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    • Cong misses backroom strategist Ahmed Patel as it faces first Gujarat election since his demise

      Patel used to single-handedly take care of a lot of things, particularly in the past few state elections, one Cong leader reminisced. Patel is remembered by party insiders as someone who maintained personal relationships with top leaders and party workers with the same alacrity.

    • Late Congress leader Ahmed Patel's son frustrated with top brass, says 'keeping his options open'

      A week ago, Faisal Patel had refused to comment if he would formally join politics saying he was not sure about it.

    • Ahmed Patel’s imprint on the Congress and the road ahead for the party

      Let’s see if Ahmed Patel’s passing away could turn out to be another nail in the coffin of a fast dissipating Congress, or whether Rahul Gandhi, and his team, can rise from the ashes

    • In Ahmed Patel’s demise, Congress loses a chief strategist

      The Congress will miss the manoeuvring skills of Ahmed Patel in forging new/out-of-the-box alliances and quelling voices within regional forces that an alliance with the Congress could spoil their chances

    • Ahmed Patel was master conductor of the orchestra called Congress

      What made Ahmed Patel a centre of power was his considered decision not to wield it openly. Quelling dissidence was his forte. Understatement was his calling card, and finesse his style

    • Ahmed Patel: The backroom crisis manager of Congress

      In the two UPA governments between 2004-2014, Patel was the all-important link between the Congress party and the government. He remained secretary to party president Sonia Gandhi for 16 years and enjoyed access to the top brass of the party like no other leader.

    • 'Have lost an irreplaceable comrade': Sonia Gandhi on Ahmed Patel's demise

      Ahmed Patel (71) passed away in the early hours on Wednesday at a Delhi hospital due to multiple organ failure more than a month after he tested positive for COVID-19.

    • Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel passes away at 71 following COVID complications

      Ahmed Patel, the Treasurer of the Congress party and a Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament, died due to multiple organ failure. He was battling post-COVID complications.

    • Enforcement Directorate questions Congress leader Ahmed Patel for 4th time in PMLA case

      A three-member team of the federal probe agency reached the Rajya Sabha MP's 23, Mother Teresa Crescent residence in the Lutyens' zone of central Delhi around 11 am.

    • My conscious is clear, have nothing to hide: Ahmed Patel after ED questioning

      Sharing his statement on Twitter, Patel also said, "Today the Modi government sent some visitors to my house."

    • All knives are out for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections

      Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat will see a second round of the Amit Shah vs Ahmed Patel bout. BJP has the upper hand in MP, in Rajasthan it is the Congress

    • I-T dept summons Congress MP Ahmed Patel in tax evasion case linked to party funding

      Patel, also a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, had informed the department that he was unwell when the first summons were sent to him for appearance in February.

    • SC to hear on August 6 plea by Ahmed Patel against Gujarat HC order on his election to Rajya Sabha

      Patel has challenged the order of the Gujarat High Court's by which it had dismissed his plea questioning the maintainability of Rajput's election petition.

    • Petition against RS election: Ahmed Patel cross-examined

      The cross-examination, which remained incomplete, would continue on June 21.

    • Lok Sabha polls 2019: Narendra Modi will be ex-PM on May 23, claims Ahmed Patel

      Patel, a Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat, expressed confidence that the Congress would win between "12-15" out of the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat.

    • Christian Michel identified 'AP' as Ahmed Patel: ED chargesheet in AgustaWestland case

      The agency, in its supplementary chargesheet filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), said "a part of kickback was paid to defence officials, bureaucrats, mediapersons and important political persons of the ruling party" when the deal was being struck.

    • Modi government the 'weakest ever' regime at Centre: Ahmed Patel

      Patel was replying to a question of newsmen at Singala village in Karjan tehsil on the grenade attack in Jammu in which one person died and around 30 others were injured.

    • Will PM Modi sit in Opposition if BJP gets less than 272 seats in Lok Sabha poll, asks Ahmed Patel

      "By saying that he can't function in a coalition government has the Prime Minister confirmed that if the BJP gets less than 272 seats it will sit in Opposition and not try to form a government," Patel said on Twitter.

    • Gujarat HC frames issues in plea against Ahmed Patel's Raya Sabha win

      The issues have been framed under various sections of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

    • Classic case of left hand not knowing what right hand is doing: Ahmed Patel on Quota Bill

      Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel quoted a minister's reply in Lok Sabha that there was no proposal to provide reservations to economically weaker sections in upper castes

    • SC asks Ahmed Patel to face trial on plea by rival BJP candidate over Rajya Sabha election

      The apex court declined to interfere with the October 26, 2018 order of the Gujarat High Court which had said that Rajput's allegations required a trial.

    • Ahmed Patel new treasurer of Congress

      Rahul appointed former Union minister Anand Sharma as the chairperson of the party's foreign affairs.

    • SC to hear Ahmed Patel's plea challenging petition against his RS election

      The win for the Congress leader came after the Election Commission cancelled the votes of Congress MLAs Bhola Bhai Gohil and Raghav Bhai Patel.

    • Rahul Gandhi is Congress' PM candidate: Ahmed Patel

      Asked as to how he saw the Congress chief's comment yesterday that he was ready to occupy the prime ministerial post if the Congress emerges as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha polls, Patel said, "The Congress president has already said something. It all depends on who will get how many seats. Our candidate will be Rahul Gandhi,"

    • Ahmed Patel moves SC against plea challenging election to Rajya Sabha

      Immediately after Patel got elected, Rajput filed a petition in the HC challenging the EC's decision to invalidate votes of the two rebel MLAs.

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