Jaunpur IJP candidate murdered
Mulayam calls it ‘curtain-raiser’
Lucknow, April 13
Mayawati party’s claim of ensuring free and fair elections in the state was exposed today as an Indian Justice Party (IJP) candidate from Jaunpur Bahadur Sonkar was murdered last night, allegedly by the “goons” of the Jaunpur BSP candidate.

Cong MLA shot dead in MP

The police disperses crowds as the body of IJP candidate Vijay Bahadur Sonker is taken away by his relatives in Jaunpur on Monday. A Tribune photograph

Manmohan accuses NDA of appeasing terrorists
Mumbai, April 13
In retaliation to the barbs aimed at him by BJP leader L K Advani, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said his rival for the post of PM was weak in action who was "weeping in a corner" while the Babri Masjid was demolished by hoodlums.
26/11: Fifth suspect held, says Pak

Mudslinging touches new low
Modi needs brain test: Cong
New Delhi, April 13
Launching a scathing attack on Narendra Modi without naming the Gujarat Chief Minister directly, the Congress today said some politicians needed to get their head examined for the statements they had been making during the election campaign.

Rahul questions Advani’s leadership

Tractors yes, but Badals too don’t own a car
Bathinda, April 13
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, candidate of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) for the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat, possesses 14.93 kg of jewellery and precious stones worth Rs 1.94 crore. Her mother-in-law Surinder Kaur Badal has 4.48 kg of gold and precious stones worth Rs 58.29 lakh. She has filed her papers as the covering candidate of the party.

Devotees pay obeisance at Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar, on the eve of Baisakhi on Monday. — PTI

11 CISF men, 4 naxals die in 9-hr attack
Extremists escape with explosives
Koraput (Orissa), April 13
Two days ahead of the first phase of polling in Orissa, the remote south-eastern district of Koraput stood transformed into a ghost town, following a bloody end to the night-long naxal attack on National Aluminium Company’s bauxite mining site in Daaman Jodi village.

2 MBA students of Lovely varsity drowned
in Beas
Dharamsala, April 13
Three persons, including two MBA students of Lovely University, Jalandhar, were drowned in the Beas this evening. The sources available here said that they had come to participate in the Baisakhi mela organised near Paragpur, about 60 km from here.