NREGS to be named after Mahatma Gandhi: Manmohan Singh

October 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday conveyed his "heartiest congratulations" to US President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace prize 2009, praising his "inclusive approach to problem solving and primacy to dialogue as an instrument of policy". "I am delighted at the news of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to you.

October 2nd, 2009 RAJKOT - Hundreds of residents participated in a 'Gandhi Vichar Yatra' here today on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 140th birth anniversary. Students from over ten schools of the Mahatma Gandhi Charitable Trust, and colleges, participated in the rally.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were amongst the many ministers and parliamentarians who paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at Parliament House on the occasion of their birth anniversaries Friday. Amongst the other dignitaries present on the occasion to pay floral tributes to the two leaders were Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, ex-MPs and family members of Lal Bahadur Shastri, said a release issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat here.

October 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday rechristened the government's flagship rural job scheme the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. "This is a small effort to pay homage to the Mahatma, who always believed in Gram Swaraj.

October 1st, 2009 SRINAGAR - A day prior to the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, members of the Akhil Bharat Rachnatmak Samaj held a peace march here today. They assembled at the press colony to start the three-day Gandhi Jayanti celebrations.

June 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar paid floral tribute at the memorials of various prominent leaders here on Saturday. Starting with Rajghat, the memorial to the Father of India, Mahatma Gandhi, she also paid a visit to the memorials of her father, Jagjivan Ram and Indira Gandhi.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Saturday rang up Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulating him as India's ruling coalition was on its way to victory in the Lok Sabha elections. According to sources in the Prime Minister's Office, Manmohan Singh is expected to call on Sonia Gandhi later in the evening when all results of the election are known.

May 11th, 2009 AMRITSAR - In a clear move to counter the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) show of strength in Ludhiana Sunday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday addressed an election rally here, during which they said the BJP and the Akalis ruling the state had 'done nothing for farmers'. Campaigning for Congress candidate Om Prakash Soni against Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) cricketer-turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in this Sikh holy city, Manmohan Singh and Gandhi said the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has made farmers' welfare its main focus for the last five years.

April 27th, 2009 SURAT - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the 2002 post-Godhra communal riots in Gujarat, saying that only the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could give the politics of division.

April 14th, 2009 TALWANDI SABO - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said that the benefits of several schemes launched by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government were not reaching the people of Punjab because of corruption in the state. 'The Manmohan Singh government has done a lot for the people.

April 14th, 2009 PICHWADA - Coming out in support of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday called him a 'strong and determined' leader and said even Mahatma Gandhi looked gentle. 'You cannot judge a person's strength from his external personality.

April 14th, 2009 PICHWADA - Days after the Congress was taunted with 'budhiya' (old woman) comments by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday said it is her dream to be remembered by people once she turns old. 'It is my dream that people remember me when I turn 'budhiya',' Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, said while campaigning in the state.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday disclosed that he wanted Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, to be a minister in the cabinet, but Rahul refused. 'I always wanted Rahul Gandhi to be a minister, but he refused,' Manmohan Singh told reporters on the sidelines of a defence investiture function at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

February 13th, 2009 SURAT - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the prime ministerial candidate of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Saturday. 'I have answered this question so many times in the past.

January 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Congress Tuesday demanded the sacking of an Uttar Pradesh minister who allegedly said Mahatma Gandhi was a criminal. Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Minister Awadh Pal Singh Yadav of the Mayawati-led government Monday said if the number of cases being lodged against somebody were the yardstick to term him a criminal, then Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were criminals too.