Politics

The MP Congress has been in the midst of a churn with various groups talking in different voices over who should be next state unit chief, a post currently held by Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

Congress president has approved the proposal for appointment of Eknath Gaikwad, working president, Mumbai Regional Congress Committee as the acting president of MRCC in place of Milind Deora.

In a tweet on Friday morning, Surjewala shared an undated video of a speech by Modi during his tenure as Gujarat CM in which he makes scathing remarks on the value of the rupee under the Manmohan Singh government.

The Rashtirya Bajrang Dal is also demanding the preparation of a fresh citizens register with 1951 as the cut-off year instead of March 24, 1971 as in the case of NRC, he said in a statement here.

Sonia Gandhi regularly met senior Delhi Congress leaders over the past few weeks in order to fill the president's post in the city unit of the party, which fell vacant after Sheila Dikshit's demise in July.

Congress also said the 96 days of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government's second term are characterised by three words — 'tyranny, chaos and anarchy'.

Forest Minister Umang Singhar, who had been speaking against senior party leader Digvijaya Singh, refused to talk to reporters while leaving Chief Minister Kamal Nath's residence.

Chatterjee a four-time TMC MLA, who joined the BJP on August 14, wanted to part ways with the party for being 'regularly humiliated', his close associate Baishakhi Banerjee claimed on Saturday.

Manmohan Singh had said the state of the economy was "deeply worrying" and urged the government to put aside "vendetta politics" and reach out to sane voices.

D K Shivakumar's mother, Gowramma, claimed that their wealth came from good deeds and not from criminal activities. She also claimed that they had always been this rich.

The MP, wearing a blood-soaked shirt and a bandage on head, said that Verma led a police contingent which attacked a 'peaceful' protest by the BJP over the capture of its party office at Shyamnagar.

In his letter, Digvijaya Singh has urged MP ministers to give him an appointment by August 31 so that he can know what action has been taken on his recommendations.

In a letter to BJP leader Vijay Goel, AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh posed three questions that, he said, the people of Delhi want to ask his party and said he hoped to receive a response within 24 hours.

If he is arrested in an alleged money laundering case, Shivakumar may have to cool his heels in jail for some time, temporarily endangering his political career back home in Karnataka.

Meanwhile, the BJP hit out at Gandhi, accusing him of 'insulting' the country through his comments on Kashmir situation and giving Pakistan a 'handle' to target India in the UN.

On Tuesday, the minister, Govind Singh, said 90 per cent of policemen and 10 per cent of mining officials were involved in illegal sand and stone mining business and plundering natural resources.