Showing posts with label Sonia Gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sonia Gandhi. Show all posts

Friday, 5 December 2014

Youth Congress to play active role in party's revival: Sonia Gandhi

On the occasion of an Alumni Meet of Youth Congress here, in which the old the young generation of party leaders came together, the Congress President did not deliver a speech at the event and interacted freely with Youth Congress leaders.
  
"In the coming days, Youth Congress will have to play a major role like it had played in 1977 to 1979, when Congress was out of power," the Congress President said while interacting with them.
  
She said that Youth Congress will have to play a major role in future and "the senior leadership of Congress will emerge from Youth Congress in future".
  
Gandhi asked the Youth Congress workers to bring a new energy in the party at a time, when Congress is down after its worst-ever electoral defeat in the Lok Sabha polls getting only 44 Parliamentary seats.

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Haryana reduces retirement age for staff

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that the decision to reduce the retirement age was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet here on Tuesday.

The Hooda government, just before the October 15 assembly election in the state, had announced a populist decision to increase retirement age for government staff from 58 to 60 years.

The cabinet also decided to increase value added tax (VAT) on diesel by nearly three percent. Khattar said that the reports on the land deals of  Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, sought from district authorities in the national capital region (NCR) are  awaited.

"A decision on this will be taken after the reports are received," he said.

The cabinet also decided to remove the chairman and members of the Haryana Staff Service Selection Commission.

Khattar said that 906 people have been arrested in the case related to controversial sect leader Rampal.

"Rampal has been arrested in this case. His key aides  have also been arrested. A number of weapons have been recovered from his  premises. There will be no place for unlawful activities in Haryana," he said.