New Delhi: As the UPA II completes four years and is set to release its report card at its celebration dinner on Wednesday evening, the Bharatiya Janata Party has questioned as to what is the celebration for. Attacking the UPA government over a range of issues, the BJP said the UPA government has failed on all fronts.
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj began by attacking the UPA over the lack of leadership qualities in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Coalitions need special leadership, someone who is a leader. Manmohan Singh is a Prime Minister, not a leader. He is neither the leader of his party nor the leader of this country. The biggest failure of UPA has been that it has not been able to give a capable leadership," Sushma Swaraj said.
Attacking the UPA over weak decision making and scams, Sushma said, "The economic environment is worrying and no decisions are being taken. No government's rule has seen this level of corruption, price rise."
She went on to attack the UPA over its diplomatic ties citing the Chinese incursion issue and the issue of Tamils in Sri Lanka. "The China issue took so much time to get resolved. It got resolved because of the Chinese Premier's visit, else it would have taken a longer period," Sushma said....
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12:06 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday lashed out at the Central Bureau of Investigation and questioned its investigations into the Sohrabuddin and Tulsi Prajapati fake encounter cases. The BJP defended Leader of the Opposition in Rajasthan Gulab Chand Kataria saying allegations against him were politically motivated. He also said that the Congress was misusing the CBI to target Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. "Charges against Gulab Chand Kataria...
01:48 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Criticising Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's "unwarranted advice" to the judiciary, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said the motivation behind his criticism was the "frustration of a loser". Jaitley said the "ill-advised" suggestion made to the judiciary by Digvijaya has come when corruption of UPA government is being investigated by CBI and monitored by the Supreme Court and did not come when the...
08:30 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP has alleged that the CBI coalgate report was tampered with on the directions of the Principal Secretary in the PMO Pulok Chatterjee. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley made this allegation while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: Do you believe that Mr Shatrughan Singh attended the CBI meeting of his own volition...
08:06 AM, May 12, 2013
Leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley made this allegation while speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate. ...
11:58 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata will continue to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the coal scam controversy. Speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has said the exit of Ashwani Kumar in the matter was not enough and that his party will flag the demand for the Prime Minister's resignation. Following is an excerpt...
03:37 PM, May 11, 2013
Speaking to CNN-IBN, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said the PM, the Railway Minister and the Law Minister must resign in the wake of the latest scams. ...
07:04 PM, May 06, 2013
New Delhi: Mahesh Kumar, Member (Staff) Railway Board who had allegedly paid a bribe of Rs 90 lakh to the nephew of Railway Minister PK Bansal, was on Saturday night suspended. Kumar was placed under suspension after the receipt of a report from CBI in the matter. "Following the receipt of the official report from CBI, the Ministry of Railways places Mahesh Kumar, Member (Staff), under suspension," Additional Director General...
10:59 PM, May 04, 2013
Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is in the dock after his nephew was arrested for taking a bribe of Rs 90 lakh from a Railway board member for a plum posting. ...
10:05 PM, May 04, 2013
The Opposition has demanded the immediate resignation of Railway Minister. Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley said that this is a clear case criminal liability. ...
09:36 PM, May 04, 2013
After Sarabjit Singh's death in a Pakistan jail, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "It is time for the Indian government to introspect and see where it stands in terms of foreign policy." ...
01:07 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is set to hear charges in the Arun Jaitley call-records case involving the senior BJP leader on Tuesday. In the last hearing, the Delhi Police had filed a chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh, a police constable Arvind Dabbas and two other private detectives, currently in judicial custody. The people named in the report are currently in judicial custody. Arvind Dabas was arrested in...
09:08 AM, Apr 30, 2013
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday demanded that External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's visit to China on May 9 be cancelled over the issue of Chinese incursion in Ladakh and slammed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for calling it a "localised problem". The Government on its part said India is trying its best to deal with the incursion issue in a constructive manner, as the standoff between India and China on Chinese...
06:58 PM, Apr 28, 2013
BJP leader Arun Jaitley said UPA's interference in the CBI is a clear case of immoral policing. ...
07:48 PM, Apr 27, 2013
BJP leader Arun Jaitley spoke on a range of issues, including the coal scam. ...
10:57 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Bangalore: Questioning the clean chit given by the Joint Parliamentary Committee to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 2G spectrum allocation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley on Friday accused Congress of using the JPC to "subvert" the truth. Jaitley said former Telecom Minister A Raja's correspondence with the Prime Minister made it clear that Singh and the then Finance Minister (P Chidambaram) were fully in the loop of...
04:50 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh during the all party meeting on Thursday said there was an agreement that the Land Bill should be brought for discussion and passing in the second half of the Budget Session. The minister is hopeful of finally replacing the colonial, 119-year-old Land Acquisition Act with a fairer law but added that Parliament must function. Between April 9-18, Ramesh reached out to leaders cutting...
09:45 PM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari has denied reports that he assured Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not be the Prime Ministerial candidate. Gadkari said he met Nitish along with senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley, but did not say that Modi won't be the PM candidate. In his statement, Gadkari has said that he and Jaitleyhad in 2012 told Nitish...
11:37 AM, Apr 18, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has filed the first chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh and others in the Arun Jaitley call records case. This for illegally attempting to take out call records of Jaitley's and other BJP leaders. The charges have been filed against four people under sections of cheating, criminal conspiracy, forgery and also the IT Act. However, even after two months of investigations, the police have failed...
02:58 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police will submit its chargesheet against private detective Anurag Singh - an accused in the Arun Jaitley phone tapping case - and his aides on Tuesday, said sources on Monday, adding that the police have yet not linked Anurag Singh to any politician. Police are likely to state in its chargesheet that Anurag Singh collected call records of important leaders within the BJP as he was...
10:41 AM, Apr 15, 2013
