'We were asked to add a dialogue where the politician says she admires Mrs Gandhi.'
Electorally, the yatra seems to have paid dividends in the south, but the march does not seem to be helping the Congress in stopping the BJP's surge in the Hindi-heartland states.
Narendra Modi will take oath as the prime minister for a third consecutive term on Sunday evening as President Droupadi Murmu has invited him to form the government.
Prakash Jha, famous for his socio-political films like "Gangaajal", "Rajneeti" and "Satyagraha", is hoping to be third time lucky by unseating sitting Member of Parliament Sanjay Jaiswal of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Paschim Champaran Lok Sabha seat in Bihar.
The party's national executive meeting chaired by its president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar flagged price rise and unemployment as "burning issues"
There is a view that heavyweight portfolios like home, finance, defence and external affairs besides education and culture, two ministries with strong ideological hues, will be kept by the BJP, while its allies can get anywhere between five to eight cabinet berths.
'Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted me to play Qudsia Begum with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other. I told Sanjayji that I have never held a cigarette in my hand.'
By bringing in 'outsider' Sanjay Jha to address mediapersons from the AICC platform, the Congress party is not helping its case in regaining the ground it has lost in the perception battle, notes Renu Mittal.
PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Motorola's Sanjay Kumar Jha and Citigroup's Vikram Pandit are the three Indian-Americans among US' highest paid CEOs listed by Wall Street Journal.
If Priyanka wins the Lok Sabha bypolls, it would be for the first time that three members of the Gandhi family will be in Parliament. Her mother Sonia Gandhi is a Rajya Sabha member from Rajasthan.
'There's so much innocence in her expression of sexual curiosity.'
'...be it a comedy, thriller or a love story.' 'The bhindi costs Rs 30 per kilo, but the price of potato remains unchanged.'
Suspended Congress leader claims 100 letters to Sonia Gandhi over leadership change
'I need to disconnect from the stress, smell the roses, chase the butterflies...'
'I will be missing the celebrations tonight where our Heeramandi family will be together with her on the dance floor.'
They said they will raise issues related to rising prices, unemployment, corruption and caste census.
Aditi Roy Hydari on working with Mani Ratnam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
A close aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday confirmed that a 'proposal' to make the Janata Dal-United president convener of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) came up at the meeting of coalition leaders through virtual mode.
Kharge alleged that Dhankhar is working as a government spokesperson and acting like a school headmaster, often sermonising experienced opposition leaders and preventing them from speaking in the House.
Earlier in the day, rich tributes were paid to Yechury at the Communist Party of India (Marxist) headquarters at the AKG Bhavan here, where his mortal remains were brought from his residence in the morning.
The Bihar chief minister, who has of late been making news for goof-ups, made the faux pas at an election rally on the outskirts of Patna.
Sanjay Jha (left) of Motorola and Vikram Pandit (below) of Citigroup are among the three who have made it to the league of top 25 highest paid men in the world.
A source at Medanta hospital in Gurgaon said Patra was 'admitted in the morning and is stable'.
Thousands of Janata Dal-United activists are expected to attend the March 17 rally of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Delhi's Ram Lila Maidan, demanding special-category status for Bihar.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stressed the need to finalise seat-sharing arrangements by January at the recent meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), a key aide disclosed on Friday.
The municipal house of Delhi failed to elect a mayor for the third time in a month after ruckus erupted over the nominated members being allowed to vote in the election to the post.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Centre's decision to confer Bharat Ratna on his political mentor Karpoori Thakur.
This was disclosed in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in which Motorola outlined the compensation that Jha stands to gain.
'I have a really strong support system at home and they keep me going.'
Proceedings of both Houses of Parliament were disrupted on Monday as the treasury benches accused top Congress leaders of colluding with billionaire investor George Soros to destabilise the country, triggering protests from opposition members.
Upset about being snubbed by INDIA, Nitish Kumar is weighing his political options. BJP would like him back knowing that it would jolt the Opposition alliance, perhaps irreversibly.
Sanjay Jha, cricket writer and author of 11: Triumphs, Trials and Turbulence, pays an unusual tribute to Team India.
After Animal, Ranbir has apparently hiked his fee from Rs 30 crore to Rs 65 crore.
Motorola has modified the terms of compensation for co-chief executive Jha, including a bigger paycheck, if the restructuring falls through.
Rajkumar Hirani has decided there won't be a mention of Madhuri.
To understand Khanna's maniacal craze, one needed to be have been born in the 1960s. What you see today in television re-runs is a mere rewind into shredded fading memories. It was sheer madness, says Sanjay Jha.
Sanjay Jha, NowPublic's South Asia Bureau Chief, won the award for television programme 'India's Promise', along with PBS Nightly Business Report colleagues Steve Washington, Darren Gersh and Dana Greenspon. "It is a tremendous honour to be the first Indian recipient of the highly-coveted Loeb Award," Jha said.
Why does the richest cricket board in the world pay its players peanuts for official matches, thus paving the way for making IPL their real cash bonanza, asks Sanjay Jha
'India does not possess the political leadership with the moral fibre or the necessary willpower among its key battling constituents to create a national reconciliation.'
