New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said the country should reject those who mock the institutions of democracy though many people often feel frustrated by the disruption of Parliament. "We are not a perfect democracy but we are a functioning democracy with mechanisms and safeguards that allow for the reconciliation of diverse interests and differences. "It is the vitality and vibrancy of our democracy that keeps the nation...
07:14 PM, May 13, 2012
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has said there is no harm if a politician becomes the next President, as long as there is a consensus. ...
08:15 AM, May 01, 2012
The BJP has clearly said that it will not support a Congress candidate for the President's post. ...
10:48 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee said that he admires what Dinesh Trivedi and this is what should be done. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who had first remarked on the potential he evinced in Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's son Akhilesh Yadav, on Saturday expressed happiness at the young leader being all set to take over as Uttar Pradesh chief minister. With a virtual euphoria sweeping Uttar Pradesh following the election of the 38-year-old political heir of Mulayam Singh as legislative party leader, Chatterjee said Indian...
12:02 AM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: Retired Supreme Court judge Justice A K Ganguly has hit back at former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee over the scrapping of the 2G licences. Reacting to the charges of judicial overreach levelled by Chatterjee, Justice Ganguly said he was disappointed at the logic of the criticism of the 2G case. He said, "I can assure Mr Chatterjee on behalf of the bench that the judgement was not...
11:26 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Kolkata: Chronicling her meteoric rise from a grassroots worker to the highest echelons of power in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a book which has a photographic description of all the important landmarks of her remarkable political career. Titled 'Poribortan' (Change), the book written in Bengali has a hundred photographs personally selected by the chief minister with explanations about how those moments of her life dramatically changed...
01:23 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has defended the Government's decision to avoid voting on the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha where the Opposition and the Trinamool Congress joined hands to stall the Bill. "Those who did not allow Parliament to function for days in and days out have suddenly become very conscious about Parliament's image. It is politics," said Chatterjee. Upset over the allegation that the...
06:54 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Reacting to the arrests of Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Singh Bhagora in the cash-for-votes scam, the then Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee said, "What happened on July 23 was bad and serious. It's a judicial process." But the former Lok Sabha speaker insisted that MP's should have gone to Delhi Police or informed...
05:09 PM, Sep 06, 2011
In an exclusive interview ex-Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee said that Manmohan Singh is an honest man. ...
08:16 AM, Aug 22, 2011
Kolkata: Veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Somnath Chatterjee says that the disconnect between the Left Front and the people of West Bengal led to the Assembly poll debacle. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN's Priyanka Gupta, Chatterjee said that Left leaders should take responsibility for the rout that resulted in the end of 34-year communist rule in West Bengal. "The question is about answering to the people or the party....
11:43 AM, May 18, 2011
Expelled CPM leader Somanth Banerjee speaks to CNN-IBN about which party is better for West Bengal. ...
12:16 PM, Apr 27, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Sunday welcomed expelled CPM leader Somnath Chatterjee for campaigning for the Left Front in the Assembly polls, but remained non-committal about his immediate re-induction into the party. "It is good that Somnath Chatterjee is campaigning. It is a big help to the Left Front," Bhattacharjee said at a 'Meet-the-Press' programme here. Asked about the possibility of the former Lok Sabha Speaker's re-induction...
05:02 PM, Apr 24, 2011
Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Saturday questioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement about 'deterioration' of the standard of education in Bengal, and said the literacy rate was higher than that of the national average. The expelled CPM leader, who hit the campaign trail for his erstwhile party this evening at Ballygunge, said "I have good relations with the Prime minister. I respect him. But I am hurt...
12:38 PM, Apr 24, 2011
Kolkata: In the second phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal on Saturday, 50 constituencies with 93 lakh voters to caste their votes at 11,531 polling stations across three districts. After a record 84.11 per cent turnout in the first phase, politicians are hoping Murshidabad, Birbhum and Nadia do the same. The electoral future of 293 candidates including that of Pranab Mukherjee's son Avijit Mukherjee is likely to be ...
08:01 AM, Apr 23, 2011
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