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नई दिल्ली : ‘देश को ‘हिंदू राष्ट्र’ बनाने की किसी भी साज़िश को कामयाब नहीं होने दिया जाएगा. विभिन्न धर्मों के मानने...
Trinamool protests enter second day
By IANS,
Kolkata : The Tata Motors' Nano plant witnessed about 80 percent attendance Monday as protests by the Trinamool Congress against the small car project at Singur in West Bengal entered the second day.
"There was about 80 percent attendance," a Tata Motors spokesperson said here.
The Trinamool Congress Sunday launched an indefinite siege of the factory at Singur, about 40 km from here.
"The Tata Group is still hopeful that Nano will roll out in October. I hope the attendance will be normal from Tuesday," Tata Ryerson managing director Sandipan Chakraborty said.
Modi’s ‘clean India’ call gets a thumbs up from people
New Delhi : "I feel totally inspired. I will not only follow the rules of cleanliness, but will also try to influence others," said...
Mauritius president, wife in Amritsar on private visit
By IANS
Amritsar : The President of Mauritius Anerood Jugnauth and his wife Sarojini Jugnauth arrived in this Sikh holy city Friday on a private visit.
The president was received at the circuit house by Punjab Information and Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia.
He is here on the invitation of the national integrated forum of artists and activists (NIFAA).
During his informal meeting with Majithia, the president spoke of the centuries old ties between the people of India and Mauritius.
BJP too favours caste-based census
By IANS,
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Wednesday said it was in favour of including caste as a criterion in the ongoing national census and added that the enumeration exercise should be used to ascertain the number of people living below poverty line.
Party leader S.S. Ahluwalia said data collected during the 1931 census on caste were used to provide reservation benefits. He said the country's population had grown manifold since independence.
"The caste criterion in the census can be considered by the government," he said.
‘Honest differences with Sharad on women’s bill’
By IANS,
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar Saturday admitted that there was "an honest difference of opinion" between him and party president Sharad Yadav on the women's reservation bill.
Nitish Kumar added that members of the JD-U parliamentary party will take a decision on the legislation when it is taken up for voting in the Lok Sabha.
Cabinet approves upgradation of 13 medical colleges
New Delhi : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved upgradation of 13 existing government Medical Colleges or Institutes (GMCIs) across the...
BJP wins Karnataka assembly speaker’s poll
By IANS,
Bangalore : The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's K.G. Bopaiah was Wednesday elected Karnataka assembly speaker amid protests by opposition Congress and Janata Dal-Secular parties.
Congress and JD-S members trooped into the well of the house and began shouting as the poll process started. They demanded the poll to be put off in view of the death of Kannada film superstar Vishnuvardhan earlier in the day.
The matinee idol, 59, died following massive heart failure in Mysore, about 140 km from here, in the wee hours.
Bihar voter files cheating case against NDA biggies
By IANS,
Patna : A Bihar villager has filed a petition against BJP leader L.K. Advani, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his JD-U colleague Sharad Yadav for breach of trust in beguiling him into voting for the NDA in the state elections on the promise of better governance.
Plea for FIR registration against defecting Congress candidate
Noida : A plea has been filed in a court here seeking registration of an FIR against Gautam Budh Nagar's Congress candidate Ramesh Chand...
Muslims not hopeful of any concrete action on Liberhan Commission report
By TwoCircles.net Team
New Delhi: Muslims in India today (17 years after the demolition) are not very candid regarding the Liberhan Commission report on Babri Masjid demolition. The long time the commission took itself has dampened their spirit and hope of justice. They are not hopeful of any concrete government action on the report. “Though the report has finally been submitted to the Prime Minister, it seems it would take another 17 years to take any action against the culprits,” says a journalist in Delhi.
Somnath for strictest punishment, FIR against guilty MPs
By IANS,
Kolkata : Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee Thursday demanded "the strictest of punishments", including initiation of criminal proceedings, against parliamentarians who created...
Yashwant prefers silence this time
By IANS,
New Delhi : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha, a former finance and foreign minister, Wednesday preferred to keep mum over the recent storm in the party following the expulsion of Jaswant Singh and Arun Shourie's diatribe against the party leadership.
"Sorry. I don't have any comments to make," Sinha told IANS when asked about the developments surrounding the sack of former defence, finance and external affairs minister Jaswant Singh for his book "Jinnah: India - Partition - Independence".
Jharkhand RS polls were manipulated: JMM member
New Delhi : Jharkhand's "ruling party" used money power and other unfair means to win the June 11 Rajya Sabha elections in the state,...
