BHOPAL: Senior Congress leader and former union minister, Vidya Charan Shukla today said he was strongly opposed to his party aligning with the Bahujan Samaj Party in Madhya Pradesh for the coming Lok Sabha elections.``The BSP's policies are totally opposed to the Congress and hence there can be no alliance between the two,'' Shukla said. ``The BSP is a highly opportunist political party and is against everything for which the Congress stands,'' he said.Cong warnedAGARTALA: Tripura home minister Samar Choudhury has threatened stern action against the opposition Congress alleging that they were trying to disrupt law and order in the state.Reacting to the five-day jailbharo movement, launched by the Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress (TPYC) and the Sevadal since Monday demanding imposition of President's rule in the state, Choudhury said the agitators would not be allowed to take law in their own hands.Kerala panelTHRISSUR: Senior Congress leader and former union minister, K Karunakaran, today said the AICC would constitute a committee under the chairmanship of Thennalai Balakrishnan Pillai, MP, to look after all matters relating to the Lok Sabha elections in Kerala.He told newsmen here that members of the committee would be decided later.UDF boycottTHIRUVANANTHPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front opposition in the Kerala assembly today boycotted the proceedings and sat in a dharna on the steps leading to the foyer of the house after the chair refused to admit an adjournment motion on the crisis in the agriculture sector in the aftermath of the agitation by CPI(M)-backed farm labourers union against conversion of paddy lands for raising cash crops.Nagaland pollsKOHIMA: Assembly elections in Nagaland will be held along with the Lok Sabha polls in the last half of February, state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Lalthara, has said. Lalthara, who returned from New Delhi here on Monday said specific poll dates for Nagaland would be announced and poll programmes finalised after a meeting in New Delhi between the Election Commission and all political parties on December 22 and December 23.Parvathi's stirHYDERABAD: The NTR Telugu Desam led by Lakshmi Parvathi would soon firm up seat adjustments with BJP for the forthcoming mid-term elections and contest a majority of seats in Andhra Pradesh.The party would launch a joint campaign with the BJP, focussing on stable government and able leadership at the centre, Parvathi said here today.BJP campaignSHIMOGA: The BJP president, L K Advani, would start poll campaign in Karnataka from the first week of next month, party state president B S Yediyurappa announced. Talking to media persons, he said ``there is a positive wave in favour of BJP in the state''. If elected to power, the party would strive hard to provide a `healthy' govt, he said.
