Thane: Union Agriculture Minister and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was greeted with black flags by the Congress, the Shiv Sena, the SP and the BSP workers to protest wastage of water by the civic corporation in Thane on Sunday in Bhiwandi.
Pawar inaugurated the Bhiwandi-Nizampur City Municipal Corporation's new administrative building, when protesters including three MLAs Rashid Tahir, Abu Azmi and Roopesh Mhatre waved black flags at him.
The three MLAs did not occupy the dais during the function and protested by sitting in the audience.
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10:55 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday faced angry protesters who showed black flags to her over scarcity of water in Kapashera area in South West Delhi. The protesters were supported by BJP MLA from Palam Dharam Deo Solanki who accused Dikshit of not providing water to the people in the area despite repeated plea. The Chief Minister accompanied by Revenue Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely had gone to the...
03:55 AM, Apr 13, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised to boycott all public meetings called by Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. The party also plans to show black flags to Shinde following his comments on saffron terror. ...
09:50 AM, Feb 02, 2013
New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh has tightened security across the state ahead of the visit by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who will be inaugurating a Buddist University in Sanchi. The MDMK of Tamil Nadu had announced a protest in the state against his visit. MDMK General Secretary Vaiko had called for a black flag demonstration against the Sri Lankan President for the alleged violation of rights of the ethnic Tamilians...
07:50 AM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited the Tumkur region in Karnataka on Saturday apparently in a bid to woo the Lingayat community ahead of the 2013 bypolls in the state. Sonia attended the birthday celebrations of the highly respected Lingayat seer Shivakumara Swami at 'Siddaganga math', which is reportedly one of India's oldest. However, a woman protestor at the rally waved black flags at the leader and was immediately...
01:12 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Kanpur: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday invited the Election Commission's wrath by not taking up the route it had prescribed to the leader for his road campaign in Kanpur. Kanpur District Magistrate Hari Om said that Rahul stuck to his route, despite having been assigned an alternative route by the EC. "We had allotted a separate route for Rahul's roadshow considering he would have faced traffic," the official...
05:13 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Sonbhadra: Two youths on Saturday raised black flags and shouted slogans against corruption when Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was addressing a poll rally at tribal-dominated Duddhi in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. Soon after their act, they were beaten up by some people attending the Adivasi Sashaktikaran Dhanyawad rally. Police detained one of the youths Ajay Kumar Singh, who is said to be the supporter of yoga guru Ramdev....
07:23 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Chandigarh: The Punjab Congress on Sunday blamed the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal for some people showing black flags to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in the name of Anna Hazare's Jan Lokpal bill crusade, as he came out of the holiest of Sikh shrines, Harmandar Sahib, popularly known as Golden Temple, in Amritsar. The prime minister was shown black flags by a group of 30-35 protestors as he came out of...
11:02 PM, Jan 01, 2012
New Delhi: The prime minister being shown black flags by Anna Hazare's supporters in Amritsar was an "unfortunate incident", the Congress said on Sunday, adding that people should protest against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for stalling the Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha. "It is an unfortunate incident. People should show black flags to BJP for they did not let the Lokpal Bill pass through the Rajya Sabha," Congress...
05:33 PM, Jan 01, 2012
Mumbai: Anti-corruption Anna Hazare headed for the MMRDA grounds in Mumbai in an open truck, accompanied by his team members, to begin his three-day fast after paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on Tuesday. He was shown black flags by protestors while he was on his way to Juhu on Tuesday morning. The convoy of Anna, on way to Mahatma Gandhi's statue on Juhu beach, was briefly stopped by around 20...
09:58 AM, Dec 27, 2011
Lucknow: In a surprising move that is seen as the first signs of bonhomie between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the latter has sacked a party worker who showed black flags to Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday in Aligarh. The Samajwadi Party suspended its Aligarh unit General Secretary Dinesh Yadav for showing black flags and blocking the convoy of Congress General Secretary and Amethi...
12:15 PM, Dec 14, 2011
