New Delhi: NCP leader Praful Patel on Wednesday evening did a u-turn and said the NCP never wanted to opt of the UPA alliance. While speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Praful said, "We were not fighting all guns or anything. We were simply stating a fact better coordination both at the Centre and the State and I think after the meeting with Mrs Gandhi and Dr Manmohan Singh, I...
10:20 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: The week-long NCP-Congress crisis is finally over as both the parties agreed to set up coordination committees in Delhi and Mumbai to resolve differences. NCP leaders Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday evening in New Delhi to bring an end to the stand off. Addressing the media after the meeting, Praful said that he and Pawar discussed...
06:29 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: 5:19 pm: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel at his residence. 4:58 pm: Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel reach Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence at 7, Race Course Road ahead of the meeting. 4:48 pm: Praful Patel meets Sharad Pawar ahead of latter's meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi. 4:30 pm: NCP, Congress reach agreement and a...
04:18 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi: The stand off between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress is easing off with the Prime Minister's Office set to announce the setting up of a co-ordination committee, which has been a key demand of NCP chief and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi will meet Pawar on Wednesday evening. While Congress President Sonia Gandhi declined to comment on...
01:07 PM, Jul 25, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: There is rebellion against Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan as 43 of the 82 Congress MLAs wrote a letter of discontent against his style of functioning even as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) kept the Centre guessing on its next move. The letter signed by the MLAs points that there is anger among the constituents of the government over the lack of progress on several projects. It lists...
11:55 PM, Jul 24, 2012
As many as 43 of 82 Congress MLAs have rebelled against Prithviraj Chavan's style of functioning. ...
10:40 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Congress MLA's in Maharshtra have written to the state party chief complaining against Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. ...
09:49 PM, Jul 24, 2012
The UPA government has been facing problems from its constituents, the NCP and the TMC, and outside supporter, the SP. ...
09:10 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: Downplaying the issue of poor coordination in Congress-NCP coalition in Maharashtra, state Congress president Manikrao Thakre on Tuesday said members of the coordination committee had met as recently as this month during the Legislative Council polls. "NCP-Congress coalition is working well in Maharashtra. Members on the coordination committee last met during the elections to the 11 Legislative Council seats," Thakre told reporters. Though it was not a formal meeting...
08:36 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) said that it would decide on ties with the Congress by Thursday, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the rift between the parties. Earlier on Tuesday, NCP sources said, "If we don't attend Cabinet meet on Thursday, then there is no turning back." The Maharashtra unit of the NCP also conveyed to its central leadership...
06:58 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is facing a strong rebellion from within the Congress party. CNN-IBN has accessed a letter of grievance written by the Congress MLAs in Maharashtra to state party chief Manikrao Thakre. The letter, signed by 43 of the 82 Congress MLAs in the state, points that there is anger among the constituents of the government over the lack of progress on several projects. The letter...
05:04 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday said that it will take its final decision on its ties with the Congress by Thursday morning. "If we don't attend Cabinet meet on Thursday, then there is no turning back," said party sources. The Maharashtra unit of the NCP has conveyed to its central leadership that if the Centre walks out, the state coalition would be put in jeopardy. The NCP-Congress...
02:19 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Forty-three Congress MLAs in Maharashtra on Tuesday wrote to state party chief Manickrao Thakre criticising Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's style of functioning and urging him to ask the leader to change it. CNN-IBN accessed the letter which was signed by MLAs mostly close to Ashok Chavan and Vilasrao Deshmukh. The letter stated, "There is anger among our constituents over the lack of progress on several projects." It further...
12:10 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Guwahati molestation case key accused arrested in UP. NCP chief Sharad Pawar and NCP leader Praful Patel attended outgoing President Pratibha Patil's farewell ceremony and left. ...
11:56 PM, Jul 23, 2012
A Mahapanchayat now tells Maruti management they must hire more locals. ...
10:29 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: With the stand-off between her party and the NCP continuing, Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Monday heard asking NCP leader Praful Patel to "do something" to end the crisis. Gandhi's remark in half-jest at the tea party after the farewell function held for outgoing President Pratibha Patil drew an instant reaction from Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj, who was also having a chat with the Congress chief....
09:59 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: The NCP kept the Congress guessing on quitting the Union cabinet as party chief Sharad Pawar and party leader Praful Patel skipped the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening. Although, the sulking ally had made it clear that it will not rock the UPA boat and continue its support "till the end". At stake is the NCP's demand to remove Prithviraj Chavan as Chief...
08:31 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday vowed to remain with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) till the 2014 General Elections, saying that the current standoff is not a ploy to seek anything from the government. NCP leader Praful Patel said that the final decision on whether the NCP would remain a part of the government or support it from outside would be taken in a day or...
05:08 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: The stand-off between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress took a turn for the worse with party chief Sharad Pawar now asking Minister for State for Rural Development Agatha Sangma to stop attending office. Whether the party should pull out from the UPA or not, will be decided by the party leadership soon. Sources say that the root of the problem lies in Maharashtra where ties...
03:55 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Mumbai: It was the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel who first indicated that the germ of the current political standoff between the party and the Congress lay not in Delhi, but in Mumbai. NCP sources had then said that the party leadership wanted the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi to rein in Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. Chavan's refusal to back any ministers, several of them from the...
03:26 PM, Jul 23, 2012
