Tag: Ajay Maken

Maken urges AAP, BJP to stop ugly politicking on Metro fare hike

Delhi Congress on Monday threw hat in the ring amidst political slugfest between ruling AAP government in Delhi and the BJP-led Centre over the proposed fare hike of Metro train fare. Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Ajay Maken announced that the party would start a “Stop Politics, Save Metro” agitation from Wednesday if the City government and the...

October 9, 2017

Congress to protest fuel price hike

The Congress on Friday demanded the withdrawal of central excise duties and other taxes on petrol and diesel and said it will hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar here on Wednesday to press for this demand. Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken said the party unit in Delhi will launch a campaign at petrol pumps across the...

September 15, 2017

UP trying to protect guilty in Gorakhpur deaths: Congress

The Congress on Friday accused the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government of trying to protect the guilty in the deaths of over 70 children, including infants, at a hospital in Gorakhpur. “BJP government in UP is trying to protect the guilty. They should have done post-mortem first of the children who died in Gorakhpur medical...

August 18, 2017

Stand vidicated by EC remarks on elections: Congress

Reacting to Election Commissioner O P Rawat’s remarks that “winning elections at all cost, without ethics, is the new normal in politics”, the Congress on Friday said it stood vindicated on the issue. “We said the same thing during the (August 8) Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat, wherein we pointed out that Congress MLAs were...

August 18, 2017

Congress workers, traders hold GST protest

A large number of Congress workers, traders and citizens held a demonstration from Jantar Mantar to Parliament House on Tuesday to protest against the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime by the BJP government at the Centre. Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken said, "Faulty implementation of GST has not only adversely affected...

July 18, 2017

Maken meets LG over street vendors’ eviction

A delegation of the Delhi Congress on Friday met Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal and urged him to intervene in the matter of nearly 15,000 street vendors and hawkers who were evicted from 17 different areas of Delhi in June. They also submitted a memorandum on the issue to the LG. Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken,...

July 14, 2017

Congress to protest over GST outside Parliament on July 18

Congress on Tuesday said that it will stage a protest against Goods and Services Tax in its present format outside Parliament on July 18. "A gherao of Parliament House would be held to protest against GST in its present form on July 18," Congress' Delhi Chief Ajay Maken told reporters at a press conference here....

July 11, 2017

Ajay Maken slams MP police for illegal arrest of Rahul Gandhi

Addressing farmers at Bawana village in Delhi to protest against the "illegal" arrest of  Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday, Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said on Friday that the MP police used bullets to silence farmers, and when Rahul Gandhi went to meet the family members of the dead farmers to...

June 10, 2017

Ajay Maken leads DU teachers’ delegation to President

A delegation of Delhi University Teachers, led by Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken, met President Pranab Mukherjee  at Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday and submitted a memorandum urging him to direct the university to absorb around 4500 ad hoc teachers with immediate effect.  Maken said the promotion of around 3000 teachers has been stalled and also...

June 10, 2017

Farmers in crisis as PM Modi not paying attention: Congress

The Congress on Friday accused the government of working for the rich but neglecting the poor and said the country's farmers are in the "throes of a serious crisis but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is paying no attention to their plight". Congress workers will fully support party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's battle in favour of farmers,...

June 9, 2017

Ajay Maken dubs AAP as ‘B-team’ of BJP

Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken on Monday branded the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as the "B-team" of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as the former contests elections only in the states where they can cut the 'traditional votes' of the Congress. "If you see the states where they have contested, then you'll see that they contest...

June 5, 2017

Cong seeks probe into allegations of AAP’s illegal foreign funding

Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken on Sunday sought a "thorough probe" into the allegations levelled by sacked Delhi minister Kapil Mishra regarding "illegal" foreign funding received by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). At a press meet here, he also demanded Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal's resignation. "The allegations are serious. Kejriwal should step...

May 14, 2017

Sanction prosecution of Kejriwal, ministers: Ajay Maken

The Congress on Monday wrote to Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal to demand the prosecution of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers on the basis of the Shunglu committee report. "We demand the sanction of prosecution of Kejriwal and his ministers under the Prevention of Corruption Act, based on the Shunglu committee report,"...

May 8, 2017

Kejriwal, Sisodia hand in glove with RSS: Ajay Maken

Amid the AAP's raging internal crisis, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that the party is the "B- team of the BJP" and its top leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, were "hand in glove" with the RSS. The Congress' Delhi unit chief Ajay Maken also alleged that the BJP supported Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement...

May 3, 2017

The Lovely effect in east Delhi

The BJP’s best performance in the Delhi municipal election was in east Delhi where it won 48 of the 64 seats in the EDMC and scored a strike rate of 75 per cent. The saffron surge in this part of Delhi, according to analysts, was a direct result of Congress leader Arvinder Singh Lovely’s defection...

May 2, 2017

Ajay Maken to resign as Delhi Congress Chief

Delhi Congress Chief Ajay Maken on Wednesday took moral responsibility for the party's defeat in the civic polls and announced he was resigning from his post. "I will submit my resignation to the Congress President and Vice-President shortly," Maken told reporters. The Congress was a distant third in the Delhi municipal corporation polls, after the...

April 26, 2017

Congress will win 208 seats in Delhi MCD polls: Maken

Congress on Friday claimed that the party will win over 200 seats in the civic body polls scheduled on Sunday. "As per an internal survey conducted with a sample size of 52,000 voters in 13,000 polling booths, Congress will win 208 wards among a total of 272 in three municipal corporations," Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken...

April 21, 2017