2g Note War

It's been a week of all-nighters for the Congress as the ruling party tries to find a way to wriggle out of the 2G note mess. Top-level huddles continue - late last night, three ministers met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, hours after he wrote an explanation to the Prime Minister detailing the hows and whys of the controversial note sent out fr...

The Prime Minister is back in the country and Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to meet him on Wednesday, before he meets Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram, his two senior ministers believed to be at war over a Finance Ministry note to the Prime Minister's Office questioning Mr Chidambaram's actions when 2G licences were being allotted.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who cut a cake to celebrate his 79th birthday mid-air, is returning to India, bang in the middle of a political war-zone. There is the reported war between two of his senior-most ministers over the controversial Finance Ministry note on 2G; and there is the war that an unrelenting Opposition is waging. Then, there is ...

The Congress was sleepless in Delhi last night. Fire-fighting ministers burnt the proverbial midnight oil in their attempt to quell the 2G note war between the party's two senior-most ministers, Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram, as they prepared for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's return from New York today.

Ruling out any "skirmishes" or "war within" the Government, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid tonight said there was no need for Home Minister P Chidambaram to resign following the controversy over the finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation.

It's been a week of all-nighters for the Congress as the ruling party tries to find a way to wriggle out of the 2G note mess. Top-level huddles continue - late last night, three ministers met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, hours after he wrote an explanation to the Prime Minister detailing the hows and whys of the controversial note sent out fr...

The Prime Minister is back in the country and Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to meet him on Wednesday, before he meets Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram, his two senior ministers believed to be at war over a Finance Ministry note to the Prime Minister's Office questioning Mr Chidambaram's actions when 2G licences were being allotted.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who cut a cake to celebrate his 79th birthday mid-air, is returning to India, bang in the middle of a political war-zone. There is the reported war between two of his senior-most ministers over the controversial Finance Ministry note on 2G; and there is the war that an unrelenting Opposition is waging. Then, there is ...

The Congress was sleepless in Delhi last night. Fire-fighting ministers burnt the proverbial midnight oil in their attempt to quell the 2G note war between the party's two senior-most ministers, Pranab Mukherjee and P Chidambaram, as they prepared for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's return from New York today.

Ruling out any "skirmishes" or "war within" the Government, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid tonight said there was no need for Home Minister P Chidambaram to resign following the controversy over the finance ministry note on 2G spectrum allocation.