New Delhi: The CBI on Monday arrested AICC member Daljeet Singh Chaudhry over his alleged role in the Rs 35,000 crore foodgrain scam in Uttar Pradesh. The arrest came two days after CBI teams searched 12 places in Lucknow. Group 3 employees of the state food corporation and some alleged middleman were also raided for allegedly diverting PDS grain in Uttar Pradesh for export. Complainant Vishwanath Chaturvedi had last month...
11:58 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leaders are expected to present their wish-list for the Union Budget 2012-13 to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who will be holding consultations with them on Thursday. Mukherjee is expected to be told by the partymen to raise the income tax limit, give more allocation to anti-poverty programmes as also duty concessions that would help the common man. Finance Ministers have been holding consultation with AICC leaders regularly...
09:43 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Bangalore: The opposition Congress in Karnataka will complete the process of identifying probable candidates in 150 Assembly segments in the state by March-end in anticipation of a snap poll this year. Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President G Parameshwara said observers from All India Congress Committee (AICC) are already on the job. "Simultaneously, our process is also on (in identifying candidates)", he told reporters. "We are paying attention to 150 constituencies...
02:20 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: Hackers broke into the Congress' official website and replaced part of Sonia Gandhi's profile with some objectionable material in a cyber attack coinciding with the party chief's birthday. "The hackers could penetrate deep inside the website and changed one paragraph," AICC Computer Department chief Vishwajeet Prithvijeet Singh said. Singh said that Congress websites - aicc.org.in, congress.org.in - were subjected to the attack prompting the party to "put them...
05:17 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Srinagar: Cracking the whip, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Thursday asked his younger brother Mustafa Kamal to quit party posts following his controversial remarks that AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has no role in the affairs of the state government and on AFSPA. "I have asked him to submit his resignation from the post of Chief spokesperson of the party as well as General Secretary," Abdullah said. Kamal on...
08:33 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: Three days after the devastating earthquake, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was in Sikkim on Wednesday. Gandhi headed to affected areas across Gangtok to meet victims and their families. He was scheduled to make a trip to Meghalaya on Wednesday for a public meeting of Youth Congress membership but changed his plan to include this visit. Gandhi visited Gangtok on Wednesday morning before attending the scheduled Youth Congress...
07:04 AM, Sep 21, 2011
I'll be upfront about this and I am reasonably sure you'll agree with me. Deep down, most of us nurture disdain towards those who come to occupy positions of power by virtue of birth. Quite honestly, that has, at least until I started researching this story on Rahul Gandhi, been my stated position. And because there is no other polite way to say it, I'll say it as it is:...
11:09 AM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: In a counter-offensive, Congress will launch its campaign on Sunday to "expose communal forces" behind the agitations by civil rights activist Anna Hazare and yoga guru Ramdev on the issue of corruption and blackmoney. Senior leader Pranab Mukherjee will hold a media interaction in Kolkata kickstarting the party's nationwide camapign in the wake of agitations by Ramdev and Hazare. The party is also organizing a public rally in...
08:18 PM, Jun 11, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Opposition Leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj after visuals showing the top BJP leader dancing at Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi Raj Ghat sparked a controversy. "By dancing at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj has not only insulted Gandhiji but all the freedom fighters and the entire countrymen. She should resign from the post of the Leader of the Opposition and...
03:30 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Opposition Leader in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj after visuals showing the top BJP leader dancing at Mahatma Gandhi's samadhi Raj Ghat sparked a controversy. "By dancing at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj has not only insulted Gandhiji but all the freedom fighters and the entire countrymen. She should resign from the post of the Leader of the Opposition and...
03:30 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Greater Noida/New Delhi: Congress on Thursday vowed to continue with its protests against the UP government's land acquisition policy after Rahul Gandhi was arrested and released following his visit to the epicentre of the stir in Greater Noida to support the agitating farmers. After a three-hour midnight drama of arrest and release, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was finally escorted back to Delhi by the UP police through the DND...
09:26 AM, May 12, 2011
Bardwan: AICC will take decision on the fate of two rebel Congress MPs who have been campaigning against the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance candidates in West Bengal Assembly elections, WBPCC chief Manas Bhuniya said on Sunday. "We have been watching the anti-alliance activities of Adhir Chowdhury in Murshidabad district and Deepa Dasmunshi in North Dinajpur district. AICC will take the decision on their fate," Bhuniya told reporters at Daihata after attending...
10:24 AM, Apr 18, 2011
Jalpauguri: After expulsion of 15 rebel candidates from the party for contesting against its official nominees for the West Bengal Assembly polls, Congress on Friday appealed to the remaining dissidents to withdraw their candidature to defeat the ruling Left Front. "I appeal to those (partymen) contesting as independents to withdraw their candidature. There is still time. Self-interest has to be sacrificed for the greater interest," Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee...
02:11 PM, Apr 15, 2011
Kolkata: AICC president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi will campaign for Congress-TMC alliance in north Bengal where first phase of polls will take place on April 18, WBPCC sources in Kolkata said. Sonia Gandhi would address three election meetings on April 15 at Jalpaiguri, Ratua and Englishbazar in Malda district. Rahul Gandhi too would start his campaign fromv Jalpaiguri the day before and address his first meeting at...
12:01 PM, Apr 12, 2011
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