New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once again reasserted its support to its beleaguered president Nitin Gadkari. This comes after confusion over a series of tweets on Tuesday by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy. Gurumurthy in his tweets appeared to have been distancing himself over his defence of Gadkari, but later tried to clear the air by once again coming out in support of Gadkari. He even deleted some...
01:26 PM, Nov 14, 2012
A couple was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly duping around two lakh investors from seven states of nearly Rs 500 crore by promising them high returns on their investment through their firm dealing in stock market. ...
11:28 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, on whose analysis of the Putri Group account the BJP had backed its president Nitin Gadkari, on Tuesday made a flip flop when he declined to have given him a clean chit and later retracted his remarks. "I have not given clean chit to NG (Nitin Gadkari). I cannot give clean chit to any one who I don't know fully I don't know NG...
09:36 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Days after he probed the Purti group and concluded that BJP President Nitin Gadkari had committed no legal or moral offense, RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy has now clarified through his tweets that though he stands by his probe report on Gadkari, he has not given a clean chit to the BJP President since he does not know him fully and that he cares very little whether Gadkari remains...
02:15 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Senior RSS ideologue M G Vaidya triggered a controversy giving voice to murmurs that Modi was behind Gadkari's troubles. ...
10:45 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday rejected Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member MG Vaidya's blog in which he had hinted that Gujarat Chief Narendra Modi was responsible for the campaign against party president Nitin Gadkari, calling it 'unfounded'. However, Vaidya sticks to his view that the campaign to dethrone BJP President Gadkari may have been initiated by Narendra Modi. "BJP completely rejects Vaidya's blog as it is totally unfounded. All...
01:58 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member MG Vaidya has sparked a fresh controversy by writing in his blog that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari points to Gujarat and the state's Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vaidya said that BJP leader Ram Jethmalani in one breath said he is seeking the resignation of Gadkari and that he also wanted to see Modi...
11:25 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue MG Vaidya in his blog has said that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against BJP president Nitin Gadkari points to Gujarat BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vaidya says, "Ram Jethmalani in one breath said he is seeking the resignation of Gadkari and that he also wanted to see Narendra Modi as PM in 2014." This, he says, seems to suggest that the campaign...
09:43 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy who gave BJP President Nitin Gadkari a clean chit over his alleged dubious business dealings is expected to reveal the findings of his own investigations into Gadkari's firm Purti. In a tweet, Gurumurthy had said that part one of his findings will be published in a newspaper on Monday. Earlier, Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani had claimed sources in BJP have told him that...
08:07 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: After Gulabi gang leader Sampat Pal's eviction, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu also stepped out of the 'Bigg Boss 6' house on Friday. Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur requested TV channel Colors to let him leave the house. BJP Chief Nitin Gadkari wants Sidhu to campaign in Gujarat. Navjot Kaur told PTI lately, "Till yesterday I had no doubts about him (Sidhu) staying on the show, but I received a...
12:07 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP is still fighting against voices of dissent from within, for its President Nitin Gadkari. Another voice of dissent within the BJP against Gadkari, National executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar, said the party president must take a cue from senior party leader LK Advani who resigned from the Lok Sabha in the nineties after similar charges were levelled against him. BJP National Executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar...
08:11 AM, Nov 10, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, senior BJP leader and lawyer Ram Jethmalani criticised the Congress party as a government of crooks that had to be brought down and said that he will do so using "all his weapons". Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the outspoken lawyer said that he would not apologise to anybody for his remark on Ram, the protagonist in the epic Ramayana, whom he...
07:57 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Senior lawyer and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram jethmalani on Friday said that he had no regrets about his comment on lord Ram. Talking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Jetmalani said that his comment was not a mistake. Ram Jethmalani had on Thursday called Ram, the protagonist in the epic 'Ramayana', a bad husband. When asked whether the comment was an attempt to embarrass the BJP,...
01:42 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal is all set to make yet another revelation on Friday. But there is still no word on who his latest target will be. In the past month, Kejriwal has targetted Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in an alleged embezzlement case and BJP President Nitin Gadkari in an irrigation scam. In his last revelation, Kejriwal also...
07:36 AM, Nov 09, 2012
In a major relief to former Indian cricket captain and now MP Mohammed Azharuddin, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has lifted the life ban on him, calling it illegal and unsustainable. ...
10:02 PM, Nov 08, 2012
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
