BJP leader LK Advani on Friday celebrated his 85th birthday, making him the oldest politician to ever be in active politics. ...
09:08 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: In what could be a major embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), senior member Ram Jethmalani on Thursday called Ram, the protagonist in the epic 'Ramayana', a bad husband. Jethmalani was attending the release of a book on man-woman relationship when he made the remark. Responding to a query, Jethmalani said that Ram was a bad husband as he sent his wife Sita to exile for no...
06:34 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Chandigarh: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is set to quit 'Bigg Boss' after a month long stay on the reality show as BJP wants him to campaign in Gujarat, his wife said today. "Till yesterday I had no doubts about him (Sidhu) staying on the show, but I received a call from BJP Chief Nitin Gadkari asking me that he is needed by the party for poll campaigning in Gujarat," Sidhu's...
04:45 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday ridiculed the BJP for giving a clean chit to its President Nitin Gadkari after an internal examination of his business accounts by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy wondering if he was BJP's CAG. "Gurumurthy BJP's CAG?" Singh wondered in a post on micro-blogging site Twitter. Firing a fresh salvo at the BJP, Singh had on Wednesday reminded that Gadkari had in past defended...
04:29 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai Income Tax department has shared its preliminary investigation report on BJP President Nitin Gadkari's Purti Group with the Pune Income Tax DG and Kokata Income Tax DG. The preliminary probe has found that most of the companies with registered addresses were fake addresses. In the course of the field surveys, the officers could not locate books of accounts. The companies were incorporated with minimum capital and there...
01:12 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has made it clear that he no longer has any ambitions of becoming the Prime Minister. Advani said the party has given him all he wants and that it is much more than becoming the Prime Minister. "The party has given me so much that it is much more than becoming the prime minister," Advani said as he turned 85...
12:28 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Troubled BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Thursday met senior party leader LK Advani, who is apparently unhappy over Gadkari's continuance in his post, to wish him on his 85th birthday. Gadkari met Advani at his residence in New Delhi for nearly 15 minutes. The meeting came three days after Advani skipped the BJP core group meeting in Delhi where the party leadership once again announced its support for...
11:20 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Beleaguered Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari is likely to meet senior party leader LK Advani on Thursday. Advani is celebrating his 85th birthday on Thursday. In what was perceived as a snub, the senior leader had skipped the BJP core group meeting in Delhi on Monday night at which the leadership had once again announced its support to Gadkari. Advani is reportedly upset with the RSS...
09:05 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, who has mediated on behalf of beleaguered BJP President Nitin Gadkari following allegations against him of dubious funding by his company Purthi Sugar and Power cropped up, on Wednesday came out in his support saying he is "legally and morally" clear. "Re Gadkari. I examined legal & moral aspect. The 14 questioned cos belong Nagpur group that invested in Purti in 2004 and told...
12:00 AM, Nov 08, 2012
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) top leadership announced its support to its President Nitin Gadkari, Ram Jethmalani once again targeted him saying the party won't collapse if he would resign. "Party won't collapse if he resigns. His presence would weaken partys fight against corruption as we will be morally weak," reiterated the senior BJP leader. Meanwhile, the RSS continues to show its support towards Gadkari with its ...
11:47 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: There is more trouble for BJP President Nitin Gadkari's aide Ajay Sancheti. Sources in the coal ministry say that the Inter Ministerial Group has deallocated a coal block in Chhattisgarh where Sancheti was a mine developer and operator. The block belonged to the Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation. Of all of the 19 blocks in the government sector, eight have been deallocated. This is a significant considering Chhattisgarh is...
03:48 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Mumbai: BJP's oldest ally Shiv Sena on Wednesday said that while LK Advani "lost ground" due to the Jinnah remarks controversy, similarly Nitin Gadkari has been jolted because of the Swami Vivekananda comments row. "Advani lost ground over his Jinnah remarks and Gadkari has been jolted because of the Swami Vivekananda comments row," Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'. In 2005, Advani's description of...
03:03 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Leading the charge against BJP President Nitin Gadkari is senior leader Ram Jethmalani, whose son Mahesh Jethmalani quit the BJP national executive last week. He insisted that Gadkari must step down to avoid weakening BJP's fight against corruption. ...
02:47 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari met party leaders Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday morning. This came hours after the core group meet on Tuesday night, where it announced its support for Gadkari as party chief. The party leadership was also briefed by S Gurumurthy at the meet about Gadkari's businesses. But still defiant, senior leader Ram Jethmalani insisted that Gadkari must step down to avoid...
02:40 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: RSS on Wednesday disapproved of Nitin Gadkari's comments on Swami Vivekananda saying one should be "careful" about public sentiments, but refrained from saying anything on his continuation as party chief in the wake of letters against him by Ram Jethmalani. "People like Swami Vivekananda are very respected people across the world. So when we talk about them...we have to keep in mind that sentiments of millions of people...
03:31 AM, Nov 07, 2012
The Bharatiya Janata Party is split wide open over the continuation of Nitin Gadkari as the party President. ...
11:56 PM, Nov 06, 2012
BJP split wide open over Nitin Gadkari. Race to the white house wide open as America votes to choose its next President, both Obama and Romney exude confidence. ...
11:53 PM, Nov 06, 2012
The BJP on Tuesday reiterated its support to embattled party president Nitin Gadkari amidst demands by party member Ram Jethmalani that he resign. ...
10:20 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party core group meet ended at 9.30 pm on Tuesday, with party members reiterating their support to embattled party president Nitin Gadkari. Coming out of the meet, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Gadkari's emissary and RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy was present during the meet and briefed the party members about the business dealings of Gadkari. "We have full faith in Nitin Gadkari. He...
09:36 PM, Nov 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is split wide open over the continuation of Nitin Gadkari as the party President. Senior BJP leader LK Advani skipped the Core Group meeting at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday with sources saying that he is extremely upset and unhappy with his colleagues for not acting against Gadkari, who is facing allegations of corruption. The meeting venue witnessed more drama...
08:30 PM, Nov 06, 2012
