Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot On Friday slammed BJP leader Vasundhara Raje for attacking him over CBI action against Gulab Chand Kataria and reportedly saying that "we are not wearing bangles". "Bangle is a symbol of women's dignity and use of such a language shows that she has lost self control and insulted women," Gehlot said in a statement in Jaipur.
Raje made the comment on Thursday while alleging that Kataria was "falsely implicated" in Sohrabuddin encounter case by the CBI "at the behest" of the Chief Minister. Gehlot sought apology from Raje for her comment.
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01:57 AM, May 18, 2013
Jammu: The BJP on Friday accused the ruling Congress of "misusing" CBI against its rival parties and said that the case filed against Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Gulab Chand Kataria in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case was "politically motivated". "If people will leave the public life considering the CBI charge sheet is true, then nobody apart from Congress will survive. Neither DMK nor SP (Samajwadi Party) or BSP...
07:52 PM, May 17, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday dismissed BJP's allegations that CBI has chargesheeted Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Gulab Chand Kataria in Sohrabuddin encounter case at the behest of Congress. "Congress has no role in the case and law will take its own course," Gehlot told reporters here. On Kataria's announcement on Thursday that he would resign as MLA if arrested in the case, Gehlot said,...
05:20 PM, May 16, 2013
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11:57 PM, May 15, 2013
Jaipur: Senior BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria, who has been chargesheeted in Sohrabuddin encounter case, on Wednesday said he would resign from the Rajasthan Assembly if arrested in the case. "A political game has been played to implicate me in this case. The real face of CBI and the Union government will be revealed after the investigations," Kataria, who was in Jaipur to attend a meeting of the state assembly,...
10:50 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan BJP leader Gulab Chand Kataria may have been chargesheeted by the CBI in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. But, as the BJP alleged, is Gujarat CM Narendra Modi the real target of the CBI? The CBI's move to chargesheet Kataria brought out the entire BJP brass against the CBI on Wednesday, with BJP president Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and even Kataria-baiter Vasundhara Raje putting up a strong...
08:13 PM, May 15, 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: The Bharatiya Janata Party has come out strongly in the defence of Rajasthan leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria. Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje has described the allegations against Kataria as baseless. "Allegations against Kataria are baseless. The party stands behind Kataria and will contest the matter both in courts and politically," she said. The CBI had on Tuesday booked Kataria for murder in its supplementary chargesheet...
10:42 AM, May 15, 2013
Jaipur: There is a new twist in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Former Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria has been named in the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Kataria is the second high profile politician to be named in the case after former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), of course, is crying foul. Kataria, presently leader of the Opposition in...
10:20 AM, May 15, 2013
Jaipur: In what is likely to spell trouble for the Rajasthan BJP, the CBI has named Leader of Opposition Gulab Chand Kataria in its supplementary chargesheet in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Kataria was questioned in connection with the conspiracy that led to the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, who was accused of being a terrorist. Three others have been charged as well along with Kataria. ...
07:26 PM, May 14, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday virtually named Vasundhara Raje its Chief Ministerial candidate in Rajasthan. Following a meet in the capital, BJP president Rajnath Singh declared Vasundhara Raje as the state BJP chief and her rival within the party, Gulab Chand Kataria, as the Leader of Opposition. ...
06:50 PM, Feb 02, 2013
New Delhi: A Rajasthan BJP delegation led by Kiran Maheshwari on Monday met senior party leader Arun Jaitley demanding that former chief minister Vasundhara Raje be made the state in charge. Earlier, Raje in a clear snub to party president Nitin Gadkari, decided to not come to Delhi. The feud in the Rajasthan BJP intensified on Monday with Raje defying party leadership summons to come to Delhi and 60 MLAs...
12:29 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The feud in the Rajasthan BJP intensified on Monday with former chief minister Vasundhara Raje defying party leadership summons to come to Delhi and 60 MLAs loyal to her submitting their resignations. The BJP national leadership had summoned Raje after she threatened to quit over senior leader Gulabchand Kataria's proposed yatra. Earlier, the party played down the crisis and tried to placate Vasundhara Raje. Senior leader LK Advani,...
09:30 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP national leadership has summoned Leader of Opposition Vasundhara Raje to Delhi after she threatened to quit over senior leader Gulab Chand Kataria's proposed yatra. But now sources say that the former Chief Minister may defy the summons. Kataria, an RSS-backed leader, eventually backed off but 42 Raje loyalists threatened to resign from the state assembly. Supporters of Raje also demanded that the party declare her as...
07:47 AM, May 07, 2012
Jaipur: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. The party high command summoned former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje to Delhi, after she threatened to quit over another leader's proposed yatra. "I will quit the party if Kataria goes ahead with his yatra," Vasundhara said. Vasundhara had threatened to leave the BJP objecting to RSS backed leader Gulabchand Kataria's proposed "Lok Jagran Yatra" in...
09:30 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: In Rajasthan, the rift in the BJP's state unit is out in the open. Forty-two MLAs supporting Opposition Leader Vasundhara Raje have offered to quit. This after a very dramatic party meeting on Saturday night where leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje threatened to quit. Raje has been summoned to Delhi by the party high command on the emerging political crisis. Raje made the...
03:10 PM, May 06, 2012
Former Rajasthan minister Gulab Chand Kataria says no one has contacted him on the Sohrabuddin encounter case. ...
03:20 PM, Jul 31, 2010
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