India's Congress-Led Coalition Seen With Strong Early Lead

By Sruthi Gottipati

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NEW DELHI: The actions of the AAP government in Delhi suggest it is anti-democratic and there is a great opportunity for the BJP to regain its political space, union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday. "The acts of the Arvind Kejriwal government suggest it's an anti-democratic party. We may have lost the election in Delhi due to a vote shift of a few percent but now we are gaining this back," Jaitley said addressing the inaugural session of the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party executive meeting.

After Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi's scathing attack against Narendra Modi-led NDA government yesterday, Congress today continued its aggressive stance in its three-day plenary session in Delhi. On the second day of the session, senior Congress leaders Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma came down heavily on the Modi government on issues ranging from foreign policy to the state of the economy.

NEW DELHI: As Congress stalled the GST Bill in Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hit out at Sonia and Rahul Gandhi saying they had taken the defeat in 2014 elections badly and were creating obstacles in the path of national growth. Congress whose policies continue to be a liability for the country stands isolated on the Bill that will lead to a national Goods and Service Tax replacing all indirect levies, boosting economic growth and cutting prices, he said. "GDP will be boosted. That is the economic consensus, if GST is introduced.

The biggest story in India these days continues to be the May 2014 elections and what they could mean for India's economy which is growing at its slowest pace in a decade. Naturally analysts have been weighing in on the elections.

NEW DELHI: Congress went down fighting in Gujarat, posting its best performance in the BJP-ruled state in decades. Riding on anti-incumbency against the ruling party which had been in power for 22 years, angst over farm distress, unemployment, expensive education and a caste-based rainbow alliance, Congress kept its entrenched adversary well below its declared target of 'Mission 150'.WHAT CONGRESS GOT RIGHTCongress got down to work early. As it wrapped up Punjab elections in March, the party was already thinking about Gujarat.

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