Indian Lok Sabha Polls 2014

Advani to contest from Gandhinagar
Tnn, New Delhi

After a day of meeting top BJP leaders, including the party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Advani yesterday agreed to the party's wish for him to contest from Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
Earlier in the day, BJP president Rajnath Singh had said L K Advani was free to choose whichever seat he wanted to contest from.  There were reports through the day of the senior BJP leader sulking over his candidature from Gandhinagar, where he is the sitting MP. Through the day, BJP's top brass attempted to placate L K Advani, who wanted to contest from Bhopal.
Modi went to the senior leader's residence and was there for about half-an-hour, apparently to persuade him to contest from Gandhinagar, the seat which Advani has represented five times in Lok Sabha.
Arun Jaitley, Venkaiah Naidu and Sushma Swaraj, too, met Advani yesterday.

AAP eyes to win 100 seats
Pti, Sultanpur

Noting they were "missing" anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, Aam Aadmi Party leader Sanjay Singh said that had he been associated with the party it would have achieved its target easily.
"The party is missing Hazare... Had he been with us, we would have easily achieved our target," Singh, a core committee member of AAP, told PTI in an interview.
Claiming that AAP would won 100 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, Singh said the party has so far declared candidates for 287 seats and will contest in all seats in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Asked about supporting any other party after the polls, Singh said, except BJP and Congress, his party would support any party which would promise bringing in the Jan Lokpal Bill.

BJP files candidates linked to riots
Afp, New Delhi

Two members of India's main opposition Hindu nationalist party, who face criminal charges for inciting religious riots in Assam that killed 50 people last August, will stand in next month's general election.
Hukum Singh and Sanjeev Baliyan will contest seats for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in electorally crucial Uttar Pradesh state, where the August riots forced 50,000 Muslims to flee to refugee camps.