New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley said that the NDA government made all efforts to bring the guilty to book in the Bofors scam and alleged that successive Congress-led governments or those supported by that party tried to "kill" the case. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's advocate, he said that during the NDA regime from 1998 to 2004, the Bofors case was taken to its "logical conclusion" and the...
07:28 PM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS on Sunday attacked past governments, not even sparing the BJP-led NDA for the Bofors cover-up. An editorial in the RSS mouthpiece 'Organiser' read, "Successive governments of India knew who the culprits were and yet chose to look the other way. Several non-Congress governments came to power, including the one led by VP Singh who had vowed to bring the guilty to book within 100 days of...
09:09 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Saturday denied allegations that the BJP colluded with the Congress to ensure Sonia Gandhi was not questioned in the Bofors case during the NDA rule. In an interview with Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', the BJP leader blamed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not questioning the Congress President. Below is an edited excerpt from the interview:...
07:20 AM, Apr 29, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS has said it is intriguing that Congress President Sonia Gandhi has not figured in the Bofors scam though Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi was close to her even as the Sangh fountainhead charged successive governments with looking the other way in the scandal. The editorial of RSS mouthpiece Organiser states that Sonia Gandhi is the "missing name" in the Bofors corruption case as if she must not...
08:31 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. ...
09:26 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Both Houses of Parliament on Thursday witnessed commotion as Bofors scam was raised by the opposition parties in Rajya Sabha as well as Lok Sabha to corner the Congress-led UPA. The Houses had to be adjourned repeatedly following the uproar on the issue as the treasury and the opposition benches continued to trade charges. While the Opposition demanded a new probe into the scam, the Congress maintained that...
01:18 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: The Bofors storm hit Parliament on Thursday with the Rajya Sabha being adjourned twice after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs insisted on a debate. The BJP had given a notice for suspension of Question Hour in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha to discuss Bofors after former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom revealed that he was the Deep Throat in the Bofors case and the...
12:10 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Aiming to replace the old field guns and artillery in the hands of the Army, the Indian government in the mid 1980s decided to go ahead with the induction of bigger calibre 155 mm howitzers. The Haubits FH-77 gun manufactured by AB Bofors of Sweden, a company which was once owned by Alfred Nobel, was selected. A deal was signed on March 24, 1986, between New Delhi and the Swedish...
09:57 AM, Apr 26, 2012
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11:27 PM, Apr 25, 2012
On Wednesday, former Swedish police chief and 'Deep Throat' Sten Lindstrom revealed that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any payments in the Bofors deal, he did shield Ottavio Quattrocchi. ...
11:19 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom said in a tell-all interview on Wednesday that Rajiv Gandhi shielded Italian businessman Quattrochi. ...
09:53 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that the interview of former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstrom in relation to the Bofors scam clearly revealed that the payments made to Ottavio Quattrocchi's company, AE Services, were political payments and since Rajiv Gandhi was close to him, he was not named. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Jaitley added that the judicial and investigative process into the scam...
09:11 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Chitra Subramaniam was the journalist who broke the Bofors story nearly 25 years ago. In an interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, the senior journalist seemed to back former Swedish police chief and her informant in the case, Sten Lindstrom, in his claims that while Rajiv Gandhi did not receive any bribes in the Bofors case, it was a multi-country massive cover-up. Here is a full transcript of the interview:...
06:57 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The man who blew the lid off the Bofors scam, former Swedish police chief Sten Lindstorm, on Wednesday gave a clean chit to actor and then MP Amitabh Bachchan and his family in the case. Revealing his real identity after being known as Swedish Deep Throat for 25 years, Lindstorm had said that Bachchan and his family were planted in a Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, by Indian investigators....
01:42 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday hit out at the Congress following the new revelations by Sten Lindstorm, the man who blew the lid off the Bofors case, saying that they had always raised the question of Ottavio Quattrochi. Addressing a media conference, BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, "The way Quattrochi was helped to move out of the country gave a clear indication of the government's...
11:55 AM, Apr 25, 2012
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