A former Union minister, Sultan Ahmed is a member of the Chief Minister’s Advisory Council on Economic & Social Development in West Bengal. In this interview, he tells Parwez Hafeez that the Trinamul Congress aims to get rid of the present bipolar system in which the Congress and BJP-led fronts dominate the picture.

Only in his forties, astute Delhi politician Ajay Maken was recently raised to Cabinet rank by the Prime Minister. He tells Mukesh Ranjan and Manish Anand that in his new charge he would aim to have 35 per cent of all urban housing for the poor.

Nationalist (Rashtrawadi) Yuvati Congress is a political organisation that aims to provide new leadership among women in the age group of 18-35 so as to deal effectively with the problems they face. But it won’t be in conflict with anyone in the NCP, rather it will compliment the other wings of the party, making the NCP strong, says NCP MP Supriya Sule in this interview with Umesh Mohite.

India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal plans to have an internal Lokpal for the IAC. He tells Mukesh Ranjan and Manish Anand that the mindset of people has changed as there is hope among them and that “the idea of India will cease to exist if we don’t act fast”.

The BJP’s boycott of JPC meetings to protest against its chairman P.C. Chacko’s ‘autocratic’ behaviour has put the UPA government in an embarrassing fix. In an interview to Yojna Gusai and Thufail P.T., Mr Chacko counters the main Opposition party, saying that the real reason for the boycott is perhaps the irregularities in spectrum allocation during the NDA government.

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What will the policy on FDI in multi-brand retail do for farmers?

Senior Congress MP and former party general secretary Satyavrat Chaturvedi tells Lalit Shastri about the upcoming second lot of reforms, which will also embrace the j

Salman Khurshid, Union minister for law and justice and minority affairs, says that Rahul Gandhi has to be at the core of the Congress’ future strategy. With Trinamul Congress leaving the government, he tells Anand K. Sahay that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has backed economic reforms and provided the balance with social sector outreach.

Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate of the Supreme Court, urges self-regulation by all rather than giving free speech a bad name. In this interview with Ridhima Malhotra, he takes a dim view of the recent constitutional principle of ‘postpone-ment of publication’ enunciated by the Supreme Court.