Tag: Senior Congress Leader

New Delhi: Attacking Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for claiming that no major terror attack took place since the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday questioned her if she was giving a clean chit to Pakistan in the 2016 Pathankot and Uri attacks. In a series […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday termed the BJP government’s eight tax rates under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime “stupid idea” saying “filing GST returns has been a nightmare”. “The stupid idea was the BJP’s idea of having eight rates when GST was first implemented in July 2017,” the former […]

Bhubaneswar: Former MLA and senior Congress leader Harihar Karan passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar today. He was 72. Harihar was undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with Septicemia, informed his son. He was a member of  the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th Assembly in Odisha. Born in 1947, the senior Congress […]

Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister S. Jaipal Reddy was cremated here on Monday with full state honours. Relatives, friends and leaders of Congress and other parties bid adieu to Jaipal Reddy, who died on Sunday following brief illness. He was 77. The funeral was performed near PV Ghat on Necklace Road abutting […]

New Delhi: A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Tuesday arrived at the residence of former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P. Chidamabaram here after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Delhi High Court. The CBI and ED teams came to the former Finance Minister’s […]