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New Delhi: A day after the Trinamool Congress went ahead and withdrew support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will likely meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Saturday to discuss a cabinet reshuffle.Miffed by the Congress-led UPA government's decisions over hike in diesel price and foreign investment in multi-brand retail, the Trinamool on Friday withdrew...
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Union Minister C P Joshi was given the additional charge of the railway ministry, a day after the ministers belonging to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) filed their resignations over a string of economic reforms announced by the government.Joshi, who already holds the portfolio of road transport and highways ministry, will succeed the Mukul Roy of the TMC, who was among the six ministers who resigned...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday met President Pranab Mukherjee to assure him that his United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has sufficient support, even after the pullout by the Trinamool Congress (TMC).The meeting came a day after the UPA government was reduced to a minority formally on Friday after six Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers in the government tendered their resignations,...
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Congress ministers in the West Bengal government tendered their resignations on Saturday evening after meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at state secretariat Writers' Building in Kolkata.The ministers then headed for the Raj Bhavan to meet West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan to withdraw support to the state government.Congress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) run an alliance government in West Bengal...
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President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted the resignation of the six Trinamool Congress ministers on the advice of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, official sources said Saturday.The six were railways minister Mukul Roy, and ministers of state Sudip Bandyopadhyay (health and family welfare) Saugata Roy (urban development), Choudhary Mohan Jatua (information and broadcasting), Sultan Ahmed (tourism) and...
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a counter to the withdrawal of support to the UPA government by the Trinamool Congress on Thursday, the Congress on Saturday pulled out its six ministers from the Mamata Banerjee ministry.The ministers, who submitted their resignation letters to the chief minister, were Manas Bhuinya (Irrigation, SMEs, Micro Industries, Textiles) and Abu Hena (Fisheries), both of them of cabinet rank.Ministers of state...
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"Yes, the prime minister met the president for 45 minutes," a Rashtrapati Bhavan source told IANS. The meeting, which began at 5 pm, was to discuss the political situation, he addded.Six Trinamool Congress ministers resigned from the government Friday and the party met the president to inform him of withdrawal of support to the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition.has been reduced to...
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a counter to the withdrawal of support to the UPA government by the Trinamool Congress on Thursday, the Congress today pulled out its six ministers from the Mamata Banerjee ministry.The ministers, who submitted their resignation letters to the chief minister, were Manas Bhuinya (Irrigation, SMEs, Micro Industries, Textiles) and Abu Hena (Fisheries), both of them of cabinet rank.Ministers of state Sunil...
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separation of UPA leader Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress, all the six Congress ministers in the Trinamool-led state government resigned today. They submitted their resignations to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Writers Buildings. The six ministers were Irrigation Minister Manas Bhunia and Fisheries Minister Abu Hena (both Cabinet), Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Aby...
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state unit of Congress Party will pull out from the West Bengal Government-led by Mamata Banerjee on Saturday in the wake of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) formally withdrawing its support to the UPA Government at the Centre over the move to allow FDI in retail....
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divorce formalities with the Trinamool Congress, the Congress Saturday withdrew support from West Bengals Mamata Banerjee government after its six ministers handed over their resignation to the chief minister....
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Minister for Road Transport and Highways, C P Joshi, took over additional charge of the Ministry of Railways today. The post fell vacant after the resignation of Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader and the then Railway Minister Mukul Roy....
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Road Transport and Highways Minister CP Joshi took over additional charge of the Ministry of Railways while six Ministers of Trinamool Congress submitted their resignations to President Pranab Mukherjee on the issue of diesel price hike and FDI in retail and the Prez accepted it.Union Minister C P Joshi was today given additional charge of Railway ministry, a day after the resignation of Mukul Roy...
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Timeline.Kolkata, Sep 22: The West Bengal Congress withdrew from the Mamata Banerjee-led government on Saturday. Six ministers of the party tendered their resignation to the chief minister on Saturday. The state Congress took the decision after the Trinhamool Congress (TMC) pulled out of the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre over raising prices of diesel, putting cap on subsidised LPG cylinders...
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the Trinamool Congress quit the government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday evening to discuss the political situation."Yes, the Prime Minister met the president for 45 minutes," a Rashtrapati Bhavan source told IANS. The meeting, whichSix Trinamool Congress ministers resigned from the government Friday and the party met the president to inform him of withdrawal...
