Tag: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister

Bhopal: Congress leader Kamal Nath was on Thursday chosen as the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, heralding Congress rule in the state after 15 years. Kamal Nath, who flew in here late in the evening, was formally chosen leader of the state Congress legislature party after party President Rahul Gandhi decided on his name […]

Bhopal: The Congress on Tuesday handed over the list of 21 lakh farmers whose loans the ruling party says it has waived off to former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Under the leadership of senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Suresh Pachauri, a large number of party workers reached Chouhan’s residence in […]

New Delhi: Heads are expected to roll in the Congress following the party’s dismal performance in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections where it won just 52 seats, just 8 more than what it managed in 2014. A party source told IANS: “Many General Secretaries and state unit chiefs could face the heat as the party […]

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department has attached Rs 254 crore worth of “benami” equity of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri which he is stated to have allegedly received from a suspect in the VVIP chopper scam via shell companies, officials said on Tuesday. Ratul Puri, the chairman of Hindustan Powerprojects […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court Thursday sent Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, to judicial custody till October 1 in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper scam. Special judge Arvind Kumar also allowed Puri to take medicines long with him to jail subject to the opinion of the […]

New Delhi: ‘Paan’ and ‘Jalebi’ were the favourites of Motilal Vora, the senior-most Congress leader, who passed away at the age of 93, a day after celebrating his birthday. The political career of the veteran leader spanned many decades and he was a prominent part of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) till he was […]