His comment puts an end to speculation that Congress was having a rethink about going solo in Delhi.
The Delhi government on Friday said Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has not been indicted by the Comptroller and Auditor General on corruption charges for dubious Commonwealth Games projects and the auditor has only pointed out certain "procedural wrongdoings".
'BJP insiders acknowledge that the party needs to be helmed by someone who can match Arvind Kejriwal's stature.' 'A Sudhanshu Trivedi or Bansuri Swaraj could bring the freshness the party needs in Delhi,' points out Aditi Phadnis.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday mounted a counter offensive against Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, rapping him for "lowering the norms" of politics by indulging in personal attacks and stoking controversy on a "non-issue".
"We welcome the Lt Governor's announcement as it had left the people in jitters. It was almost impractical," Dikshit told media persons in New Delhi.
A 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly making a threatening call to the police claiming that Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's life was in danger. Veer Singh, a resident of Farsh Vihar in the national capital, was arrested for making a call to the police control room on Thursday evening, claiming that Dikshit's life was in danger, the police said on Saturday.
A Delhi court on Thursday issued summons against activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on a criminal defamation case filed against him by the political secretary of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly making baseless allegations against her. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shailender Malik summoned Kejriwal as an accused, based on the complaint which said Kejriwal had used "false and filthy" language against the chief minister in a television show.
After controversy erupted over recording of the 23-year-old gangrape victim's statement, her fresh testimony was on Tuesday taken by the metropolitan magistrate, police said.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and five of her cabinet colleagues were among the successful candidates of Congress in the keenly contested electoral battle for the 70-member House.
In an exclusive interview to rediff.com, the Delhi chief minister said, "I begin my day as early as six in the morning and continue campaign work till late night. First thing in the morning, I decide my strategy for the day and then pass on instructions for the staff to follow."
A day after the party's rout in Delhi elections, the knives are out in the Congress with leaders blaming each other and raising questions on whether the party has outsourced the task of defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party to others.
The Public Accounts Committee of Delhi assembly has started examining the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the Commonwealth Games, which had indicted Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her government for alleged irregularities in the implementation of various projects. In its first meeting on Tuesday, a number of senior officials from the public works department deposed before the nine-member PAC headed by senior Congress member Prahlad Singh Sawhney.
One month after Arvind Kejriwal assumed office, the unorthodox and uncommon chief minister and his party have earned more criticism and praise. Rediff.com takes a look at five of its biggest blunders and asks readers to rate its performance.
Protesters on Sunday gathered outside Police Headquarters and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for the second day to express solidarity with the five-year-old girl who was raped by her neighbour and demanded the resignation of Commissioner Neeraj Kumar
The BJP may win more seats in the February 5 assembly election, but not enough to trump AAP, notes Ramesh Menon.
The people who helped make the AAP's remarkable Delhi victory
Notwithstanding the focus on women, Rahul Gandhi's scheduled interaction with state Congress leaders in New Delhi on Friday and Saturday will virtually be an all-male affair.
A delegation of Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday met President Pratibha Patil and submitted a memorandum apprising her about findings of Shunglu Committee and CAG relating to alleged corruption involving Delhi government and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in Commonwealth Games projects.
The Delhi government on Friday rejected as 'totally baseless' Arvind Kejriwal's allegations of restraining the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission from passing an order in 2010 to slash tariff by 23 per cent. "The allegations are a bundle of lies," Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's Office said.
Under attack from Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Wednesday wrote to the home ministry rebutting charges that police had interfered when a magistrate was recording the statement of Delhi gangrape victim.
Sheela Bhatt blames the Delhi gang-rape and its aftermath on the dreadful transport mafia, the offspring of the nexus between politicians, crooked bureaucrats and shady operators.
The Delhi Cabinet made the decision on Monday after a recent Delhi HC directive.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday blamed the feud in the Ambani family for the capital's power crisis and non-cooperative attitude of neighbouring states for the water problem in the city.
Amid the outrage over the hike in power tariff, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit on Saturday filed a police complaint against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and a number of senior bureaucrats, alleging their involvement in a "conspiracy" to benefit three private power distribution companies.
In the wake of complaints of inadequate compensation to High Court blast victims, Delhi government on Tuesday set up a 'special cell' to address grievances of the affected people and facilitate their rehabilitation.
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday stood firm in a local court on his stand of not seeking bail in a defamation case filed against him by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's political secretary for his alleged remarks against her during power tariff hike protests.
Israel has protested to India for allowing a journalist, charged with involvement in an attack on the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi in February last year, to share the dais with senior Indian politicians, calling it "most inappropriate".
Has the country lost its secret weapon for competing with growing countries like China and Brazil? Mayank Mishra reports
The police on Monday stopped activists led by Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Admi Party from marching to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's residence to deliver around eight lakh letters they claimed to have collected from Delhiites who have decided not to pay electricity bills.
Activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal was on Wednesay released by a Delhi court on an undertaking after he refused to seek bail in a criminal defamation case filed against him by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's political secretary for his remarks during protests on power tariff issue.
Dismissed as a political greenhorn, engineer-turned-civil servant Arvind Kejriwal has cemented his place in politics with a stunning political debut for his nascent AAP and emerged as a giant killer to sweep Sheila Dikshit out from not only office but also her constituency.
She expressed concern over the law and order situation in the national capital in the wake of the rape of a Swiss diplomat.
To try and get each state government to act would take forever, what is needed is a law, which makes it mandatory for the establishment and maintenance of such burial grounds across the country.
Who's wooing Narendra Modi now? Which post did Sheila Dikshit refuse? What is Montek Singh Ahluwalia planning? All this and more in this week's Dilli Gupshup.
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has opposed a Group of Ministers' recommendation to set up the long-awaited National War Memorial at the India Gate complex, saying it will affect the ambience of the area and restrict people's movement at the popular hangout zone. In separate letters to Defence Minister A K Antony, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, she said an alternative site should be found for the memorial.
Manoj Tiwari is the only sitting MP whom the BJP has retained.
Congress general secretary Ajay Maken talks to rediff.com's Anita Katyal about the road ahead for the Congress and the UPA government.
Once you analyse the data, you will realise the state government wants to take credit for achievements that do not belong to it.
Trouble is brewing in the Congress in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh with senior leader Virbhadra Singh offering to resign from party committees constituted for the state assembly elections later this year.
Anurag Thakur, chief of the Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha, has alleged that Home Minister P Chidambaram directed the Delhi police to lathicharge peaceful demonstrates of his party who were proceeding to the Parliament to demand Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's resignation for her role in the Commonwealth Games scam.
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