New Delhi: Youth Congress workers on Wednesday protested outside the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in the national capital over the BJP's demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation. The protesters stormed barricades, following which the police fired water cannons.
The protesters said that the BJP must stop asking for the Prime Minister's resignation and let Parliament function. This came even as Parliament was adjourned sine die last week.
However, there have been indications that the government may go for a Special Session to pass crucial bills like the Land Acquisition and the Food Security Bill.
The government may be hopeful of getting the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) help in passing the bills after the resignation of Pawan Kumar Bansal as the Railway Minister and Ashwani Kumar as the Law Minister. The Budget Session was a complete wash-out as the BJP was stiff on demanding the resignation of Bansal and Ashwani over the Railwayu bribery controversy and the coal scam....
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12:44 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The political debate over the execution of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar remains charged, but there is a new twist, his doctor and one of the judges who ruled in his case, say there is a case to grant him pardon. While the Supreme Court has shot down his plea for death sentence to be commuted, his doctor says his condition is worsening. Bhullar has been undergoing...
09:47 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: No relief for Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. But the Supreme Court decision spells disappointment for others on death row too. The apex court on Friday rejected the mercy petition of Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. The big question is that will this verdict...
08:59 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Unhappy with the Supreme Court's decision on his friend Devinder Pal Bhullar's mercy petition, Arvinder Singh said their battle is on and they will approach Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the issue. ...
03:28 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the mercy petition of Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who had sought commutation of his death penalty to life sentence on the ground that there was inordinate delay by the President over his plea for clemency. The court said that delay cannot be a ground for commuting death sentence to a life term. Bhullar was sentenced to death in 2003 for carrying out...
11:29 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday held a meeting with the national office bearers of the Indian Youth Congress and NSUI and asked its members to work with greater focus to strengthen the party. ...
10:20 PM, Jan 25, 2013
A strong demand for ending the culture of nomination at all levels for democratic functioning of the party and its revival was made at the Congress brainstorming conclave here on January 19. The 'Chintan Shivir' saw a plea for replicating Rahul Gandhi's model of holding elections to the Youth Congress and NSUI in the parent body as well as all its other wings. ...
05:52 PM, Jan 19, 2013
Outlining the party's strategy with the 2014 general elections in mind, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday advised party workers to respect alliances but not at the expense of reviving the Congress and also voiced concern over its shrinking traditional support base. ...
01:39 AM, Jan 19, 2013
Calling for party rejuvenation in major states where it has been out of power for the last several years, Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked her party leaders to make sure that the policies of the party were not sacrificed on the altar of coalition politics. Warning the younger leaders of the party against vulgar display of wealth, she warned that the common man was fed up of corruption, and the...
10:30 PM, Jan 18, 2013
Congress in Bihar on Jaunary 3 accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of "not being serious" to acquire special category status for the state as he is not calling an all-party meeting to press for the demand before the centre. ...
06:24 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New Delhi: With the government set to launch the direct cash transfer scheme from January 1 in select districts across the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will on Friday brief district Congress and youth presidents about the benefits of the scheme. He will address district Congress and Youth Congress presidents of 51 districts, where the direct cash transfer scheme is to be implemented from January, explaining the benefits of the...
11:15 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Jalandhar: The president of the Punjab Youth Congress was on Friday arrested along with his supporters when they tried to replace photographs of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with those of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the vehicles of the 108 ambulance service. However, they were later released. Stating that the 108 ambulance scheme was centrally sponsored, the Congress had demanded that the posters be replaced, or they would do...
08:33 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Raipur: An office-bearer of Chhattisgarh Youth Congress has alleged the local police had beaten him up for asking a question to Chief Minister Raman Singh at a farmers' meeting held in Raipur on October 7. Youth Congress general secretary for Raipur Lok Sabha constituency Anwar Hussain (30) charged he was bashed up by the police for putting a question to the Chief Minister after the farmers' meeting held in Raipur,...
11:51 PM, Oct 15, 2012
The ongoing sarpanch protests in Jammu and Kashmir threatens to turn into a face-off between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after the former said on Thursday that the local body leaders must be granted more autonomy. Rahul made the statement at a meeting with a delegation of sarpanches from the valley in Delhi. The sarpanches have demanded gun licenses to protect themselves in the wake ...
02:16 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Bangalore: An 11-year-old girl, who was set ablaze by nine persons while she was on her way to school, has succumbed to burn injuries at a hospital, police said. The fifth standard girl breathed her last at the state-run Victoria Hospital this afternoon, they said. All the nine were arrested yesterday and remanded to 14 days judicial custody. Personal enmity with the girl's father was suspected to be the reason...
01:45 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Nagpur: Senior Congress leader and Union Minister M Veerappa Moily on Friday said Rahul Gandhi was like a "magnet" for party workers and it was up to him to decide on a larger role for himself. Rahul, a general secretary, is like a "magnet who is attracting party workers and activists", he told reporters in Nagpur. According to Moily, Rahul is doing well in strengthening Youth Congress which has benefited...
05:31 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Team Anna member and RTI activist Akhil Gogoi was attacked by suspected Youth Congress members on Friday in Assam's Nalbari district. ...
01:29 PM, Jul 07, 2012
New Delhi: A Congress councillor was arrested on Friday night in connection with the Akhil Gogoi assault case. Reports allege the person arrested is Councillor Tapan Barman. Gogoi, an RTI activist and a Team Anna member, was attacked by suspected Youth Congress members on Friday in Assam's Nalbari district. Gogoi had gone to the Dharmapur area to take stock of the flood situation, when he was allegedly attacked with sticks...
11:16 AM, Jul 07, 2012
Bangalore: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Karnataka. On Saturday, Rahul will be attending the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and National Students' Union Of India (NSUI) - the national executive of Congress' student wings and state Youth Congress convention. Rahul's visit is being seen as another step towards getting party workers together before the 2014 general elections. Rahul, during his two-day visit, will attend many...
09:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Patna: Differences continued to dog the political parties in Bihar over naming of the newly-constructed Kosi bridge giving new lifeline to Mithilanchal region. State Youth Congress president Lalan Kumar and former MP Ranjit Ranjan on Saturday said they would petition Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Surface Transport Minister C P Joshi soon to name it after veteran socialist leader B P Mandal. While Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinodanand...
02:25 PM, Feb 11, 2012
