New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held an all party meet on the Naxal insurgency. An all-party resolution against naxal violence and armed insurgency was passed at the meeting. The meet ended with the Prime Minister assuring full support to the governments in Naxal affected states. The meeting was held in the backdrop of the recent attacks in Bastar in which top Congress leaders were killed.
Ruling out any compromise on the issue, the parties in a unanimous resolution backed the Centre's two-pronged strategy of sustained operations against Maoists and rapid development of Naxal-affected areas.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his opening remarks, said there was a need to further fine-tune and strengthen the strategy. Terming it as a frontal attack on democratic foundations of the nation, Singh said, "The strength and robustness of the democratic forces in our country would suffer if the space for political activity gets restricted because of fear or terror."...
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10:25 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convened an all-party meeting in Delhi on Monday to discuss ways to tackle Naxal menace in the backdrop of killing of Congress leaders in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh in May 2013. The meeting, also to be addressed by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, is expected to work towards evolving a consensus on the strategy to deal with the challenge posed by Left...
01:17 AM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Two weeks after the Bastar bloodbath, the government on Wednesday held an all-party meet to firm up its anti-Naxal strategy. Sources say that Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde proposed Andhra Pradesh's model of policing and improvement of local level police stations. There were also proposals to crack down on funding for Naxals and illegal mining in Jharkhand. The Maoist-hit states resolved to take a uniform approach to deal...
09:28 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Raipur: An all-party meeting called by the Chhattisgarh Cheif Minister Raman Singh on Saturday's deadly Bastar Naxal attack has ended without any concrete outcome. The Congress boycotted the meeting. It has been decided to hold more such meetings to tackle the Naxal menace. "Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh came to Chhattisgarh to attend meetings on the Naxal policy. But it's sad that the Chhattisgarh Congress leaders who were invited for...
03:59 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: An all party meet convened to reach a consensus on the Land Acquisition Bill remained inconclusive on Tuesday with no headway being made at all. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), AIADMK and CPM gave their suggestions, other parties are expected to follow suit by April 15. After all the suggestions are made, there will be another round of meeting on April 18, by when there is likely...
03:39 PM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The government will convene an all party meet on Tuesday to iron out the controversial Land Acquisition Bill. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath has called the meeting as the party meet could not reach a consensus by March 7. While the Left wants the Land Bill to be sent back to the standing committee, the Trinamool Congress has completely rejected it. Earlier in April, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
07:40 AM, Apr 09, 2013
The proposed anti-rape Bill, which seeks to hand down stringent punishment for crimes against women, including rape and acid attack, and lower the age of consent for sex to 16, is set to face hurdles in an the all-party meeting convened by the government on Monday. Samajwadi Party, which extends outside support to UPA, has openly come out against the provisions relating to stalking and lowering of consent age from...
07:08 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Political parties failed on Thursday to agree on how to compensate farmers for land acquired for infrastructure and industrial projects, dashing market hopes of a breakthrough. ...
02:10 AM, Mar 08, 2013
New Delhi: Time seems to be running out for the Lokpal Bill. With less than a week to go before the winter session of Parliament wraps up, the deadlock over the Lokpal Bill continues. On Wednesday, the all-party meeting failed to reach a consensus as major political parties stuck to their stands. After three hours of discussion on Wednesday there was no clarity whether the Lokpal Bill will match the...
06:16 AM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: The all-party meet on Lokpal Bill held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence on Wednesday failed to reach a consensus. All the parties, reportedly, stuck to their stated stands. Addressing mediapersons after the meeting, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan said that all the parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asked the government to not take any decision on Lokpal in haste. He further said...
10:08 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The government seems to be bending backwards to get all political parties on board on the Lokpal Bill ahead of the all-party meeting on Wednesday. Sources say the government's draft on Lokpal will bring the prosecution wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the ambit of the Lokpal. Team Anna wants the investigation wing of CBI under the Lokpal Bill. The Standing Committee's Lokpal draft already...
02:19 PM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: After extreme pressure from the Opposition and Team Anna, a broad consensus has been achieved within the UPA to bring the Prime Minister under the Lokpal Bill, according to sources. Sources say the government may agree to include Group C bureaucrats and the Prime Minister under Lokpal, but with riders. The UPA has been under extreme pressure to include the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal...
10:49 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The Prime Minister has called for an all-party meeting over the Lokpal Bill issue on Wednesday, where the UPA will try its best to achieve a breakthrough and it remains to be seen whether consensus will emerge on contentious issues. Trying to build a consensus within the UPA, the Prime Minister met all allies on Tuesday night, including the new member Ajit Singh, who will be the new...
07:20 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: The UPA is under extreme pressure to include the Prime Minister under the ambit of the Lokpal Bill as after Team Anna, the Opposition parties, too, have said that they will take up the issue in the all-party meet on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi, also deliberated on the strategy on the Lokpal issue ahead of the...
01:14 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: With the Lokpal issue generating much heat, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Friday is expected to take a tough line on the 'so- called representatives' of the civil society, a party euphemism for Team Anna Hazare. This will be the first formal meeting of the apex policy making body to take stock of the political situation after the CWC was reconstituted in March. Deliberations of the...
08:33 PM, Jun 23, 2011
Bareilly: BJP MP Maneka Gandhi has alleged that half of India's black money stashed in Swiss banks belonged to ministers, leaders and supporters of the Congress party. The BJP leader, while talking to reporters on Sunday night, also alleged that the Congress had kept CBI in its locker and used the agency as and when it required. She also slammed the Congress party's attitude towards Baba Ramdev and social activist...
11:37 AM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: An all party meeting to seek views across the political spectrum on the issue of inclusion of the Prime Minister under the Lokpal Bill is likely to be held in the first week of July. Government sources indicated that the meeting is expected to be convened soon after June 30 by which time the work of the Joint Committee to draft the bill will be over. The Committee...
02:06 PM, Jun 19, 2011
New Delhi: After an all-party meeting called by Pranab Mukherjee to break the Parliament deadlock on Tuesday, indications were there that the Government would agree to form a Joint Parliamentary Commitee (JPC) to investigate the 2G spectrum scam case. UPA's trouble shooter and the man whose budget will be the centrepiece of the next Parliament session - Pranab Mukherjee - was trying to ensure that Parliament functions properly in the...
02:57 PM, Feb 08, 2011
New Delhi: Two weeks before the crucial Budget session of Parliament begins, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will hold an all-party meeting in Delhi on Tuesday to break the 2G stalemate. The Congress' key troubleshooter has called an all-party meeting today in a bid to break the logjam. The move comes after three rounds of talks held by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Monday to build consensus proved futile. The...
07:15 AM, Feb 08, 2011
New Delhi: Following is the text of Home Minister P Chidambaram's opening remarks at the meeting of political parties in Andhra Pradesh to discuss the Srikrishna Committee report on Telangana: "I am happy to welcome you to the second meeting of the eight recognised political parties of Andhra Pradesh. May I begin by wishing you and the people of Andhra Pradesh a very happy New Year and a very happy...
12:39 PM, Jan 06, 2011
