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HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2013 | nation | 11 SALMAN KHAN TURFWAR Party to Rahul: We are FACES 10 YEARS As ministers spar over need, confused, need overhaul IMPRISONMENT NPR cards go in deep freeze Press Trust of India ■ [email protected] Saubhadra Chatterji The attack on the NPR cards FIREWORKS AT OPEN HOUSE Newly elected vice-president hears out senior and Aloke Tikku started with some ministers — MUMBAI: A local court on ■ [email protected] confused about the differences party leaders who want leadership to fast-track decisions on organisataional affairs Thursday transferred Bolly- between Aadhaar, NPR and now Aurangzeb Naqshbandi wood actor Salman Khan’s NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet on the ID cards — complained this ■[email protected] famous hit and run case to the Thursday shoved into the deep would duplicate cards issued by sessions court as the offence freezer an ambitious project to Aadhaar. Patel felt that a lot of NEW DELHI: In an open house of was of a serious nature. issue chip-based ID cards based money has been wasted on the Congress office-bearers, Rahul The case was transferred on the ongoing national popula- NPR and UIDAI turf war and Gandhi, the party’s newly after the Maharashtra govern- tion register (NPR) after cen- there was no need for further appointed vice-president, was ment moved a plea that he tral ministers sparred for more expenses. told among other things that should be tried under another than half-an-hour on the need UNION FINANCE MINISTER Some others insisted that the tickets for elections were being section of the IPC (culpable for the card. smart ID card was based on out- sold and that “the party was in homicide not amounting to At the end of the discussion CHIDAMBARAM BACKED dated technology as a state of confusion”. murder), a graver offence. — much of it over the inability HOME MINISTER SHINDE online authentication and smart- In the first formal interaction At present, Salman is being of some ministers to grasp the phone based technology are with office-bearers — where tried under section 304 (I), (rash concept and its utility — Prime ON R5,552 CR PROPOSAL already in use. party president Sonia Gandhi and negligent driving), which Minister Manmohan Singh When it was pointed was not present — Rahul attracts maximum punishment reportedly wondered, “Do we that large parts of the country prompted leaders to speak up. of two years. Section 304 (II) really need this?” before he Pawar, Jairam Ramesh, Praful were still not covered by a reli- Opened up they did, and it was attracts the maximum sentence referred the project to a Group Patel, Pawan Bansal and able mobile network, the anti- a litany on the party’s malfunc- ■ Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi at the AICC meeting in New Delhi on Thursday. UNI of ten years. of Ministers. Ashwini Kumar opposed the card brigade opponents said tioning. After accepting the state plea, Home minister Sushilkumar plan besides planning commis- the solution was to fix this prob- The highlight of more minister and party general sec- the local committed the case to Shinde — who moved the R5,552 sion deputy chairperson Montek lem. than two-hour-long closed retary, demanded strict enforce- Sessions court for trial, as the crore proposal to give every Singh Ahluwalia. They also argued the home door inconclusive meeting ment of the one-man-one-post Go back to basics, offence is serious. adult resident a multi-purpose Minority affairs minister K ministry seemed to have under- during which 18 leaders spoke formula. His lawyer, advocate Dipesh card — had finance minister P Rahman Khan also expressed stated the project cost since it was the remark by general sec- Another general secretary Mehta while talking to media- Chidambaram and petroleum his concern that minorities who did not account for a large num- retary Digvijaya Singh that the Birender Singh called for persons said Salman would have minister Veerappa Moily sup- did not have the cards, espe- ber of teenagers who will turn “party is in a state of confusion”. maintaining balance of power, RSS and VHP to appear before the sessions porting him. cially in border areas such as 18 over the next few years and He urged Rahul to end that which he said was otherwise court on February 11. But ministers such as Sharad Assam, could be harassed. be entitled for cards. indecisive approach and fast- limited to just few people in the track the decisions regarding party. advise BJP at meet organisataional affairs. His colleague BK Hariprasad His views were echoed by said the Congress was increas- Vikas Pathak The BJP recently held protests Congress Working Committee ingly becoming the party of rich ■ [email protected] against home minister Sushil Prez inaugurates Hindu centre of policy (CWC) member Jagmeet Singh people and that many “out- Shinde’s saffron terror