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 from the interview:
Karan Thapar: The BJP has demanded the Prime Minister's resignation. There is clearly no sign of that happening. How far do you plan to pursue that?
Arun Jaitley: Well I think we want to flag this issue. And we want to flag it seriously. Today you have had a massive cover-up exercise because of which the Law Minister has had to resign. Because of that cover-up exercise you had the Supreme Court giving serious comments and strictures on this particular issue. Why was this cover-up exercise taking place? Was the Prime Minister's Office so seriously concerned that some officer in the Coal Ministry is going to be indicted as a result?
Karan Thapar: Or were they worried that the finger would go all the way to the top?...
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03:37 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: A controversy erupted in Pakistan on Monday over an interview given by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to CNN-IBN. During the interview, Sharif assured India of a thorough probe into the role of the ISI in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and also said that the findings of the Kargil probe will be shared with India, if he came to power. Sharif, tipped to be the next PM...
06:46 PM, May 06, 2013
Nawaz Sharif, tipped to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan after the May 11 elections, has assured India of a thorough probe into the role of the ISI in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar in a Devil's Advocate special from Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif also said the findings of the Kargil probe will be shared with India if he came to power. Following is an excerpt...
03:46 PM, May 06, 2013
Former Pakistan PM and president of the PML-N Nawaz Sharif said if he comes to power, his government will not play second fiddle to the Army. ...
03:20 PM, May 05, 2013
PC Chacko, who is the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, which is examining the alleged irregularities in the allocation of the 2G spectrum, has alleged that the political parties which are seeking his resignation are playing a political game. Chacko was speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. ...
08:26 AM, Apr 27, 2013
The Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G scam and Congress MP, PC Chacko, has hit out at the Opposition for asking the Speaker to sack him. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, he charged them with playing a political game by going to the Speaker with their demand rather than asking him for his resignation. Following is an excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar: 15 members of...
03:50 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Karan Thapar spoke to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Devil's Advocate about the governance of the Congress party, who calls the shots, the equation between Sonia Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh and the prospect of Rahul Gandhi being nominated as the party's prime ministerial candidate. Karan Thapar Hello and welcome to Devils's Advocate. I am in an interview with a Congress leader who is not afraid to...
09:00 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has said that Sonia Gandhi, being the president of the party, has the last word on many key policies of the UPA government. Singh said while there was no junior or senior within the party, Sonia being the face of the Congress, is at the top in party's hierarchy. He, however, clarified that Sonia never interferes in the functioning of the government except...
01:49 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has reiterated his opinion that the "dual power centre model" of the Congress with Sonia Gandhi as the party president and Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister has created a perception of uncertainty. He was speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar: The comment you made about the separation of powers...
09:01 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How impressive was Rahul Gandhi's speech to the Confederation of Indian Industry? That's the key question I should raise today with one of India's most highly regarded, modern historian Ramachandra Guha. Ramachandra Guha, in January you described Rahul Gandhi as a well intentioned debutant. In December, you said he was completely mediocre with no original ideas and you suggested that he should...
09:30 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Speaking to Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate', Italy's Deputy Foreign Minister Staffan de Mistura admits that Rome made a lot of mistakes in the marines' issue. He, however, adds that the crisis is over now and India and Italy should move on as "they definitely deserve more than simply having a crisis". ...
08:45 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Staffan de Mistura escorted back the two marines to India on Friday. He was speaking to Karan Thapar. ...
08:51 PM, Mar 23, 2013
A day after the Delhi High Court issued order for setting up a special court to try the Italian marines, who are facing murder charges in the killing case of two Kerala fishermen, the Italian Deputy Foreign Minister has claimed that the marines were lured in the Indian waters by the Kerala Police. He was speaking to Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN show 'Devil's Advocate'. ...
06:22 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Former counsel of the Italian marines in the Kerala fishermen killings case told Karan Thapar on 'Devil's Advocate' that international arbitration would have been a better way to resolve the matter. He insisted that the Supreme Court has not been lenient on the Italian marines and has all the right to send the Italian Ambassador to jail as he was the one on whose assurance the apex court had allowed...
10:01 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Former counsel for the Italian marines in the Kerala fishermen killings case, Harish Salve has said that there is no legal bar or immunity to the Italian ambassador, Daniel Mancini, from being arrested by the Supreme Court. ...
07:07 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Senior Supreme Court Advocate Fali Nariman has said that in a country like India, death penalty cannot be abolished easily but added that life imprisonment must mean imprisonment for entire life. ...
08:48 PM, Feb 17, 2013
Minister of State for Home Affairs RPN Singh has said that the body of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack, was hanged and also buried inside Tihar Jail due to security reasons. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Are we becoming an intolerant society and is the Indian state defensive freedom of speech weak and equivocal? Those are the two issues Karan Thapar raised with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor in his show Devil's Advocate. ...
08:46 PM, Feb 03, 2013
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that the government played no role in sending back Pakistani sportspersons and cancelling plays to be performed by artists from the neighbouring country following the killing of two Indian soldiers by the Pakistan army at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
08:18 AM, Jan 20, 2013
Chief Economic Advisor Dr Raghuram Rajan has said that forecasting growth around turning points in very difficult and conceded that there is a steady decline in growth, adding that steps need to be taken in that regard urgently. ...
10:20 PM, Dec 27, 2012