Tripura MLA faces probe in fake SC certificate case
By IANS,
Agartala : The Election Commission has ordered a probe against Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) legislator Partha Das after an opposition Congress leader accused him of submitting a fake scheduled caste certificate while contesting the last assembly elections in February, a Tripura assembly spokesman said.
Partha Das, a ruling Left party legislator may lose his membership from the Tripura legislative assembly if the inquiry finds him guilty, officials said here Friday.
"An inquiry is currently on against Das," secretary of the Tripura assembly, S.M. Lodh said.
Samajwadi Party legislator in UP gets life term for murder
Lucknow : A legislator of the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) was Monday sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder in Jalaun district of Uttar...
Scrip of Adani companies up, as BJP leads
New Delhi : Stocks of various Adani group companies rose Friday as on-going counting of votes cast in the April-May Lok Sabha elections showed...
Threats, attacks, slander : The cost of fighting caste atrocities in India
Arokiasamy Vincent Raj, popularly known as Evidence Kathir works to defend the rights of Dalits in Tamil Nadu. His organization has recently won the...
Communalism, neo-liberal policies must quit India: Yechury
New Delhi, (IANS): On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, it is necessary that communalism and neo-liberal economic policies that are hurting people...
Challenge for Congress in Bengal’s second phase polling
Kolkata : The West Bengal poll caravan Thursday moves to what is termed the Congress belt - parts of the state where the 128-year...
Akhilesh reinvents himself after Lok Sabha rout
By Mohit Dubey,
Lucknow : Shaken by the Lok Sabha election rout, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav seems to be finally trying to come...
‘Sharad Yadav to decide future strategy after August 17 meeting’
New Delhi, (IANS): Janata Dal-United leader Sharad Yadav, who has opposed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's alliance with the BJP to form the new government in...
Rajya Sabha takes up bill to include disabled in RTE
By IANS,
New Delhi : A bill to include children with disabilities in the ambit of the Right to Education (RTE) Act was passed by the Rajya Sabha Tuesday.
Park street gangrape: Three get 10 years imprisonment
Kolkata : All the three men convicted in the gangrape of an Anglo-Indian woman on Park Street here were sentenced to 10 years of...
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बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव ख़त्म हो चुका है. कल चुनाव के नतीजे भी आ जाएंगे. हालांकि इसको लेकर सबके अपने-अपने क़यास हैं, अपने-अपने...
Trinamool candidates to go live on Twitter chats
Kolkata : In a bid to reach out to the young, West Bengal Trinamool Congress has asked all its candidates to take part in...
In poll mode, Hooda enhances reservation
Chandigarh : With a clear eye to assembly polls likely to be held October this year, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Sunday announced...
बदहाली के कारण दिल्ली में रुकते साइकिल रिक्शे के पहिए
By फ़हमिना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net
दिल्ली: कभी रिक़्शे के तीन पहियों के सहारे 45 वर्षीय रहमत अली के परिवार की क़िस्मत घूमती आ रही थी, लेकिन...
Submission of Aadhar, PAN to speed up passport issuance
Chennai: Submission of Aadhar card, PAN and voter identity card will speed up the process of issuance of passport to an applicant, a senior...
Rural economy takes top slot in 9 pillars of Jaitley’s budget
New Delhi : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented India's national budget for 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha on Monday, saying the country was a...
Amit Shah’s name in Sahara’s diary: Trinamool
New Delhi : The Trinamool Congress Monday staged a protest at the gate of the parliament building demanding BJP president Amit Shah should be...
CPI-M legislator joins Trinamool
Kolkata: Giving a boost to the Trinamool Congress, a CPI-M lawmaker in the West Bengal assembly joined the state's ruling party on Tuesday.
Bulu Chik...
Badal seeks PM’s intervention on Pakistan-based Sikh lawyer
By IANS,
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Monday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up with Islamabad the issue of a Pakistan-based Sikh lawyer's hair being forcibly cut by a group of Muslims.
"In a letter written to the prime minister, Badal has highlighted the plight of a tormented Sikh family in Pakistan. It was reported in press on Dec 15 that a Sikh lawyer Anup Singh was thrashed and his hair was cut forcefully by a group of Muslims as he reportedly refused to embrace Islam," the state government spokesperson said Monday.
I would have run a train over Lalu: BJP leader
BY IANS,
Etah (Uttar Pradesh) : A senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tuesday said he would run a train over Railways Minister Lalu Prasad for his alleged threatening remarks against jailed politician Varun Gandhi.
"If I were a railways minister, I would have run a train over Lalu Prasad," Ram Vilas Vedanti, a former BJP MP told reporters here after he met Varun Gandhi in Etah jail.
