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Congress sounds out Karuna on Ansari, Pranab for President -
Times of India
CHENNAI: The Congress intensified its efforts to create a consensus around its preferred nominees for President, with Sonia Gandhi's emissary A K Antony sounding out DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday on the candidatures of vice-president Hamid Ansari and finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. |
Patil says her foreign visits were crucial for building ties -
On Board President's Special Aircraft, Apr 29 - As she embarked on her last tour abroad as President, Pratibha Patil today dismissed criticism over a large number of foreign visits undertaken by her, insisting that they were not on her own volition but at the request of the government to promote India's relations. |
Antony meets Karuna on Prez poll; to report to Sonia -
Chennai, Apr 29 - Congress leader and Defence Minister A K Antony today met DMK chief M Karunanidhi as part of consultation process among UPA allies on the Presidential election to arrive at a consensus leader to succeed incumbent Pratibha Patil, who is retiring on July 25. After more than an hour-long meeting, Antony told reporters that he would convey the DMK leader's views on the issue to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
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Defence land ghost refuses to leave Prez -
Parwinder Sandhu & TN Raghunatha, Pioneer
An uncanny silence prevailed on Saturday at the controversial site which till a day ago rumbled with construction of the “post-retirement home” for President Pratibha Patil. The security cover has vanished, and so have the labourers, though construction materials and machines remain at the site. |
Legal case was fought to clear plots for President -
Pranav Kulkarni, IE
It was on February 1, 2011, that President Pratibha Patil first expressed desire to settle down, post-retirement, in bungalows 38 and 26 A, “which are contiguously located within the defence cantonment area on the Bombay-Pune road”. The letter by her secretary Christy Fernandez, to then Union home secretary G K Pillai, with a copy to then defence secretary Pradeep Kumar, said: “The aforementioned buildings, used jointly, would measure up to a spatial area normally available in a Type VIII accommodation.”
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Congress begins seeking out allies on Presidential race -
Smita Gupta, Hindu
With two months left for the installation of the new President, the Congress has begun consultations with United Progressive Alliance (UPA) allies in the hope of achieving agreement on a common name. Defence Minister A.K. Antony will be flying down to Chennai shortly to meet Dravida Munnetra Kazagham president M. Karunanidhi to discuss the coming presidential elections, senior Congress sources said. |
Test for Congress in Presidential poll -
Pradeep Kaushal, Indian Express
In 1969, Indira Gandhi had turned a presidential election into a game-changer in her favour. She got her own nominee, V V Giri, elected at th cost of the official candidate of the Congress “Syndicate”, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. That established her supremacy in the party. Today, her daughter-in-law faces an equally crucial presidential election in July. What is different this time around, however, is that Sonia Gandhi will need to get her party’s nominee, whoever that is, elected in order to keep the party-led government afloat till 2014.
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