New Delhi: Giving a clean chit to Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on his President's Rule comments, the Election Commission on Thursday said his tone and tenor did not suggest any threat or intimidation to voters. "The Commission is of the view that the tone and tenor and context of the impugned speech of Shri Jaiswal do not suggest any threat or intimidation to voters," the Commission said in its order....
09:06 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Union minister and Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma is expected to reply to Election Commission's notice for violating the model code of conduct. Speaking at a rally in Farrukabad on the February 15, Verma had said reservations for minorities must be increased. He had even dared the EC to take action against him. Beni Prasad is the second Congress minister to make the quota mistake. Law Minister Salman...
06:39 AM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday issued a notice to Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma over his remarks on minority sub quota, asking him to submit his reply by February 20. At an election rally in Farrukhabad two days ago, the Steel Minister had invoked the Election Commission's wrath by saying that reservation for Muslims would be increased by 9 per cent if the Congress came to power....
01:31 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Lucknow The Allahabad High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a PIL seeking removal of Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid for his remarks on reservation for minorities. The order was issued by the Lucknow bench comprising senior judge Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Rituraj Awasthi after hearing the counsel of both the sides. In his PIL, local lawyer Ashok Pandey has alleged that such statement made by Khurshid...
12:29 PM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi: After the Election Commission shut the Salman Khurshid Muslim quota promise chapter, Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma has also made a similar promise. At a public rally in Farrukhabad, the Congress leader said, "Muslims will be given more facilities, Muslims will be given reservation." Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh was also present at the meeting. Sources in the EC have told CNN-IBN that they will get a tape...
11:34 AM, Feb 16, 2012
New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to discuss with senior ministers and party leaders the Election Commission complaint against Law Minister Salman Khurshid for his "aggressive" stance on quota for Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, Congress insiders said on Monday. Khurshid, who on Sunday spoke to Manmohan Singh on the issue, is also likely to issue a clarification on his stance. Congress sources said the prime minister was likely...
12:58 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Ballia/Ghazipur: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday charged the Congress with hatching a conspiracy to divide the Muslim community in the name of reservation. Addressing election meetings, the BSP supremo attacked Congress, saying it has never been the well-wisher of Muslims and is, therefore, trying to "instigate and misguide" them on the issue of reservation. "In reality, Congress is trying to use Muslims as vote bank," she said, charging...
06:30 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday executed yet another U-turn on the issue of providing quota to Muslims under the OBC category in Uttar Pradesh. A day after distancing the Congress from the promise of Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid to provide the minority quota, spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that the party manifesto would have quota for Muslims as announced by Khurshid. The Congress spokesperson further said, "We don't think...
06:02 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party leader and Rashtriya Lok Manch Party chief Amar Singh has said that the Congress wouldn't have been accused of resorting to political gimmicks if it had introduced the minority quota before the election season. "I feel Salman Khurshid should have announced reservations for backward Muslims long back. Then all this talk of election stunts would not have started by the Opposition. Neither would have the...
12:02 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: The battle for the 18 per cent Muslim votes is heating up in Uttar Pradesh. Law Minister Salman Khurshid is expected to reply to the Election Commission's show cause notice over his quota promise. The Congress leader was served the notice for making a statement on the campaign trail, promising a 9 per cent sub-quota for Muslims in the state if the Congress was voted to power. Khurshid...
07:14 AM, Jan 12, 2012
The Election Commission has put on hold the 4.5 Muslim quota announced by the Centre within the 27 per cent OBC quota. ...
11:54 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Salman Khurshid has defended his poll promise of a sub-quota for backward Muslims. ...
10:29 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the poll promise violates the Constitution and the BJP is set to launch an agitation from Friday. ...
12:48 PM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that his promise of nine per cent reservation for Muslims in Uttar Pradesh was not a violation of the model code of conduct. Khurshid in an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN said, "Why would I violate the model code of conduct? Please read the code of conduct and find me a word, a phrase, a sentence or a paragraph and say...
06:07 AM, Jan 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission is issuing a show-cause notice to Law minister Salman Khurshid over his promise for a nine per cent quota for backward Muslims. Sources in the Commission here said a notice is being served on Khurshid for his quota remarks which has evoked sharp reactions from BJP which accused him of violating the model code of conduct. The Uttar Pradesh election authorities have already served a...
10:06 PM, Jan 10, 2012
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