, manufacture and sale of alcohol all these years. "The ruling party focussed on selling liquor throughout their regime....

No cakewalk for Mamata

Edit Deccan Herald 16 Apr 2016
The ruling party started taking control over the educational institutions, healthcare system and other spheres of life in the state ... Teachers in schools and colleges getting beaten up by the ruling party cadres became a regular phenomenon. The culmination was when the present vice-chancellor of Calcutta University (a self-declared ruling party man) was heckled by a group of girl students who were Trinamool activists....

Permutations, combinations at play in ruling party

Edit The Hindu 16 Apr 2016
As the wait for nominated posts by TRS workers goes on, there is a parallel bout of hope and despair among senior leaders in the party at the prospect of a Cabinet reshuffle shortly and its impact on the selection of candidates for the two seats of Rajya Sabha from Telangana that will fall vacant in June ... The latest one is up to culmination of party plenary in Khammam on April 2....

Patronage driving transport corporations

Edit The Hindu 16 Apr 2016
But, when the bus transport department was converted to transport corporations, trade unions started becoming more influential than the administrators thanks to the clout the ruling party’s union enjoyed ... Nainar said, adding that association with the ruling party’s union also helped with various ......

Politics drives transport corporations

Edit The Hindu 16 Apr 2016
But, when the bus transport department was converted to transport corporations, trade unions started becoming more influential than the administrators thanks to the clout the ruling party’s union enjoyed ... Nainar said, adding that association with the ruling party’s union also helped with various ......

Continue to push 'Operation Akarsh', exhorts Chandrababu Naidu

Edit Deccan Chronicle 16 Apr 2016
With 11 MLAs of the Opposition YSR Congress coming into its fold so far, the ruling Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh has decided to give a push to the 'Operation Akarsh', it launched a couple of months ago ... to cross over to the ruling party, unable to stand the "autocratic attitude" of their leader Y S Jaganmohan Reddy....

S. Africa's embattled Zuma woos voters ahead of August election

Edit Modern Ghana 16 Apr 2016
Port Elizabeth (South Africa) (AFP) - Embattled South African president Jacob Zuma said Saturday a vote for the ruling party was a vote for the constitution, just two weeks after the Constitutional Court slammed him for flouting the country's paramount law ... In a statement released Saturday, DA leader Mmusi Maimane "bid farewell" to the ruling party's legacy....

South Africa's embattled Jacob Zuma woos voters ahead of August election

Edit The Times of India 16 Apr 2016
Embattled South African president Jacob Zuma said on Saturday a vote for the ruling party was a vote for the constitution, just two weeks after the Constitutional Court slammed him for flouting the country's paramount law ... The party had expected ... In a statement released Saturday, DA leader Mmusi Maimane "bid farewell" to the ruling party's legacy....

Cong. accuses Trinamool of planting bombs at rally

Edit The Hindu 16 Apr 2016
... crude bombs under the stage, where he was to address party workers ... “The ruling party is indulging in such activities to create an ambience of terror ahead of the polling date,” Mr....

Raul Castro presents grim portrait of Cuban reforms

Edit Austin American Statesman 16 Apr 2016
Cuban President Raul Castro delivered a grim report on the state of the country on Saturday, saying that the communist bureaucracy had failed to implement most of the hundreds of changes the ruling party launched five years ago to stimulate the stagnant centrally controlled economy ... the ruling party launched five years ago to stimulate the economy....

Jalpaiguri, a tough battle for Left-Congress

Edit Deccan Herald 16 Apr 2016
The ruling party also imported number of other Left and Congress leaders, along with droves of supporters from both sides since the 2014 parliamentary elections ... Trinamool’s Jalpaiguri district president Saurav Chakraborty claimed his party will win all seven seats in the district even though sources pointed out that some seats like Nagrakata, Malbazar, Moynaguri and Jalpaiguri would give the ruling party a tough contest....

NPF suspends ex-home min for ‘anti-party’ activities

Edit The Times of India 16 Apr 2016
The suspension is a result of the dissidence in the ruling party ... The order issued by NPF president stated that the activities of Imkong L Imchen in the recent past had been 'adversely' affecting the 'fragile' nature of the reconciliation process as well as mutilating the hard-earned unity within the party....
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