Posts Tagged ‘congress president’

SONIA GANDHI hit back at the BJP for calling Manmohan Singh a "weak Prime Minister", saying they had insulted the nation. The Congress president, in her first response to the BJP's repeated attack, lambasted the party and said the Congress judged the strength and weakness of a leader by his work and not merely by words. "The Prime Minister represents the entire country and not a ... Full story

Kurukshetra, April 7 (IANS) The Haryana police Tuesday registered a case for violation of code of conduct against Congress MP and millionaire industrialist Naveen Jindal in this Haryana town following orders of the Election Commission. Jindal has been booked under Section 3 of the Haryana Defacement of Public Property Act. He has been accused of unauthorisedly putting up pole hoardings on the Shahbad-Pipli road in this ... Full story

Kolkata/New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) A day after senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee released a report card on the Left's three decades of 'misrule' in West Bengal, the Marxists refuted the findings and, launching an attack on Mukherjee, wondered at his 'doublespeak'. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Biman Bose, speaking in Kolkata, expressed surprise over the 'development report card' released by Mukherjee, the West Bengal ... Full story

Kathmandu, Mar 31 (ANI): Nepali Congress along with three other political parties presented their respective concept paper at the meeting of the Constitutional Committee here today. Presenting the concept paper which is basically a draft of a new Constitution at the meeting held in Singha Durbar, Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala stressed the ... Full story

Kathmandu, Mar 31 (ANI): Nepali Congress (NC) has decided to go for a parliamentary system in which the executive Prime Minister will be elected by the parliament and president will remain as ceremonial head of state. The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the main opposition party decided to go for parliamentary system despite objections from few CWC ... Full story

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 28 (ANI): Former United Nations diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor on Saturday filed his nomination papers from Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency. Tharoor filed the papers before District Collector Sanjay Kaul at the collectorate here. He was accompanied by former MP from the constituency V S Sivakumar, MLA N Sakthan and District Congress President ... Full story

Kathmandu, Mar 28 (ANI): Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala has refuted speculations of the party joining the government at current situation. Speaking to Constituent Assembly members at parliamentary party office here on Friday, Koirala said he had rejected Prime Minister Prachanda's proposal to join the government. "Nepali Congress will not join the government until the past agreements are implemented and seized property by Maoists during the ... Full story

Kathmandu, Mar 17 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood met Prime Minister Prachanda at latter's official residence in Baluwatar on Tuesday. According to Prachanda's press advisor Om Sharma, they discussed army integration,onstitution drafting process and the present political situation. They also discussed about the participation of the Nepali Congress (NC) in the government. The meeting between the two comes at a time when the Nepali Congress ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 9 (ANI): The Congress on Monday announced candidates for 12 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, including Union Ministers Dinsha Patel, Shankersinh Vaghela and Naran Bhai Rathwa. Union Minister of Textiles Shankarsinh Vaghela will contest from the Panchmahal constituency. Union Minister of ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 8 (ANI): The Samajwadi Party on Sunday declared 10 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh taking the number of its nominees to 74.he SP has left six constituencies, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Ghaziabad, Dharora, Mathura and Kanpur for the Congress. The Samajwadi Party ... Full story

Kathmandu, Feb 25 (ANI): Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala today cautioned against adopting federalism without first giving serious thought to its pros and cons. Speaking at a programme organized by Nepali Congress State Restructuring Advisory Committee here, Koirala said, "It is dangerous as treading on a sword's edge." "There is a danger that the country may face disintegration if decisions on the issue of federalism are ... Full story

Kathmandu, Feb 18 (ANI) The 58th Nepal National Democracy Day is being observed today. According to Nepalnews, worships and prayers were also performed at various shrines for the eternal peace of the known and unknown martyrs who sacrificed their lives for democracy. The National Democracy Day is being celebrated to commemorate the day when Nepalis were released from the command of 104-years-long Rana autocracy on February ... Full story

Kathmandu, Feb 10 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda has claimed that no attempt to bring down the Maoist-led government will succeed. Addressing a programme here on Monday Prachnada said that the leadership of the government will not change until a new constitution is drafted. Prachanda said he would continue as the people have given the party mandate to write the statute through the Constituent Assembly (CA) election. ... Full story

Kathmandu, Feb 6 (ANI): The International Media Mission that is actively working for freedom of press in Nepal initiated meeting with leaders of political parties on Friday. The mission conferred with Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala this morning. Koirala said the recent series of attacks in free press and judiciary has posed threat to democracy. "The current Maoist-led government has remained a mute-spectator to continuing attack ... Full story

New Delhi, Jan.26 (ANI): The Congress Working Committee (CWC) due to be held on January 29 in the national capital would finalise the poll manifesto and party's strategy to prepare for the Lok Sabha elections. Congress party expects the dates for the Lok Sabha elections to be announced anytime between February 15 and March1 and the CWC will take stock of the poll preparedness of the ... Full story