Ramesh also said that business as usual approach will not work against Modi and Shah.
Sidhu asserted that he will continue to appear on The Kapil Sharma Show.
Ending two weeks of suspense, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan announced on Friday that the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government will be sworn in on Saturday
The new Congress-led UPA government must lay greater emphasis on speeding up projects connected with infrastructure, port, power, education and health, a leading Indian banker has said.
'The so-called old guard is uneasy and resentful. These are the makings of a new Congress where there will be little or no role for them. And in their opinion, it is not a Congress that will win elections,' says Aditi Phadnis.
He also said that it was up to Sonia Gandhi whether she will continue as party chief for another term.
Marshall Bouton, council president, in an online interview said that over the last couple of years, the Indian government had been 'hamstrung' by its alliance with Left in pushing economic reforms further.
Rahul Gandhi succeeds Sonia Gandhi, who led the party for the last 19 years.
'The BJP must realise that a resurgent Rahul Gandhi will take the battle straight into its camp.' 'He is not going to be held back by the misdeeds of UPA 1 and 2, so there is no point harping on them,' says Sanjeev Nayyar.
Rahul Gandhi has the potential to grow into a good, effective, leader of the Opposition provided he puts his heart and soul into it, with a willingness to learn, says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant who worked closely with India's first three prime ministers.
Shortly after his predecessor J D Rymbai resigned earlier in the day, Lapang called on Governor M M Jacob and staked claim to form the ministry stating that he was elected the new Congress Legislature Party leader.
In November alone businesses created 314,000 new jobs, Obama said.
Azad had, on Sunday, called on the Governor to stake claim to form the new government in Jammu and Kashmir, replacing Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as the chief minister.
AP to have quota for minorities in govt jobs
In all the highs and lows that India's most powerful, and only woman, prime minister faced in her life, the death of her younger son Sanjay was probably the most soul-destroying.
The new Congress government had provided five per cent reservation in jobs to Muslims.
Merrill Lynch has downgraded India to "market weight" category and said the near term disappointment could accelerate selling that has until recently been rather modest.
In a frontal attack on the Common Minimum Programme of the new Congress-led coalition government, the National Democratic Alliance
An inchoate anger is brewing within the party against the central leadership after the poor show in the assembly polls.
The new Congress-led government on Tuesday promised to 'revitalise' sick public sector units and strictly adhere to the roadmap laid out for divestment of public sector units in the Common Minimum Programme to be unveiled this week.
As speculation mounted over whether the Left parties would join the new Congress-led government, the Communist Party of India-Marxist and Communist Party of India on Friday made it clear that the pro-active divestment policies should be scrapped.
The government will look into the issue of revising the petrol and diesel prices in view of the steep increase in international crude oil prices, the new Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Monday.
Ruling out any rollback of reforms in the face of Leftist pressure, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government policies needed to be fine-tuned to make it painless for the poor.
The new Congress-led government under the economist-turned-politician Manmohan Singh got a shot in the arm with exports surging up by almost 20 per cent and infrastructure growth doubling to 9 per cent in April, the first month of this fiscal.
In what is being seen as a great irony, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's face has been removed from the latest posters, billboards and advertising campaign of the Congress party.
In an interview, Jairam Ramesh, former environment minister, speaks of the formation of a new Congress under the tutelage of Rahul Gandhi in which older leaders would play an advisory role.
Shazia Ilmi, one of the Aam Aadmi Party's founder members who left that party after the Lok Sabha elections in May 2014, was recently nominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit to join the Swachh Bharat campaign. After she came out in favour of the campaign and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there has been speculation about Ilmi planning to join the saffron party. She speaks about her views on BJP, love jihad and her fallout with AAP.
Rahul Gandhi has set out to revamp the Congress party after the recent drubbing it received in the assembly elections. Renu Mittal reports
In a debacle for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, Republicans today gained control of the United States Senate and increased its majority in the House of Representatives in a sweeping midterm election win that could complicate the President's final two years in office.
'The BJP said they want less government and more governance. But they are doing neither. It is shocking to see them so ineffective.'
Sunday's results may be a bitter pill that the Congress has to swallow -- that its future cannot be hitched to Rahul unless he can resonate with the people, feels Saroj Nagi.
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