Ajit Pawar had resigned following reports about his alleged involvement in a Rs 20,000 crore scam. ...
09:32 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Mumbai: In a veiled attack on ally Congress in Maharashtra, NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Sunday said the allegations of irregularities raised against him were aimed at diverting public attention from the Coalgate scam. "There is an attempt to blacken us with coal," said Pawar, who last week resigned as the Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister after reports about his alleged role in an irrigation scam. Even though he did not...
04:08 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday accepted Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar's resignation. He has also said that the post of Deputy Chief Minister will remain vacant for the time being. He also said that Ajit Pawar has assured him of full cooperation. "In view of the fact that there will be no Deputy Chief Minister for the time being, we have worked out an alternate...
03:08 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor K Sankarnarayanan on Saturday accepted the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who quit following reports about his alleged involvement in a Rs 20,000 crore irrigation scam. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan met the Governor on Saturday morning and handed over Pawar's resignation. "The Governor has accepted Ajit Pawar's resignation as recommended by the Chief Minister," a Raj Bhavan spokesperson said. The crisis in the Congress-NCP...
11:30 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Mumbai: Ending the five-day political drama in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday accepted Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar's resignation. The resignation has also been accepted by Maharashtra Governor K Sankarnarayanan. "The Governor has accepted Ajit Pawar's resignation as recommended by the Chief Minister," a Raj Bhavan spokesperson told PTI. This comes a day after NCP chief Sharad Pawar accepted his nephew Ajit Pawar's resignation on Friday...
11:07 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Mumbai: Senior NCP leader and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar on Friday said there was "a conspiracy to malign his image"; and he would not withdraw his resignation. He was speaking at the ongoing meeting of NCP legislators at Vidhan Bhawan here, attended by party chief and Union Minister Sharad Pawar, to resolve the crisis created by the surprise resignation. "I am firm on my stand. I will...
05:37 AM, Sep 29, 2012
The Pawar Parivar on Friday sent out a message of unity and Sharad Pawar and Supriya Sule attended a meeting of NCP MLAs. ...
11:05 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Friday sent out a strong message of unity backing Ajit Pawar's resignation from the post of Maharashtra deputy chief minister over the irrigation scam. "Ajit told me he doesn't want a post till he gets his name cleared," the NCP chief told reporters in Mumbai. Capping the 72 hour-long political drama in Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar accepted Ajit Pawar's resignation and announced that...
10:36 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra unit of Congress on Friday said there would not be any adverse impact of NCP leader Ajit Pawar's resignation as Deputy Chief Minister on the 13-year-old Congress-NCP alliance in the state. "Ajit Pawar had said while resigning that he won't accept any post till charges against him are cleared," said state Congress chief Manikrao Thakre in Mumbai. "It was for the NCP to take decision. The issue was...
07:50 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Nationalist Congress Party MLA Jitendra Awhad insisted that the party is united on the irrigation scam issue. He reiterated that the white paper should not have been delayed and said he is hopeful that the truth will soon come out. ...
07:20 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: In a bid to defuse the political crisis in Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Friday met Ajit Pawar, party MLAs and senior leaders, including Praful Patel and Supriya Sule. Addressing mediapersons after the meeting in Mumbai, the NCP chief said that the members of the party had given their suggestions on the issue in writing to him. He further reiterated the demand for the White...
05:49 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar met his nephew Ajit Pawar and senior NCP leaders ahead of the party legislators meet to resolve the political crisis in Maharashtra. Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule and Union Minister Praful Patel were also present at the meeting. This was the first meeting between Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar after Ajit Pawar resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Sharad Pawar...
03:15 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) member Anjali Damania, who on Thursday claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari had refused to help her when she approached him in connection with the Maharashtra irrigation scam involving top Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders, has refused to apologise to the Opposition leader after he sent her a legal notice. "He can do whatever he wants. I will not apologise," Damania,...
01:30 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will be holding a meeting with party legislators in Mumbai on Friday. The NCP chief's nephew, Ajit Pawar was recently forced to resign from the post of deputy Chief Minister, after reports alleging his involvement in the Maharashtra irrigation scam emerged. Sharad Pawar will also meet his daughter Supriya Sule and Ajit Pawar along with Praful Patel and some NCP leaders...
12:03 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Chief Engineer Water Resources Vijay Pandhare, who blew the lid off the Maharashtra irrigation scam, has said that the nexus between contractors and politicians exists in all states. In an interview to CNN-IBN, he said that while most were aware of the corruption levels within the state governments, most chose to overlook it out of fear. Below is an edited transcript of the interview. CNN-IBN: In response to the letter...
07:30 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Key UPA allies, the DMK and the NCP, demanded a rollback on the diesel price hike at the coordination committee meet. ...
05:50 PM, Sep 27, 2012
An India Against Corruption (IAC) activist on Thursday claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari refused to help her and her colleagues when they approached him for help over the Maharashtra irrigation scam involving key Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders like deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. CNN-IBN has accessed letters that show that Gadkari's key aide Ajay Sancheti, also a BJP MP, benefited in the alleged scam by ...
02:37 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan met his top Congress legislators on Thursday to discuss Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation offer. The Congress has denied that the resignation drama is an NCP ploy to put pressure on the Congress. But Chavan baiters Narayan Rane and Ashok Chavan did not attend the meet. After Ajit Pawar's resignation offer, reports say pressure has been building on Chavan to be replaced. However,...
01:19 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said that there is no going back on Ajit Pawar's resignation as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Sharad Pawar also told IBN Network that his family was united and there were no differences. Sharad Pawar said that Ajit Pawar took the decision after speaking to him and that he gave the go ahead to him to resign. He also said...
11:08 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: The UPA coordination committee will meet on Thursday in an apparent move to endorse government's new economic reforms decisions, two days after Congress fully backed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The meeting of the committee headed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi is expected to make an attempt to formulate a coordinated response of the ruling alliance to the challenging economic issues before the country. It also comes against the...
08:53 AM, Sep 27, 2012
