India deserves to be led by better leaders: Salman Rushdie

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 18, 2012
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salman rushdie 300x256 India deserves to be led by better leaders: Salman RushdieA Controversial author Salman Rushdie on Saturday attacked Congress to block his presence just because of “useless electoral calculations.”

Targeting Rahul Gandhi, he said blocking his presence in Jaipur Literary Festival did not work “led to the debacle” of Congress in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

During participation in Literacy session in India Today Conclave, the renewed author said the India “deserves to be led by better leaders than is being now”.

As per controversial author’s theme ‘Liberty versus: I am what I am and that’s all that I am’, the culture of “offendedness is growing” in India.

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Rail Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi takes on TMC

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 17, 2012
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dinesh trivedi 300x293 Rail Budget 2012: Dinesh Trivedi takes on TMCCongress agrees to remove Dinesh Trivedi as the Railway Minister, but not now as if action will be taken against him then it would give him sympathy and make him a hero.

As per source said, Congress asked Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee to wait till next week after the Prime Minister’s reply to the Presidential address and Rail Budget in Parliament on Monday as a mid-session swearing-in will give handle to the Opposition.

After Trivedi presented the Rail Budget 2012 with hike fare prices, he was inviting the wrath of Mamata in form of communicated sacking letter for him to PM. Trinamool leader Kalyan Banerjee has also asked Dinesh Trivedi to resign.

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Rail Budget 2012: Will Dinesh Trivedi quit after presenting Rail Budget?

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 16, 2012
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The fate of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi whether he would stay in his post or may resign will be decided after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will reveal the budget report today in Parliament.

Dinesh Trivedi who has presented rail budget for 2012-13 proposed around 20 per cent passenger fare hike on all classes and this has been totally refused by his party Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee who in her ire wrote PM to left out him.

However on Thursday Trivedi had resigned, but Pranabh refused his resignation yet and asked member in Lok Sabha to wait till PM not reviewed Banergee’s sacking letter.

As per source report, if Trivedi may be last after the union budget is presented by Mukherjee, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will appoint Mukul Roy, Banerjee’s nominee to the post.

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Vijay Bahuguna named as new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 13, 2012
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Getting the crown of Chief Minister as in return of amazing performance in Assembly election of Uttarakhand, Congress MP Vijay Bahuguna will today attend his swearing-in ceremony as oath at the Parade Ground in Dehradun.

“We anticipate that there is going to be a big crowd when the ceremony takes place. So we have chosen the Parade Ground as the main venue for the purpose,” official source said.

Oath ceremony will be held at 5 pm at Parade Ground on today and due to having inclement weather, it can be shifted to some indoor venue.

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Akhilesh Yadav praised Third Front idea

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 13, 2012
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Akhilesh Yadav1 278x300 Akhilesh Yadav praised Third Front ideaAkhilesh Yadav who will be sworn in as Uttar Pradesh CM on 15 March remarked his thought of possibility of the Third Front in future that raised the tension from his colleagues.

While Akhilesh on Monday denied that his party was in touch with Left parties and marked a political Third Front as a good beginning, Congress had sleepless nights with a hope to stand its govt. at Centre.

Further he explained that there was no move as of now to form a Third Front, he termed its possibility a healthy development for politics.

Third Party move has beneficial for Congress which heads a troubled coalition at the Centre, failing in the assembly elections in Punjab and UP.

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Budget 2012: Tough time ahead for UPA Government

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 12, 2012
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budget 20122 290x300 Budget 2012: Tough time ahead for UPA GovernmentIn National Capital, the time of the Budget session of Parliament starts on Monday in which UPA Government has difficult situation to convince for its bills as Congress defeated with worst performance in the Assembly Elections.

All party leaders now ready to stand their issues before government in Parliamentary session and major issues in the list are like NCTC, FDI in retail, the ISRO controversy, quota politics and the fishermen killing incident involving two Italian naval personnel.

In this session meanwhile, the government is hoping to pass some important bills the most awaited one is the Lokpal Bill and the Right to Education Bill.

Congress always held against the approval of Lokpal Bill, but the time is not as per accordance and it is likely seem that this time it could not stand against Anna’s Core Committee.

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UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi quits as Congress fails in UP

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 9, 2012
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Still Congress is seeking to come out from the failure moment of UP poll elections, recent resigning letter of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi has raise party’s situation.

On Friday, Rita Bahuguna Joshi met Congress president Sonia Gandhi to offer her resignation owning her moral responsibility for the failure of the party in the polls.

Talking to Media about asking reasons of her resignation, Joshi said that there were reasons for the party’s crushing defeat in the Assembly polls and she has owned the responsibility for the defeat and offered to step down.

It was Joshi who blamed yesterday that the whole party cadre was collectively responsible for the debacle. But as her recent statement to take responsibility of failure is really turn out the whole matter.

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Uttarakhand Elections: Congress party set to take claim form government today

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 9, 2012
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The anticipation over the formation of government in Uttarakhand state is likely to come to an end today.

Further, it is expected that the congress party will overtake the charge in the state in few hours from now and is set to stake claim to form the next government.

Meanwhile, the Congress party has come up with huge win of over 32 seats in the state and leading as the largest party in the state, however, it was three short of majority in the 70-member House.

In addition, the Congress party is claiming support of 3 independent MLAs and one MLA of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal.

While talking to media, an official from the party said, Congress leaders are expected to meet governor Margret Alva at 1pm to stake claim to form government.

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Parkash Singh Badal will be the Chief Minister of Punjab: Sukbir Badal

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 8, 2012
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Bouncing an amazing polling victory of elections in Punjab, today duo Parkash Singh Badal and Sukbir Badal will be in Chandigarh to hold a meeting with their Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLAs.

Now once again, after breaking record of 43 years history, Parkash Singh Badal will continue to be the Chief Minister of Punjab for fifth times, unless he steps down on his own.

This record is possible only with highest votes in support of BJP that helps SAD to come back to power for a second consecutive term, breaking a 40-year-old jinx of the state.

Akalies defeated the Congress, by getting 56 seats while its alliance partner BJP got 12 seats, taking the combine’s tally to 68 in the 117-member Assembly.

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Too many leaders are our problem: Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi

Posted by :Himmat Mehra On : March 8, 2012
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Sonia Gandhi 300x254 Too many leaders are our problem: Congress Chief Sonia GandhiCongress, a bad performer in Assembly election is now have only arguments to speak nothing else as Congress president Sonia Gandhi sent out several messages to the faithful and was still in charge.

Addressing a press, she said that there were several new faces come in the assembly and it was the responsibility of party members the import of the electoral verdict to be taken seriously.

As per Sonia, the failure of party is only because of several party leaders and she admitted that this was the main reason of lack of leadership.

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