“We were arrested in middle of pandemic for protesting against CAA,” two Gujarat men...
Two men from Gujarat, who were arrested in the middle of the pandemic in 2020, for protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act that had...
Intolerance is there, but awards shouldn’t be returned: Raima Sen
Kolkata: Actress Raima Sen on Wednesday said there was intolerance in the country, but opposed the writers, scientists and filmmakers returning their awards on...
Modi win spells trouble for BJP rebels
By IANS
Ahmedabad : They rebelled against him and called him a Hitler, hoping to help the Congress defeat him. Now that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has emerged victorious, rebels in his party face difficult times.
Ahead of the election results Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) belatedly issued show-cause notices to former chief minister Keshubhai Patel, who spearheaded the rebel camp, and former central minister Kashiram Rana.
BJP MPs Vallabhbhai Kathiriya and Somabhai Patel were suspended from the primary membership of the party.
At Delhi’s ‘Karbala’, remembrance and defiance mark Imam Husain’s Arba’een
By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: On the occasion of Arba'een or Chehlum of Imam Husain, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh), Anjuman-e-Haideri called upon...
BJP bags all 3 Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh
By IANS
Bhopal : All three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates from Madhya Pradesh - Maya Singh, Raghunandan Sharma and Prabhat Jha - were elected to the Rajya Sabha, official sources said Friday.
While all three Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislators abstained from voting, each BJP candidate bagged the required 58 votes and the Congress-supported candidate Vivek Tankha got only 51 votes.
Telangana Congress leaders form group for state campaign
By IANS
Hyderabad : Senior Congress party leaders from Telangana in Andhra Pradesh Sunday formed a new group under the leadership of Congress Working Committee member G. Venkatswamy to oppose the proposal for a second States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) and to fight for separate statehood to the region.
The proposal for a second SRC, which is under serious consideration of the party's central leadership, continues to rock the state's ruling party with top leaders from the backward region making it clear that they would never accept the second SRC.
Congress releases please-all manifesto for Rajasthan polls
By IANS,
Jaipur : The Congress has, in a please-all manifesto for the Dec 4 state assembly elections, vowed to provide a transparent and sensitive government in Rajasthan.
Releasing the party's manifesto at a press conference here Tuesday, state Congress president C.P. Joshi said: "Our endeavour will be to bring peace and prosperity to Rajasthan".
"We will give special attention to farmers, women, youth and the deprived sections of the society," Joshi said. The party has tried to please all sections of the society by promising many things.
Mohun Bagan refuse to play derby, East Bengal set to get walkover
Kolkata : East Bengal stands to get a walkover with city soccer giants Mohun Bagan on Tuesday refusing to play the season's first Kolkata...
This rally will question why untouchability is prevalent in India
As India will celebrate the 75th year of independence this year, well-known Dalit rights activist Martin Macwan will lead a rally at the Indian...
Rahul effect – 1.3 mn want to join Youth Congress in Tamil Nadu
By IANS,
Chennai : A whopping 1.3 million youngsters have sent in applications for membership to the Congress party' youth wing in Tamil Nadu within two weeks of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's visit to the state.
According to Congress officials, the membership enrolment drive for the party's state youth wing started by Rahul Gandhi has got a huge response.
Rs.1 crore damages sought from Delhi government for kid’s death
New Delhi: A daily wage earner has sought a compensation of Rs.1 crore from the Delhi government and its agencies for the death of...
Opposition legislators evicted from Tamil Nadu assembly
By IANS,
Chennai: Legislators belonging to opposition parties were ordered out of the Tamil Nadu assembly Tuesday after they staged vocal protests in the house over rising food prices.
As the house met, opposition members demanded a discussion on the issue in place of the question hour.
The protesting legislators belonged to the AIADMK, MDMK, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Communist Party of India (CPI).
Speaker R. Avudaiappan did not allow the discussion, resulting in more commotion.
Reasons for Congress losing Lok Sabha elections
By Dr. Idrees Qureshi,
Adapted from a letter sent to Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President of All India Congress Committee.
Poll panel issues notice to another Andhra minister
By IANS,
Hyderabad : Ahead of the May 29 by-polls, the Election Commission of India Monday issued notice to another Andhra Pradesh minister for poll code violations as well as to a Congress legislator and some government officials.
The commission issued notices to Minister for Rural Development G. Chinna Reddy, legislator S. Sudhakar and Congress party candidate for Hanamkonda Lok Sabha seat Konda Surekha.
BJP questions Soren’s silence over Maharashtra attacks
By IANS,
Ranchi : The main opposition party of Jharkhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sunday asked Chief Minister Shibu Soren to clarify his government's stand over the violence against north Indians in Mumbai and some p1`arts of Maharashtra.
