NEW DELHI: The Congresshas welcomed former cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin saying that he has been a fine cricketer. Azharuddin is now all set tocontest the coming Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket. Earlier, sources had told Times Now that Azharuddin had shown interest in contesting elections “from a prestigious seat”, and the Congress was open to the idea.According to reports, Azharuddin had recently met Congress president Sonia Gandhi, where he expressed his desire to contest the upcoming elections.Speculation...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Kalyan Singh quits BJP, says he was humiliated
LUCKNOW: BJP vice-president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh on Tuesday announced that he has resigned from all partyposts. ( Watch )“I was being humiliated by the party. I have faxed my resignation to L K Advani and he must have received it by now,” Kalyan Singh said in a press conference.He said he has never compromised with his dignity and will not do so in future as well. “I was feeling suffocated in the party,” Kalyam Singh said.He said he will not form a new party and...
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sanjay Dutt to be Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow
NEW DELHI: Bollywood film star Sanjay Dutt will be the Samajwadi Party candidate to contest the next Lok Sabha elections from Lucknow, the partyannounced here on Thursday.Party general secretary Amar Singh told reporters that if Dutt was disallowed from contesting the elections because of the criminal cases against him, the party would move the Election Commission or the Supreme Court."Dutt told me you are like my elder brother. He said he would do anything I ask him to though he said he was not...
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