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Six Congress ministers will today hand over their resignations to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. "Our six ministers in the state government will submit their resignations to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at 5:00 pm," WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya told reporters emerging from aBhattacharya said he along with some other party leaders will meet Governor M K Narayanan at 6:00 pm and...
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ISTCountering the withdrawal of support to the UPA government by the Trinamool Congress on Thursday, the Congress today followed suit by pulling out its six ministers from the Mamata Banerjee ministry and also withdrawing support.The ministers who submitted their resignation letters to the chief minister at the Writers' Buildings were Manas Bhuinya (irrigation, SMEs, micro industries, textiles) and...
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friends.After the divorce with Ms Banerjee's party, the Congress is likely to keep the Railways portfolio, which was till yesterday held by Trinamool's Mukul Roy, sources told NDTV. Road Transport and Highways Minister CP Joshi is likely to get additional charge of the Railway Ministry, according to sources.Mukul Roy was among the six ministers from Ms Banerjee's party who submitted their resignation...
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Completing the divorce formalities with the Trinamool Congress, the Congress Saturday withdrew support from West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government after its six ministers handed over their resignation to the chief minister.All the Congress ministers - two cabinet-rank and four ministers of state - went in a body to Banerjee's chamber at the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings, here and handed over...
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to meet President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday evening to discuss the political situation, sources said."Yes, the prime minister is meeting the president at 5 p.m.," a source in Rashtrapati Bhavan told IANS.Six Trinamool Congress ministers resigned from the government Friday and the party gave the president a letter withdrawing support of its 19 MPs from the ruling(UPA) coalition. The UPA has been reduced...
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"Yes, the prime minister met the president for 45 minutes," a Rashtrapati Bhavan source told IANS. The meeting, which began at 5 p.m., was to discuss the political situation, he addded.Six Trinamool Congress ministers resigned from the government Friday and the party met the president to inform him of withdrawal of support to the rulingThe UPA has been reduced to a working minority in the Lok Sabha...
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the Congress Saturday withdrew support from West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government after its six ministers handed over their resignation to the chief minister.All the Congress ministers - two cabinet-rank and four ministers of state - went in a body to Banerjee's chamber at the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings, here and handed over their resignation to the chief minister a little after 5 p.m."As...
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ministers - two cabinet-rank and four ministers of state - went in a body to Banerjee's chamber at the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings, and handed over their resignations to the chief minister a little after 5 p.m.The Congress was the junior partner in the Trinamool-led regime since it took charge 16 months ago in May 2011 after ending the 34-year rule of the Left Front....
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Kolkata, Sept 22 (ANI): A day after six Trinamool Congress (TMC) ministers resigned from the Union cabinet, Congress ministers in West Bengal government tendered their resignations here on Saturday.The 16-month old West Bengal government had six Congress ministers, who met chief minister Mamata Banerjee to put in their papers.The TMC had, on Tuesday, announced its decision to part ways with the Co...
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six state Congress ministers will resign from the Mamata Banerjee government on Saturday in Kolkata a day after the Trinamul Congress ministers submitted their resignation letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi. AICC general secretary and in-charge of Bengal Shakeel Ahmed called up state party president Pradip Bhattacharya and conveyed the message of the party high command minutes after...
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moment the Trinamul Congress ministers submitted their resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at New Delhi on Friday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee went on a warpath against the UPA-2 government. She virtually made it clear that she was determined to make foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail, diesel price hike and capping of the subsidised LPG as major poll planks for the upcoming panchayat...
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acute cacophony over unexpected bold series of reforms between Congress-led UPA-II Government and its mercurial key ally partner Trinamool Congress (TMC) that eventually resulted in the latter pulling out of the alliance, hit the media on Friday evening....
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Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees decision to withdraw support to the UPA regime seems to have been guided by political calculations intended to bolster her popular pro-poor pro-people image besides helping her steal a march over arch-rival Communists....
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ISTSix Congress ministers will today hand over their resignations to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee."Our six ministers in the state government will submit their resignations to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at 5:00 PM," WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya told reporters emerging from a party meeting at Bidhan Bhavan here.Bhattacharya said he along with some other party leaders will meet...
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the Trinamool Congress went ahead and withdrew support to the UPA in Delhi, the repercussions were felt in West Bengal on Friday, with the Congress announcing it would pull out its ministers on Saturday from the 16-month old Mamata Banerjee-led government.The knives were sharpened onIn a bid to gain from the break-up with the Trinamool, the state Congress demanded at least three slots in the union...
