Congress MP Abhijit Mukherjee had apologised for his remark that women protesting against rape were "dented-painted" and there was no scope for action against him, the party said on Friday. ...
12:17 PM, Dec 28, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress MP from West Bengal's Jangipur Abhijit Mukherjee sparked a row by calling the anti-rape protesters at India Gate in Delhi as "dented and painted" women. Even as he said sorry for his 'dented-painted' remark, women rights groups have rejected his apology. ...
07:58 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Abhijit slammed for his dented-painted women comment. Delhi gangrape survivor remains critical in ICU of Singapore hospital. ...
11:55 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son referred to women protestors at the India gate as dented and painted women who go to discotheques. ...
10:10 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress MP from West Bengal's Jangipur Abhijit Mukherjee has created a controversy by calling the anti-rape protesters at India Gate in Delhi as "dented and painted" women. The Jangipur MP was forced to retract his comments but not before he raked more controversy by trying to justify his statement. ...
08:29 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress MP from West Bengal's Jangipur Abhijit Mukherjee has created a controversy by calling the anti-rape protesters at India Gate in Delhi as "dented and painted" women. The Jangipur MP was forced to retract his comments but not before he raked more controversy by trying to justify his statement. ...
08:15 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Congress MP fron Jangipur (West Bengal) and President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee, who is under fire for calling young girls and women protesting against the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student in Delhi as "dented and painted women", has unconditionally apologised and withdrawn his comments. ...
06:08 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress's sitting MP from Jangipur Abhijit Mukherjee has made a sexist comment that has already created a political storm and is bound to embarrass his father. Pranab Mukherjee's son said it's fashionable to attend protest march now, while was speaking at an event in West Bengal. ...
04:12 PM, Dec 27, 2012
Youngsters in Kolkata condemn 'sexist' comment made by Congress sitting MP and President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijeet. While speaking at an event in West Bengal, Abhijit said it was fashionable to attend protest march now. ...
03:45 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress's sitting MP from Jangipur Abhijit Mukherjee has sparked a storm by calling anti-rape protesters at India Gate 'dented-painted'. From family members to politicians, people are slamming Abhijit for his remark demanding a public apology. ...
03:03 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmishtha Mukherjee expressed shock at her brother's remark on anti-rape protesters and aplogised for it. "I'm utterly shocked and shaken and I really apologise on my brother's behalf." Sharmishtha said. ...
01:57 PM, Dec 27, 2012
President Pranab Mukherjee's son and Congress's sitting MP from Jangipur Abhijit Mukherjee has made a sexist comment that has already created a political storm and is bound to embarrass his father. Pranab Mukherjee's son said it's fashionable to attend protest march now, while was speaking at an event in West Bengal. ...
01:20 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee, on Thursday took oath as a first time member of the Lok Sabha. Abhijit, who won the by-election to the Jangipur Parliamentary constituency, took oath in English and in the name of god. The bypoll was necessitated as the seat fell vacant following the election of Pranab Mukherjee as the President of India. Abhijit won the bypoll as a Congress candidate....
02:56 PM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Congress candidate and son of President Pranab Mukherjee, Abhijit won the Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll by a slender margin of 2,536 votes on Saturday. Abhijit was leading by a margin of 6541 votes at end of the counting of votes in the ninth round, reports earlier in the day said. There were jitters in the Congress camp early in the morning after, at the end of vote-counting in...
03:15 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit was leading by a margin of 6541 votes at end of the counting of votes in the ninth round in the Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll, reports said on Saturday. There was slight nervousness in the Congress camp after, at the end of vote-counting in the first round, Abhijit trailed behind CPM candidate Muzaffar Hussain. However, he bounced back and established a lead of...
12:57 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Kolkata: Sixty per cent polling was recorded in the by-election to Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal on Wednesday where President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee, as the Congress candidate, was locked in a multi-cornered contest with 11 others. The polling recorded this time, however, was far less as compared to 84.71 per cent voting registered for the same seat in the 2009 election. Returning officer Rajiv Kumar said...
03:18 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Jangipur: Despite severing of ties between both the parties, the Trinamool Congress didn't put up any candidate for the Jangipur bypoll against Congress nominee Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee. Trinamool district president Md Ali said, "This was Pranab babu's seat. And the candidate now is his son, so as a mark of respect to the President, we didn't put up any candidate". Although BJP's Sudhanshu Biswas is also...
12:00 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Agartala: Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) General Secretary and MLA, Subal Bhowmick on alleged that a group of Congress activists had assaulted Abhijit Mukherjee, a Congress MLA from West Bengal and son of President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday at Bamutia, about 35 km from Agartala. Addressing a press conference in Agartala, Bhowmick said that Mukherjee had gone to Kalibazar in Bamutia area on September 6 to inaugurate a library in...
04:09 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: President-elect Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit has reportedly expressed desire to contest the Lok Sabha seat from his father's constituency, Jangipur. The seat fell vacant after Pranab was elected to be India's next President. Murshidabad strongman Adhir Choudhary has already offered to support him. Abhijit is currently an MLA from Nalhati in Birbhum. The state Congress leaderhship, however, is yet to take a final decision on the matter. ...
12:54 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Kolkata: Abhijit Mukherjee, son of Pranab Mukherjee, elected as the 13th President, on Sunday said as a citizen the first request to his father would be to take up the issue of Sarabjit Singh's release with his Pakistani counterpart. "I know the plight of Sarabjit's family members who used to come to my father in Delhi during his tenure in union cabinet. Our government should do something concrete to get...
12:05 AM, Jul 23, 2012
