Mumbai: A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar resigned from the post of the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the party has said that it is not keen on keeping the Deputy Chief Minister's post in Maharshtra. NCP leader Praful Patel has said that there will be no Deputy CM's post for the NCP in Maharashtra any more and clarified that his party was not keen on...
01:42 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel has said that Ajit Pawar resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra after consultations with party chief Sharad Pawar. Defending Ajit Pawar, who quit on Tuesday over allegations of irregularities during his tenure as the irrigation minister of Maharashtra, Patel said that the NCP leader has set a good example in public life. "It was a good decision by...
07:35 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to the Centre after a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a probe against the Aviation Ministry was filed. The PIL sought a CBI probe into the functioning of the Ministry during the tenure of Praful Patel as the Civil Aviation Minister in UPA-I government. The PIL raised questions about the purchase of aircraft by the Ministry during Praful's tenure, alleging...
11:52 AM, Sep 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has declared its assets. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's total assets have doubled over the past one year from Rs 5.11 crore to Rs 10.73 crore. Government sources claim this is largely due to the increase in the value of homes in Delhi and in Chandigarh. Defence Minister AK Antony is the Cabinet Minister with the lowest assets only worth Rs 55 lakh. Praful Patel is...
10:12 AM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assets worth around Rs 10.73 crore, double that of last year, but a number of his Cabinet colleagues are much richer than him. Among the richer Cabinet ministers are Praful Patel with assets of approximately Rs 52 crore and Sharad Pawar with property worth around Rs 22 crore, according to the updated list of assets of the ministers posted on the PMO website....
10:39 AM, Sep 09, 2012
New Delhi: The CAG report on the Delhi airport said that the decision by the Civil Aviation Ministry to award the contract for the Delhi airport to GMR caused humongous losses to the tax payers and passengers. It said that land was given to the company at much lower rates than even to government organisations like the DGCA and the BCA. The CAG has pegged the losses at about Rs...
01:42 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: All three CAG reports on coal, power and aviation were tabled in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The report on coal blocks allocations puts the presumptive loss to the Government at Rs 1.86 lakh crore, which is much bigger and greater than the 2G scam itself. CNN-IBN has accessed the final draft of the CAG report on coal block allocations that also raises questions on the role of...
12:50 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: CAG reports on the privatisation of the Delhi airport, ultra mega power projects and coal block allocations are likely to be tabled in Parliament on Friday. CNN-IBN has accessed the final draft of the CAG report on coal block allocations which pegs the loss to the exchequer at Rs 1.86 lakh crore, making it even bigger than the 2G scam loss. The report also raises questions on the...
07:33 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Senior NCP leader Praful Patel has been included in the Group of Ministers to tackle corruption, a development which assumes significance against the backdrop of recent complaint by the UPA ally that its voice was not being heard in Government functioning. Patel was nominated in the important GoM by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a few days back, sources told PTI in New Delhi. However, he did not attend...
08:45 PM, Jul 30, 2012
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: 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: 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: 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
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the stand off between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress. The NCP leadership met in New Delhi on Monday and decided to skip the dinner being hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the honour of outgoing President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, sources told CNN-IBN. The dinner is at 8 PM at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. NCP chief Sharad...
02:01 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is expected to hold a party meet at its president Sharad Pawar's residence on Monday. The party is set to decide on the future of its partnership with the Congress. The party had put the ruling coalition on notice on Friday, with Pawar and his colleague Praful Patel offering to resign for not being consulted on important matters. Patel had later clarified that...
09:26 AM, Jul 23, 2012
