Articles by Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
No-trust motion moved against RS dy chairman
While the two farm bills were passed through a voice vote, the opposition claimed that the due process of allowing a detailed discussion on the bills was not followed.

Updated on Sep 21, 2020 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi and Smriti Kak Ramachandran
Opposition parties snub Congress in joint protest over GST
Leaders belonging to the Trinamool Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Samajwadi Party (SP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena gathered near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the Parliament House complex to seek immediate release of compensation for a shortfall in their share of GST collections.

Updated on Sep 18, 2020 01:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Congress dissenters chart next step
A leader present in the meeting, who did not want to be named, said they were not satisfied with the changes as these “do not in any way” address the concerns raised by them in their August 7 letter to Sonia Gandhi that triggered a flutter.

Updated on Sep 13, 2020 02:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Key changes, boost to Team Rahul as Congress rejigs panels
The reshuffle comes against the backdrop of 23 Congress leaders, including four CWC members (Azad, Anand Sharma, Mukul Wasnik and Jitin Prasada), writing a letter to Sonia Gandhi on August 7, and calling for full-time leadership and an introspection behind the “steady decline” of Congress.

Updated on Sep 12, 2020 05:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Rahul Gandhi, CDS Rawat attend House defence panel meet
The meeting -- in which Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat was present -- centered around the topic on the agenda, “provision and monitoring of the quality of ration and livery items to the defence forces”.

Updated on Sep 12, 2020 02:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Congress plans joint opposition candidate for Rajya Sabha post
The decision was taken at a meeting of the parliament strategy group of the Congress on Tuesday, a party leader said on condition of anonymity.

Updated on Sep 09, 2020 02:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Opposition parties to put up a joint candidate for RS deputy chairperson’s election
The RS deputy chairperson’s post has been lying vacant after Janata Dal’s (United) member Harivansh’s tenure had ended in April. However, Harivansh’s got re-elected to the Upper House from Bihar soon after his tenure had ended

Published on Sep 08, 2020 02:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Key Congress panel headed by Manmohan Singh hasn’t met in 2 months
The last meeting of the 11-member panel was held in July, a Congress functionary said on condition of anonymity.

Updated on Sep 07, 2020 04:24 AM IST
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‘Congress has to confront the question of secularism’, says Manish Tewari
The Congress party needs to confront the “central question of secularism” and “combat the immoral allure of majoritarianism”, Congress MP Manish Tewari told HT in his first interview since he and 22 other leaders signed a controversial letter seeking sweeping reforms in the party.

Updated on Sep 06, 2020 08:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Harinder Baweja and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
‘The tag of a conscientious dissenter works for me’, says Manish Tewari
Former Union minister and Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari in an interview to Hindustan Times talks about the letter that created ripples within the Congress and the party’s future course of action.

Updated on Sep 06, 2020 05:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Harinder Baweja and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Congress likely to set up panel for internal polls
The previous CEA, headed by present Kerala Congress president Mullapally Ramachandran, was dissolved soon after the election of Rahul Gandhi as the party chief in December 2017.

Updated on Aug 30, 2020 07:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Opposition CMs join hands against holding NEET, JEE
Amid a growing chorus for postponing the JEE and NEET in view of the pandemic, the Centre has maintained that the tests will be conducted in September as scheduled. While JEE Main is scheduled from September 1-6, NEET is planned on September 13.

Updated on Aug 27, 2020 08:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi and Amandeep Shukla
‘Let’s go to SC’: Mamata Banerjee at Sonia Gandhi’s CMs’ meet over exams
Mamata Banerjee urged all chief ministers to together move the Supreme Court for postponing the NEET and JEE exams to be held amid Coivd-19 pandemic as students are not prepared.

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 06:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Sonia and Rahul speak to leaders who wrote letter
A Congress functionary said on condition of anonymity that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi called up some of the senior leaders -- among the group of 23 who wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi asking for structural changes in the party -- and conveyed to them that they hold no grudges.

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Kapil Sibal withdraws statement after Rahul Gandhi calls him
It was preceded by a bit of friction between Sibal and the Congress chief spokesperson Randip Surjewala, who rejected allegations that Rahul Gandhi accused some seniors of “colluding” with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the high-voltage CWC discussions.

