Shimla: In a triangular contest, the Congress was Monday voted out of power from the Shimla Municipal Corporation after 26 years of rule, its candidates for the two top posts biting dusts, months ahead of the Himachal Pradesh assembly elections.

After ruling one of India's oldest civic body for over 25 years, the Congress suffered a major setback in the Shimla municipal corporation elections, the results of which were declared on Monday. The BJP has emerged as the single largest party, ...

SHIMLA: Singed by Didi in their stronghold in West Bengal, the CPM has found an unlikely place to cool off - Shimla. A year after their loss to the Trinamool Congress, that ended a 34-year-rule in West Bengal, the CPM created history of sorts in ...

The CPM today won the posts of mayor and deputy mayor in the Shimla Municipal Corporation but the central leadership struggled to savour the victory as it was left red-faced by the remarks of a Kerala leader justifying political murders.

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Delivering a major blow to the Congress and denting the ruling BJP's plans in the run-up to the Assembly elections, the CPM on Monday scripted history by winning the posts of Shimla's mayor and deputy mayor. While Sanjay Chauhan — CPM's most familiar ...

The CPI(M), which has been struggling to maintain its national relevance, sprang a surprise in Shimla by wresting the offices of mayor and deputy mayor from the Congress, which had held them for 25 years. The CPI(M) did not have any major electoral ...

The fading fortunes of the Left got an unexpected boost when two representatives of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, were elected as mayor and deputy mayor in the Shimla Municipal Corporation; a likely flash in the pan.