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Six Congress ministers will today hand over their resignations to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.“Our six ministers in the state government will submit their resignations to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at 5:00 PM,” WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya told reporters emerging from a party meeting at Bidhan Bhavan here. Bhattacharya said he along with some other party leaders will meet...
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Mamata Banerjee government."We will meet the governor at 6 p.m. and formally withdraw support from the Trinamool Congress government," state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya...
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Trinamool Congress government."We will meet the governor at 6 p.m. to formally withdraw support from the government," state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya said after a meeting of party leaders here.The six Congress ministers - two cabinet and four ministers of state -will also tender their resignations to Chief MinisterThe withdrawal of support will not have any impact on the 16-month-old Banerjee...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are likely to meet on Saturday to discuss a cabinet reshuffle. The reshuffle is expected to take place soon.The meeting comes on the heels of Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress, pulling out of the UPA over the government's decisions to increase diesel prices, cap the supply of subsidised cooking gas to households, and...
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ISTCompleting the last rites of the Congress-Trinamool alliance, six TMC ministers submitted their resignations from the Union cabinet on Friday, and the party withdrew its support to the UPA government.Railway minister Mukul Roy and five ministers of state — Saugata Roy, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Sisir Adhikari, CM Jatua and Sultan Ahmed — handed over their individual resignations to prime minister Manmohan...
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Former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa on Friday demanded that Union ministers from Karnataka, SM Krishna, Veerappa Moily, Mallikajun Kharge and KH Muniyappa should quit from the ministry to protect state farmers’ interests in sharing of Cauvery water.“Union ministers from Karnataka should quit to exert pressure on prime minister Manmohan Singh in protest against the unjust order to release water to...
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As the Trinamool Congress went ahead and withdrew support to the UPA in Delhi, the repercussions were felt in West Bengal on Friday, with the Congress announcing it would pull out its ministers on Saturday from the 16-month old Mamata Banerjee-led government.The knives were sharpened onIn a bid to gain from the break-up with the Trinamool, the state Congress demanded at least three slots in the union...
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Bengal Congress eyes cabinet berths; ministers to resign from Mamata government todayIn a veritable tit-for-tat, the Congress is all set to pull out its ministers from the West Bengal government today, in response to the withdrawal of support by the Trinamool Congress - its senior partner in the state - from the government at the Centre.All six ministers from the Congress, led by Irrigation Minister...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are likely to meet in the capital today, reportedly to discuss a cabinet reshuffle that is expected to take place soon, say sources.The meeting comes a day after Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress, pulled out of the UPA over the government's decisions to increase diesel prices, cap the supply of subsidised cooking gas...
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a day Trinamool Congress ministers tendered their resignation, withdrawing support from theAt a marathon meeting on Friday held at the residence of his trusted aide and Union heavy industries minister Praful Patel, Pawar made it clear that despite the TMC's stand, the NCP will continue to support the UPA. The meeting was also attended by deputy CM Ajit Pawar, home minister R R Patil, PWD minister Chhagan...
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tendered their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, speculation was rife on the likely entrants from Bengal in the Union cabinet.becoming the President of India and Mukul Roy tendering his resignation, Bengal was left with ceased to have anycabinet. To make things worse, five ministers of state also tendered their resignations along with Roy, leaving Bengal without a single ministerial portfolio...
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six Congress ministers — two among them holding cabinet portfolios in thegovernment — will submit their resignations to the chief minister on Saturday. Pradesh Congress presidentsaid the party would firm up the decision in the meeting of state Congress office-bearers and ministers on Saturday morning.The Pradesh Congress chief stepped up his ante against the Mamata government on Friday, saying that...
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Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav confirmed on Friday that he would continue giving support to UPA to block "communal forces" from taking advantage of the political flux.confirmed on Friday that he would continue giving support to UPA to block "communal forces" from taking advantage of the political flux, quelling suspense over the party's relationship with UPA after Trinamool's exit.members...
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a day of hectic political developments, six Trinamul Congress ministers submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday. Dr Singh, accepting the resignations, thanked Trinamul ministers for their work and expressed “sadness” at their departure. The meeting lasted just three minutes.Dr Singh, who has been seeking his nuclear moment, sent the resignations to President Pranab ...
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Six Union Cabinet ministers from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress (TMC) met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his official, 7 Race Course Road residence here on Friday and submitted their resignations.The resignations come days after the TMC's withdrawal of support over the government's move to allow FDI in retail, hike diesel prices and limit the cap on LPG cylinders to six per family per...
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