the Congress last month for" indiscipline" and" anti-party statements. Nirupam had served as editor

It is my utmost honour to serve the party with highest standards of ethics behaviour.... Party is like a mother to me and disrespecting it will cause pain to me.I believe that my true well-wishers will understand and respond to my feelings." I am privileged to be a loyal worker of BJP.... It is my utmost honour to serve the party with highest standards of ethics behaviour....

However, he returned to Chandigarh without an audience with party president Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi. AICC general secretary in-charge of Punjab affairs Harish Rawat and former MP JP Aggarwal are members of the panel. Punjab is crucial for the Congress party as it is one of the few states where the party is in power and the outcome will have an impact on its prospects outside the state. With agency inputsSubscribe to Mint Newsletters* Enter a valid email* Thank you for subscribing to our new

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On any given day, a quarter of the staff in the children’s centres were off sick.... Even the smallest change in working practices involved protracted negotiations.I lost my council seat in 1994, having failed to inject some dynamism into the organisation.... But it looks like the gangs are smashing his credibility....

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