New Delhi: As more details of the web of shell companies associated with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari's Purti Group emerged, the Income Tax department swung into action. Sources in the I-T department confirmed they were probing the source of funds of the 18 odd companies that are shown as investors in Purti Power and Sugar. "The source of the funds, the manner of the sourcing and the...
08:11 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Refuting corruption charges against BJP President Nitin Gadkari, senior party leader LK Advani on Wednesday said that allegations against Gadkari were more to neutralise the unprecedented charges against the ruling UPA. Gadkari also got the support of RSS leader MG Vaidya who called it a trial by media. The BJP said that the party chief was ready to face any probe. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat earlier on Wednesday refused to ...
10:09 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Refuting corruption charges against BJP president Nitin Gadkari, party leader Balbir Punj said that the media cannot be the judge in the case. "Allegations are common in politics. Our president is ready for any probe," said Punj. He added, "The media should not judge anything. It is the job of the investigators." ...
05:42 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Wednesday came out in support of party President Nitin Gadkari and said that the corruption allegations against Gadkari is the UPA's strategy to paint the entire political class with the same brush to minimise and escape its unpardonable sins. Advani issued a statement in support of Gadkari. The statement reads: I have been keenly following the media reports on the monumental corruption...
02:29 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Refuting corruption charges against BJP President Nitin Gadkari, senior party leader LK Advani on Wednesday said that allegations against Gadkari are more to neutralise the unprecedented charges against the ruling UPA. Advani released a statement in which he said, "One of the allegations of wrong doing against Nitin ji relating to land issue has been proved wrong according to media reports themselves. Next, on certain media allegations questioning...
02:14 PM, Oct 24, 2012
Digvijaya Singh had said that even though the evidence of corruption against families of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani is enough to embarrass the two leaders, the party would refrain from going public with it. ...
09:31 PM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress, after being cornered over party president Sonia Gandhi's son-in law Robert Vadra's land deals, has now said that it has enough evidence of corruption against families of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior BJP leader LK Advani. However, General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said his party will never disclose the details. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Digvijaya said that even though the evidence...
07:30 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari is set to continue as party President for a second term. The decision was taken after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) held meetings with top BJP leaders on Friday. Reportedly, senior leader LK Advani was reluctant to let Gadkari continue as party President. However, he is said to have agreed after the RSS's intervention. Gadkari has been accused by anti-corruption activist...
04:22 PM, Oct 19, 2012
United Nations: The UPA government that has been facing brickbats from the opposition parties has got a compliment from BJP leader LK Advani for its flagship programme, MNREGA, which he said has helped empower rural people and revive economic growth. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in August 2005, has been touted as a flagship programme by the UPA government. Advani said the scheme is the largest...
04:47 PM, Oct 10, 2012
New York: Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Tuesday said he is in favour of granting voting rights to Indians and people of Indian-origin settled abroad. Advani, who is leading a group of visiting Indian Parliamentarians here to attend sessions of the UN General Assembly, addressed a large gathering of Indian-Americans and community leaders at an event organised over the weekend by the Overseas Friend of BJP in Edison, New...
10:35 PM, Oct 09, 2012
In the early 1990s, when TN Seshan as Chief Election Commissioner was the flavour of the season, a packed Rotary Club meeting in South Mumbai ...
12:14 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: India, the only country to send MPs to attend sessions of UN General Assembly, is deputing 13 Parliamentarians this time, including BJP leader LK Advani. The MPs, representing both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, will be in New York in three groups, one after another, from Friday, sources said in New Delhi on Tuesday. Each group will attend the session for two weeks and speak on...
08:14 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: Mahatma Gandhi was on Tuesday fondly remembered, with President Pranab Mukherjee leading the nation in paying homage to the Father of the Nation on the occasion of his 143rd birth anniversary. Pranab, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior BJP leader LK Advani were among the prominent people who visited Gandhi's memorial at Rajghat to offer floral tributes. Other dignitaries who...
10:34 AM, Oct 02, 2012
Jalandhar: Subtly hinting at the stand of some political outfits not to have any truck with "communal" BJP, its senior leader LK Advani on Sunday said like in social life there should be no place for "untouchability in politics". "On the lines of a law against untouchability in social life, political untouchability should also be made an offence," said Advani. The BJP leader was speaking here at a function organised...
01:19 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday targeted the BJP over its attempt to reach out to minorities questioning whether it will take action against Narendra Modi for Gujarat riots or LK Advani will accept his "crime" in Babari Mosque demolition. "Are LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati ready to accept, in the court, their crime in the demolition of Babri mosque? If they agree to it,...
09:02 PM, Sep 29, 2012
A day after senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani reached out to Muslims, the BJP has once again reiterated that it is committed to secularism. At the concluding day of the BJP three-day conference on Friday, Advani had said that the party needs to reproject its secular credentials. In his speech, Advani said that the NDA now needs to win more allies and become 'NDA plus' because the anti-Congress ...
02:06 PM, Sep 29, 2012
Surajkund: At a time when the party has raised the pitch against UPA's corruption, the BJP was on Friday given some "plain speaking" by its veteran LK Advani that its leaders should be above board on graft issues. His forthright comments came at the valedictory session of the two-day national council that paved the way for another term as party president for incumbent Nitin Gadkari who himself has come under...
03:16 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Surajkund: Keen to win more allies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been identified with the Hindutva tag, on Friday decided to strive for an "imaginative reprojection" of its "commitment to secularism" and reassured minority community that it does not support discrimination on basis of religion. LK Advani, while delivering the valedictory address at the party National Council Meet, insisted that as the anti-Congress constituency is rapidly expanding, the...
10:50 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Surajkund: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again bowed to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and amended its constitution to pave the way for Nitin Gadkari's second term as party president. However, it was not without some veiled criticism from some top leaders, including LK Advani. Unanimously and by voice vote, raising both their hands, the National Council of the BJP, the highest decision making body, amended the party constitution,...
09:50 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani appealed for unity in the party and asked the leaders be honest and nationalist. While speaking at the National Executive of the party in Surajkund, Haryana on Friday the BJP patriarch said that the party leaders should not give an opportunity to the media and the opponents to propagate that party is corrupt. "Leaders and workers must not speak in...
03:05 PM, Sep 28, 2012
