Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prithviraj Chavan has been named as the next Maharashtra Chief Minister. Chavan”s name was formally announced this morning after he met Congress President Sonia Gandhi at her 10 Janpath residence. Announcing the decision, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said, “Myself and AK Antony went to Mumbai last evening where [...]
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‘PM was emotional when Tharoor offered to quit’
April 19th, 2010 |
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When Shashi Tharoor went to meet him and offered to quit Sunday afternoon, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared emotional and told him he believed he was clean, but he had no choice in the face of an unrelenting opposition that was determined to embarrass the government and hold up important legislative business, sources said here.
“The [...]
Mayawati expels Mukhtar Ansari, his brother from BSP
April 16th, 2010 |
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati Friday expelled criminal-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from the primary membership of the party.
“Ansari’s involvement in criminal activities led our party president to take the decision to expel him,” a BSP press release released here said.
His elder brother Afzal Ansari, who was earlier a BSP MP, [...]
Sudhir Mungantivar is new Maharashtra BJP chief
April 2nd, 2010 |
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Senior Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sudhir Mungantivar was elected state party chief here Friday, a party official said.
The 48-year old Mungantivar, a four-time legislator, will replace Nitin Gadkari, who was elected national BJP president last December.
Holding a post-graduate degree in commerce, a degree in law, and diplomas in business management and journalism, Mungantivar [...]
Thousands gather for Mayawati’s rally
March 15th, 2010 |
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Lucknow, March 15 : Tens of thousands of people from all over the country, including Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, gathered here Monday for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s rally to mark the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) 25th anniversary celebrations.
The silver jubilee celebrations at the Ramabai Ambedkar grounds coincide with party founder Kanshi Ram’s birthday.
It is [...]
Thousands gather for Mayawati’s rally
March 15th, 2010 |
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Lucknow, March 15 : Tens of thousands of people from all over the country, including Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, gathered here Monday for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s rally to mark the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) 25th anniversary celebrations.
The silver jubilee celebrations at the Ramabai Ambedkar grounds coincide with party founder Kanshi Ram’s birthday.
It is [...]
Jyoti Basu pulls in the crowds – one last time
January 19th, 2010 |
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They came in thousands, from far and near. Some queued up at night for one last glimpse. Some cried and yet others broke into spontaneous shouts of “Long live comrade Jyoti Basu” as the Marxist patriarch’s body was carried in a procession around the heart of Kolkata Tuesday.
Men and women, some with children in tow, [...]
Gadkari calls meeting of Uttar Pradesh BJP office-bearers
January 13th, 2010 |
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari has called a meeting of party office-bearers from Uttar Pradesh later this month to prepare a plan for the party’s revival in the state where it has witnessed a downslide in the past few elections.
The meeting is expected to be held in the third week of January. The [...]
West Bengal’’s Left Front Government losing popularity: Mukherjee
November 11th, 2009 |
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The CPI(M)-led Left Front government is West Bengal is losing popularity in the state, claimed Union Finance Minister and President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference at the Congress party office here, Mukherjee pointed out that it was becoming apparent that the anti-Left people in the state [...]
Congress, Trinamool emerging victorious in by polls
November 10th, 2009 |
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Continuing with its impressive performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress led UDF retained all the three assembly seats in Kerala.
The LDF suffered a blow in politically sensitive Kannur, where Congress candidate and former CPM MP A P Abdullakutty emerged victorious by a margin of 12,000 votes over CPM’’s M V Jayarajan.
Congress candidates Dominic [...]
20% turnout till mid-day in assembly by-elections
November 7th, 2009 |
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Almost 20 per cent polling was recorded by mid-day for the assembly by-elections in seven states.
Thirty-one constituencies in the States of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Rajasthan, Assam, Himachal Pradesh and Chattisgarh are undergoing polls today.
So far, the polling has been peaceful as security forces and para military personnel are keeping a strict vigil in [...]
RLD to campaign for SP candidate Dimple in by-election
November 2nd, 2009 |
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Burying the past differences with Samajwadi Party, Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal has decided to campaign for Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Dimple who is contesting by-election from Firozabad seat.
“RLD MP and incharge of youth wing Jayant Chaudhary will address a rally in support of SP candidate Dimple in Tundla on 4th November,” SP spokesman [...]
Advani will not be BJP leader in 2014 polls: Naidu
October 8th, 2009 |
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Former BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu has said the party will not contest the next Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of L K Advani and agreed that it would be logical for the party to get a new leadership at that juncture.
“Advani is not going to contest the next elections. We are not [...]
Lalu discusses Congress- RJD alliance with Sonia for Jharkhand polls
September 19th, 2009 |
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Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Saturday called on Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi to hold talks on possibilities for forming an alliance between the two parties for the Jharkhand Assembly elections.
Yadav who was accompanied by former Union Minister Premchand Gupta had a 30 minutes long discussion with Sonia Gandhi.
Gupta informed the media [...]
Police forces must operate on frontiers of modern technology: PM
September 15th, 2009 |
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Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that our police forces must operate on the frontiers of modern technology.
Addressing the Directors General and Inspectors General of Police’’s here on the concluding day of a two-day conference at Vigyan Bhavan here, Dr Singh called for creating a new-age policeman who is more professional, better-motivated, suitably [...]