Agnipath: Manish Tewari said that the reforms now being implemented by the government were recommended by the Kargil review committee in 1999.
The Modi government will discuss in the Lok Sabha whether to scrap the privilege of MPs recommending the admission of students in central schools.
Lok Sabha MP from Punjab's Anandpur Sahib Manish Tewari claimed that he was not invited for Charanjit Singh Channi 's swearing-in ceremony on September 20 last year.
Imran Khan said on Feb 22 that he would like to have a TV debate with Modi to resolve differences between the two neighbouring countries.
The Lok Sabha MP from Anandpur Sahib also tagged a news report titled "Channi nudges Congress to name candidate for CM, with a hint: he is quite popular" along with the tweet.
Harish Rawat on Wednesday created a flutter in the political circles, alleging non-cooperation from his organisation and noting that he sometimes feels it is time for him to rest.
Citing reported excerpts of senior Congress leader Manish Tewari's new book, the BJP has alleged that the grand old party-led UPA government put the national security at stake by not responding strongly after the 26/11 attacks.
After 26/11 attacks, Manish Tewari said that then the Congress-led UPA government had gone soft in the name of restraint which is not a sign of 'strength', but 'weakness'.
The Centre had last month amended the BSF Act to authorise the border guarding force to undertake search, seizure and arrest within a 50 km stretch, up from the existing 15 km, from the international border in Punjab, West Bengal and Assam.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Tewari questioned the progress on issues like the 2015 sacrilege incidents, drug menace and power purchase pacts. He also hit out at Congress general secretary Harish Rawat over his reference in an interview.
"I feel helpless when we cannot start meaningful conversations within party forums. I also feel hurt and helpless when I see pictures of Congress workers raising slogans outside the residence of a colleague and MP. The safe harbour to which one can withdraw seems to be silence," Congress leader P Chidambaram wrote on Twitter.
Upon returning from a regional security conference, the Punjab MP also asserted that the only ones happy with the ongoings was Pakistan.
Sources close to Tewari said that in Aug 2020 when the group of leaders wrote a letter for betterment of the party, they were called traitors, but now no action was being taken against Sidhu.
Notably, late former President Pranab Mukherjee had in 2019 said that the number of seats in Lok Sabha should be increased to 1,000 from the present 543.
At a time when vaccine distribution to states across India is in full swing ahead of the January 16 launch, the Congress party has raised questions on the safety, compatibility of India's homegrown Covid vaccine named COVAXIN, asking the government how it can be rolled out when it is yet to clear phase-3 trials.
Congress leader and former Union Minister Manish Tewari tested positive for coronavirus on Monday.
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