"Why is the Soren government mum on the issue? Even the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners in Jharkhand are maintaining mysterious silence over the issue," former chief minister and BJP leader Arjun Munda told reporters.
Rahul Gandhi no more the mama’s boy
By Monobina Gupta
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) For a man who had wrapped himself in silence for years, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is finally moving into high gear.
The first time MP has come of age. Both Congress insiders and political analysts increasingly see him as a man working to a plan, ahead of Lok Sabha elections due next year.
The 40-year-old is independently taking an active interest in the affairs of the country's oldest party. He also meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh regularly to seek government intervention on the side of the poor.
11 sentenced to life in Gulberg massacre
Ahmedabad : A special court here on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment 11 persons, of the 24 convicted for the Gulberg Society massacre of...
Government has no existence in Bastar: Congress
By IANS,
Raipur : The Chhattisgarh government has "no existence" in the Maoist stronghold of Bastar, the state's main opposition Congress said Wednesday while slamming the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for failing to either rein in the guerrillas or bring in development in the area.
"The government has no existence in vast Bastar region, it's all Naxal raj (Maoist rule)," state Congress president Dhanendra Sahu told reporters after a Congress team visit to Dantewada district in the wake of the April 6 massacre of 76 security personnel by Maoists.
Mamata takes potshots at Modi’s ‘chai pe charcha’
By IANS,
Kolkata: Cocking a snook at the "chai pe charcha" campaign of Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister...
Gadkari’s remark ‘obnoxious, obscene’, says Congress
By IANS,
New Delhi : The Congress hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Gadkari Friday, saying he should go to a psychiatric facility for the "obnoxious" remark that the ruling party was treating parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as its "son-in-law".
"Obscenity, obnoxiousness, obtuseness should not be dignified by a response. It is very obvious that the esteemed president of the BJP has lost it completely. The BJP should take pity and deposit him in a psychiatric facility," Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said here.
West Bengal budget tries to help people in meltdown: Minister
By IANS,
Kolkata : Providing sops to a cross section of people, West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta Friday presented a Rs.70-million deficit budget in the state assembly for 2009-10.
Referring to the "severe worldwide recession", Dasgupta later told reporters that the "budget is aimed at helping the common people to increase their purchasing power in this difficult time".
However, the budget proposals did not include any tax rebate.
Protest in Bihar over lynching of school director
Patna: A day after the director of a private residential school in Bihar's Nalanda district was lynched by villagers, hundreds of angry protestors on...
Lok Sabha polls have lost focus, says candidate tipped to lose
By IANS,
Chennai : He knows he will surely lose the election and he doesn't stir out of his house to campaign. This however does not deter Lok Sabha candidate K. Elangovan from hitting out at to-be MPs for acting like members of local municipalities.
A former general secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union in New Delhi, Elangovan says he is in the field to tell voters that MPs go to parliament to frame laws, not to build roads or lay sewage drains.
BJD backs Sangma for president
By IANS,
Bhubaneswar : Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) Thursday said it will support former Lok Sabha speaker P.A.Sangma for the president's post.
SP plans to release Muslim implicated in fake terror cases
By TCN News,
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party's (SP) announcement to release Muslims implicated in fake terror cases has rekindled a hope among the community.
Haryana’s Lok Sabha battle is for a bigger war
By Jaideep Sarin, IANS,
Chandigarh : When Haryana's 10 Lok Sabha seats go to polls May 7, its results will be a pointer to the bigger battle in February-March next near - the assembly polls.
This election is seen as a testing ground for the ruling Congress, especially Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Having governed the state with a firm hand in the last four years, the election will be an occasion for Hooda to show that his 'development-oriented' government has been able to deliver.
Sinha, Shourie dropped from BJP meet for public criticism
By Khalid Akhter, IANS,
New Delhi: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tuesday admitted that former cabinet ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie have been dropped from a key party meeting because of their criticism of the party leadership following the Lok Sabha election debacle.
"It is clear that the criteria to invite party leaders has been formed with the intention to drop these two (Sinha and Shourie) because they had criticised the party leadership," the leader told IANS on the condition of anonymity.
Drought has hit 207 districts in nine states: Minister
New Delhi : The government on Friday told parliament that 207 districts in nine states have been affected by drought, and that all farmers...
UN adopts Modi’s proposal of Yoga Day, Modi tweets elation
By Arul Louis,
United Nations : By acclamation the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Wednesday declared June 21 International Yoga Day, recognizing the ancient Indian science's...
Will Modi be able to motivate India’s vast bureaucracy?
