New Delhi: Amid talks of a new-look UPA Cabinet, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday accepted the resignations of seven Union ministers ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle, which will take place on Sunday.
Resignations of as many as four senior and three junior ministers were accepted by the President. This came ahead of the Sunday UPA Cabinet reshuffle where some major changes are expected to take place.
The senior ministers whose resignations were accepted are " SM Krishna, Ambika Soni, Mukul Wasnik and Subodh Kant Sahai. While Krishna had resigned as the Minister of External Affairs, Soni had quit as the Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
Mukul Wasnik and Subodh Kant Sahai had resigned as the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment and Minister of Tourism respectively. The leaders are now expected to work for the Congress party as part of the preparations for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections....
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08:05 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Subodh Kant Sahai resigned as the Tourism Minister on Saturday ahead of the Cabinet reshuffle on Sunday. Along with Sahai, Ambika Soni and Mukul Wasnik also quit from their Cabinet posts of Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment respectively. According to sources, the Cabinet is likely to have younger faces this time. ...
01:37 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of Sunday's reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers, three Cabinet Ministers and a Minister of State resigned on Saturday, saying they want to work for the party. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik and Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai and MoS Justice and Empowerment Mahadev Khandela met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and submitted their resignations. External Affairs Minister SM...
12:32 PM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: The UPA is gearing up for the massive Cabinet revamp on Sunday. After External Affairs Minister SM Krishna, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni and Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik are expected to resign, while Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi may be given a bigger role in the party as the working president or vice president. And this time, the reshuffle is happening with Rahul...
07:44 AM, Oct 27, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday accepted the resignation of SM Krishna as the Union External Affairs Minister. Earlier in the day, Krishna had sent his resignation to the Prime Minister ahead of the proposed Cabinet reshuffle, which is expected to take place on Sunday. Krishna said he wanted to give the youngsters a chance. "I want youngsters to be given a chance...I am a loyal party worker...
07:25 PM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Social Welfare Minister Mukul Wasnik said on Monday that funds were sanctioned to Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's NGO, the Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust, on the basis of merit in 2003 by the NDA government and that the funds would not be scrapped. "The money was given to the trust on merit. It would be unfortunate if we scrap the money sanctioned," said Wasnik. He refused to comment...
01:31 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday steered clear of the midnight crackdown on Baba Ramdev's hunger strike, but decided to meet the challenge posed by communal forces which have been repeatedly defeated in the elections. After a lengthy meeting at Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's residence, party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi sidestepped questions whether the party endorsed the police action late Saturday night. "That has already been explained by the Government," he...
09:43 PM, Jun 05, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Mukul Wasnik was on Sunday heckled at the party Plenary causing commotion with workers from Bihar accusing him of "selling" tickets in the just-concluded assembly elections in which the party got routed. As Wasnik tried to fix a dysfunctional sound system on the dais, a number of delegates from Bihar raised slogans against him and demanded his removal. Wasnik is in-charge of party affairs in...
04:35 PM, Dec 19, 2010
New Delhi: With Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's on the way out, the hunt for the next chief minister of the state has started. The two-member committee headed by Defence Minister AK Antony and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will also look into the involvement of then chief ministers Sushil Kumar Shinde and Vilasrao Deshmukh in the Adarsh society scam. But with no proof yet of their direct involvement, it may...
05:23 PM, Oct 30, 2010
Patna: Union minister for Social Justice and Empowerment and Congress party in-charge Bihar affairs Mukul Wasnik on Sunday said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar "lacked the stature" to enter into a debate with Congress president Sonia Gandhi over Central assistance to Bihar. Reacting to Kumar's challenge to Sonia Gandhi for a debate over the Centre's financial assistance to Bihar during the rule of the Manmohan Singh government, Wasnik and...
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