Communalism should not be education’s agenda: BJP

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal has said that setting up of a Central Madarsa Board to oversee Muslim education would be made only after a consensus. After his meeting with Muslim MPs here on Saturday, Sibal said: "There were three kinds of opinions that has emerged during course of discussion.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said development will continue to top the party's agenda and will also enable it to win the upcoming assembly elections in three states. "If there is one lesson we learnt from the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, it was the value of working together with a clear message of hope and development for our people.

August 4th, 2009 Obama meets with Senate Dems to discuss agendaWASHINGTON — Facing growing public doubts about overhauling health care, President Barack Obama meets with Senate Democrats on Tuesday to discuss his priorities. Tuesday is also Obama's 48th birthday.

July 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh Sunday said the party would not leave its Hindutva agenda at any cost. "We are determined on following the Hindutva agenda.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday outlined the second action plan for his ministry, as part of the agenda for the first 100 days of the government, including delegating more responsibilities to the Jammu and Kashmir police.

April 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Accusing the Congress of practising 'pseudo-secularism' and doing little for the minorities, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Tuesday called for a debate on 'what is genuine secularism'.

April 19th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday rejected Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad's charge that the Congress too was to blame for Babri Masjid, saying the BJP was solely responsible for the 1992 mosque demolition. Addressing a press conference in Amin Gaon in Guwahati, the prime minister also said he would prefer to put an end to the slanging match with Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI -An increasingly combative Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said his decision to hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) leader L.K. Advani, who has been attacking him consistently for being a 'weak prime minister' was a conscious choice as 'enough was enough.' 'Any serious political observer knows my remarks on Advani are true.

April 10th, 2009 SAKOLI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday teamed up with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to launch a joint poll campaign in Maharashtra and hit out at saffron parties saying people did not want forces that propagated communalism. Sharing a dais with Pawar in this town in Vidarbha region, the first joint rally of the two leaders, Gandhi said the nation faced a major threat from communal forces that must be defeated.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Tuesday described its fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a clash between 'two competing visions' of India -- while one 'instinctively' unites, the other divides. The Congress stood for 'secular, liberal nationalism', but the BJP's 'narrow communalism' denied equal rights to large sections of people, the Congress said in its manifesto released by party president Sonia Gandhi at its headquarters here.

March 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Coming out in tacit support of young Gandhi scion Varun Gandhi, a senior Congress leader Saturday charged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of making him a 'scapegoat' of their 'communal agenda' and destroying his political future. 'The BJP has set its hidden, hate and communal agenda for the elections and the kind of statements Varun made are not a solitary statement in vacuum,' said senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily here.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has declared himself fit enough to campaign during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress' Future Challenge Committee Tuesday discussed short-term and long-term strategy for Lok Sabha elections and ways to strengthen the party. 'The Future Challenge Committee met today and discussed the macro- and micro-level issues for the party.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sirajuddin Qureshi, a well known businessman and national leader of the Quresh community defeated Congress leader Salman Khurshid to retain the presidency of the city's India Islamic Cultural Centre (IICC) here Monday. Qureshi polled 988 votes while Khurshid received 489 votes in an election that was held amid allegations of communalism.

January 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said Saturday the country cannot succeed in the fight against terrorism if it does not first tackle communalism. 'Communalism creates polarisation.