New Delhi: The three key Team Anna members - Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan - were in Ralegaon Siddhi on Sunday to apprise their leader of the deliberations of the group's core committee meet on Saturday. After discussions spanning more than two hours, a draft statement by anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who is under a vow of silence was read out. The movement will now have a constitution,...
08:59 PM, Oct 30, 2011
New Delhi: The mood within the core committee of Team Anna was grim on Saturday, even as it met to decide on its own dissolution. There were questions on how the core committee conducted itself. Justice Santosh Hegde and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan skipped the crucial meeting and anti-corruption crusader Anna's silence added to the sombre mood. Key Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal in a press conference said there...
08:14 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Ghaziabad: Team Anna, in its core committee meeting on Saturday, decided not to dissolve the core committee. Members of Anna Hazare's team had met to discuss the ongoing controversies surrounding them, but without the social activist Anna Hazare himself. "This movement is to remove corruption, so there is no question of disbanding core committee," said Core Committee member Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal said that there was no demand to disband the...
04:48 PM, Oct 29, 2011
Jaipur: Anna Hazare has deviated from his objective and his team is full of arrogant people in which there is no room for good human beings, a former member of the Core Committee of the Gandhian's team on Thursday alleged. Before launching his campaign against corruption, Anna Hazare had decided not to let it become political but in Hisar Lok Sabha bypoll, he supported a "corrupt" candidate, former Team Anna...
05:37 AM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: From claiming to be equidistant from all political parties to being openly anti-Congress, Team Anna has come a long way in its anti-graft campaign. Unfazed by attacks, Arvind Kejriwal seeks to do a Hisar in Uttar Pradesh. Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, the campaign continues with Team Anna deciding against filing any complaints against Jitendra Pathak, the man who threw a shoe at Arvind Kejriwal. "The police should release...
08:43 PM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday took digs at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his dismissive comments on congress' bypoll defeat, saying he was disconnected from the ground reality and even described him as part of the problems facing the country. Singh, who is in South Africa to attend the IBSA Summit, had told reporters, "One by-election in a particular part of a country cannot be considered a reflection on the...
07:43 PM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal was attacked and heckled on Tuesday as he was preparing for a meeting in Lucknow. The attempted attack came a day after the drubbing Congress party got in Hisar by-poll and a few days after the attack on Prashant Bhushan and Anna's supporters. Speaking about the incident, Kejriwal on Thursday said, "Police must release the attacker. If he hurled the slipper, we have...
07:02 AM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is presently in South Africa, said on Tuesday that Hisar by-poll result should not be seen as a reflection of government performance. Singh dismissed suggestions that the Congress party's defeat in the Lok Sabha bye election is a referendum or a reflection on his government's performance and the Congress party. "One bye election in a particular part of the country cannot be considered...
06:24 PM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: The fissures in Team Anna are out in the open even as anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare and his associates are involved in an all-out war against the UPA government over the Lokpal Bill. Anna Hazare's fight against corruption started on a non-political platform, but his call to the Hisar electorate to not vote for the Congress party seems to have split his team with some members opening questioning...
05:53 PM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: In fresh turmoil in Team Anna, two prominent activists P V Rajagopal and 'Waterman' Rajinder Singh on Tuesday quit its Core Committee objecting to the movement taking a "political turn" and claimed that it was mired in confusion. The decision to launch anti-Congress campaign in Hisar, which both claimed was not taken by the Core Committee, appeared to be one of the reasons for these activists to quit...
03:27 PM, Oct 18, 2011
Nagpur: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani on Tuesday said that the Monday by-elections results were very significant, terming them as a warning to the Central government. Addressing a press conference in Nagpur, he pointed that barring Bihar, all the other three states that witnessed by-elections were ruled by Congress. "Barring Bihar, in all the other three states, Congress is in power and they have lost in the...
10:16 AM, Oct 18, 2011
New Delhi: Hisar by-poll have been strike one to Team Anna in its battle against the UPA, at least that's what they would like to believe. With the Congress candidate losing his deposit in the crucial by-poll Anna and company are now turning more aggressive. Observing a 'maun vrat', Anna Hazare wrote a blog post the verdict. In an ominous warning, Anna said, "If the government does not pass the...
07:11 AM, Oct 18, 2011
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11:27 PM, Oct 17, 2011
In Hisar, Haryana the CongRESS candidate lost his deposit, with Kuldeep Bishnoi supported by the BJP winning. In the the Pawar stronghold of Khadakwasla, the BJP-Sena combine won. In Siwan, Bihar, the JDU candidate supported by the BJP who won, as was expected. And finally in the Telangana region of Banswada, Andhra Pradesh, the TRS won big, giving the Cong another reminder of its weakening hold over the state. ...
11:20 PM, Oct 17, 2011
The HJC candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi with the backing of BJP bagged the Hisar Parliamentary constituency by-election. ...
10:59 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Political analyst Yogendra Yadav says that Hisar results is a very bad news for the Congress. ...
08:41 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: A severe drubbing for the Congress in Hisar and two other losses in Assembly bypolls, Khadakvasala in Maharashtra and Banswada in Andhra Pradesh. The party is continuing to put up a brave face, dismissing suggestions that Team Anna which campaigned against the party played any role in the Battle for Hisar. In Hisar, Haryana the Congress candidate lost his deposit with Kuldeep Bishnoi supported by the BJP winning....
08:28 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday began his week-long 'maun vrat' (vow of silence) at his native village for "atma shanti" (peace of soul). The 74-year-old Gandhian has lashed out at Congress in his latest blog post. http://annahazaresays.wordpress.com/. Here's the full text of his blog: Ralegan Siddhi 17th October, 2011 My Dear Sisters and Brothers, Namaskar! Congress has lost the Lok Sabha by-elections in Hisar. Congress should stop...
08:19 PM, Oct 17, 2011
Kuldeep Bishnoi of the Haryana Janhit Congress (Bhajan Lal), who won the Hisar Lok Sabha by-elections defeating his nearest rival Ajay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal by 6323 votes, on Monday downplayed the Anna Hazare factor. ...
05:43 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: With Congress biting the dust in Hisar bypolls, Team Anna on Monday said the ruling party should take a lesson from the defeat and ensure passage of the Jan Lokpal Bill as the election was a "referendum" on it. "It is a referendum on Jan Lokpal Bill. Congress should take a lesson and now pass Jan Lokpal Bill," a Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal told PTI. Haryana Janhit...
03:57 PM, Oct 17, 2011
