Mani Shankar Aiyar said Rahul Gandhi has given about a month to the party to find a replacement and there have been confabulations within the Congress over the issue with the feeling in the party overwhelmingly in favour of...
The party also accused the prime minister of lowering the political discourse by using ‘downright insulting’ and ‘abusive language’ against his political opponents
“Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?” writes Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Mani Shankar Aiyar lost his temper at tv reporters who met him at the Punjab government guest house in Shimla and questioned him over an article he wrote, recalling a slur he directed at PM Modi in 2017.
In an article titled 'Modi's ouster on 23 May will be India's fitting reply to the most foul-mouthed PM', Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar slammed the Prime Minister over a ‘dirty election campaign.’
BJP senior leader Kavinder Gupta remarks came minutes after senior PDP leader and former Minister for Finance Altaf Bukhari said talks were on between the three parties.
HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar alleged that BSP chief Mayawati supports the Congress government in Rajasthan, and remained ‘quiet’ on atrocities against people belonging to SC and ST communities.
The Madras High Court last week upheld the disqualification of 18 ruling party MLAs, loyal to AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran, and cleared the decks for the bypolls in the constituencies.
Aiyar was suspended from the primary membership of the Congress party in December 2017 after his "neech" remark for Prime Minister Modi courted a major...
He noted that a politician needs "oxygen" of publicity and journalists need politicians to write about.
At the February 11 event, Aiyar had hailed Pakistan for seeking to resolve issues with India through dialogue,
The Congress leader on the same day said he believed in the Pakistani people as they clapped for him because he spoke of peace.
During a session, he hailed Islamabad for seeking to resolve issues with India through dialogue, saying New Delhi does not have this policy.
"I have met even the chief of RAW in previous seminars. So does that imply, all of them were colluders?"
Rejecting the charge as "innuendos and falsehoods", Singh said he was deeply pained by the prime minister's "ill thought transgression".
PM Modi had said that Pakistan is colluding with congress to meddle with Gujarat elections. He also sought explanation from Congress over reports of the meet.
"Mani Shankar Aiyar told people when he visited Pakistan- remove Modi from the way and then see what happens to India-Pakistan peace. What did he mean by...
Aiyar has also been served a show cause notice by the party over his comments on Narendra Modi.
"More important than the expression Jairam used, he said the Congress needs new ideas new thoughts, new methods of working, new ways,” said Aiyar
Congress leaders have moved ahead of its usual rants and are now speaking out on the party’s functioning.
