Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday took a swipe at the BJP-led government at the Centre after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti claimed that she was put under house arrest.
On a day he would have loved to be in Jalandhar to celebrate the Aam Aadmi Party's return to the Lok Sabha via the byelection caused by its former Congress MP's death, Raghav Chadha got engaged to Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra, better known as the sister of Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
He said the dissenting judgement "will rank among the famous dissents recorded in the history of the Hon'ble Supreme Court".
On Friday, Former finance minister and senior Congress member P. Chidambaram reacted to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's remarks on India's 1991 economic reforms.
The apex court on Thursday rejected the demand for the removal of the advocate commissioner for the video survey of the Gyanvapi mosque.
Chidambaram also said that the Congress accepted the verdict by the people of Goa, but added that little had changed in Goa's political landscape, as far as the ruling government was concerned.
"If revenue expectations are too good and on target as reflected in Survey, why will each Indian owe Rs 1 Lakh by March 2022, a loan they have never taken!"
In a statement, he said, "If the PM, FM and the ministers are so sure about the merits of the National Monetisation Pipeline, why don't they first convince the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS)? BMS is the RSS-affiliated trade union. Was BMS consulted before the NMP was announced? "
Speaking to reporters, during his three-day tour of the state, Chidambaram said that his mandate, for now, was to restructure and strengthen the Congress state unit.
The finance expert queried whether the lessee will manage the current levels of employment and the policy of reservations, or other policies, subject to sectoral regulators, etc., in the 'monetised' asset.
