Articles tagged under: P Chidambaram

ઋષિ સુનકના નામે ભારતમાં લઘુમતી કાર્ડ રમવા માગતા રાજકારણીઓને કેવા જવાબ મળ્યા?

October 25, 2022
ઋષિ સુનકના નામે ભારતમાં લઘુમતી કાર્ડ રમવા માગતા રાજકારણીઓને કેવા જવાબ મળ્યા?

નવી દિલ્હીઃ  બ્રિટનના ઈતિહાસમાં સૌપ્રથમ વખત ભારતીય મૂળના એક નેતા ઋષિ સુનક વડાપ્રધાન તરીકેની જવાબદારી વહન કરવા તૈયારી કરી રહ્યા છે ત્યારે એ મુદ્દે અહીં ભારતમાં ભારે રાજકીય તડાફડી શરૂ થઈ છે. ...Read More

IT estimates illegal assets held by Chidambaram to be to the tune of 3 billion dollars; BJP says it’s Nawaz Sharif moment for Congress

May 13, 2018

New Delhi: Attacking scathingly on former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in an alleged black money case, the BJP on Sunday said its Nawaz Sharief moment for the Congress party in India. Last year, the Pakistan Supreme Court had disqualified Mr Sharif from his office of Prime Ministership on a charge of dishonest to Parliament. The scandal was about alleged money laundering by Mr Sharif in 1990s, when he twice served as prime minister, to purchase assets in London. The assets surfaced ...Read More

CBI arrests Karti Chidambaram

February 28, 2018
CBI arrests Karti Chidambaram

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's son Karti has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a money laundering case at the Chennai airport today after he arrived from a flight from London. Karti has been taken into custody for questioning. He is likely to be taken to Delhi. The Enforcement Directorate had filed a case against Karti Chidambaram in May last year alleging irregularities in the grant of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX ...Read More

PM slams Chidambaram for his Kashmir ‘Azadi’ remark

October 29, 2017

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today slammed senior Congress leader P Chidambaram saying his remarks on Kashmir’s autonomy were an insult to soldiers. “Why are Congress leaders lending their voice to those who want Azadi in Kashmir? This is an insult to our brave soldiers,” said PM Modi. Indirectly hitting out at Chidambaram, Modi said, “Yesterday's statement of a Congress leader on Kashmir clearly shows how the party feels on surgical strikes and bravery of our Army.” "Ca...Read More

Chidambaram in Gujarat seeks greater autonomy for J&K, Smriti Irani says shocking PC bats for separatists & ‘azadi’

October 28, 2017
Chidambaram in Gujarat seeks greater autonomy for J&K, Smriti Irani says shocking PC bats for separatists & ‘azadi’

Rajkot: Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram pitched for greater autonomy for restive Jammu and Kashmir yet again on Saturday, drawing stinging criticism from the BJP even as Union minister Smriti Irani called the remark “shocking and shameful”. “The demand in the Kashmir Valley is to respect the letter and spirit of Article 370, that means they want greater autonomy. My interactions in J-K led me to the conclusion that when they ask for azadi, mostly, I am n...Read More

I would have resigned if asked to implement demonetization as FM:P Chidambaram in Gujarat

October 28, 2017
I would have resigned if asked to implement demonetization as FM:P Chidambaram in Gujarat

Rajkot: Terming the Demonetization and bad implementation of GST as 'destroyer' of economy, Senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram today said that he would have resigned had he been asked to implement demonetization as finance minister. Chidambaram was here today to interact with the local traders/businessmen in Hemu Gadhvi hall and he also interacted with media. 'Our economy grew by 8.5 per cent between 2004 and 2009 (during UPA regime), which is the b...Read More

Eyeing to gain votes over GST issue, Congress to move Manmohan and Chidambaram to Gujarat

October 27, 2017
Eyeing to gain votes over GST issue, Congress to move Manmohan  and Chidambaram to Gujarat

Gandhinagar: One of the issues opposition Congress party is banking upon to do better in Gujarat elections is GST. Congress is hoping to gain through discontent related to Goods and Services Tax(GST) among traders. Though traders are not against GST as they know it is in many countries and sooner or later it was to come to India as well, they are not happy the way government has implemented it. Congress is eyeing to gain from this situation. In latest efforts, Congress has decided to fi...Read More

BJP criticises Chidambaram for his “grand bargain” comment

July 21, 2016
BJP criticises Chidambaram for his “grand bargain” comment

Jammu: Lambasting former Union Minister P Chidambaram for his "grand bargain" comment to resolve Kashmir issue, the Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP today said that such a formula was dangerous for the integrity of the country and reiterated abrogation of Article 370 was the only step to bring the Kashmiri people into the national mainstream. "The statement of former Union Home minister where he advocated for restoring grand bargain under which Kashmir acceded to India by granting a large degree...Read More

Modi describes UPA’s last budget as extremely disappointing and a fine specimen of self-glorification

February 17, 2014

Gandhinagar, 17 February 2014 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi described UPA Government’s last vote-on-account presented by Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the Parliament as extremely disappointing. It signified nothing but a glorified exercise in self-praise. Reacting to the budget proposals, Mr. Modi tweeted why should it take UPA so many years to complete 296 projects worth Rs.6,60,000-crore cleared recently. Doesn’t it signify policy paralysis? ...Read More

Lies, damn lies and statistics

February 06, 2014

By Hardeep S. Puri, New Delhi, 6 February 2014 Political discourse, in the run up to a general election in particular, is best anchored in decency and decorum. Equally, the tendency to underestimate the knowledge of economics of one's opponent and overestimate one's own is best avoided. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's assertion, in an interview to the BBC, that the knowledge of economics of Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Par...Read More