As chief of the party's Organisation Department until last month, Mr Zeng played a key role in the selection of officials for promotion in the build-up to the Communist Party's 16th Congress, which preceded the Politburo shuffle.
About 100 supporters of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party protested outside the home of the chief of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, demanding that the government ensure the safety and security of women and girls in the city.
Himself a former party chief of Chongqing, like Mr. Bo, he is thought by many party insiders, political analysts and diplomats to favor harsher treatment.
The standoff is particularly risky for Wang Yang, the Communist Party chief of Guangdong, who is vying with other candidates for promotion to the Politburo Standing Committee the party's top decision-making body in a once-a-decade leadership change next year.
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Public attention in China will now turn to the even more politically sensitive question of how the party deals with Mr. Bo, who until he was removed as party chief of Chongqing earlier this year was seen as a candidate for promotion in a once-a-decade leadership transition this fall.
The unpopular party chief of Daling was replaced, but with one of his cronies.
Only the intervention of the local party chief stopped her popping into her handbag a bit of the country's heritage.
According to Jim Ryan, co-chief executive of Bwin.party, the two announcements are related and have been in the works for nearly 18 months.
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The chief of the ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi has backed Mr Singh and has criticised the opposition for holding the parliament "to ransom".
Mr Li became deputy party chief of Sichuan province last year.
The party chief of Guangdong province in the south, Wang Yang, who is another (non-princeling) contender for the Politburo's standing committee, is widely seen as a bit more open-minded.
Mr Hollande is expected to hold talks with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and will call on Sonia Gandhi, chief of the governing Congress party, as well as Sushma Swaraj, leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mr. Bo, once a candidate for promotion to China's top leadership this year, advocated a strong role for the state in the economy and society, and courted controversy by overseeing a Maoist revival movement as Party chief of Chongqing.
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By 2007, when Mr. Bo was appointed Communist Party chief of Chongqing, Mr. Heywood told at least one friend he was sufficiently close to Mr. Bo to accompany him as he flew into the city to take up his new post.
Mr. Heywood said that Ms. Gu became increasingly neurotic and suspicious of those around her after she was subjected to a corruption investigation in China around the time Mr. Bo was made party chief of Chongqing in 2007, according to one of Mr. Heywood's friends.
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It helps explain his surprisingly strong partnership with Ehud Barak, the leader of the Labour Party (and a former army chief of staff and prime minister), trusted as the only man able to handle the big security issues.
Arvind Kejriwal says Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, received easy loans from DLF.
Earlier this month, Mr Kejriwal levelled corruption allegations against Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi.
The Talent Centre lacks the power of a party chief to annotate people's files, and merely has them for safekeeping.
Fearful for the future of its candidates, the Muslim Brotherhood nominated Saturday an alternative, Mohammed Morsi, chief of the Freedom and Justice Party.
Recently, he demanded a probe into alleged business links between Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and a top property development company DLF.
Fearful for the future of its candidates, the Muslim Brotherhood nominated Saturday an alternative, Mohammed Morsi, chief of the Freedom and Justice Party, the group's political arm.
When an impasse was reached, Mr Brown, who at the time was deputy chief whip of the parliamentary Labour Party, tried to narrow the areas of disagreement.
Among them were his right-hand man Zeng Qinghong, tipped to enter the Central Committee, and Shanghai Mayor Huang Ju, thought to be in line for the job of party organization chief.
Last week, Mr Kejriwal, 44, took on the first family of Indian politics, saying businessman Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, enjoyed cosy business links with a top property development company in return for favours.
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The chair of the local party is expected to inform the Chief Whip of the decision later.
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