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 05:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Saubhadra Chatterji and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
7 hours of fireworks at CWC
Four of the 23 signatories – Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, general secretary Mukul Wasnik, former Union ministers Anand Sharma and Jitin Prasada – found themselves at the receiving end of attacks by other members.

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 12:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Sonia stays in charge of Congress after acrimonious CWC meet
The CWC — held in the backdrop of the first-ever show of dissent by prominent leaders against the party’s first family — authorised Sonia Gandhi to effect any necessary organisational changes, reaffirmed its faith in both Sonia and former president Rahul Gandhi.

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 05:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Sunetra Choudhury and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Rahul Gandhi never said signatories of letter were colluding with BJP: Azad
A Congress leader also said Azad made it amply clear that the letter was not against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi as “misconstrued” and alleged by some people

Updated on Aug 24, 2020 05:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Sonia asks CWC to elect a new chief, Rahul questions timing of dissenters’ letter
The CWC had named her the party’s interim chief on August 10 last year after Rahul turned down calls to withdraw the resignation he had given on May 25, taking moral responsibility for the party’s rout in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Updated on Aug 24, 2020 03:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
CWC meet today, Sonia Gandhi in favour of a new leader
Hindustan Times has learnt that Gandhi responded to the letter a few days later with a hand-written note to one of the signatories.

Updated on Aug 24, 2020 02:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Sunetra Choudhury and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Dissent brewed over aloof leadership?
A communication breakdown between the Gandhis and other leaders in the party was cited by the signatories, who said only party general secretary KC Venugopal and national spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had access to the top leadership.

Updated on Aug 24, 2020 01:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Sunetra Choudhury and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
‘Get together and find a new chief’: Sonia Gandhi in response to letter on leadership
Sonia Gandhi accepted the post of the interim chief after much persuasion only on one condition that the party will find her replacement soon.

Updated on Aug 23, 2020 04:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi | Edited by Sohini Sarkar
Congress to raise China, Facebook, Covid-19 handling in upcoming Parliament session
The party will also raise the issues of job losses, agrarian distress, and the economic crisis

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 03:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
House IT panel divided on summoning Facebook
Committee member and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey told Hindustan Times that Tharoor could not call Facebook to seek an explanation because the House rules don’t allow it .

Updated on Aug 18, 2020 02:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Deeksha Bhardwaj and Aurangzeb Naqshbandi
Report on Facebook’s leniency to BJP members’ communal posts causes row
In an article published late on Friday, the Wall Street Journal cited interviews with unnamed Facebook insiders to claim that the company’s senior India policy executive Ankhi Das intervened in internal content review processes to stop a ban on BJP’s Telangana MLA T Raja Singh, who made communally charged posts targeting the Muslim community.

Updated on Aug 16, 2020 08:31 AM IST
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Binayak Dasgupta , Aurangzeb Naqshbandi and Sunetra ChoudhuryHow Ashok Gehlot managed the crisis
As the crisis — triggered by the rebellion by now-dismissed deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and doused by a truce call earlier this week — unfolded, Gehlot had his task cut out. He had to fight a two-pronged battle — on the internal and the external fronts. In the end, the outcome was in his favour.

Updated on Aug 14, 2020 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Aurangzeb Naqshbandi and Chetan Chauhan
Gehlot, Pilot meet; BJP, Congress talk floor test
Speaker CP Joshi can use his discretion to decide whether to allow the government or the BJP motion — both seeking a floor test, according to analysts.

Published on Aug 14, 2020 04:41 AM IST
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Sachin Saini, Rakesh Goswami and Aurangzeb NaqshbandiAshok Gehlot could call for floor test despite the return of Sachin Pilot camp
Even though the 19 MLAs, including now-dismissed deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, have returned to the Congress fold, the party thinks that a floor test is the only way to send across a message of unity after a tumultuous month marked by an intense tussle that triggered political uncertainty in the western state.

Updated on Aug 13, 2020 01:00 AM IST
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Aurangzeb Naqshbandi and Sachin Saini