Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday said the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) move to shift around 100 tonnes of its gold kept in bank vaults in the UK to its vaults in India "makes no difference" to the Indian economy.
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Sunday took a swipe at the BJP-led government at the Centre after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti claimed that she was put under house arrest.
On a day he would have loved to be in Jalandhar to celebrate the Aam Aadmi Party's return to the Lok Sabha via the byelection caused by its former Congress MP's death, Raghav Chadha got engaged to Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra, better known as the sister of Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
He said the dissenting judgement "will rank among the famous dissents recorded in the history of the Hon'ble Supreme Court".
On Friday, Former finance minister and senior Congress member P. Chidambaram reacted to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's remarks on India's 1991 economic reforms.
The finance expert queried whether the lessee will manage the current levels of employment and the policy of reservations, or other policies, subject to sectoral regulators, etc., in the 'monetised' asset.
P. Chidambaram is expected to meet party leaders and official functionaries across ranks during his first visit to the state as an AICC senior observer during his two-day visit.
He alleged that the government used it politically. "They have used it in Karnataka, they have used it to scuttle probes, they have used it against the Supreme Court and against all the institutions of this country," he alleged.
Chidambaram in a statement said that State after State is complaining of vaccine shortage. Vaccination centres have boards saying, "NO VACCINES". People standing in queues return home after vaccine doses are exhausted. "The new Health Minister is treading on the same path as his predecessor. That is sad."
According to witnesses, many officers in civilian dress were keeping a watch on Chidambaram's house since early hours on Tuesday.
