Ranchi: RSS ideologue Sanjay Joshi on Saturday claimed that the divide between the rich and the poor would further broaden if FDI in retail was allowed.
"The government s economic survey last year pointed to the vast gap between the rich and the poor and between the city dwellers and rural inhabitants. The gap will only increase manifold if retailers, like Walmart, are allowed to penetrate the Indian market," Joshi said.
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03:56 AM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP leader Sanjay Joshi on Monday claimed he received a threatening letter among the many such messages he has been getting from unknown sources. Joshi quit the BJP last month citing pressure from Narendra Modi. A vociferous Modi detractor, Joshi's resignation was the price the Gujarat CM extracted from BJP President Nitin Gadkari to attend a party meet in Mumbai last month. The letter, a copy of...
01:55 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Former BJP leader Sanjay Joshi on Monday claimed that he was receiving threat calls. He wrote to Home Minister P Chidambaram and the Delhi Police Commissioner, urging them to investigate the matter. Sanjay Joshi quit the BJP last month citing pressure from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whom he often criticised. The two BJP leaders apparently did not see eye to eye. Joshi was removed from the BJP...
11:37 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Rajkot: In the continuing poster war against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, fresh posters have sprung up in parts of Rajkot town showing him in the company of Bollywood's wicked matriarchs and vamps. "Modi is more dangerous than Shashikala and Lalita Pawar. Modi has got Keshubhai and Shankarsinh quarrelling, has divided society, is he a dangerous mother-in-law?" says the poster, which has a saree-clad Modi flanked by the devious ladies...
06:19 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sanjay Joshi on Sunday appealed against putting up posters with his pictures and attacking Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders as this would harm the party's image. "This is a job of conspirators, yet I appeal to all my well-wishers and supporters to refrain from putting up any posters or issue pamphlets," said Joshi, adding that such posters which depict his picture and...
11:18 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's bete noire Sanjay Joshi on Sunday issued an appeal that no posters hitting out at any BJP leader and depicting his photos should be put up again as it harms the party's image. The appeal, issued on a BJP letterhead though the party maintains he has been "relieved" from the party, says such posters which depict his picture and attack a leader cannot...
06:26 PM, Jun 17, 2012
Nagpur: After being forced out of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sanjay Joshi on Monday attended a meeting of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Nagpur on Monday. When the media approached him with questions, he said "I will talk to you tomorrow". Joshi was at the concluding function of RSS' annual training camp at their headquarter at Reshimbagh. At the function, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat accused successive governments at the Centre...
11:50 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Kankodakoi: Firing a fresh salvo against Narendra Modi, veteran BJP leader Keshubhai Patel on Sunday asked the people to beware of "braggarts" and bring about a change in the next assembly elections, while heaping praise on Modi-detractor Sanjay Joshi for his "dedication" to the party. "Nobody can lock my mouth and stop me from expressing my views under the guise of party discipline as enough is enough and I will...
12:53 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Kankodakoi: Taking a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, veteran BJP leader Keshubhai Patel on Sunday said that people of the state should beware of "braggarts", while hailing ousted BJP leader Sanjay Joshi for his "dedication" towards the party. Addressing 'Adivasi Adhikar Jagran' rally at Kankodakoi village in Panchmahals district, organised by a social organisation affiliated to Maha-Gujarat Janta Party of former BJP leader Gordhan Zadafia, Patel said that...
11:58 PM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Minister Narendra Modi may have yet again staked his claim for a larger say in national politics. However, in his own backyard, trouble is brewing. At the BJP meet in Rajkot on Sunday, Modi was greeted by several people wearing masks of Sanjay Joshi, the former BJP leader who quit the party, allegedly under pressure from Modi. Even as the party state executive met to kickstart preparations...
10:13 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Rajkot: Slamming the UPA government on the issue of development, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the BJP was optimistic of winning the 2012 Assembly polls. He said that the Congress will be wiped out in 2012 polls. "We are optimistic about winning 2012 assembly polls. We will not let corruption flourish in Gujarat. Congress has disappointed people. Gujarat is setting example in areas of development and...
01:25 PM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Two days after Sanjay Joshi had to resign from the BJP, posters appeared in Rajkot on Saturday night attacking Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP's state executive is meeting in Rajkot. The posters were, however, quickly taken off overnight by the BJP workers. BJP leader Sanjay Joshi, a bitter foe of Gujarat Narendra Modi, resigned from the party on June 8, exposing simmering divisions within its ranks....
10:29 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Roughly 150 people were detained when they tried to forcibly enter the venue of the state executive meeting of the Gujarat BJP on Saturday. The two-day meeting was held in the hometown of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel, who has pulled out his swords against Chief Minister Narendra Modi, after the latter's critic Sanjay Joshi was forced to quit from the party, reportedly under pressure from him. This...
10:38 PM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: Ex-BJP leader Sanjay Joshi, who recently quit the party allegedly under pressure from Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, is reportedly being wooed by the Nationalist Congress Party. The NCP had put up posters welcoming the leader in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The move comes ahead of the upcoming polls in the state. t was a day of high drama in the BJP on Friday with cracks getting deeper and...
06:24 PM, Jun 09, 2012
Rajkot: Amidst dissidence and internal bickering in Gujarat BJP, party's two-day state executive meeting will start in the city from Saturday, to plan its strategy for the assembly elections. The meeting incidentally comes in the wake of the resignation of BJP leader Sanjay Joshi from the party on Friday. Joshi, who had already resigned from the party's national executive, worked for almost ten years in the party in Rajkot and...
10:59 AM, Jun 09, 2012
New Delhi: The two-day state executive meeting of Gujarat BJP which will start from Saturday, in the hometown of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel who has pulled out his swords against Chief Minister Narendra Modi, is expected to see some friction. All eyes will be on whether anti-Modi leaders, prominently Keshubhai Patel, make an appearance. This is the last meet before the state Assembly elections. And it also comes on...
10:29 AM, Jun 09, 2012
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11:33 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Sanjay Joshi resigned as the BJP's state in-charge of Uttar Pradesh on Friday saying he was under pressure from Gujarat CM Narendra Modi. ...
11:24 PM, Jun 08, 2012
Women and children at a shelter home in Rohtak, Haryana, have alleged that not only were they exploited for commercial sex trade but also raped by police officials. ...
10:02 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: Hours after Narendra Modi's critic Sanjay Joshi resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) citing pressure from the Gujarat Chief Minister, sources said that the former party leader is likely to be rehabilitated by the RSS as the general secretary of its affiliate unit, Bharatiya Itihaas Parishad. It was a day of high drama in the BJP on Friday with cracks getting deeper and Narendra Modi having his...
06:10 PM, Jun 08, 2012
