Raghogarh: Amid indications of growing bonhomie between Congress and JD(U), which has broken its alliance with the BJP-led NDA, AICC general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said the decision on any tie-up between the two parties would be taken by the AK Antony Committee. "Any decision on a tie-up between the Congress and JD(U) would be taken by the Antony Committee," Digvijaya said in response to a query on likely realignments as JD(U) will be chartering its own political course post break-up, ahead of 2014 elections.
Congress had formed a committee headed by Defence Minister AK Antony to go into the issue of alliances as part of finding new allies ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. "After the exit of JD(U) from NDA, the alliance has been reduced to a bunch of parties like BJP, Shiv Sena and Akali Dal that believes only in religious discord," he said, adding that the UPA is not concerned about the disintegration of NDA. He said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar should have taken the decision to sever ties with the NDA much earlier.
"Had Nitish left NDA before 2009, BJP's Lok Sabha tally in Bihar would have been lesser," Digvijaya added. Speculations over emerging alignments ahead of 2014 elections got a boost with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describing Nitish Kumar as a "secular" leader and the latter expressing his gratitude for the adulation....
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Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh also said that the Third Front has never been successful. ...
08:47 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday announced new working committee members, a day ahead of the proposed reshuffle-cum-expansion of the Union Council of Ministers. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will look after frontal organisations. Meanwhile, Ajay Maken and CP Joshi, who resigned as ministers from the UPA government, have been made general secretaries of the party. CP Joshi will look after West Bengal, Assam and Andaman Nicobar islands, whereas Maken...
05:20 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Congress senior leader Digvijaya Singh has once again taken a dig at the BJP and LK Advani over his resignation which has plunged the party into a deep crisis. Digvijaya tweeted on Advani saying if he is the Bhisma Pitamah then who are the Dhritrashtra, Shakuni and Duryadhana of the BJP Mahabharata. Earlier, Digvijaya had targeted Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he had betrayed all those...
02:13 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: "LK Advani's resignation is one of the many repercussions of Narendra Modi's elevation," the Congress said on Monday as the veteran politician resigned from all positions of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Holding that Modi was made the campaign committee chief of the BJP in a very "unusual" manner, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said, "This is the beginning of the complete degeneration of the BJP. It will have...
03:36 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Narendra Modi has now taken centre stage in the national politics after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose the Gujarat Chief Minister to be its poll panel chief, thrusting him on to a bigger role for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The party took the plunge on day-two of its crucial National Executive meet in Goa, ignoring reservations from senior leaders like LK Advani, who stayed away from the conclave. ...
11:50 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said his heart goes out to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran LK Advani, who skipped the ongoing BJP national executive meet in Goa citing ill health. "My heart goes out to Advani-ji. He brought the BJP from two to 182 in the Lok Sabha. But then the ungrateful BJP is a party with differences," tweeted Digvijaya. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told...
12:29 PM, Jun 09, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems to have split the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) down the middle over his proposed role in the 2014 elections with his angry supporters coming out on the streets and protesting outside party stalwart LK Advani's house even as the main opposition's chief Rajnath Singh offered a compromise formula to bridge the divide by suggesting Modi's name as the Lok Sabha elections' poll campaign convenor. ...
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11:12 PM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems to have split the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) down the middle over his proposed role in the 2014 elections with his angry supporters coming out on the streets and protesting outside party stalwart LK Advani's house even as the main opposition's chief Rajnath Singh offered a compromise formula to bridge the divide by suggesting Modi's name as the Lok Sabha elections' poll...
08:18 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Several BJP leaders, including LK Advani and Jaswant Singh, called in sick on Saturday and skipped the party's National Executive meet in Goa. ...
12:22 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Dantewada: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh visited Dantewada, Chhattisgarh to meet the Bastar Naxal attack victims on Tuesday. The Congress leader met the family of Salwa Judum founder Mahendra Karma who died in the attack. Twenty six people were killed in the Naxal attack on May 25 in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. "I came here to meet Mahendra Karma's family. Karma was my friend for the last 30-35 years. I...
07:36 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Guna: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday expressed doubt as to whether giving autonomy to CBI would serve the purpose. "There is a question mark on the issue," he told reporters in Guna. "Giving autonomy to CBI...may be like giving autonomy to a police inspector," Singh said. "Is the common man in favour of giving autonomy to an inspector?" he asked. The issue of CBI's autonomy has come to...
01:42 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has targetted Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after CNN-IBN exposed how prime land in Bhopal was given to his relatives and party members. Digvijaya Singh claimed this is one of the many corruption charges against the Madhya Pradesh CM. "About 10 people in Chouhan's family were given membership and land. There is a provision that two members of a family cannot be given a...
09:40 AM, May 15, 2013
Jabalpur: The city-based Nagrik Upbhokta Margdarshak Manch, a local consumer organisation sent a legal notice to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday, terming his statement against the Supreme Court's "caged parrot" comment about the CBI, as "contempt of apex court". The consumer body has also demanded a public apology from him on the issue within a month. Manch patron PG Najpande who is known to take up public causes...
01:06 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Criticising Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's "unwarranted advice" to the judiciary, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the motivation behind his criticism was the "frustration of a loser". Jaitley said the "ill-advised" suggestion made to the judiciary by Digvijaya has come when corruption of UPA government is being investigated by CBI and monitored by the Supreme Court and did not come when the...
08:30 PM, May 14, 2013
Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh questioned as to based on what law can the Supreme Court supervise a CBI investigation. ...
03:36 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Monday took a dig at the judiciary for its observations on CBI, triggering immediate reaction from BJP, which advised him to "learn and understand" why there were a "series of scams" in the UPA government instead of "blaming the judiciary". "By calling CBI a parrot in cage, then a Central Administrative Bench in Bangalore calling the IB a chicken... Now I have a...
02:48 PM, May 13, 2013
Raipur: Attacking the BJP government in Chhattisgarh, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said the time has come for people to vote out two-time Chief Minister Raman Singh accusing him of spending public money for his administration's publicity. "Under BJP rule, natural resources were being openly looted. Chhattisgarh government had also come under the scanner over coal and iron ore block allotments," he said. "Statewide corruption is being witnessed...
01:07 AM, May 08, 2013
Ujjain: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh and party MP Prem Chand Guddu were on Tuesday granted bail by a local court in connection with a case filed against them and others for allegedly thrashing BJP youth wing workers in Ujjain in 2011. The two appeared in the court and on producing a surety of Rs 25,000 each, Additional Sessions Judge Dipesh Tiwari granted them bail. On April 3, the Sessions...
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