More politics than development at the 56th National Development Council meeting with Chief Ministers of non-Cong states accusing the Centre of trying to disturb the federal structure. Gujarat CM Narendra Modi said the Centre has forgotten federal dharma, Jayalalitha called UPA 'fascist'. CNN-IBN spoke to Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, who too accused the Centre of biases. Chouhan also dismissed any internal rivalry among the BJP leaders ...
03:44 PM, Oct 24, 2011
Miriti (West Bengal): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that Rahul Gandhi is the "new leader" of the Congress party. The statement by the veteran Congress leader can be interpreted as projecting the young leader as the next prime ministerial candidate. "As far as Congress is concerned, it is always having a new leadership. Rahul Gandhi is going to be a new leader," he told reporters in Miriti. Mukherjee...
11:34 AM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: Even as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi chose to skip the National Executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), talks about the party's prime ministerial candidate for the next elections gained momentum on Friday. While Gujarat BJP in-charge Balbir Punj said that Modi was the best prime ministerial candidate, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that there were several strong PM candidates in the party. Further, taking...
02:53 PM, Sep 30, 2011
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At the end of Narendra Modi's Sadbhawna fast, it is evident that Modi has taken a clear and decisive lead in pitching himself as BJP's ...
11:35 AM, Sep 26, 2011
Washington: As the debate on potential prime ministerial contenders for the 2014 elections picks up in India, a US Congressional report says it might just turn out to be a direct contest between controversial Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. A latest report on India by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a bipartisan and independent research wing of the US Congress, finds Modi a strong prime...
12:58 PM, Sep 14, 2011
NCP leader Sharad Pawar said he had doesn't want to be the PM. ...
03:27 PM, Mar 25, 2009
The possibility of naming Mayawati as the PM candidate was also ruled out. ...
10:30 PM, Mar 15, 2009
