NEW DELHI: Ahead of the scheduled Screening Committee meeting later in the day to discuss candidates for upcoming Punjab assembly elections, four state ministers on Tuesday met Congress General Secretary (Organisations) KC Venugopal to discuss the election strategy in the state. Punjab Home Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Pargat Singh and two other ministers were also […]
KANNAUJ/KANPUR: The six-day long investigation spread across Kanpur and Kannauj at two residences of businessman and perfume-maker Peeyush Jain has discovered that a walking closet was used since 2010 by him to stash unaccounted cash, that stands at Rs 197-crore even as directorate general of GST intelligence (DGGI), a law enforcement agency under the Union […]
NEW DELHI: Days after former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi played a major role to douse the tensions in poll bound Uttarakhand, state party in-charge Devendra Yadav on Monday said that state unit chief Ganesh Godiyal will be the grand old party’s face in the state. Speaking to the media after launching the party theme song […]
NEW DELHI: Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat and Uttarakhand AICC in-charge Devendra Yadav on Monday launched party’s theme song titled ‘Tin togada, Kam bigada aur BJP na aayegi dobara’ ahead of assembly polls in the state. Rawat said that the double engine government of the state has failed miserably. Addressing a press conference at […]
LUCKNOW: Elections to Uttar Pradesh, that is already seeing a high-voltage wrangling between sitting BJP and Samajwadi Party for last few weeks in its run-up is likely to begin on schedule with no parties willing to seek any postponement at the moment, Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Friday. ECI panel was on a […]
Days after three sitting Congress leaders switched to BJP in Punjab, the Congress screening committee on Wednesday finalised candidates for 40 out of 117 seats in Punjab, according to party sources. The Screening Committee met at 15 GRG, which is also called Congress war room on Wednesday night with Punjab unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, […]
UTTAR PRADESH: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been assigned the task of reviving the party in Uttar Pradesh where it has been out of power for the last three decades on Wednesday said that the women are being exploited and they are not getting their deserved rights and urged them to come […]
LUCKNOW: To check the poll preparedness in Uttar Pradesh that will witness a hot contest between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the other opposition parties including the Samajwadi Party and the Congress among others, a delegation of the Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra held a review meeting on […]
NEW DELHI: Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi on the occasion of the party’s 137th foundation day on Thursday, asserted that it has confronted several challenges and demonstrated resilience. In her speech she mentioned that divisive ideologies anchored in hate which had no role whatsoever to play in our freedom movement are now causing havoc on […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress will contest the Punjab Assembly elections next year under the leadership of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. Former party chief Rahul Gandhi will kickstart the party’s election campaign formally on January 3 from Moga. In fact, contesting elections in Punjab under the leadership of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi will not […]