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought to boost the morale and motivation of civil servants and has laid thrust on efficiency...
Fitness freak Rahul’s midnight run in Hardoi
By IANS,
Lucknow : Forget about treadmills, steppers and other fancy gym equipment, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi clearly believes in working out anywhere and anytime -- even if it means squeezing in a 60-minute jog at midnight in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi town.
Gandhi, who is on a two-day trip to Uttar Pradesh, put in packed day Monday, interacting with party workers, visiting the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus and conducting meetings. But come night at Hardoi, 110 km from here, and the need to workout kicked in.
Rahul back to work after vacation, to address rally
New Delhi: Back after a 56-day break from politics, Rahul Gandhi along with party president Sonia Gandhi will address a rally on Sunday over...
Jaya Bachchan in trouble for 2006 affidavit
By IANS,
Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh principal secretary to the state assembly Tuesday directed the city police chief to file a First Information Report (FIR) against Samajwadi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan for allegedly concealing information about her property in 2006 while filing her nomination.
Principal Secretary Rajendra Prasad Pandey, the returning officer for Rajya Sabha polls, has directed Lucknow Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar to file the FIR against the actress-turned-politician.
BJP ‘high command’ key to new Karnataka government’s stability
By V.S. Karnic, IANS,
Bangalore : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) central leadership faces a piquant situation of having to do a Congress act to prevent the party's first government in Karnataka and south India from falling apart in view of the slender majority in the state assembly and the possible dissatisfaction among ministers over portfolios.
उत्तर प्रदेश : कैसा रहा पहला चरण, और क्या होगा दूसरे चरण का हाल?
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मुज़फ्फरनगर : पहली बात मीरापुर विधानसभा से करते हैं. यह निश्चित था कि यह सीट बसपा आसानी से जीत जायेगी क्योंकि...
CPI cautions government against ‘discriminatory’ Food Security Act
By IANS,
Bangalore: The Communist Party of India (CPI) Monday cautioned the central government on enacting a "discriminatory" Food Security Act, saying the proposed draft restricts the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the below poverty line (BPL) category alone.
Defeat ‘forces of darkness’, Sonia urges voters
Thrissur (Kerala) : Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday appealed to voters to defeat the "forces of darkness" while slamming the BJP for being divisive...
Ahead of UP elections Dalit groups pressurize UPA to get SC status
By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
Modi-led NDA govt veering away from hyped development agenda: SDPI chief A Saeed
India Social Forum (ISF) launched at Kuwait
By TCN News,
Kuwait: Expressing serious concern over the BJP’s Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre in India, A Saeed, national president, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), blamed it for veering away from the hyped development agenda on which it was propelled to power in the 2014 general elections.
Top NCP leader in Kerala all set to join Congress
By IANS
Kozhikode : Former Kerala minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Cyriac John is all set to join the Congress party.
The development follows a closed-door meeting John had with Defence Minister A.K. Antony here Monday.
Emerging after the meeting John said that in the next 10 days he and his supporters would chalk out the future course of action.
John has been keeping a safe distance from the NCP since former chief minister K. Karunakaran made his intentions of joining the Congress and dumping the NCP clear.
SDPI forms its unit in MP, national convention on Oct. 18
By Pervez Bari,TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: Advocate Sajid Siddiqui of Bhopal has been elected president of the Madhya Pradesh state unit of the newly launched Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI). The MP state unit was constituted unanimously at the SDPI's Madhya Pradesh State leaders get-together held here on Sunday.
परिवार सहित जेल भेजे गए सपा नेेता आज़म ख़ान
स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर, Twocircles.net
रामपुर। हिंदूवादी ताकतों की आंख की किरकरी रहने वाले समाजवादी पार्टी के नेता पूर्व मंत्री आज़म खान को आज जेल भेज दिया...
I’m not afraid of facing parliament: Manmohan Singh
By IANS,
On Board Air India One : Prime Minister Mannmohan Singh said Monday that he was ready to go ahead with the India-US nuclear deal and was not afraid of facing parliament and snubbed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani for giving unsolicited advice on when to hold elections.
Asserting that he was "not worried" by the political crisis that has threatened the survival of his government, Manmohan Singh said his government was "equipped" to deal with any contingency. But he did not "foresee election before its time".
Left, BJP must rise above politics: Anand Sharma
By Aroonim Bhuyan, IANS,
Dubai : The Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should rise above narrow politics when it comes to dealing with critical issues of national interest like the India-US civilian nuclear deal and inflation, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said here Monday.
"Critical issues of national interest should not be dragged into partisan politics," Sharma said in the course of an interaction with the media.