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Congress President Poll: After Tharoor and Gehlot, now Manish Tewari likely to throw hat in the ring
•The election of the Congress president is slated for 17 October and the counting of votes will take place on 19 October
Top Congress leaders have no faith in party president polls? Manish Tewari, Tharoor, Karti Chidambaram seek transparency
•Manish Tewari is among the G-23 leaders who had sought an organisational overhaul and elections at all levels, in a letter to the Congress president in August 2020
'How can there be a fair and free election without...': Manish Tewari seeks transparency in Congress president polls
•He also asked why anyone seeking to contest the Congress president's election should go to the PCC office to get the electoral roll as this does not even happen in a club election
'No point in getting lost in maze of gender': Manish Tewari on 'rashtrapatni' remark row
•Congress leader Manish Tewari Friday said anyone occupying a constitutional office is equally honourable and there is no point in "getting lost in the maze of gender".
Rajya Sabha has failed to fulfil its principal objective of championing states' rights: Manish Tewari
•The Rajya Sabha nominations are currently on to fill up 57 vacancies in 15 states and the election will be held on 10 June
Sidhu Moose Wala killing: Congress attacks AAP govt in Punjab for ‘series of unfortunate incidents’
Fp Staff •Congress leader Manish Tewari requested Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann to take police into confidence and ensure law and order in the state
Making students evacuated from Ukraine chant slogans favouring government self-defeating spectacle, says Manish Tewari
•Manish Tewari also criticised the government, saying he had never seen such "self-congratulatory ecstacy" as displayed during the evacuations
Explained: The row in Parliament over the new bill that lets police take bio samples of accused
Fp Explainers •The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022, seeking to replace The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920, permits authorities to collect biometric data along with 'physical and biological samples' of convicts, and those arrested or detained
Manish Tewari laments ‘UP-Bihari bhaiya’ controversy, says it is similar to race issue in US
•The Congress leader was reacting to the row that broke out when Charanjit Singh Channi had said that people of Punjab should not let ‘bhaiyas’ of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar enter the state
'Not tenant, but partner in Congress': Manish Tewari dismisses rumours of defection
•The comments come after former Union law minister Ashwani Kumar on Tuesday resigned from Congress after a 46-year association with the party, triggering rumours that Tewari would follow suit