remarks, Brar, who said the decisions on siders” were nominated on NEW DELHI: Go back to the basics. and the VHP has decided to take HT Correspondent The centre will not just be a organisational matters were boards of directors of various This was the demand that key out a campaign against the ■ [email protected] "discourse enabler" or a "mar- being “prolonged on one pre- nationalised banks. RSS and VHP leaders raised at charges sometime in February. ketplace of ideas". "We are clear text or the other”. Sonia’s political secretary a meeting with top BJP leaders, The subject of Swami NEW DELHI: President Pranab that we are promoting civic The Congress has often been Ahmed Patel lamented that including party president Vivekananda’s 150th anniversary Mukherjee inaugurated the identity as the primary compo- criticised by many of its leaders leaders have become laggards Rajnath Singh, LK Advani and celebrations on February 18, Hindu Centre for Politics and nent of nationalism and we for what they called the “status- and stressed on commitment Sushma Swaraj, on Thursday. including a Surya Namaskar pro- Public Policy at an impressive intend for our research to re- quoist approach”. and accountability factors. Among the various subjects gramme, also found mention at function at the Rashtrapati energise basic democratic val- Another CWC member He also demanded a cooling discussed at the event were ways the meeting. While there were Bhawan here on Thursday. The ues of pluralism and social equi- Shakeel Ahmed alleged that period of six years for those to revive the Ram Janmabhoomi speculations that the possible Chennai-based centre will serve ty. We also believe our mission tickets were being sold and on coming from other parties. temple issue as well as combat candidature of Narendra Modi as a platform for exploration of is to educate Indians that citi- many occasions in-charge of Senior general secretary charges of Hindutva terror. for the prime ministerial post was ideas and themes that will illu- zenship of this republic is the states were not being taken into Janardan Dwivedi said However, a source said that while discussed, sources from all the minate the complexity of India's only valid identity in the public confidence while taking deci- Rahul wanted leaders to speak there was a pitch towards core three organisations denied it. political life but not take posi- ■ President Pranab Mukherjee with Malini Parthasarathy at the sphere. We believe this set of sions. out their mind and not hide Hindutva, BJP’s compulsions Broad organisational issues, tions on the issues as a news- inauguration of the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy in fundamental values should be Ghulam Nabi Azad, who anything for the benefit of the don’t permit it to be as upfront which assume importance at a paper would. New Delhi on Thursday. Parthasarathy will head the centre. PTI strengthened for a liberal soci- holds the dual charge as health party. about it as the VHP. time when Rajnath Singh is Speaking on the occasion, ety to really take root here." Some general secretaries as The RSS leaders present at looking at forming his new team Mukherjee hoped that the cen- several dignitaries including for- Dr Malini Parthasarathy, one An advisory board compris- OTHER PARTY LEADERS also other leaders complained the meeting were Bhaiyyaji of office-bearers, were deliber- tre would fulfill the need in pub- mer Prime Minister HD Deva of the directors of Kasturi and ing eminent scholars and public that some seniors are getting Joshi, Suresh Soni and ated upon too. The proposed lic discourse by going into the Gowda, UPA chairperson Sonia sons, the publishers of The Hindu intellectuals such as Prof Zoya COMPLAINED THAT promotions despite losing states Dattatreya Hosbale; and the central team and BJP’s organ- various dimensions of the prob- Gandhi, Congress vice-president, will head the centre. According Hasan, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, SOME SENIORS ARE under their charge. ones from the VHP were Ashok isational issues in Rajasthan also lems we face in the most objec- Rahul Gandhi, NDA chairman to her, the centre's three streams Sunil Khilnani, Martha After the meeting, Rahul said Singhal and Pravin Togadia. came up for discussion. tive manner. It would also LKAdvani, Dr Karan Singh, of activity will be to undertake Nussbaum, Ernst Freund, GETTING PROMOTIONS the discussions were on “gen- The leaders reportedly brain- Rajnath Singh and VHP strengthen the basic roots of CPM leaders Prakash Karat and research on current topics, pro- Yogendra Yadav, Navin Chawla DESPITE LOSING STATES eral issues and very good” and stormed on how to combat leader Pravin Togadia – both our democracy by promoting Sitaram Yechury and top diplo- mote dialogue and debate and and Gurcharan Das will guide the that he just listened to what the charges of Hindutva terror at present at the meeting – termed reasoned debate and dissent.