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Trying to be kingmakers, regional parties fizzled out in '09
The year 2009 saw dreams of regional parties to become kingmakers fizzling out and the third Front led by Left turning out to be a non-entity, mostly due to the resurgence of Congress.
Babri committee flays clean chit to Rao
The All India Babri Masjid Action Committee on Wednesday expressed concern over clean chit given to the then Congress-government headed Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in the Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in December 1992.
Solar energy lights up last day of Rahul visi...
Deep in the heart of Rae Bareli, a pleasant surprise awaited AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi at the Kalyanpur Surjai village on Tuesday.
Bury internal differences: Rahul to UP partymen
The Amethi MP, who is on a two-day tour to his constituency, held a meetingA at Amethi with party leaders of three parliamentary constiuencies including Amethi, Rae Bareli and Sultanpur.
Rahul Gandhi inspects development works, discuss council polls
Amethi, Dec 22 : Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today made some surprise inspection of developmental works in his parliamentary constituency and discussed the upcoming council elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Rahul talks statehood in Bundelkhand
A day after the activists of Bundelkhand Mukti Morcha greeted him with slogans demanding statehood, as he took night safari to dalit and tribal villages in this region the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday tried to make an assessment of ground realities on separate Bundelkhand issue.
Rahul gives media and politicians a slip again
Arriving three hours behind schedule, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi managed to give both the media and politicians a slip here.
Last Friday, when Parliament corridors were full of agitated Congress MPs from coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema scampering from one room to another to meet the prime minister, the finance minister and the home minister to register their protest against the Centre's decision on Telangana, Sonia Gandhi was at a village market in Rae Bareli inquiring ...
Sonia's makes surprise inspection of her constituency
United News of India Rae Bareli, Dec 11: Devoting most of the time on monitoring the progress of the Centre's effective MNREGA and mid-day meal schemes, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today expressed her displeasure on the implementation of both the schemes in her constituency here.
President's rule looms over Andhra Pradesh
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh chief minister K Rosaiah's fate was all but sealed on Saturday when the prospect of President's rule loomed large over a state completely polarized on regional lines.
Sonia dissatisfied with developmental works in Rae Bareli
Rae Bareli, Dec 12: Second day in succession, Congress president Sonia Gandhi was today a discontented person over developmental works in her Parliamenatry constituency.
Sonia raps a corrupta Rae Bareli officers
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday took the Rae Bareli district administration in Uttar Pradesh to task asking officers to conduct an inquiry into the misuse of funds including the Central Road Fund and other centrally-sponsored schemes.
Sonia dissatisfied with development schemes in Rae Bareli
Rae Bareli, Dec 12 Congress president Sonia Gandhi is "dissatisfied and disappointed" with the slow progress of the central government's public welfare schemes in her Uttar Pradesh constituency Rae Bareli, a party spokesperson said Saturday.
Sonia has close brush with realities, checks vegetable prices
Congress president Sonia Gandhi had a close brush with hard realities vis-a-vis the implementation of various central government schemes as she went from village to village to take stock of ground realities.
Rahul to inspire youth for politics in Uttar Pradesh from tomorrow
Lucknow, Dec 6 : With an aim to attract youths to join politics and to strengthen the party base in the backward region of Uttar Pradesh, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi will take on a two day whirlind interaction tour with a cross-section of youths from tomorrow.
Delay in Sonia's dream project disappoints youths of Rae Bareli
Rae Bareli, Dec 6 : The official road blocks and bureaucratic delays in setting up the Rail Coach Factory, the dream project of Congress president and MP from Rae Bareli parliamentary constituency Sonia Gandhi, has not only escalated the initial cost but has caused huge disappointment among the locals.
Bangalore firm to light up UP with solar power
Deepa Jainani Posted: Friday, Dec 04, 2009 at 2207 hrs IST Updated: Friday, Dec 04, 2009 at 2207 hrs IST Lucknow: The abysmal power situation in Uttar Pradesh may be causing heartburn among senior government officials, who are hard pressed to bridge the demand-supply gap, but for John Howard and Amit Shah, co-founders of Bangalore-based Duron ...
H1N1 claims second victim in UP
Swine flu claimed its second victim in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. Amresh Sinha , a teacher, died at a private hospital in Lucknow's Alam Bagh.
Amar: Bypoll loss due to Mulayam overconfidence
New Delhi Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh has blamed the party's loss in the Firozabad Lok Sabha bypoll on the overconfidence of its chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and said Yadav 'behaved symbolically like Mayawati' while campaigning in the constituency.
'Expedite Babri cases pending in courts'
LUCKNOW: With the Liberhan Commission and the action taken report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, the All-India Babri Masjid Action Committee has demanded that the Babri cases pending in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court and the Special CBI Court in Rae Bareli and Lucknow be expedited.
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