Convicted Netas

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  Can Netas With Criminal Charges Contest Polls? Verdict Shortly: 10 Points

  Whether lawmakers facing criminal charges be barred from contesting elections or should they be disqualified only after conviction, the Supreme Court will decide today. The top court is hearing a batch of petitions seeking disqualification of lawmakers even before their conviction in criminal cases to curb "criminalisation of politics" in the count...

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  1,500 Netas Face Criminal Cases; Supreme Court Asks For Special Courts

  Convicted politicians should be banned from contesting elections for the rest of their life, the Election Commission told the Supreme Court, months after a bench of the top court chided the poll body for going back on its earlier stand.

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  Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Response On Life Ban For Convicted Netas

  Delhi High Court today issued notice to the Centre on a public suit seeking to declare as unconstitutional certain provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act that allow a convicted person to contest elections six years after their conviction.

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  Probe Into JNU Campus Row As Netas Pay Visit After Student's Arrest

  The Delhi Government on Saturday ordered an inquiry into the ongoing controversy at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University that has acquired a political colour. The Congress alleged that its senior leader Anand Sharma was attacked by students of the BJP-linked union. The campus has been on the boil since Friday, when a student was arrested and charged...

• Rahul Gandhi's outburst was 'strange', says Left leader Prakash Karat

  The Communist Party of India-Marxist or CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat categorically admitted that public mood was against bringing such a law and the government should withdraw the bill they had introduced during the Monsoon Session of Parliament.

• Congress to withdraw ordinance derided by Rahul Gandhi

  The Congress has decided to withdraw a contentious ordinance that allows convicted parliamentarians to stay in office, a proposal that was severely and publicly attacked last week by the party's vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

• Government likely to defend ordinance on convicted netas before withdrawing it tomorrow: sources

  The union cabinet will meet tomorrow to decide the fate of an ordinance on convicted politicians that it approved last week, as the ruling Congress hunts for a face-saver after its second-in-command Rahul Gandhi trashed the executive order as "complete nonsense."

• PM likely to withdraw ordinance on convicted netas on October 2: sources

  After Rahul Gandhi called it "complete nonsense", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to withdraw the controversial ordinance on convicted politicians in a cabinet meeting tomorrow, sources have said.

• Lalu jailed in fodder scam, now govt moves to withdraw ordinance on convicted netas

  After Rahul Gandhi dismissed it as 'complete nonsense', the government is set to withdraw a controversial ordinance protecting convicted lawmakers, a move the BJP said was directed solely at saving ally Lalu Prasad Yadav from disqualification.

• Ordinance row: Must be humble to accept and rectify an error, says Milind Deora

  Union Minister Milind Deora, who created a furore with his tweet on the ordinance on convicted netas, today said Rahul Gandhi's criticism of the ordinance is "healthy for democracy" and said there was nothing wrong in accepting and rectifying an error.

• Blog: When Rahul finally met the press and dropped a 'bombshell'

  For a long time now, all of us covering the Congress party have been prepped for a "big" event - the party managers have been talking about the party number two Rahul Gandhi meeting us for a press conference.

• PM's statement on ordinance on convicted netas

  After Rahul Gandhi today called an ordinance on convicted politicians "nonsense", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in Washington, "Rahul Gandhi has written to me on the ordinance beside making a statement...Issues raised by him will be considered by the Cabinet on my return to India."

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  Rahul Gandhi calls ordinance on convicted lawmakers 'nonsense'; huge embarrassment for PM

  Rahul Gandhi's dramatic declaration that an ordinance hurriedly pushed by the government to protect convicted MPs and MLAs is "complete nonsense," has put Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an embarrassing spot while away in the US.

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  Ordinance to protect convicted netas 'complete nonsense', says Rahul Gandhi

  In a major embarrassment to the UPA government, Rahul Gandhi today denounced the controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as "complete nonsense". Making a surprise brief appearance at a meet-the-press programme of his party's general secretary Ajay Maken at the Press Club in New Delhi, he said the ordinance...

• Ordinance to protect tainted netas: 'unsure' President, dissent within stumps government

  President Pranab Mukherjee faces a tough decision on an ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from disqualification, pushed by the government in questionable haste despite protests not only from the opposition but within the ruling Congress.