Finance Minister P Chidambaram and BJP leader Jaswant Singh were asked by reporters on what it takes for a government to be re-elected. ...
12:47 PM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call it a day and take rest by retiring from politics "in the evening of his life". Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh told reporters in reply to a question that Manmohan Singh is underestimated as a politician and over-rated as an economist. "A comment was made on Dr Manmohan Singh by somebody several years back. I would not...
06:50 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Senior BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha are among the prominent leaders who have failed to find a place in the new party President Rajnath Singh's core team. Both Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha have been senior Ministers in the NDA colaition government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The UPA government went into damage control on Thursday over the AgustaWestland chopper deal, issuing a detailed factsheet on the AgustaWestland deal, putting the blame on the NDA. The Congress has alleged that in 2003, the then National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra wrote to the then defence secretary that the existing rules were unfair as it allowed only single bidding and that the qualifying height of the choppers should be...
07:49 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Defence Minister Jaswant Singh has defended the NDA government's decision to change the chopper deal norms in 2003, saying it was taken for purely professional reasons. "That's true that technical parameters were changed during that time. I don't see why there is so much excitement as there was a plausible and good reason. The original proposal emerged in 2000 and the Air Force...
12:34 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh who is a member of the JPC has hit back at the government over the 2G scam. He said the new revelation reflects the sorry state of the investigating agency and its collusion with the government. ...
11:47 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Former External Affairs Minister in the NDA regime during the Kargil War, Jaswant Singh spoke to CNN-IBN and said the despite the delay, the government can still take up the issue of Kargil hero Lt Saurabh Kalia on an international platform. ...
01:59 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Fighting to declare his son's death a war crime, the father of Kargil war hero Lt Saurabh Kalia has now approached the Supreme Court. Dr NK Kalia said he got no response from either the Indian or Pakistani government for 13 years. ...
11:11 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Thirteen years on and still no justice for Kargil hero Lt Saurabh Kalia who was captured by Pakistan during the war in 1999. His mutilated body bearing torture marks was later sent to his family after 15 days. ...
07:42 AM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari is facing more trouble from within his party. A day after Mahesh Jethmalani quit his party post, BJP leader Ram Jethmalani also demanded Gadkari's resignation. "Resignation is not a confession of guilt, but Gadkari should be out of office while the probe is on," Jethmalani said. Jethmalani also said that when he came to know Gadkari was seeking a second term as...
12:22 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: The anti-Nitin Gadkari camp with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to step up the heat on the party president on Tuesday. Sources say BJP leaders Ram Jethmalani, Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh will meet on Tuesday. According to sources, the leaders are unhappy with the current state of affairs and want Gadkari to quit as the party president amidst allegations against him. Nitin Gadakri met senior...
10:39 AM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Wednesday took a dig at the government over alleged tapping of phones of political leaders, including Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, saying those following his calls will 'enjoy' the conversation. "If my phone is being tapped... I hope those who are tapping my telephone, they enjoy the conversation that we have," he said here. He was reacting to questions from reporters after the...
11:38 AM, Sep 27, 2012
Bangalore: Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Thursday said UPA government's move in bringing in the bill to provide reservation in promotion to SCs and STs in government jobs in a hurry was against constitutional norms. Social engineering should be brought about through mutual talks, Singh said, a day after the constitutional amendment bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha amid chaos and ugly spectacle of two members of BSP...
05:46 PM, Sep 06, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday threatened to resign from the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G if the list of deposition did not include Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram. The list of deposition is expected to be finalised on Wednesday. Sources said that the BJP wanted the PM, Pulok Chatterjee, TKA Nair and the Finance Minister in the list of deposition. The BJP has got...
02:02 PM, Aug 22, 2012
New Delhi: Hamid Ansari took oath as India's 14th vice-president at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Saturday. He was administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and several union cabinet ministers, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners and leaders from other political parties. Ansari, 75, polled 490 first preference votes out...
12:07 PM, Aug 11, 2012
The man who gunned down six sikhs and injured many at the Wisconsin gurdwara was a neo-Nazi. UPA candidate Hamid Ansari wins the vice presidential elections, gets a second term with a comfortable majority. ...
11:51 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: UPA candidate Hamid Ansari has been elected as the Vice President of the country for a second term in a row as he defeated NDA candidate Jaswant Singh with a comfortable margin. While Ansari managed to bag 490 votes, Singh could get just 238 votes. The polling in the Vice Presidential elections, which began on Tuesday morning, went on to witness brisk voting throughout the day. Ansari's win...
07:20 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: 6.00 pm: Counting of votes for the Vice Presidential elections begins. 3.30 pm: As many as 600 electors from an effective electoral college of 787 members of Parliament had cast their vote by 1 pm, Hamid Ansari's election agent and senior advocate Pravin Parekh said. 2.30 pm: Brisk polling witnessed in the Vice Presidential poll. 11.00 am: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi cast their...
10:20 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: The UPA looks all set to sail through the Vice Presidential election on Tuesday with the numbers stacked in favour of their candidate Hamid Ansari. The NDA, though, doesn't seem to have much to look forward to. With the battle for the Raisina Hill won with a thumping majority, the road doesn't appear to be difficult for the UPA in the Vice President poll too. AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa...
06:46 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress, a major constituent of UPA, on Monday decided to support the alliance's Vice Presidential poll candidate Hamid Ansari but oppose any decision to open the multibrand retail to FDI and bills on forward marketing in commodities and privatization of pension fund in the monsoon session of Parliament. The decisions were taken at a meeting of Trinamool parliamentary party meeting here. Trinamool has 28 members in Parliament,...
10:38 PM, Aug 06, 2012
