After oath, YSR inks to fulfil poll promises

September 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister K. Rosaiah Thursday took oath as the state's caretaker chief minister.

June 29th, 2009 PATNA - Debananda Konwar took oath as the Governor of Bihar at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan today. Acting Chief Justice of Bihar High Court Shiva Kirti Singh administered the oath of office and secrecy to Konwar.

June 11th, 2009 RAI BARELI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday said the Lok Sabha poll results show that voters have rejected parties indulging in caste and communal politics. "People of the country have discarded those parties which play politics of caste or raise communal slogans to fan religious sentiments," said Gandhi.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi took oath as the members of the 15th Lok Sabha on Tuesday.cknowledging greetings from opposition ranks, Rahul shook hands with Leader of Opposition L K Advani. He also greeted former Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kalyan Singh.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Tuesday after the completion of oath-taking ceremony of the newly elected members. The House will meet on Wednesday for the election of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Manikrao Gavit, senior most member of the Lok Sabha, was appointed as Pro-tem Speaker by President Pratibha Patil on Monday. Gavit was administered oath by the President in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The 15th Lok Sabha saw many of the newly-elected MPs take oath Monday in their mother tongue or languages of their choice, with Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Sumitra Mahajan leading the way by doing so in Sanskrit. She was followed by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP Basudev Acharya taking oath in Bengali and Arjun Sethi of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in his Oriya.

May 23rd, 2009 AONLA - On her first visit here after winning from the Aonla parliamentary constituency, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi Saturday vowed to fulfil her poll promises. "I am not like those politicians who forget their promises after winning elections," Maneka Gandhi told a gathering in Aonla in Bareilly district, about 250 km from Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow.

May 22nd, 2009 English was the language of the evening Friday with 15 of the new ministers as well as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh taking their oath of office in it. Only Kamal Nath, Sharad Pawar, C.P.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A man on his deathbed doesn't lie, they say. So a Lok Sabha aspirant from Uttar Pradesh came on a bier to file his nomination and make the point that he would keep his promises to voters.

April 12th, 2009 SRINAGAR - People's Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone has said that he would contest the imminent general elections from Jammu and Kashmir. "Fighting elections is a change of strategy, not ideology.

January 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama had to take the oath of office again Wednesday as Chief Justice John Roberts had misplaced the word 'faithfully' in the earlier oath, a media report said. San Francisco Chronicle reported that 'Barack Obama took the advice of constitutional lawyers and retook the oath of office Wednesday that Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed the first time around'.

January 20th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari has said that US President Barack Obama must fulfil the promises he made regarding Iran during his campaign if he is to revive ties between the two countries, Iran's IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. He added that Iran will accept no preconditions for talks over its nuclear issue.

January 5th, 2009 DHAKA - A five-member delegation of lawmakers-elect will represent former prime minister Khaleda Zia at Sheikh Hasina's oath-taking ceremony at the Bangabhavan Tuesday evening, a media report said. The delegation will be led by Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, a top advisor of Zia, The Star Online said quoting Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) sources.

January 4th, 2009 JAMMU - Omar Abdullah Monday took oath as the eighth chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir at this winter capital of the state. Governor N.N.