In 'The Last Word', Karan Thapar discusses with a panel of experts how media covered the BJP's 'Ekta Yatra'. ...
10:42 PM, Jan 28, 2011
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On Republic Day eve, the five top news headlines perhaps reflected the state of the nation. The first was the tragic story of the Malegaon ...
11:54 PM, Jan 27, 2011
Jammu: Thirteen activists of BJP and its youth wing Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) have been arrested in connection with the attack on cavalcade of Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather in Jammu. The BJP and BJYM activists were taken into custody from various places in the city, police said, adding they were booked under sections 147, 148 and 353 (unlawful assembly, disruption of movement and attack) of...
05:22 PM, Jan 27, 2011
New Delhi: The latest additions to the list of Rath Yatris in the BJP were Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, joining the illustrious league of LK Advani, Narendra Modi and Raman Singh - the other party leaders to have travelled across states on a rath. But their travel was not just on the rath. It was as much a yatra in the virtual world. For the whole of Monday as...
06:56 AM, Jan 27, 2011
Delhi: BJP's Ekta Yatra ended without unfurling the Tricolour in Srinagar. The day saw high drama as BJP's top leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were kept in custody in Jammu till afternoon. A handful of BJP workers managed to reach Srinagar, but were promptly rounded up by the state police. BJP leaders unfurled the national flag in Kathua - a few hundred kilometres away from their intended destination Lal...
09:27 PM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on social networking site Twitter, invited Jaitley to attend the Republic Day celebrations and extended his invitation to Sushma Swaraj to attend either Jammu or Srinagar functions. A BJP delegation led by Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and youth BJP leader Anurag Thakur, was stopped at Lakhanpur in J-K on Tuesday when they tried to proceed towards Srinagar to hoist...
07:49 AM, Jan 26, 2011
New Delhi: Amid high drama, three senior BJP leaders including Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were arrested at the Lakhanpur border of Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP leaders said that the Omar Abdullah government had panicked and bowed to separatists in the state. Sushma Swaraj, LK Advani and Anurag Thakur were arrested for the second time in less than 24 hours. They were determined to hoist the national flag, but...
08:57 PM, Jan 25, 2011
New Delhi: It's the battle of wills in Jammu and Kashmir as the Omar Abdullah government pulled out all the stops to prevent and equally defiant BJP from hoisting the Tricolour in Srinagar on Republic Day. BJP workers led by senior leaders Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Ananth Kumar and Anurag Thakur crossed over into Jammu and Kashmir to hoist the national flag at Srinagar's Lal Chowk on Wednesday. Amid high...
05:04 PM, Jan 25, 2011
New Delhi: It's the battle of wills in Jammu and Kashmir as the Omar Abdullah government pulled out all the stops to prevent an equally defiant BJP from hoisting the Tricolour in Srinagar on Republic Day. Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley were pushed back to the Punjab border after they arrived at Jammu airport on Monday night. The two leaders are now in Madhopur. The Ekta Yatra...
06:53 AM, Jan 25, 2011
Pathankot: Senior BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitely were on Monday night brought to Madhopur in Punjab from Jammu, where they were stopped from leaving the airport in the run-up to the party's plan to hoist the tricolour in Srinagar on Republic Day. The leaders were transported in separate vehicles by officials of the Jammu and Kashmir government. A large number of BJP workers and leaders, including Punjab Industry...
11:40 PM, Jan 24, 2011
Jammu: After a nearly six-hour high drama at Jammu airport, police on Monday night arrested BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar after they refused to return to Delhi and insisted on taking part in the flag-hoisting in Srinagar on Jan 26. The state government has refused sanction for the Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing's Ekta Yatra. The orders for their arrest were issued by Chief Minister Omar...
03:55 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Ekta Yatra has split the National Democratic Alliance. Janata Dal (United), an ally of the BJP, on Monday asked the party not to go ahead with flag hoisting plan at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on January 26. The Janata Dal (United) said that the situation was not conducive in the Kashmir Valley for such a thing. "It's a sensitive issue. I had expressed my...
03:46 PM, Jan 24, 2011
A team of three senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leaders - Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and Arun Jaitley - are going to Jammu on Monday afternoon to participate in the Ekta Yatra. They will also meet Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha President Anurag Thakur, who is leading the Ekta Yatra. Sushma and Jaitley are likely to accompany Thakur to Srinagar for hoisting the flag.
02:43 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi/Amritsar: A team of three senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)leaders - Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and Arun Jaitley - are going to Jammu on Monday afternoon to participate in the Ekta Yatra. They will also meet Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha President Anurag Thakur, who is leading the Ekta Yatra. Sushma and Jaitley are likely to accompany Thakur to Srinagar for hoisting the flag. The party also compared the crackdown...
02:02 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP has hit back at the Prime Minister for calling its plans to hoist the flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar as divisive. Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley pointed out that while advocacy of sedition by separatists gathered in Delhi is passed off as right to expression, the UPA is trying to stop the BJP workers from peacefully unfurling the national flag in Srinagar. The BJP says...
08:54 PM, Jan 23, 2011
BJP secretary Satish Sharma, incharge of the Ekta Yatra, says Congress tried to sabotage the plan. ...
03:39 PM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: Just 48 hours before the BJP's controversial Tiranga Yatra is slated to enter Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has broken his silence. He has called upon all concerned to observe maximum restraint in a sensitive state like Jammu and Kashmir. Manmohan Singh says the Republic Day is not an occasion to score political points or promote divisive agendas. Senior BJP leader LK Advani reacted to Manmohan...
06:49 AM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir government says it will not allow the BJP to hoist the Tricolour at the Lal Chowk on Republic Day. The decision came just a day after chief minister Omar Abdullah, in an interview to CNN-IBN, questioned BJP's motive behind Ekta Yatra. "Clearly, there are various options with us. The two extremes being one, to allow them to hoist the flag and the other, to...
12:02 AM, Jan 21, 2011
New Delhi: Days ahead of the BJP's plan to hoist the Tricolour on Republic Day at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir Chief minister Omar Abdullah met Home minister P Chidambaram in the capital on Wednesday. Omar Abdullah met Chidambaram and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and raised concerns over BJP's Ekta yatra. He hoped that the BJP would do nothing to precipitate the situation in the state through its...
11:15 AM, Jan 19, 2011
Jammu: As the BJP Youth Morcha goes ahead with flag hoisting plans in Kashmir, the party says they are expecting approximately 50,000 people, a number, which the state security agencies are gearing up to counter. The army says they can step in if required. The BJP flagged off the Ekta Rally from Kolkata on Monday. Less than a week from now this rally will reach Srinagar and hoist the Tricolour...
09:59 AM, Jan 18, 2011
