New Delhi: In an embarrassment for Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch LK Advani, a party leader and close aide of Karnataka Janata Paksha chief BS Yeddyurappa, Lehar Singh Siroya, has written a tell-all open letter. He has alleged that Advani compromised on corruption in the past when it suited his own interest.
The letter that severely criticises Advani has been sent to him and BJP President Rajnath Singh by Lahar Singh Siroya. Siroya has slammed Advani for taking the high moral ground over corruption and pushing for the removal of BS Yeddyurappa, which cost the BJP in the state election dearly.
He has accused Advani of turning a blind eye towards corruption when it suited him. Siroya says Advani never inquired where the money came from for his rallies and yatras and neither did he ask the source of funding that brought the BJP to power in Karnataka in 2008 and gave the BJP its largest contingent of MPs in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls.
Siroya is close to BS Yeddyurappa and his letter reflects a growing call within the party to bring the former Karnataka chief minister back into the fold. ...
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10:16 AM, May 16, 2013
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma has once again attacked Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. This time he has accused Mulayam of being hand in glove with the BJP during the attempt to bring down the Babri Masjid in the early 1990s. He says he has been forced to make the revelation after Mulayam publicly praised BJP leader LK Advani. Beni Prasad had recently apologised after a similar outburst against ...
11:13 AM, May 15, 2013
Lucknow: Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Tuesday accused Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of conniving with BJP leader LK Advani to bring down the Babri mosque in Ayodhya. Congress leader Verma said in Lucknow that after detaining BJP leaders like Advani and Vinay Katiyar at a guest house in Faizabad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had met them discreetly and it was...
03:26 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday said that decision to drop Pawan Kumar Bansal and Ashwani Kumar from the cabinet was "joint decision" of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi even as BJP sought his resignation over reports that he was nudged into taking the decision. Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said that it had appeared in a section of the media that it was at the...
04:52 AM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Days after Congress's sweeping victory in Karnataka, senior BJP Leader LK Advani in his blog has called his party's decimation in the state a matter of no surprise. In his latest blog post, Advani wrote, "I feel sorry that we have lost in Karnataka. But I am not surprised. The surprise would have been if we had won. It's a profound lesson for the BJP and Congress, let's...
11:40 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: As pressure builds on the Prime Minister to sack the Law Minister following the Supreme Court's observation on the affidavit filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with the coal scam, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has hit out at Manmohan Singh alleging he is defending Ashwani Kumar to save himself. "Having decided to brazenly defend its two ministers, more particularly its...
11:29 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday hugged Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj in the Central Hall of Parliament. The two exchanged pleasantries and spoke for a few minutes. The meeting between the two came days after Sushma had attacked Sonia for destroying spirit of democracy. Last Friday, Swaraj had accused Sonia of instigating her MPs to disrupt her speech in the Lok Sabha. Sonia, who has been under attack from...
06:58 PM, May 07, 2013
The legendary actor and former Chief minister of Telugu Desum Party Dr NT Rama Rao's statue has been unveiled at the Parliament today. The event was a conglomeration of politicians, family members and celebrities from the Southern film industry who participated at the event. Meera Kumar, speaker of Lok Sabha unveiled the bronze statue. The statue stands 9 feet 3 inches tall. The event was prestigious as Prime minister Manmohan...
05:25 PM, May 07, 2013
Devda (Guj): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the Union Government for allegedly ignoring the state government's demand about construction of gates at Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam, and said the Centre was only concerned about "nephews and uncles". "I alongwith our (BJP) leaders like Parsottam Rupala and LK Advani have urged the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh nearly 25 times, seeking Centre's permission to construct gates at Sardar Sarovar...
05:40 PM, May 05, 2013
New Delhi: BJP President Rajnath Singh and LK Advani in Chhattisgarh on Saturday met top RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale. The meeting was held to discuss the party strategy to oust the UPA Government from Parliament in the coming Lok Sabha elections. The main agenda of both the BJP and RSS against the UPA is corruption. The UPA Government which is in the power for the last nine years has been...
10:05 PM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: BJP MPs from both Houses of Parliament will meet President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday in the Rashtrapati Bhavan to demand appropriate action against Chinese incursion in the Ladakh region. All BJP MPs from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been asked by the party top brass to be a part of the delegation that will meet Pranab in afternoon. BJP Parliamentary Party Chief LK Advani, Leader of the...
10:25 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: After stalling Parliament, the main opposition BJP has decided to hold nationwide protests on May 4 and 5 to "expose" the scams of the UPA government. "These protests will unmask the misuse of constitutional institutions to cover up scams, corruption and sins of the Congress," BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters here. "BJP leaders including LK Advani, party chief Rajnath Singh, Leader of Opposition in the...
11:50 PM, May 01, 2013
Hyderabad: An aircraft carrying senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani made an unscheduled landing at the old airport at Begumpet in Hyderabad on Monday, after developing a technical snag. Advani was on his way from New Delhi to Bangalore to campaign for BJP for the May 2013 elections in Karnataka, party sources said. The former deputy prime minister had to wait for nearly two hours at the airport...
03:57 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Bangalore: BJP leader LK Advani had taken money from erstwhile Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa to allow him to remain in office after corruption scandals involving him surfaced, Yeddyurappa's Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) alleged on Monday. The BJP rubbished the allegations. "I have documents and will release them at the appropriate time," V Dhananjaya Kumar, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and junior central minister in the BJP-led National...
05:09 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Bangalore/Ranebennur: Top BJP leaders LK Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh on Sunday held public rallies across Karnataka seeking to give a big thrust to the party which is seeking a renewed mandate in May Assembly polls. Advani addressed meetings at Ranebennur and Davangere, Rajnath Singh in Chikkodi and M Venkaiah Naidu at Sindhanoor and Gangavathi in north Karnataka, from where the party draws much of its strength. Swaraj addressed...
11:42 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Rejecting reports of a rift with the JD(U) over the PM candidate, senior BJP leader LK Advani said that all allies will be taken on board while making the crucial decision. Earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had set a year-end deadline for the BJP to announce a 'secular' prime ministerial candidate. Advani said that, "Party will take the decision at an appropriate time. There is no tussle. Our party ...
11:28 PM, Apr 21, 2013
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10:53 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has called for the rejection of the JPC draft report on 2G spectrum allocation scam. He also said the BJP will bring up the issue in the second phase of the Budget Session, which is beginning on Monday. The Opposition alliance - NDA - which is miffed at the contents of the leaked JPC report, also questioned how the panel...
01:09 PM, Apr 21, 2013
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09:17 AM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: BJP-led NDA on Saturday said it failed to understand how the JPC draft report on 2G spectrum allocation issue had exonerated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram without examining them and appealed to all members of the committee to reject the document in toto. The NDA top brass held a meeting at the residence of its working president LK Advani to discuss the strategy for...
08:09 PM, Apr 20, 2013
