"The wager in Delhi" is on strengthening the newest version of the third front–" with Mulayam joining Mamata, Naveen Patnaik, N Chandrababu Naidu, J Jayalalithaa and, who knows, Nitish Kumar and Sharad Pawar in a grand alliance of state chieftains" he writes.
The piece notes that Rahul Gandhi's "colossal failure in Uttar Pradesh has left the Congress on the ropes," while the Bharatiya Janata Party is filling only "some of the gaps, leaving vast spaces for the state chieftains".
The dispute began early this morning, when Democrats on the State Board of Elections agreed to allow Mr. McCain to appear on the Republican ballot in eight districts where state Republican Party chieftains had tried to block his candidacy.
Whatever the congresswoman decides, the Empire State's Democratic chieftains could not be blunter about their druthers: They don't want Ms. Gillibrand to break into so much as a mild sweat in a primary.
The PRI's establishment shifted power from political-military chieftains to state party units and to those sectors of the party representing peasants, urban labourers, and the military.
Today Schwartz sent an open letter to IBM chieftain Sam Palmisano Sam Palmisano, stating that "the business case is clearly there" for IBM to fully support Solaris on x86.
The point is this: Dubai is an Islamic state run by a tribal chieftain.
As head of the elite consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Rajat K. Gupta associated with corporate chieftains and heads of state around the world.
It was conquered by the Muslims in the 14th century, was under Mughal dominion, and fell to the Marathas in 1730, after which it was the capital of Dhar princely state, founded in 1742 by Anand Rao Panwar, a Maratha chieftain.
But Faris Sanabani, a media adviser to the president, said the point of the hostage-taking by the state was to make it clear to the chieftains that the government held the ultimate power.
But again demonstrating the importance of choice issues in hard-fought elections in Colorado, abortion is occupying a prominent part of the election bandwidth, prompting Steve Henson, Managing Editor of the Pueblo Chieftain, to write that "no one state-elected official will have any control over what is a national issue".
