Congress supports PM on Indo-Pak joint statement: Khursheed

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed on Monday clarified his stand on companies paying exorbitant salaries to top company executives and managers, and said that the Government welcomes the top company brass to lead an austere life-style. Talking to media Khursheed said that the display of wealth and opulence is unacceptable in the present scenario.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi backed Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on the issue of the Indo-Pak joint statement.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Even as the ruling UPA emphatically and vociferously defended the signing of the recent India-Pakistan joint statement in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led opposition walked out of the Lok Sabha on Thursday afternoon, specifically protesting on the issue of Balochistan and the delinking of terror from the composite dialogue process. Defending Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's stand on the statement, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who was an external Affairs Minister not too long ago, said India's foreign policy was an extension of national interest, and New Delhi had not compromised on this at any stage in the past or at the recent Red Sea resort summit meeting.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh clearly answered all the questions the opposition had raised about the India-Pakistan joint statement, the Congress party said Wednesday. Every question (on the joint statement) has been answered clearly by the prime minister, Congress leader and central minister Kapil Sibal told reporters in parliament after Manmohan Singh replied to a debate in the Lok Sabha on the joint statement.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected to make a short statement before the Lok Sabha today over the Indo-Pak joint statement issued in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, earlier this month.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Members of Parliament of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance would submit a memorandum to President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday to draw her attention on the controversial joint statement with Pakistan issued in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt and some other issues. "All NDA MPs will march to the Rashtrapati Bhavan from Raisina Hill to hand over a memorandum to the President," BJP Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, told media in the capital on Monday.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Dispelling speculation about a rift in the ruling Congress over the India-Pakistan statement in Egypt, the party said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will clear the air in parliament Wednesday. The Congress is confident (that) when the prime minister speaks in parliament July 29, he will set at rest all the questions, all apprehensions and speculation relating to the Indo-Pak joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt, Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said here.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party on Monday openly backed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the Indo -Pak joint statement issued in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, earlier this month. Congress General Secretary Janaradhan Dwivedi said the party is confident that Singh would set all questions to rest during his speech in Parliament on July 29.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha will hold discussion on the Indo-Pak joint statement issued in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, earlier this month, on Wednesday. The opposition has been demanding a discussion on Prime Minister Dr.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party has decided to strongly stand with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's diplomatic initiative on Pakistan and counter the opposition party's severe criticism of the Indo - Pak joint statement issued in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. On Friday the Congress Core Committee held a two hour-long meeting at the 7, Race Course residence of the Prime Minister, in the backdrop of unease in the party over the joint statement.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Refuting the reports of differences between the government and the Congress Party over Indo-Pak joint statement, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that they are only the creation of the media. Singh's statement came a day after the Congress Core Committee decided to robustly support the his diplomatic initiative on Pakistan and counter the criticism of the opposition parties.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of taking political mileage from the Indo-Pak joint statement issued in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. The Congress Party statement came ahead of the core committee meeting convened by its President, Sonia Gandhi, to discuss the increasing opposition to the inclusion of Balochistan in the joint statement.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the Indo - Pak joint statement issued at Sharam - el - Sheikh in Egypt was disappointing and a reversal of India's long standing policy. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Jaitley said the joint statement stating "action on terrorism should not be linked to the composite duologue process and these should not be bracketed" has come as a surprise and also disappointment.

July 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The new Companies Bill 2009, with stricter disclosure norms and provision for one-person corporate entity, will be tabled in the ongoing budget session of parliament, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed said Saturday. "We will table the new bill this session itself," said Khursheed on the margins of a conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed has said that the government will prefer a smooth process for reservation of jobs for minorities in the private sector instead of pushing it down to anybody's throat. Talking to reporters here on Saturday, Khursheed said the government is proceeding with as much urgency as it can on the issue.