Ajay Maken, J.P. Agarwal win in Delhi

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken Tuesday slammed the Punjab goverment for blatantly misusing the police machinery to settle political scores and further its political agenda. A statement released by Maken's office urged the state government to refrain from misusing the police for political vendetta.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The UPA Government on Tuesday said that it is yet to take a decision on issuing national Identity cards to usual residents in the country. Addressing the Parliament, Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that based on the experience of the pilot project on multi- purpose National Identity Card, the Government has proposed to create a National Population Register (NPR) in the country along with 2011 census.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India has sought details of request made by Uganda for training its police officials in ballistic, according to an official release. During a meeting with visiting Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs Matia Kasaija here Thursday, Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken asked Uganda to furnish a detailed proposal for training its police personnel.

May 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Veteran Congress leader Kapil Sibal was Thursday given charge of the human resource development ministry, while two other MPs from the capital, Ajay Maken and Krishna Tirath, were named ministers of state for home and for women and child development, respectively. Sibal, who represents Chandni Chowk constituency, replaces Arjun Singh as the HRD minister in the portfolio allocations announced late Thursday.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As many as three MPs from the national capital, which is nearly half of the total MPs of Delhi, are in the prime minister's council of ministers. While the name of Kapil Sibal was announced as a cabinet minister last Friday, the names of Ajay Makan and Krishna Tirath were announced Wednesday.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party was leading in all seven parliamentary constituencies in the national capital, after three hours of vote counting Saturday. Those leading were Kapil Sibal from Chandni Chowk, Sandeep Dikshit from East Delhi, Ramesh Kumar from South Delhi, Krishna Tirath from Northwest Delhi, J.P.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) headquarters in the national capital wore a deserted look when the counting of votes began Saturday. But suddenly it erupted in celebrations - not by the party workers but Congress supporters! The reason - supporters of New Delhi Congress candidate Ajay Maken, whose counting centre was near the CPI-M office in Gole market, had to gather at the Left party office - thanks to police barricades.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress won two seats in Delhi and was leading in five constituencies five hours into counting of votes Saturday. A jubilant Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said she had expected the poll results.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress made it a clean sweep in the national capital winning all the seven seats. Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit's son and Congress candidate Sandeep Dikshit defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Chetan Chauhan, a former Test cricketer, by a whopping 241,051 votes.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress was leading in six of the seven parliamentary constituencies in the national capital, about two hours into the counting of votes Saturday. Those leading were -- Kapil Sibal from Chandni Chowk, Sandeep Dikshit from East Delhi, Ramesh Kumar from South Delhi, Krishna Tirath from Northwest Delhi, J.P.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit voted in the Lok Sabha elections Thursday and urged everyone 'to go out and vote' too. The chief minister, one of the most successful Congress politicians, came to the Nirman Bhawan polling station in the heart of the city along with party president Sonia Gandhi.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday cast her vote at the polling booth at Nirman Bhavan in New Delhi. She was accompanied by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her party's candidate Ajay Maken.

April 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress party candidate Ajay Maken has attempted to woo joggers and walkers in New Delhi. Maken, who was in Lodhi Gardens with supporters, said that the Congress was the best option for the people.

March 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress has released its list of six candidates for general elections in Delhi, including Union Ministers Ajay Maken and Kapil Sibal. Sibal will contest from Chandani Chowk seat, while Ajay Maken will try his luck from New Delhi parliamentary constituency.

January 28th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A complaint has been filed in the local court against the Delhi Public School (DPS) Ghaziabad for insulting the national flag by allegedly hoisting it upside down, a lawyer said Thursday. Anil Agarwal, a resident of East Model Town here, claimed that he saw the national flag hoisted upside down at DPS Ghaziabad.