New Delhi: Senior leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj skipped the BJP national executive meet in Mumbai on Friday raising several eyebrows. But the man who really stole the show was Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. After two days of high political drama at the national executive a temporary truce has been called between Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari with Sanjay Joshi's exit from the meet, but not all issues...
07:17 AM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: The war within the BJP is out in the open. A day after skipping the BJP national executive meet where a resolution was passed extending Nitin Gadkari's term as president, senior leader LK Advani is unlikely to attend Friday's rally. Advani is reportedly upset with party's state of affairs and former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. The senior BJP leader will return to Delhi instead. Sources have told CNN-IBN...
12:20 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has had his way, forcing the resignation of Sanjay Joshi from the BJP National Executive. After which he decided to attend the two-day meeting which he had earlier planned to boycott. Sanjay Joshi's exit was made a prestige issue by the Gujarat Chief Minister for attending the two day party conclave in Mumbai. BJP president Nitin Gadkari said, "Joshi has resigned in the...
08:43 PM, May 24, 2012
Mumbai: As the BJP national executive meeting begins in Mumbai on Thursday, all eyes are at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who has yet not confirmed his participation. While there has been no word of confirmation from Modi, the party leaders are worried that his absence from the meeting may overshadow the entire executive agenda. Reports suggest that instead of travelling to Mumbai from Ahmedabad, Modi might visit Udaipur, where...
08:17 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: As the UPA II completes three tumultuous years - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to table a white paper on black money in Parliament on Monday - crucially the report is unlikely to favour any amnesty for tax evaders. The paper is likely to give a comprehensive strategy on bringing back black money stashed abroad. It will also focus on bullion, gold jewellery and the real estate...
07:01 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: After fighting for removal of BR Ambedkar's cartoon from NCERT books, some MPs are demanding the removal of all political satires from school textbooks. In fact that's what a Parliamentary forum headed by Meira Kumar has told the NCERT. CNN-IBN has now learnt that the Members of Parliamentary forum having members from all major parties in a meeting last week raised expressed strong displeasure on cartoons in NCERT...
10:14 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda landed in Delhi on Sunday to hold a crisis meet with the BJP leadership after former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa raised the pitch of his revolt. Downplaying the tension, Gowda said he has received no resignation and that all issues would be resolved soon. "So far I haven't received any resignation letter either from any minister or from the MLA. I read...
05:27 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda landed in Delhi on Sunday to hold a crisis meet with the BJP leadership after former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa raised the pitch of his revolt. Downplaying the tension, Gowda said he has received no resignation and that all issues would be resolved soon. "So far I haven't received any resignation letter either from any minister or from the MLA. I read...
05:27 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Nitin Gadkari is set to get a second term as the BJP President after the green signal from the RSS. Under pressure from the RSS, the party is reportedly going to change its rules so that Gadkari can have a second term as the BJP President. The final decision will be announced later as the BJP constitution needs to be changed first to allow a second term for...
06:38 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: In the race to the Rashtrapati Bhavan it was RJD chief Lalu Prasad's turn to make a political statement. The RJD chief said that he was willing to back Vice President Hamid Ansari. But in the Opposition, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj met NDA convenor Sharad Yadav to sort out differences on the Presidential candidate. This comes a day after cracks appeared in the NDA over Ansari's candidature. The...
09:31 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The ghost of Bofors has returned again and former Prime Minister late Rajiv Gandhi and Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan are the two men who are once again at the centre of it. 25 years after the sensational Bofors gun scam broke, Sweden's chief investigator Sten Lindstrom, who conducted the investigations, has done some plain speak. Sten Lindstrom has owned up to being the informant of journalist Chitra Subramanian...
08:51 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: In a dramatic turn of events ahead of Parliament session that begins on Tuesday, Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Monday quit his official posts following the CD controversy. He quit as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice and also as the Congress spokesperson. Sources say the BJP is likely to raise the issue in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday and Singhvi is also likely...
09:33 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Facing a storm over Army Chief VK Singh's allegation about a bribe offer, Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday backed the General but also blamed him, saying he did not want to pursue the matter. The low profile Defence Minister gave an emotive and elaborate statement on the Army Chief's bribery allegations. Antony did admit in the House that Gen VK Singh had indeed accused Lt Gen Tejinder...
09:19 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: Two years after CNN-IBN exposed how votes for a Rajya Sabha nomination are up for sale in Jharkhand, the issue re-erupted on Tuesday with senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha attacking his own party. In revolt against the BJP for supporting businessman Anshuman Mishra's candidature, Sinha made startling allegations against his party. But he's only reignited the larger question " are Rajya Sabha seats for sale?...
09:19 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi ended his one year long career as the Railway Minister on Sunday on a turbulent note. Once he was his leader's eyes and ears in Delhi, her bridge with the world she wanted to occupy. Now, the leader controls the aces and the follower has fallen out. "What is a chair? If Bhagat Singh could sacrifice his life for the country, what's a...
09:15 PM, Mar 18, 2012
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