Biographical web series will have 8 episodes of 45-60 minutes each. Director Prakash Jha, who is helming the project, said former PM Rao 'was victim of politics within his party'.
While Rao shared an icy equation with Sonia Gandhi that pushed him into political oblivion, Charan Singh quit Congress in 1967, dissolved party’s state govts & got Indira arrested.
Rao, says Modi, was instrumental in making India economically advanced, while Singh dedicated his life to welfare of farmers. Swaminathan, he adds, made modernised Indian agriculture.
When it came to economic reforms, Rao was half a lion, but when it came to Babri Masjid, he was half a man, said Aiyar at the launch of his book The Rajiv I Knew.
Aiyar, whose autobiography ‘Memoirs of a Maverick’ was released Monday, says he won’t leave Congress but laments party’s drift from ‘secularism of Gandhi & Nehru kind'.
In 1998, SC ruled in 'JMM bribery scandal' that MPs who took bribes in connection with speech or vote in Parliament had immunity from prosecution under Article 105 of Constitution.
Congress leader Rahul in Hyderabad paid homage to his grandmother Indira Gandhi but skipped visiting Narasimha Rao’s statue just a few metres away, kicking up a storm in Hyderabad.
Sukh Ram, 94, passed away in Delhi this week. He was elected to the Himachal Pradesh assembly 5 times and thrice to the Lok Sabha, but ‘telecom scam’ of 1996 cast a long shadow.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
This sentence needs to be edited. It is wrong: Born in January 1994, Soren emerged as one of the accused in the case, tying this case and judgement to his legacy.
This sentence needs to be edited. It is wrong: Born in January 1994, Soren emerged as one of the accused in the case, tying this case and judgement to his legacy.
It appears as if Soren was born in 1994.