Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee on Sunday said that the Union cabinet reshuffle should have been undertaken by the government after proving its strength in Parliament following Mamata Banerjee's withdrawal of support. The Trinamool Congress vice-president and state minister told reporters that "unclean" ministers were chosen by the Centre to "disturb" peace in West Bengal. "This government was formed by our support and after we withdrew, why did they...
11:03 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Twenty two ministers take oath in Manmohan Singh's big bang Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday. ...
10:57 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Jitendra Singh, who became the Minister of State (MoS) with Independent Charge of Youth Affairs and Sports ministry in the Cabinet reshuffle, will also hold charge as MoS in the Defence ministry, it was officially stated on Sunday night. In a new communique issued by the Rashtrapati Bhawan, it was stated that Singh, who was allocated the portfolio of Minister of State (MoS) with Independent Charge of the...
10:18 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Key ally of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, the Samajwadi Party has expressed unhappiness over the elevation of Salman Khurshid to Ministry of External Affairs. Disapproving of the government's decision, Samajwadi Party leader Ramgopal Yadav said that tainted people should not be promoted. Khurshid has been at the centre of criticism since activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal in a press conference spoke about the alleged financial impropriety in the...
09:05 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: A trade union leader, Sarvey Sathyanarayana, who was on Sunday sworn in as a Minister of State, has always been at the forefront of agitations and protests when it came to supporting the cause of workers and quit government service to take a plunge in politics. Fifty-eight-year-old Sathyanarayana, who is serving his second term as a Member of Parliament, was elected to Lok Sabha for the first time...
08:22 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: A seasoned politician, Kotla Jaya Suryaprakash Reddy has come a long way in the Congress in Andhra Pradesh after being elected to Lok Sabha for the first time in 1994. Son of Rayalaseema strongman late Kotla Vijayabaskara Reddy, Suryaprakash's family has always been loyal to the Gandhi-Nehru family. Vijayabaskara Reddy was a towering figure in Andhra Pradesh and had served as chief minister twice - 1982 to 1983...
08:03 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Lady luck has smiled on senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Tariq Anwar who made his maiden entry into government as a Union Minister of State after nearly four decades in active politics. Sixty-one-year-old Anwar was a Congress leader till 1999, when he along with Sharad Pawar and PA Sangma parted ways with that party to establish the NCP. A second-term Rajya Sabha member, he held the crucial position...
07:38 PM, Oct 28, 2012
The Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi went in for a major cabinet reshuffle but in his choice the PM has been careful in choosing those who will keep the reforms agenda going. ...
07:30 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: A five-time Lok Sabha member, 50-year-old Kodikunnil Suresh is a prominent Dalit face of the Congress in Kerala and has been a staunch loyalist of senior leader and Defence Minister AK Antony right from his campus days. Elected from Mavelikkara (SC) seat in 2009, Suresh suffered a temporary setback when his election was declared void by Kerala High Court in 2010, on the ground that his high school...
07:17 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, an influential Congress leader from West Bengal's Murshidabad district and known to be close to Pranab Mukherjee, is a three-time Lok Sabha MP. Having dropped out of school at age 15, he started as a District leader of Youth Congress in the 1970s when political atmosphere was very tense and violent in West Bengal. Chowdhury, who on Sunday took oath as Minister of State, entered...
07:03 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: From a humble police constable to a first time MP from Telangana and now at the centrestage as a Union Minister of State, Porika Balram Naik has come a long way and is being rewarded for his discipline and loyalty to the Congress High Command. One of the few MPs who did not go against the views of the Congress on the contentious Telangana statehood demand, 48-year-old Naik...
06:39 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: He cruised up touching the sky in the tinsel town like a powerful rocket, but when Chiranjeevi replaced the engine of cinema with rustic politics, it was not smooth sailing for him. In the end, like any other Indian blockbuster, hero Chiranjeevi emerged the winner by finding himself in the Union Council of Ministers, which was expanded on Sunday, after spending almost two full years in political hibernation....
06:22 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Though a first time MP, AICC spokesperson Manish Tewari has a long association of nearly 31 years with Congress since joining its youth wing in 1981. The 47-year-old leader was seen as a strong defence line of the Congress in JPC on 2G to counter BJP onslaught. On Sunday, Tewari was sworn in as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) Information and Broadcasting. Tewari, who was the president...
05:52 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh effected a major Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, giving away the major share to Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to counter the Telangana forces in the former and ex-ally Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress in the latter. ...
05:50 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: K Rahman Khan, a veteran Parliamentarian who had a nearly six-year stint as Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, makes a comeback into the Union Council of Ministers with a promotion to Cabinet rank. The re-entry of the 73-year-old leader from Karnataka in the government was anticipated when he relinquished the charge of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman earlier this year after which he was re-elected to the House for...
05:44 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's imprint on the Sunday reshuffle in the Council of Ministers is evident with several leaders who are in favour of more economic reforms now a part of his new core team. In the biggest reshuffle of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Cabinet, Manmohan Singh inducted 17 new faces and a total of 22 ministers giving several new and young faces a chance to prove...
05:01 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Showing signs of unhappiness with the reshuffle in the Union Cabinet, Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said that he was 'a bit disappointed' as no leader from Madhya Pradesh was included in the Cabinet. However, he said that the all the party leaders and workers from the state will work with full force to make inroads for victory in the 2014...
04:30 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh effected a major Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, giving away the major share to Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal to counter the Telangana forces in the former and ex-ally Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress in the latter. Several ministers were elevated to the Cabinet rank, with many new faces being included at the MoS level, even as portfolios of several ministers were changed. The inductees included ...
03:53 PM, Oct 28, 2012
The former junior defence minister Pallam Raju has got a promotion. He is the new Human Resource Development Minister. Speaking to reporters, he said that the reshuffle had rectified the representation of Andhra Pradesh in the Cabinet. He added that it was time to strengthen the party base in the southern state. ...
03:48 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Shashi Tharoor is making a comeback after two years and controversies related to IPL and tweeting. He is now making a comeback as MoS Human Resource Development. The tech-savvy minister said he will continue to tweet. ...
03:43 PM, Oct 28, 2012
