New Delhi: The stamp of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was evident in the Congress organizational reshuffle announced on Sunday, as important posts went to relatively younger MPs.
Mumbai MP Priya Dutt, 46, will assist former union minister Ajay Maken, who has been given charge of the party's communications and publicity. Haryana MP Ashok Tanwar, 37, who had been assisting party general secretary Mohan Prakash in affairs relating to Gujarat, has been handed additional charge of poll-bound Rajasthan, besides Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
Similarly, Rajasthan MP Harish Chaudhary, 43, who had been given charge of Punjab as secretary recently, has now been given additional charge of poll-bound Delhi. Both Delhi and Rajasthan are ruled by the Congress and would have assembly polls by the end of 2014.
Gandhi also gave key roles to younger MPs in finalising party candidates for some of the poll- bound states....
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04:51 AM, Jun 17, 2013
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02:15 AM, May 29, 2013
Agartala: Normal life was paralysed in the municipal corporation area here on Tuesday in response to a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by opposition Congress to protest the killing of three employees of 'Dainik Ganadoot', a local Bengali daily. Vehicles remained off the roads and markets, schools, colleges and educational institutions were closed. Official sources said attendance in government offices, banks and financial institutions was also thin. Police said no untoward incident...
01:16 PM, May 21, 2013
Agartala: The opposition Congress in Tripura has called a dawn-to-dusk bandh in the municipal corporation area here on Tuesday to protest the killing of three employees of a local Bengali daily. Leader of the Opposition Ratan Lal Nath, belonging to the Congress, said on Monday that the killing proved that journalists and newspaper employees were not safe in the state. "This is unprecedented in the state as well as in...
01:59 PM, May 20, 2013
Pune: In an apparent reference to NCP, Maharashtra PCC President Manikrao Thakre on Saturday said "an ally'' of Congress in the state had "betrayed" it during recent local self government elections held in Vidarbha. "The like-minded party, which is our ally, has betrayed us in the Vidarbha local body polls by backtracking on electoral understanding. They are our ally but they caused damage to us by the double-speak," Thakre alleged...
12:28 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Kolkata: As the chit fund meltdown is spreading like a contagion in rural Bengal, a 50-year-old woman, who had deposited Rs 30,000 in Saradha Group, on Sunday, succumbed to her injuries after she set herself on fire. The woman set herself on fire on Saturday evening at her home after coming to know that the company had gone bust. Meanwhile, the Mamata government is on the defensive with the Left...
08:42 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: A 50-year-old woman, who had deposited money in chit fund company Saradha Group, on Sunday succumbed to her injuries after she set herself on fire, while a man tried to poison himself, even as political parties traded charges over the scandal. Urmila Pramanik, a resident of Baruipur in South-24 Parganas district, who had invested Rs 30,000 with the chit fund company, set herself on fire on Saturday evening at...
10:23 PM, Apr 21, 2013
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09:21 PM, Mar 09, 2013
Manik Sarkar is set to make history when he is sworn in as Tripura's Chief Minister for a fourth successive term. The Left celebrated election victory in Tripura and their man of the moment is Manik Sarkar winning an unprecedented fourth term. ...
07:44 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The Maharasthra Congress on Friday gave a red-carpet welcome to party Vice President Rahul Gandhi for his one-day visit. Many roads were plastered with posters and hoardings, all at the cost of defying the civic rules which bans such posters on trees, electric boxes and posts, despite the BMC Commissioner promising a hoarding-free city. Irked citizens have now voiced their complaints over this burst of paper for the young VP's...
07:41 PM, Mar 01, 2013
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06:09 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The return of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in Tripura and Forward Bloc wresting the Nalhati seat from Congress in West Bengal reflects "re-emergence" of the Left parties, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday. "We congratulate the people of Tripura to have given us two-thirds majority for the seventh Left Front government in the state and sixth in a row," he told reporters when his reaction was sought on...
04:03 PM, Feb 28, 2013
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02:00 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The counting of votes began in Tripura amidst tight security and CPI(M) is leading in one seat. ...
08:09 AM, Feb 28, 2013
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03:35 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Tripura on Thursday set a new record for the country's highest-ever voter turnout with 93 per cent polling in the Assembly elections which was by and large peaceful. The Left Front is hoping to return for a record fifth straight time in the elections to the 60-member Assembly in the north-eastern state with the contest being mainly between the ruling alliance and the Congress. ...
09:43 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Tripura on Thursday witnessed a massive turnout of 91.6 per cent of 23,52,505 voters in peaceful polling amidst tight security for the 60-member House. The percentage of polling could rise as poll process was still continuing in some parts of the state, sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said. ...
02:40 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Polling percentage in Tripura till Thursday noon was recorded as 40 per cent and no no incidents of violence were reported from the northeast state. The Left Front government, led by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, is looking to regain power in the 60-member State Assembly with a fourth consecutive victory. Tripura Congress Chief Sudip Ray Barman and the President of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura Bijay Hrankhwal are among 249...
12:57 PM, Feb 14, 2013
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11:40 AM, Feb 14, 2013
The Left Front government, led by Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, is looking to regain power in the 60-member State Assembly with a fourth consecutive victory. Tripura Congress Chief Sudip Ray Barman and the President of Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura Bijay Hrankhwal are among 249 candidates in the fray. ...
09:20 AM, Feb 14, 2013
