BJP senior leader Arun Jaitley on Monday criticised SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his "political double standards". Yadav had on Sunday said that his party would support a non-UPA and a non-NDA front in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Jaitley said the SP chief should decide which side his party is standing. ...
04:47 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Indore: Holding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "directly responsible" for the Rs 1.86 lakh crore loss estimated by CAG in allocation of coal blocks, the BJP on Sunday demanded that he quit his post. "When 2G scam that cost the exchequer of Rs 1,76,000 crore happened, it was said that then telecom minister A Raja was responsible for it and prime minister might have had an indirect role in it. But...
12:48 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Indore: Blaming the Centre for the violence in Assam and the subsequent exodus of Northeast Indians from various parts of the country to their home states, the BJP on Sunday said the "vote-bank" politics of Congress was "weakening" the country. "Illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are crossing over to India in large numbers. At the same time, the people from northeast settled in various parts of the country for employment have to...
09:43 PM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and BJP member Sushma Swaraj said that the coal scam was the UPA's biggest yet. "The UPA is full of corruption. The PM is directly responsible for the scam. He cannot hide behind any argument now. No A Raja or Chidambaram can be used as shield like in the 2G spectrum scam case," she said. Leader of Opposition in the Rajya...
03:56 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Even as Northeast people continued to leave from cities across the country in hordes, Parliament on Friday vowed to protect them and bring the culprits behind the attacks and the threatening SMSs and doctored MMSs to book. Describing the growing fear amongst the Northeast people as reprehensible, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that his government was committed to take all steps to control the situation. Singh condemned all...
03:17 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of being in a "denial mood" over the state of the country's economy and said the government should treat current economic problems as a "wake up call" and take effective measures. "The patient does not want to be treated. He is convinced that he is not unwell... The Prime Minister's statement that fundamentals of the Indian...
08:37 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday refused to get drawn into the issue of whether Rahul Gandhi should be inducted into Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet, saying this is a prerogative of the government and the opposition is not concerned with it. In reply to a question, Singh had said earlier in the day that he would welcome Gandhi's entry into the government His remarks have come at a time...
04:57 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress was left embarrassed on Thursday after Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde took an unwarranted jibe at Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan as the Rajya Sabha discussed the Assam violence. As Shinde spoke, Jaya sought to intervene, to which the newly-appointed Home Minister said, "Please... this is a serious issue.. not a filmy one." The remark caused an uproar in the Rajya Sabha, with BJP leader Arun...
01:57 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New Delhi: 1.05 pm: The CBI has begun inquiry into the violence, says Shinde. 12.52 pm: Our task is to talk about and bring peace, says Shinde. 12.51 pm: "I think talking on communal lines in such matter is a threat to national security," says Shinde. 12.50 pm: Government counters Opposition. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde says the Assam violence is not an issue of one party. "Violence has not...
12:39 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said no decision has yet been taken on boycotting P Chidambaram. ...
09:10 AM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with rebellion in the party's state unit on the issue of portfolio distribution, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Saturday met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari and other central leaders to seek guidance on Cabinet expansion. Accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok, Shettar also met senior BJP leaders including L K Advani, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj at Gadkari's residence in New Delhi. BJP's...
10:51 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Bangalore: In a last minute hitch, the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting to elect Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister was delayed on Tuesday with outgoing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda's camp setting forth three conditions for his resignation from the post. Nearly 46 MLAs and 8 MLCs pledged their support to the outgoing Chief Minister saying they would resign enmasse if their demands were not met. The Gowda...
04:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 46 MLAs and 8 MLCs on Tuesday pledged their support to outgoing Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda saying they would resign enmasse if their demands were not met. The Gowda camp had earlier in the day set three conditions for the Chief Minister to resign. They said that Gowda should be made the state unit's President, that the Deputy CM of the state be Gowda's confidante Gobind...
12:58 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: In a last minute hitch, the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting to elect Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister was delayed on Tuesday morning with outgoing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda's camp setting forth three conditions for his resignation from the post. Ministers and MLAs loyal to Gowda are believed to be pushing for making him the party's state unit President, and his close confidante Gobind Karjol...
11:46 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka BJP is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to formally elect Jagadish Shettar as the new Chief Minister. Shettar is currently the Rural Development Minister and belongs to the pro-BS Yeddyurappa camp. Shettar and the outgoing Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda are expected to meet the Governor after the meeting. Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh and Karnataka in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan are in Bangalore to oversee the...
08:15 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh are expected to head to Bangalore on Monday to oversee the formal election of Jagadish Shettar as the new Chief Minister. Ex-CM Sadananda Gowda, who stepped down from the post on Sunday, is likely to be made the unit president or given a Rajya Sabha seat. Shettar is said to be close to former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, who insisted...
07:02 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Chandigarh: The BJP on Sunday threatened to launch a movement if the UPA government at the Centre accepts the report of its interlocutors pertaining to special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370. "We will not sit as silent spectators and once again the nation will see the same movement once launched by (late) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (the founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh)," senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley...
03:39 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Bangalore: 10 am: In another dramatic turn of events in Karnataka's political pendulum, former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's supporters withdrew their resignations after Arun Jaitley intervened and assured the rebel group that the party will soon resolve the crisis in the state. Jaitley spoke to Yeddyurappa and assured him that his demands would be looked into. The Yeddyurappa loyalists will go to Delhi on Monday to meet the BJP central...
10:20 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Ignoring the differences in the NDA, the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday announced that they would back former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma in the Presidential election because they did not want to give the Congress-led UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee a walkover. Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Thursday announced that the NDA would support Sangma while admitting that two of its key constituents -...
12:59 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on Friday amidst reports of growing rift within the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership. The meeting assumes significance given the unease in the party and a growing distance between Modi and senior leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj. Modi, who has come to attend a Planning Commission meet in Delhi, is keen...
06:26 PM, Jun 01, 2012
