New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Congress Parliamentary Strategy Group meeting discussed national and international issues and decided to raise foreign policy, unemployment and economic issues prominently during the second part of the Budget Session of Parliament starting on Monday, a party MP said.In light of the conflict in the Gulf, the Congress has decided to raise issues related to its implications, the fall in the rupee and our foreign policy deviation, said Congress MP from Rajya Sabha Syed …
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New Delhi, Jan 27 (IANS) The Congress party has resolved to raise a host of issues, including reframing the VB-G RAM G Law, ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Aravalli deforestation and mining, and India’s foreign policy in the first half of the two-part Budget Session of Parliament beginning from Wednesday. The Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) met this afternoon at its Chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s residence, which was attended by party President and Rajya Sabha lea…
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) The Congress on Saturday voiced concern over media reports that tribals were being pressured by the district administration to surrender their “ancestral lands” for the Rs 92,000 crore Great Nicobar island project.Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh called the reported development “an ecological disaster”.“This is unacceptable and shows how the Great Nicobar project is being bulldozed through. It is an ecological disaster,” said Ramesh, General Secretar…