Sharad Pawar

Mumbai corporation polls: Bal Thackeray slams Chavan, Pawar

Three days before the crucial Mumbai corporation elections, Bal Thackeray in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN slams Sharad Pawar and Prithviraj Chavan for saying the Shiv Sena is on the decline. ...

Tough to implement Food Security Bill: Pawar

New Delhi, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday it will be difficult to implement the proposed Food Security Act with existing distribution system and suggested massive reforms. "I will be failing in my duty if I do not emphasise the fact that the Food Security Act will never succeed in achieving its goal in letter and spirit, if we try to push the same through the existing PDS apparatus,"...

TWTW: upcoming Assembly Elections in five states

Cyrus Broacha also talks Sharad Pawar's decision to retire from politics, Team India's poor performance and much more. ...

2G scam brought disrepute to UPA: Sharad Pawar

Mumbai: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday came out in strong defence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the 2G episode, but admitted that the multi-crore spectrum scam has brought "disrepute" to the system and the Government. The NCP President maintained that the Supreme Court's verdict on Thursday cancelling 2G licences granted in 2008 was not an indictment of the Congress-led UPA Government, in which his party is a...

Praful writes to PM, dismisses bribe allegations

New Delhi: A day after the stunning 2G blow in the Supreme Court, there was more trouble for the UPA government on Friday as an India-born Canadian claimed that he paid Union Minister Praful Patel a 250-thousand dollar bribe in 2007. According to the Canadian, he paid the bribe to help Canadian firm Crypto Metric bag a 100-million dollar deal with Air India for a facial-recognition security system. However, the...

Pawar hits out at Sonia's pet Food Security Bill

New Delhi: Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has hit out at the UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi's Food security Bill. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Pawar said there are not enough funds to implement Food Security Bill in its present form. This is the first time he is speaking out against the bill after it was cleared by the Cabinet. "The total provision for entire agriculture ministry is 20,000 crore. And...

Don't take Pawar's statement at face value: MNS

NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that he will not contest the 2014 General Elections. ...

Rahul will be blamed if Cong loses in UP: Pawar

In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN on Saturday, NCP chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said that if the Congress does not do well in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, then Rahul Gandhi will be blamed. When asked if he thought Rahul Gandhi would be projected as the next prime ministerial candidate after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Pawar said, "I don't know whether the Congress will project him immediately even...

Time has come to groom youngsters: Pawar

Following India's whitewash by Australia, ICC president Sharad Pawar says the time has come to shift the focus on the development of youngsters. ...

Pawar to call it quits, won't fight 2014 LS polls

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....

'No option but to slap, that's the only road open'

Ralegan Siddhi: In remarks that could stoke a fresh controversy, anti-graft activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday evening said a person is left with no option other than going for a slap when his power of tolerance of corruption runs out. "When a man's power of tolerance runs out, then whoever is in front of you, if a slap is given, then the brain is put back in place. That is...

After Mamata, Pawar headache for Congress

New Delhi: After Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee's angry outbursts, more headaches from allies seem to be in store for the Congress with Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar's ultimatum to finalise by Tuesday seat-sharing for the upcoming Mumbai civic polls. Following Pawar's ultimatum, given Sunday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is in Delhi to discuss the issue with senior Congress party leaders. He met senior party leader and Defence...

BMC polls: No ultimatum to Cong, clarifies NCP

New Delhi: Amidst reports that the NCP had served an ultimatum to the Congress over an alliance row for the upcoming Bombay Municipal Corporation polls, NCP leader Jitendra Awhad has clarified that it was merely a suggestion and not an ultimatum. "Negotiations are on... He (Sharad Pawar)only said that negotiations should be finished at the right time because if the whole matter is delayed then it is a matter of...

Government appeals to Anna to call off his fast

New Delhi: The Government has appealed to Anna Hazare to call off his proposed fast in Mumbai and says that it has fulfilled its promise on the Lokpal Bill. Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs, V Narayanswamy said that the Lokpal Bill is before Parliament which will discuss and pass it. "As far as the government is concerned, there is no need for Anna to go on fast because the governments...

Sharad Pawar attacker Harvinder Singh gets bail

New Delhi Harvinder Singh, the man who slapped Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, has been granted bail by the Patiala House court. Singh was granted bail on Monday with the court ruling that he was not mentally stable. Singh had slapped Sharad Pawar at the NDMC Centre in New Delhi on November 24 while shouting slogans against price rise and corruption. After slapping Pawar,...