New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is one of the party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Gadkari's statement came a few hours after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002 Gujarat riots placed before a Ahmedabad court found no prosecutable evidence against Modi. "Narendra Modi is very...
03:15 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Chennai: The DMK party would align with a secular party having the nation's interest in mind in the next Lok Sabha elections, party president M. Karunanidhi said on Friday. Speaking to reporters after chairing the party's general council meeting, Karunanidhi said, "The Lok Sabha elections are far away. The party will align with only secular parties having national interest." Refusing to comment on the Supreme Court's order on the issue...
01:31 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: NCP Chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is all set to hang his political boots. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, the former Maharashtra chief minister said that he will not contest the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. Pawar further said that in 45 years of his political career he has not lost a single election, but it's time to make way for the younger lot to take over....
03:15 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Rejecting the contention that the Opposition was obstructing passage of the Companies Bill, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said the government came up with a new version of the legislation which would be re-examined by the Parliamentary Standing Committee at its meeting on January 24. Sinha argued that the Bill which was placed in the Lok Sabha for consideration and passage was completely different from the original one that...
03:35 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Ballia/Azamgarh: Asserting that a "strong Lokpal" would be brought in the next session of Parliament, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday trained his guns on the BJP, saying it had "killed" the Bill for granting Constitutional status to the anti-corruption watchdog. Rahul, who had floated the idea of giving Constitutional status to Lokpal, said a strong Lokpal is a dream of Congress that will come true. The AICC General Secretary claimed the...
05:03 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Lok Sabha is likely to have a special session on May 13 to mark the 60th anniversary of its first sitting way back in 1952. President Pratibha Patil is expected to inaugurate the three-day celebrations where parliamentarians are expected to discuss issues like Millenium Development Goals and the Human Development Index. "It is the brainchild of Speaker Meira Kumar. She thought that issues which go beyond the daily...
10:21 PM, Jan 04, 2012
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A pandal came up outside Ittooppu's tea stall. The year-end came as a bonus for the goat - three days of debate in Parliament on ...
09:59 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament sat for a total of 73 days last year in three sessions but 258 of the 803 hours earmarked for business were lost due to disruptions over several issues, including price rise and corruption. According to a study by PRS Legislative Research, Lok Sabha is scheduled to sit for six hours a day and Rajya Sabha for five hours. It meant that the Lower House had 438...
10:15 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Kolkata: Former West Bengal Lokayukta Retired Justice Samaresh Banerjee said on Saturday that the Mamata Banerjee government reeked of hypocrisy when it came to the passage of the Lokpal Bill. The TMC supported the passage of the Bill in the Lok Sabha. However, the party took a complete U-turn in the Rajya Sabha and stalled the proceedings. The TMC refused to back the Lokpal in the Rajya Sabha saying that...
07:40 AM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday lashed out at the BJP saying if the party had the numbers in the Lok Sabha, it would not have allowed the Bill to be passed. "The BJP did not support the Lokpal Bill in the Lok Sabha. What happened in the Lok Sabha is a proof of that. If BJP had the numbers then, BJP would not have allowed the Bill...
02:32 PM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: Agreeing there were differences of opinion with ally Trinamool Congress on the Lokpal bill, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on Friday said it will sort out all the issues. "There is only one difference of opinion with TMC (Trinamool Congress). If there are any other differences, we will sit together and sort them out," Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters. Though the Trinamool Congress supported the Lokpal...
09:13 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday organised a protest against the Congress' failure to pass the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha. Party workers began a protest march from their party office and headed towards Sonia Gandhi's residence. ...
03:41 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: CPI(M) leader Mohd Salim criticised the UPA on Friday saying that the crisis managers of the coalition failed. "Crisis managers of the UPA failed. There was no understanding between the Congress and the TMC, and within TMC, there were two divergent views. The leaders and MPs cannot do anything without green signal from writers. Evidently the Lok Sabha MPs were told something else and the Rajya Sabha MPs ...
02:42 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: A day after the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal addressed a Press Conference on Friday and blamed the BJP and accused the party of murdering the democracy. "It's a pain to hear, none other than the Leader of Opposition blamed that debate was choreographed by the government and that it was the murder of democracy. I level this charge on them,...
12:44 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi reacted to the Lokpal debate in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Friday saying that she saw the best and the worst of speeches. She added that their movement for a strong Lokpal Bill would go on. ...
10:20 AM, Dec 30, 2011
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