Defending BJP President Nitin Gadkari, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that all the agro-based projects of Gadkari have benefitted farmers. Pawar said he and the BJP chief are political opponent but both are committed to the development of Maharashtra. ...
08:24 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Vadodara: Congress allies are putting the party on notice without actually pulling out of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). A day after Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati asked her party to get ready for an early Lok Sabha election; Nationalist Congress Party supremo and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar joined her chorus. Addressing the NCP conclave in Vadodara, Pawar asked his party leaders and workers to be ready for a...
12:27 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Shillong: The NCP in Meghalaya on Friday merged with National People's Party (NPP), a newly-formed outfit formed by PA Sangma. Sangma, who had resigned from NCP as its General Secretary and unsuccessfully contested the Presidential poll against Pranab Mukherjee last month, would be NPP's president. Altogether 13 out of 14 NCP legislators, including two of Sangma s sons Conrad (leader of opposition) and James Sangma, backed their father. However, Sangma's...
09:34 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: In fresh trouble from the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday out the government on notice with Sharad Pawar and Praful Patel staying away from their ministries, but stopped short of formally resigning from the Cabinet. However, the move was enough to worry the government as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not delay in reaching out to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, calling...
11:06 PM, Jul 20, 2012
With the NCP keeping the heat on the Congress, the Prime Minister called up Sharad Pawar and also described him as a valued colleague. ...
09:00 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached out to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, calling him a valuable colleague, the Congress tried to downplay the differences between the parties. Addressing mediapersons in New Delhi, Congress spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi said that all the issues would be resolved through discussions. He asserted that there was no problem between the Congress and the NCP. "Sharad Pawar is a senior...
04:46 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: Presidential hopeful and former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma has once again raised the issue of Congress President's Sonia Gandhi's foreign issue. Sangma launched his diatribe in Guwahati on Saturday following former president APJ Abdul Kalam's revelation that he (Kalam) could not have blocked Sonia's elevation as the Prime Minister after the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 had she wanted to. ...
04:44 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: With the BJP supporting PA Sangma in the Presidential race, the NCP on Thursday regretted that he has become the nominee of "communal forces" in a contest in which UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee will have a "decisive victory". Party spokesman DP Tripathi said the development also showed the "bankruptcy" of BJP, which had to "import" a candidate from the UPA. "It is most unfortunate that Sangma has decided...
02:50 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the UPA nominated Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as its presidential candidate, the opposition, NDA, remained divided over backing him in the race to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, even as its leader Ram Jethmalani spoke against the ruling coalition's nominee and threatened to join the fray if his party chose to back the veteran Congressman. The real drama, however, unfolded in the form of NCP leader...
11:45 PM, Jun 16, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the Congress appeared going soft on Baba Ramdev, party general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday hit out at the yoga guru asking him to first declare how much black money he possesses before launching a campaign to bring back ill-gotten wealth stashed abroad. "Everything of whatever I had said about Ramdev and Anna Hazare in past has come out to be true. There is a...
06:02 PM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: A day after it decided not to put up a candidate against Samajwadi Party in Kannauj, the Congress on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that its growing bonhomie with that party was due to prickly allies like Trinamool Congress. "We have complete trust in all our allies. They also have trust in us. There is no question of any misunderstanding" was the refrain of party spokesman Rashid Alvi to a...
08:54 PM, Jun 06, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has ridiculed Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar over the latter's criticism of the Congress-led government in Maharashtra. "If the Congress-led government in the state is ineffective, why is the Pawar-led NCP still glued to it," Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana' on Monday. At a meeting of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday, Pawar had, in a veiled attack on Chief...
10:41 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar once again targeted the Congress on Saturday for what he termed as a collapse in the "decision-making process" in Maharashtra. Pawar, without naming Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, said that on account of the dilly-dallying in taking major decisions, the state was losing out on big investments and mega industrial projects. The NCP is an ally of the Congress...
11:10 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the steepest hike of Rs 7.50 per litre in petrol prices, the Central government on Thursday came under immense pressure for at least a partial rollback from opposition as well as key allies such as DMK, Trinamool and NCP, and even Congress. Angry over the move, the Trinamool Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the DMK on Thursday skipped an important Cabinet meet held...
10:24 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the steepest ever hike in petrol prices on Wednesday, key UPA allies " Trinamool Congress (TMC), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and DMK " on Thursday skipped an important Cabinet meet held at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence. The government has been slammed for the hike in petrol prices by opposition parties as well as its allies since the announcement. Even the Congress on Thursday distanced...
07:19 PM, May 24, 2012
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