Speaking on Jamia firing where miscreant shot at student during anti-CAA protest, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "An action should be taken against that Jamia shooter as well as those masked people (at JNU).
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said: "even Jammu and Kashmir police can defeat Pakistan, which is a dead horse" and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of repeatedly resorting to rhetoric in the name of the neighboring country, just to divert the nation's attention from core issues.
Azad, who was scheduled to meet people at Dak Bungalow which has been declared a jail, had to change the venue after authorities refused him permission, a local Congress leader said.
"Three people had come to meet (P. Chidambaram). It was part of a regular meeting," Tihar Jail Director General Sandeep Goyal told IANS. Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram was also among the visitors.
Supreme Court allows senior Congress leader and former Jammu & Kashmir CM, Ghulam Nabi Azad to visit Srinagar, Baramulla, Anantnag and Jammu. CJI Ranjan Gogoi says, "he will not make any speeches or hold any public rally as per his own submissions".
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister can visit four districts -- Srinagar, Jammu, Baramulla, Anantnag -- to meet people.
The senior Congress leader has also sought a nod from the top court to visit his family members and relatives.
Azad urged the Central government to restore all the Telecom services in Jammu and Kashmir and to release all the political prisoners and leaders including Omar Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was stopped at the Jammu airport on Tuesday and sent back to Delhi, a party leader said, the second time in a month the former chief minister was not allowed to visit Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking to reporters at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here after his arrival from Srinagar, Azad said: "We went to Srinagar so that we could speak with our party leaders. The black law that the NDA government brought has wiped out Kashmir from the Indian map as a state."
Ghulam Nabi Azad returned to Delhi from Srinagar airport, calls scrapping of article 370 as 'Kala Kanoon'
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was slated to visit Jammu and Kashmir was stopped at the Srinagar Airport today. Azad was accompanied by Jammu and Kashmir Congress chief Gulam Ahmed Mir, who also was halted at the Srinagar Airport.
The Congress party on Thursday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party after a video showing National Security Advisor Ajit Doval having lunch with locals in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir went viral on social media.
Taking a dig at NSA Ajit Doval, Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said you can take people with you by offering them money. "Paise dekar aap kisi ko bhi sath le sakte ho," Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
Taking a dig at NSA Ajit Doval, Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said you can take people with you by offering them money. "Paise dekar aap kisi ko bhi sath le sakte ho," Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
"Never ever in the past, during MMS, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Narsimha Rao's time, did the govt ask the pilgrims to curtail their stay and come back. This kind of situation never arose in the past. This is unprecedented," he told in a press conference.
As the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka plunges into more trouble, the Congress Tuesday rushed senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and B K Hariprasad to Bengaluru to solve the differences.
The timing of the meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of the developments in Karnataka and the likelihood of the opposition BJP seeking a division of votes on financial matters on the floor of the House.
Tanwar had on Friday formed the election management committee for the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls and asked senior state leaders, including former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, CLP leader Kiran Chaudhary to attend the first such meeting of the panel on July 8.
In a significant remark ahead of results of the Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said his party will not make it an issue "if the Prime Minister's chair was not offered to it".
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