Jairam Ramesh
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Ganga cleaning not a Hindutva project: Jairam Ramesh
National | Jul 06, 2014, 02:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today accused the NDA government of turning the programme to clean Ganga as a “Hindutva project” by attempting to polarise politics through the initiative on the holy river. “Don't
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Indian states, Chinese provinces should interact more: Jairam Ramesh
National | Jul 03, 2014, 04:49 PM ISTKolkata: Terming Indian Army Chief General Bikram Singh's ongoing and Vice President Hamid Ansari's just-concluded China visit as "significant", former union minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday India needs to "deepen the political dialogue" and that
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Poll defeat is collective responsibility: Ramesh
National | May 31, 2014, 11:19 PM ISTRanchi: Former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Rahul Gandhi did his best during the electioneering for Lok Sabha polls and the party's drubbing was a collective responsibility.“It's (defeat) a collective responsibility. Rahul Gandhi tried
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Speculation that Rahul and Sonia could offer to resign at CWC meet
National | May 17, 2014, 05:27 PM ISTNew Delhi: As Congress searches for answers for its worst-ever electoral performance, daggers are already out in the party ahead of the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting scheduled on Monday. Senior party leaders speaking
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Difficult days ahead if Modi governs India like Gujarat: Jairam Ramesh
India | May 16, 2014, 05:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today termed as “deeply disturbing” Narendra Modi-led BJP's massive victory in the Lok Sabha polls and said that “very difficult days” are ahead if he rules India the
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Congress was out-funded in this election: Jairam Ramesh
National | May 13, 2014, 09:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Tuesday said his Congress party has been "out-funded" as far as this election was concerned, but maintained that the exit polls which predict a BJP clean sweep would
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Ramesh bats for 'serious audit' of poll expenditure by parties
National | May 13, 2014, 08:40 PM ISTNew Delhi: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today demanded a “serious expenditure audit” of the money spent by parties in the just concluded Lok Sabha polls, claiming Narendra Modi's campaign spending had reached an “obscene level”
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Not in the game now, Congress eyes 2019 polls in Seemandhra
National | May 01, 2014, 05:00 PM ISTHyderabad: Certainly not in contention for power in Seemandhra, Congress sees the May 7 elections in this successor State of Andhra Pradesh as preparations for the 2019 polls even as it hinted that it may
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Ramesh questions YSRCP's election expenditure
National | Apr 30, 2014, 11:42 PM ISTKurnool (AP): Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh today said a probe should be conducted into the YSR Congress's election expenditure.“Money is flowing like water...wherefrom all this money is coming? All parties spend
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BJP's 'issue-centric' campaign will succeed: Jaitley
National | Apr 29, 2014, 05:42 PM ISTAmritsar: A day ahead of polling in Amritsar Lok Sabha seat, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today expressed confidence that his issue-centric campaign will succeed against the “rude and discourteous” campaign of his Congress rival
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No Modi wave, only Modi poison, says Jairam Ramesh
National | Apr 21, 2014, 01:24 PM ISTRanchi: There is no Modi wave but only "Modi poison" in India, said union minister Jairam Ramesh Sunday."Modi ka koi lahar nahi hai, Modi ka zehar hai (There is no Modi wave. There is Modi
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Modi never speaks truth: Ramesh
National | Apr 20, 2014, 08:06 PM ISTDhanbad (Jharkhand): Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today accused BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of never speaking truth.“I would not comment on any allegations levelled by Modi as he never speaks truth,” the Union Rural
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Modi making bizarre accusation, spreading blatant lie: Ramesh
National | Apr 14, 2014, 07:10 PM ISTNew Delhi: A day after Narendra Modi took him on in his home district of Chikmagalur, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today wrote to the BJP leader accusing him of spreading “blatant lie” about his four-year-old
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Manmohan Singh: A good man let down by the party
National | Apr 13, 2014, 01:20 PM ISTI have an abiding memory of Manmohan Singh. It goes far back to the days when he was not the prime minister, not even the finance minister, when in the early '90s he took transformational
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Jairam Ramesh to campaign in Telangana
National | Apr 10, 2014, 12:47 PM ISTHyderabad: Senior Congress leader and union Minister Jairam Ramesh will start campaigning for the party in Telangana Thursday.On the first day of his three-day visit, he will address a meeting of party workers at Nirmal
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B'day Special: Jairam Ramesh “ The IITian-turned-Congress minister
National | Apr 09, 2014, 07:52 AM ISTJairam Ramesh is a senior politician of the Indian National Congress. He was born on 9th April, 1954 in Chikmagalur, Karnataka.He is presently the Rural Development Minister in Dr Manmohan Singh's cabinet.Jairam Ramesh is known
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BJP 'party of Kumbhkarnas', promises underway schemes: Jairam
National | Apr 07, 2014, 07:57 PM ISTNew Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh Monday termed the BJP as a "party of Kumbhkarnas" and said its election manifesto is a hastily prepared document which promises programmes already underway over the past 10
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Performance must replace parikrama: Ramesh
National | Apr 06, 2014, 05:40 PM ISTNew Delhi: “Performance must replace parikrama (sycophancy)” in the Congress party, senior Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said today, urging Rahul Gandhi to have a young team.Ramesh, who recently suggested that all Congress leaders should retire
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Bukhari's appeal to vote for Congress his personal opinion: Ramesh
National | Apr 05, 2014, 11:35 PM ISTRanchi: Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today described Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari's appeal to Muslims to support Congress as his "personal" opinion and said the electoral battle was between RSS and Congress.
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SC order on Land Act has drawn clear lines on implementation says Jairam Ramesh
India | Apr 01, 2014, 04:00 PM ISTNew Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the Supreme Court judgement upholding the retrospective clause of the new Land Acquisition Act has drawn “clear and humane lines” for the implementation of a significant