New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal will join a protest by autorickshaw drivers in the capital on Tuesday.
The protest is against the Delhi government's ban on putting up posters on the back of three-wheelers.
Meanwhile, in an effort to regulate plying of autorickshaws, the Delhi Government has also decided to introduce colour coding for vehicles based on the zones in which they operate and install an "emergency button" so that passengers can report any incident of overcharging and refusal to ply. The decisions were taken at a high-level meeting presided by Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami.
Goswami said the meeting decided to put different colored strips on autos for the six zones. He said once the colour coding comes into effect, autos of a particular zone will not be able to turn away passengers wishing to travel to the area in the night....
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12:17 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Monday will join auto drivers in their protest against the Delhi government's plan to ban advertisements on three-wheelers. The protest will be held at Jantar Mantar. An AAP spokesperson said Kejriwal would join the protest of the auto drivers as their demands were "genuine". Last week, Arvind Kejriwal had announced his decision to take on Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the...
06:40 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday issued its second list of 44 probable candidates including party leader Gopal Rai and a daily wager for 10 more constituencies in Delhi Assembly Elections scheduled later this year. A total of 84 candidates had applied for 10 constituencies, namely Babarpur, Bawana, Chhatarpur, Gokulpur, Krishna Nagar, Laxmi Nagar, Mustafabad, Rajouri Garden, Shalimar Bagh and Vishwas Nagar. The Screening Committee comprising seven people went...
10:20 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Admi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday refused to seek bail in a defamation case filed against him by the political secretary of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for his alleged "derogatory remarks" against power tariff hike protests. Standing firm in the court on not seeking bail, Kejriwal also refused to furnish a personal or surety bond, saying he had been following the same principle in...
05:06 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Kejriwal has been taking on Dikshit in the recent past over inflated electricity bills in Delhi and has also accused her government of corruption. Now he has decided to contest against her in the Delhi Assembly elections. If he can defeat the Delhi CM in an election, it may be the biggest coup in India's electoral history. But how realistic are his chances of emerging as the winner? CNN-IBN's national...
06:00 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi BJP on Sunday threatened to go on a sit-in protest outside the DERC office in Delhi during a public hearing organised to decide on a proposed hike in the power tariff. Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday with all the stake holders, including the discoms and resident welfare associations, to determine the power tariff for domestic consumers. "It is clear that once...
02:05 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: It is being billed as the David vs Goliath battle. After taking on Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on the streets, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal has finally declared that he would be taking her on in the upcoming Assembly elections in the national capital. Kejriwal is known for targeting and taking on people right at the top, be it Robert Vadra, Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Modi or...
10:35 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal will contest directly against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the coming Delhi Assembly elections. Dikshit has contested from the New Delhi constituency in the past. AAP took the decision after a meeting of its volunteers in the national capital on Sunday. AAP plans to emerge as a key player in Delhi after the state election. Last week, AAP also released...
12:54 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party released the first shortlist of 44 probable candidates for 12 seats in the forthcoming Delhi Assembly elections. Names that leap out of the list are those of Manish Sisodia from Patpartganj, Sazia Ilmi from RK Puram and Somnath Bharti from Malaviya Nagar. AAP's list of probables also has former Congress and BJP workers such as Bheem Singh and Kishori Lal Dhanak who haven't contested an election yet....
12:44 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: Gearing up for its electoral debut in the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday announced the names of 44 shortlisted candidates for 12 constituencies. "The final 12 would be selected after recommendations of grassroot level workers and selection committee after proper consultation and debate among them," AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal told reporters while announcing the list of shortlisted candidates. He said the candidates were...
08:57 AM, May 25, 2013
Washington: A group of Indian-Americans from as many as 20 cities held a meeting in Chicago over the weekend and extended full support to the political movement of change being spearheaded by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by social activist Arvind Kejriwal. In a resolution at the first convention of AAP in USA on May 18, Indian-American supporters of Kejriwal said non-residents have a crucial role to play in the...
12:45 PM, May 20, 2013
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday attacked Law Minister Kapil Sibal over Vodafone tax case and said all the corrupt ministers have joined the Group of Ministers on CBI autonomy. ...
10:48 PM, May 17, 2013
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11:57 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday attacked Law Minister Kapil Sibal over Vodafone tax case and said all the corrupt ministers have joined the Group of Ministers on CBI autonomy. "Kapil Sibal says he will sort out the tax liability on Vodafone and Hutchinson in an outside court settlement. We have learnt that Kapil Sibal's son is Hutchinson's lawyer," added Kejriwal. While addressing a...
02:42 PM, May 15, 2013
AAP is doing what politicians have forgotten to do As the summer kicks in, people's representatives are often seen scurrying for their cool drawing ...
06:20 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will protest in New Delhi on Friday against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The AAP has announced that it will protest at Jantar Mantar even though the police have not given the permission. According to the AAP, Nirpreet Kaur, who lost her father in the riots, is on an indefinite fast demanding justice at Jantar...
10:45 AM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: In solidarity with their protest against the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal will sit on a one-day fast in New Delhi on Friday along with the family members of the the 1984 anti-Sikh riots' victims. Besides Kejriwal, AAP leaders Manish Sidoda, Gopal Rai, Sanjay Singh and Kumar Vishwas will also sit on a fast with the families at Jantar...
10:45 AM, May 03, 2013
How far is Arvind Kejriwal's pledge to supply power to people in Delhi at half the current price, if the Aam Aadmi Party is elected to power in Delhi, likely to appeal to voters? Is it a realistic promise or has Kejriwal also resorted to making sky-high promises that all political parties make before the elections? Q. How much truth is there in the story that Arvind Kejriwal is pursuing?...
04:31 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Opposing any further hike in power tariff, Delhi BJP Chief Vijay Goel on Sunday promised that multiple discoms will be allowed to supply power if his party wins in assembly polls later this year so that the rates go down drastically. Addressing a rally at Rohini area in West Delhi, Goel said BJP will launch a "massive" agitation if the rates were increased again. "A massive agitation will...
01:32 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday called off its protest march to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence after she "agreed" to receive 10.5 lakh protest letters on "inflated" power and water bills but it announced gherao of the residences of Delhi MLAs in May. The party also announced it will have 71 manifestos for the Assembly elections - one main and one each for 70 constituencies. After Dikshit's office...
07:14 PM, Apr 28, 2013
