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New Delhi: Congress veteran Sam Pitroda, who heads the party’s overseas unit, has courted a new controversy after claiming that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion. His suggestion that India needs to stop considering China as an enemy drew a sharp backlash with the ruling BJP calling out the Congress party over…
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New Delhi: Congress veteran and Rahul Gandhi’s close aide Sam Pitroda has said the threat from China is often blown out of proportion, and it is time to recognise and respect that country. In an exclusive interview with IANS, Mr Pitroda was categorical in his take on India-China relations saying that there is a need…
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Sam Pitroda today said he could perhaps have put his views in different words. Sam Pitroda, the Congress’s overseas unit chief, is back in his post — with an apparent caveat. The party’s communication in-charge Jairam Ramesh said Mr Pitroda had “given an assurance” that he would, in future, leave no room for controversy. Asked…
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New Delhi: Sam Pitroda — Congress’s overseas unit chief who is back in saddle after a seven-week break — today stood by his statement about diversity among Indians that were seen as racist, but admitted that he could have put it better. “It is not about words but about the meaning… but maybe I could…
New Delhi: Congress’s Sam Pitroda — who stepped down from the post of its overseas unit chief in the run-up to the general election — is back in the saddle again. That he would be reinstated, was said by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an interview to NDTV. “I sometimes think the party (the Congress),…
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The controversy had begun following a remark on an inheritance tax. Having stepped down from the post after two of his remarks stirred up a huge political row, putting the Congress on the backfoot during the all-important Lok Sabha elections, Sam Pitroda has been reappointed the chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress. The reappointment was…
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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is the Congress’ Bengal chief (File). New Delhi: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s “we have Proto Australoids… Mongoloid… Negrito (in India)” comment – referring to now-outdated racial and anthropological groupings of humankind – triggered a fresh row Thursday, a day after Sam Pitroda’s “North Indians look like white (people)… South Indians look…
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Sam Pitroda – whose comment last month about an inheritance tax in the United States sparked a massive fight with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party – has triggered another row in his attempt to make a pitch for national unity. In an exclusive interview with The Statesman, Mr Pitroda described…
Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken a jibe at Congress’s Sam Pitroda over his remark on inheritance tax Raisen, Madhya Pradesh: Madhya Pradesh’s former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken a jibe at Sam Pitroda, who heads the Congress’s overseas chapter over his remarks on inheritance tax and said that India’s culture, tradition, and moral…
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Poor implementation and loopholes in tax collection helped people avoid paying Estate Duty in India. New Delhi: Indian Overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda’s remarks on the US’s inheritance tax have sparked a political whirlpool here in India amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Mr Pitroda stirred up a massive controversy while countering the Prime Minister…
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