Anna Meets Sonia

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  Sonia Gandhi Raises Land Acquisition Issue in Meeting With Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu

  A day before of the budget session is to begin, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu met Congress President Sonia Gandhi as part of the government's efforts to reach out to opposition parties.

• Sonia Gandhi defends PM against Team Anna's allegations

  The Prime Minister took on Team Anna again on Monday with a second round of strong remarks against the activists and their allegations of corruption against him and 14 of his senior ministers. "Canards and falsehoods being spread" he said, describing the people behind the allegations as "disparate, desperate elements unified only by their oppositio...

• PM, Sonia don't name Team Anna, but take aim at Congress meet

  The Prime Minister took on Team Anna again on Monday with a second round of strong remarks against the activists and their allegations of corruption against him and 14 of his senior ministers.

• Attacks on PM are part of conspiracy, says Sonia Gandhi without naming Team Anna

  In her address to the Congress party's highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC), Mrs Gandhi took on Team Anna, which has recently and aggressively targeted the Prime Minister for allegedly allowing a massive swindle in the allocation of coal fields to private companies. She said the attack on the Prime Minister and the government i...

• Team Anna steps up attack on Sonia, Rahul Gandhi

  Team Anna stepped up its attack on Congress ahead of the final phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh targeting Sonia and Rahul Gandhi in particular. Speaking at a public meeting, Team Anna member Manish Sisodia said that while Sonia Gandhi abuses Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav in UP, she praises them in Delhi.

• Lokpal Bill: Ready to fight, says Sonia, in warning to Team Anna and opposition

  Lokpal Bill: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has signalled that the government is ready for war with both the opposition and Team Anna over the Lokpal Bill once it is introduced in Parliament. She told a meeting of Congress MPs this morning that the Lokpal Bill is "path-breaking" and that "Team Anna must accept it." Kiran Bedi, a close aide of activ...

• Lokpal Bill to be tabled in Lok Sabha at 11 am tomorrow

  It's war again. Sonia Gandhi has set the tone for the government's next steps on the Lokpal Bill that it plans to table in Parliament tomorrow. After a meeting of party MPs today, the Congress president she said she was "always ready for a fight.".

• Lokpal Bill: Ahead of meet with allies, PM meets Sonia, top Congress leaders

  With activists Anna Hazare threatening to go on a fourth and lengthy hunger strike later this month, the government is trying to deliver an anti-corruption Lokpal Bill that will satisfy the Gandhian as well as political parties, most of who have agreed with Anna's vision for that bill.

• Lokpal Bill: Talks productive, says Anna after meeting with Sonia

  Ahead of the all-party meet tomorrow on Lokpal Bill issue, Anna Hazare today had a meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi in which he pressed for inclusion of Prime Minister and judiciary under the ambit of the legislation.Emerging after the 30-minute talks, Mr Hazare said that a "proper" draft of Lokpal Bill should go to Parliament and that ...

• Lokpal Bill: Anna Hazare's meeting with Sonia Gandhi underway

  At 74, Anna Hazare is busy with his road show. He is spending his time meeting one political party after another. His calling card: his team's version of the Lokpal Bill, intended to check corruption among politicians, and rejected as impractical by the government which has its own draft of the same bill.Mr Hazare, the face of the India Against Cor...

• Anna meets Sonia today, BJP and Congress trade charges

  At 74, Anna Hazare is busy with his road show. He is spending his time meeting one political party after another. His calling card: his team's version of the Lokpal Bill, intended to check corruption among politicians, and rejected as impractical by the government which has its own draft of the same bill.Mr Hazare, the face of the India Against Cor...

• Lokpal Bill: Anna Hazare meets Nitish Kumar, Sonia Gandhi meeting soon

  He wanted to meet Sonia Gandhi today but did not get an appointment. Now the Congress has indicated that the party chief will meet Gandhian activist Anna Hazare, though a time for that meeting has not been announced yet.  Anna Hazare is trying to cobble political support for the draft Lokpal Bill that members of the civil society have readied....

• Lokpal Bill: No Anna-Sonia meeting today

  Gandhian Anna Hazare wanted to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi to try and bring her around to his side of the Lokpal debate, but the meeting is not taking place today.  The Congress chief has not given Mr Hazare an appointment.  Mr Hazare is meeting political leaders across the board to build a consensus on the Bill that members of t...

• Lokpal Bill: Anna Hazare to meet Sonia Gandhi today

  Anna Hazare will try to persuade Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to include the post of Prime Minister in the Lokpal when he meets her today. Team Anna is also scheduled to meet CPI's AB Bardhan later today.The Gandhian activist has been in the Capital since Monday meeting leaders of political parties - amongst them Ajit Singh of the Rashtriya Lok Dal,...