Lucknow: BJP president Rajnath Singh will lead the party's 'jail bharo' agitation in Lucknow on June 2, 2013 against corruption under the UPA rule. BJP state unit president, Laxmi Kant Bajpai, who reviewed the preparation for the week-long agitation starting May 27, said that besides the national president, newly appointed in-charge of the state affairs, Amit Shah will also be present in Rampur during the agitation on May 29.
Claiming that there was an atmosphere against the UPA government, Bajpai said that his party would maintain the momentum both inside and outside Parliament against its "wrong policies". Meanwhile, former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh, who has yet to formally join BJP, was on Tuesday seen in the party office.
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01:38 AM, May 22, 2013
Guwahati: BJP will launch a week-long 'Jail Bharo' campaign protesting against alleged corrupt practices of the UPA government. The campaign would start on May 27 and continue till June 2 in all states, BJP vice president SS Ahluwalia told reporters in Guwahati on Sunday. The UPA government at the Centre had over the years been rocked by various scams losing the moral right to continue in office, he said. Various...
03:53 AM, May 20, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front January 16 said it will soon hold a 48-hour hunger strike in the national capital to highlight the plight of Kashmiri prisoners languishing in different jails in the country. "We will soon hold a 48-hour-long hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to attract attention of the world community towards the plight of Kashmiri prisoners," JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik told reporters here. ...
04:47 PM, Jan 16, 2013
New Delhi: Union Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise could face more heat on Saturday over an inspection report of a trust for the differently-abled run by Louise even as India Against Corruption (IAC) activists plan a 'jail bharo andolan' in Mumbai and protests in Chennai demanding the resignation of the Union Minister. Meanwhile, sources in the Delhi Police say activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal, who was detained along with other...
07:32 AM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: 3.00 pm: Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan let off from the Parliament Street Police Station. 12.30 pm: Anna Hazare takes on Sonia Gandhi and asks why the Congress President allowed her MPs to take to the streets when Parliament did not function when she had actually stopped Team Anna from going to the streets, telling them that their concerns would be addressed in Parliament. 12.01 pm: Kiran Bedi...
11:29 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Monday said that he was unaware of former colleague Arvind Kejriwal's call for Jail Bharo agitation. "I am not aware of Kejriwal's call for courting arrest in Delhi," he said. He however added that there was no rift between them and that they were united as before against corruption. Meanwhile, Kiran Bedi too tweeted to say that she was not going to be...
10:33 AM, Sep 03, 2012
The police filed FIRs against Kejriwal and others for agitating outside the houses of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and BJP President Nitin Gadkari last month. ...
09:06 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal will lead a 'jail bharo andolan' in the capital on Monday. Alleging harassment of IAC volunteers, Kejriwal and others will stage a protest outside the Parliament Street police station in New Delhi and offer arrest. Kejriwal's move comes just over a week after his August 26 protest against the government over the CAG report on alleged irregularities in coal blocks allocations....
09:27 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been taken into preventive custody for violating Section-144 near the Ranjit Singh flyover, during his march to Parliament. ...
03:09 PM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi:3:30 pm: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has said that his detention won't deter him from fighting against corruption. "They can only arrest me, they can't stop me from fighting against corruption," Ramdev said. 1:55 pm: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev has been taken into preventive custody for violating Section-144 near the Ranjit Singh flyover, during his march to Parliament. Ramdev, along with his supporters, will be taken to the Rajiv...
08:18 AM, Aug 13, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday charged that DMK staged the Jail Bharo agitation only to hoodwink the people who hate their party over the land-grab charges, and to cover up the corruption charges being levelled against members of the family of DMK president M Karunanidhi. Though the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court had ruled that preventive arrests could be made,I had instructed the police not to...
01:30 PM, Jul 05, 2012
Chennai: DMK's top leaders M Kanimozhi, Dayanidhi Maran, TR Baalu and MK Stalin along with several party cadres on Wednesday courted arrest in Chennai during the party's state-wide jail bharo agitation against alleged witch-hunt by the Tamil Nadu government of J Jayalalithaa. 2G case accused Kanimozhi lashed out at the "vindictive politics," of the AIADMK government and alleged that her party leaders were being arrested without any proof while Stalin...
10:48 AM, Jul 04, 2012
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s jail bharo agitation was cancelled in Mumbai on Friday in the wake of the massive fire at the Mantralaya. "Due to fire at the Mantralaya here yesterday (Thursday), the BJP 'jail bharo' has been cancelled here," Maharashtra BJP chief Sudhir Mugantiwar said. The nationwide agitation, however, continued in other parts of Maharashtra, as part of the BJP's protest against rising inflation and corruption in...
03:12 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch a one-day jail bharo agitation on Friday across the country during which party leaders and workers will court arrest to protest against the hike in prices of essential commodities and petrol products. BJP Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday said in a statement that June 22 will mark the culmination of the Jan Sangarsh Abhiyan (Public Struggle Campaign), which began on...
07:50 AM, Jun 22, 2012
Mumbai: A two-day state executive meeting of Maharashtra BJP will be held on June 13 and 14 in Nashik. The meeting would deliberate on issues like "poor law and order in the state, drought situation and overall failure of the state government on all fronts," the party spokesman Madhav Bhandari said. Similarly, preparations for the June 22 Jail Bharo agitation called by the party would also be finalised at the...
02:38 PM, Jun 09, 2012
Jaipur: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said over one lakh party workers will court arrest in Rajasthan on June 22 against the Union Government's "failure to deal with inflation and petrol price hike". "Under the nationwide call to launch a 'jail-bharo' agitation on June 22 by the party, we are confident that one lakh workers would court arrest in the state," BJP's national general secretary Vijay Goel told...
11:06 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: Days after its much publicised agitation in Mumbai and Delhi fizzled out, Team Anna appears to be confused on how to take forward the fight for a strong Lokpal saying the movement is at "crossroads" and a wrong decision at this stage can prove disastrous for it. Though it chose to bring BJP under the line of fire for admitting tainted politicians like Babu Singh Kushwaha into its...
04:56 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress will organize a 'jail bharo' agitation all over the state next week to protest against the shortage of fertilizers and power and bad condition of roads. Addressing a press conference in Bhopal, state Congress chief Kantilal Bhuria and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ajay Singh said that the protest would be held on January 9. The duo said 2012 would be observed as 'Madhya Pradesh...
10:19 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: A day after anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare broke his fast at Mumbai's MMRDA grounds, he is heading back to his village Ralegan Siddhi on Thursday. On Wednesday evening Anna called off his fast and the jail bharo agitation call over health concerns, but promised to fight on and said his team's next move would be to focus on the five poll-bound states early in the new year. The...
09:48 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Manmohan Singh government heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday, when Anna Hazare ended his fast on day 2 on the advice of his doctors amid growing concerns over his health. Anna also called off the 3-day 'jail bharo' movement that was to begin on Friday. But his plans to tour all 5 poll-bound states remain unchanged. After riding the crest of popularity in August, the man...
08:01 AM, Dec 29, 2011
