Month: November 2014

Port Louis (Mauritius), Nov 2 (IANS) A flight of 14 steps on which the first batch of 36 Indians climbed after they landed on Mauritian soil on Nov 2, 1834 to work as indentured labourers still stands. The steps, on which almost half a million Indians climbed over the next 80 years at the Aapravasi Ghat here, are a symbolic reminder of the British Empire’s ‘Great Experiment’ – using “free” labour to replace slaves to work in their sugar plantations.

Indore, Nov. 2 (ANI): Veteran journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik on Sunday said that Robert Vadra’s behavior reflected poorly on stalwarts of the Congress party – his wife Priyanka Gandhi and mother-in-law Sonia Gandhi.

New Delhi, Nov. 2 (ANI): Taking potshots at Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for defending businessman and Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday described the latter’s action towards the journalist as ‘monarchial highhandedness’ and said it is not sober to do so in a democracy.

Port Louis (Mauritius), Nov 2 (IANS) India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Sunday paid tribute to the ‘girmitiyas’, the nearly half a million Indians who arrived in Mauritius to work as indentured labourers in the 19th century, saying their sacrifice did not go in vain as they went on to become the architects of a resurgent and confident new Mauritius.

New Delhi, Nov. 2 (ANI): Launching a scathing attack on Robert Vadra for angrily pushing away the mic of a reporter when asked about his land deals in Haryana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said it reflected sheer frustration on the part of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law.

New Delhi, Nov. 2 (ANI): Congress leader Shobha Oza on Sunday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been misleading the nation time and again.

Mumbai, Nov. 2 (ANI): Launching a frontal attack on Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra for attacking a journalist, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy said on Sunday that Vadra should realize that his mother-in-law is no longer in power.

“It is said politics is dirty. No, it is not. If politics was dirty, Mahatma Gandhi would never have ventured into this,” Modi said launching the BJP’s first membership drive post its emphatic win in the 2014 general elections.