A day after an open endorsement by Sushma Swaraj of Narendra Modi being a potential Prime Ministerial candidate, the BJP clarified its stance. It said there were many others in the party suitable for the post. ...
09:31 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, in a bitter jibe at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch LK Advani, on Sunday asked if he had given up his Prime Ministerial dreams. When asked about BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's strong backing for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate, Digvijaya said, "First ask Advaniji. Has he lost his hopes?" ...
05:17 PM, Dec 02, 2012
By openly endorsing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's name for the post of the prime minister, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj has revived the debate of who will be the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP in the next Lok Sabha elections. ...
11:20 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Saturday demanded immediate rollback of Centre's decision to cap annual supply of domestic gas cylinders, saying the move was hurting the common people. ...
02:26 AM, Dec 02, 2012
An affirmative Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the Assembly elections in his state would change the course of politics at the Centre. "Gujarat Assembly polls will change the course of politics at the Centre. The Congress has only done vote-bank politics. Gujarat elections will provide a new direction to the entire country," Modi said. ...
10:12 PM, Dec 01, 2012
In the first clear indication that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate in 2014 General Elections, senior party leader Sushma Swaraj, during a rally in Gujarat that goes to polls on December 13, said that he was fit to be the Prime Minister. ...
05:54 PM, Dec 01, 2012
The Lok Sabha functioned for the first time this winter session on Thursday after the Speaker took the decision to allow discussion on FDI in retail under rule 184 that entails voting. Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj said the opposition will let the House function since the government had agreed to a debate and vote on FDI in retail under rule 184. The date and time of the discussion...
11:56 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath, Home Minister and Leader of the House Sushil Kumar Shinde and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Thursday morning on FDI in multi-brand retail. The Speaker is likely to announce the date for a discussion on FDI on Thursday. ...
10:52 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath met Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun Jaitley on Wednesday on in an attempt to break the deadlock in Parliament over FDI in multi-brand retail. Congress MP Rajiv Shukla was also present at the meeting. ...
01:15 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Parliament will not convene on Wednesday owing to Guru Nanak Jayanthi, but the four-day long deadlock over the FDI issue seems to have ended. This as the UPA has agreed for a vote on FDI. The Opposition led by the BJP has been demanding for a vote for the past one week. ...
08:40 AM, Nov 28, 2012
The BJP's internal drama is becoming more bitter by the day. MP and veteran lawyer Ram Jethmalani, who was suspended and then issued a show cause notice asking why he should not be expelled, has again written to Nitin Gadkari, this time, slamming senior leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj. ...
03:07 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Amidst the raging controversy over the appointment of the new CBI director Ranjit Sinha, the outgoing chief of the investigative agency AP Singh has gone on record to state that it was actually the CBI itself that had first mooted the idea of a collegium to appoint the CBI Director. Echoing the Opposition BJP's demand for a body, comprising of PM, the CJI and the Leader of Opposition in the...
02:34 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Jethmalani has taken his criticism of his party leaders one step further. On Tuesday morning, in a letter addressed to the BJP Parliamentary Board, the senior Supreme Court lawyer poured vitriol over not just party chief Nitin Gadkari, whom he has been pressing to resign for the past few weeks, but also Arun Jaitley, who, he alleged had a role to play in the...
10:21 AM, Nov 27, 2012
In a major relief for the UPA, the TMC, the BSP and the SP have decided against opposing the Central Government's proposal for discussion without voting on FDI in multi-brand retail in Parliament. ...
09:17 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Jethmalani has no plans to give up. He has said that he will write yet another letter to party chief Nitin Gadkari, asking him to step down from the post. Nitin Gadkari faces a bevy of corruption charges over his alleged links to Purti Group and role in the Maharashtra irrigation scam. ...
02:14 PM, Nov 26, 2012
A day after the two leaders of opposition questioned the appointment of Director General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police Ranjit Sinha as the new Director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), support for the government came from unexpected quarters. Senior Supreme Court lawyer and BJP leader Ram Jethmalani congratulated the PM for "averting a national disaster" by appointing Sinha instead of the "other person who wanted to become the CBI chief"....
08:18 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday rejected BJP's demand to keep in abeyance appointment of new CBI Director Ranjit Sinha. Manmohan said the insinuation that appointment was to preempt the procedure recommended by the select committee is wholly unwarranted and devoid of any merit. "I refute the suggestion that appointments to this post in the past by UPA Government were motivated," said Manmohan. Earlier in the day, leaders...
10:34 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Leaders of Opposition Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing disapproval over the appointment of the new CBI director in the wake of the tabling of the Select Committee's report on Lokpal Bill in the Rajya Sabha that recommends that a collegium comprising the Prime Minister, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice of India appoint the...
02:21 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: With the Lok Sabha Speaker's all-party meeting failing to break the logjam on FDI in retail issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited the top brass of main Opposition BJP for a dinner on Thursday to ensure smooth functioning of Parliament in the winter session. Singh had invited BJP Parliamentary Party Chief LK Advani, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart...
02:45 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: The all-party meeting called by Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Tuesday ahead of the Winter Session is over and the government still has not acceded the Opposition's demand for a vote on FDI in retail. From what the Opposition politicians are hinting, it seems headed for a stormy scenes in the House. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said after the meeting that voting on...
06:48 PM, Nov 21, 2012
