• Cong asks LDF to announce Chief Ministerial candidate • UDF favours Chandy as CM: IUML • Congress will decide UDF CM: Muraleedharan • EC orders repoll in 15 polling stations in Asom • 216 polling booths sensitive: Collector • Poll results will have impact on national politics: Naidu • Politics of Exit poll hots up in Asom • CPI(M) organises mobile campaign in West Bengal • BSP releases second list for Pondy polls • Sonia to address election meetings in Kerala • Cong confident of forming next govt in Asom • NGOs to create awareness about candidates before polls in Bengal • Brisk voting amid rains in Assam • Congress inching towards majority in hung assembly in Asom • Congress h q secy resigns • CPI(M) promises land reform and economic policy changes • Jaya ridicules DMK chief's promise on land • Karunanidhi appeals to Sarathkumar to reconsider • LDF and UDF ruining Kerala in rotation: BJP • Trouble in Pondy DMK block units • Karunanidhi kicks off assembly poll campaign • Over 60 percent polling in final phase of Asom elections (lead) • Sarath Kumar quits DMK • Nine candidates file papers for first phase polls in UT • Karunanidhi will not come to power in TN: Vaiko • Cong hopes for exceptionally good show in Assembly polls • TN polls as per schedule: CEO • Violence in tribal areas : 65 per cent turnout in Asom • AUDF in limelight in second phase • Cong workers arrested • DMK renominates seven sitting MLAs • Minorities Front alleges poll violations • Pawar to campaign in Kerala tomorrow • TMC (Moopanar) member joins Congress • DIC(K) merger with Congress not in agenda: Karunakaran • About 40 per cent turnout recorded till noon in Asom • DMK, AIADMK ready for showdown in eight constituencies • Two Cong. candidates file nominations • EC partial: Jaya • Top BJP leaders to campaign in TN • Sedapatti quits AIADMK, joins DMK • Vaiko plays host to Jaya at his Kalingapatti ancestral house • Jaya finding reasons for impending defeat: Karunanidhi • Rajnath to campaign in West Bengal • DMDK releases second list • Rebels expelled from Congress in Kerala • Final phase of Assam polls begins amid rains • Sedapatti Muthiah joins DMK • Assam elections to end Monday • Titans to clash in Kerala's Mankada constituency • AIADMK to dip toe in Kerala's assembly poll waters • Election Commissioner to visit Pondy tomorrow • Karunanidhi to oppose MDMK's continuance in UPA • Vaiko took decision to align with AIADMK on Jan 18: DMK chief • BJP legislator resigns • DMK finalises seat sharing with allies • INTUC(TN) given two seats for TN polls • Former BJP Pondy president joins AIADMK • Krishnamurthy's quitting BJP will not affect party: Kesavalu • Electoral roll for Kerala Assembly polls finalised • Show-cause notice issued to five poll officials in West Bengal • EC asks for maximising EPIC coverage in Bengal elections • CPI(M) top leaders to finalise strategy for assembly polls • Cong yet to begin seat-sharing talks in Pondy • Left Front takes swipe at EC • Poll process in five states to commence from tomorrow • K.J. Alphonse quits IAS; may fight polls • CPI(M) allotted 13 seats • IUML to contest 3 seats in TN polls • TMC yet to decide on alliance: Jayakumar • JMK to go it alone in Pondy • Second phase campaigning for Asom polls end today • Assam gets ready for stage two of poll battle • Two Kerala MLAs are rebel candidates • Sonia to campaign twice in Kerala • KC should think of merger with mainstream party: Pillai • Cong workers oppose Jayakumar's admission to party • PM, Sonia to campaign for UDF candidates • Congress candidate files nominations for byelection • Weather spoils Asom poll • Congress versus Congress • Vaiko asks Karunanidhi reason behind favour to Maran