New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi’s Rajya Sabha debut is a unique Congress event. As chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP), Gandhi will now share the Opposition front row with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who Gandhi appointed/nominated as Leader of the Opposition. LoP leads the Opposition benches, while the CPP chairperson leads Congress MPs, including Kharge … Read more
Guwahati: The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal campaigned for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections at various places in the Margherita Assembly constituency. The senior leader from BJP was accorded warm reception by the people as Sonowal visited North Margherita Rangamancha, Nagapathar Rangamancha, Udaipur Rangamancha, Lidu Railway Theatre among others. Sonowal, “The … Read more
A day after the CBI filed closure report in Air India scam case, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise to former PM Manmohan Singh and to the country. The Congress leader alleged that the CBI closed the case because Nationalist Congress Party (NCP – Ajit Pawar … Read more
Former prime minister and Congress leader Manmohan Singh will end his 33-year-long parliamentary innings in the Rajya Sabha in early April, just as former party chief Sonia Gandhi enters the Upper House of Parliament for the first time. Singh, who is known for ushering in several bold reforms in the economy, became a member of … Read more
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led the Rajya Sabha in bidding farewell to 68 members retiring from the House between February and May, showered praise on his predecessor Manmohan Singh on Thursday as he acknowledged the contribution of the senior Congress leader as the PM, Leader of the House and Leader of the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Amid lack of clarity whether former PM Manmohan Singh will get another term as Rajya Sabha MP, the upper House on Thursday bade a warm farewell to him and 67 other retiring members, with PM Narendra Modi praising his predecessor for his commitment as a parliamentarian.Modi praised Singh for his “invaluable thoughts” and … Read more
Milind Deora on Sunday targetted Congress leadership after joining Shiv Sena, saying his parent party is not the same as it used to be when Manmohan Singh had launched economic reforms but it is now abusing industrialists, businessmen and calling them anti-nationals. Addressing a gathering at Varsha, the official residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath … Read more
Nine Union ministers, BJP president JP Nadda, and former prime minister Manmohan Singh are among the 57 Rajya Sabha members retiring in April, just ahead of the next Lok Sabha polls. The BJP may have to take a call on the candidature of these nine ministers and Nadda before deciding its Lok Sabha candidates. In … Read more
