Lucknow: Slamming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on BJP selling religion for votes, the main opposition party on Sunday advised him to restrain from using such a language on a sensitive issue. "What kind of language Rahul Gandhi is using by talking about selling Ram who is our Lord. We all worship him. From this, one understands how much he knows about the heritage, otherwise he would have...
08:09 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday blamed the government for indulging in false campaign against the party on the Lokpal Bill. "Government is indulged in false campaign against the BJP on Lokpal bill. Why discussion was not started on Lokpal on the second day of special session in Rajya Sabha? Why Pranab did not speak in Rajya Sabha and why Leader of the Hose (Rajya Sabha) Manmohan Singh kept quiet,"...
04:34 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad has severely criticised the Congress and the ruling UPA Government for orchestrating the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha so that no voting on the Lokpal Bill could take place. "The UPA Government and the Congress has committed a fraud on the democracy," said Prasad. The RJD was employed to disrupt the proceedings of the House," alleges Prasad. "The Government could manage amendments in...
01:14 AM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: On his 88th birthday, the BJP remembered one of its most revered leaders Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday, almost seven years after he relinquished office. Party led state government's from Gujarat to Jharkhand follwing suit marking Vajpayee's birthday as good governence day and politicians both from the BJP and other parties including the Prime Minister calling upon the NDA chairman to wish the BJP stalwart. BJP spokesperson Ravi...
10:22 AM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Under fire from Opposition over the delay in carrying out the death sentence of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, government on Tuesday put the onus on President Pratibha Patil saying a decision on the issue has to be taken by her. Using the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Parliament attack, BJP asked why government was not punishing those held guilty for the December 13, 2001 audacious strike....
09:14 PM, Dec 13, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday dismissed government's contention that P Chidambaram as Finance Minister had no hand in the 2G scam and demanded that his role be properly investigated in the case. "What the BJP is demanding is determining Chidambaram's role as then Finance Minister in the spectrum scam," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Criticising government's move to come out in strong defence of the Home Minister, Prasad...
04:15 PM, Dec 10, 2011
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the UPA government should clearly declare its intent for bring about a strong Lokpal Bill. ...
11:50 AM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: As Senior BJP leader LK Advani gets ready to announce his Yatra plans on Monday, the cracks within the Saffron Parivaar have become a major source of worry for the party. The Advani' announcement to start the rath yatra came just hours after he challenged the UPA to arrest him in the cash-for-vote-scam on the last day of the monsoon session of the Parliament. This time Advani's decision...
09:27 AM, Oct 10, 2011
New Delhi: Even as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi chose to skip the National Executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), talks about the party's prime ministerial candidate for the next elections gained momentum on Friday. While Gujarat BJP in-charge Balbir Punj said that Modi was the best prime ministerial candidate, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said that there were several strong PM candidates in the party. Further, taking...
02:53 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday hit out at Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, asking why the Central Bureau of Investigation was not probing his role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Addressing a press conference, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "BJP wants to know why CBI is not probing Chidambaram." He also questioned the stand of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Finance Ministry note,...
03:28 PM, Sep 23, 2011
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said that even years after getting criticised, Narendra Modi has always responded to the people of Gujarat by pursuing development without any discrimination. ...
01:40 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday condemned the blast that took place outside the Delhi High Court and flayed the government for the security lapse. "The Delhi High Court has a history of blasts. At the busiest gate of the High Court, terrorists come and attack with impunity. The Delhi Police and the Government of India had no information, it is truly regrettable," he said. "How many...
12:22 PM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday raised questions over the notices sent to civil society activist Arvind Kejriwal and Yoga guru Ramdev, saying the Government should come clear on whether they were intentional or mere coincidental. "It is very amusing and rather very incidental that all these people who have raised their voice against the Government end up landing up with notices," said senior BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy. Talking...
04:26 PM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: With the CBI alleging violation of norms by NDA ministers in the 2G scam, the BJP on Thursday said it had no issues with any investigations into the matter but wondered why the probe agency had not found any evidence against UPA leaders Dayanidhi Maran and P Chidambaram in the issue. The CBI on Thursday informed the Supreme Court in the 2G case hearing that it has found...
08:09 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Sagarika Ghose debates with a prominent panel Anna Hazare's new mission, the electoral reforms. ...
11:57 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Karan Thapar debates the Anna issue with Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prashant Bhushan, Gurudas Dasgupta and other experts. ...
10:00 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Friday slammed the remarks of a the US State Department on Anna Hazare, saying no country has any right or authority to advise India on how it handles protests. "...India is a sovereign country and no country, including the US, has got any right or authority to advise India as to how to handle the situation," BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said in New Delhi....
09:47 PM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Congress over the "irregularities in land allocation" to a trust in Haryana, BJP on Thursday demanded the resignation of state Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. "There are a lot of irregularities in allocation of five acres of prime land to the trust. It is high time Hooda must quit," BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters outside Parliament. Haryana has leased five...
04:43 PM, Aug 04, 2011
New Delhi: Cracking a whip on defiant Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa, the BJP Parliamentary Board on Thursday asked him to put in his papers, a day after his severe indictment by the Karnataka Lokayukta in the illegal mining scam. After days of suspense and 'will he, won't he', it's the end of the road for Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. Ending the uncertainty over the fate of the 68-year-old...
10:41 AM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: In a strong reaction to Home Minister P Chidambaram's comments on right wing terror, BJP on Monday said by blaming these groups for bomb attacks he was giving leverage to Pakistan to harden its position on not taking action against perpetrators of 26/11 attacks. "I am sure the suave lawyer that Chidambaram is, he could have invented some better logic to defend himself when his neck-deep involvement in...
06:41 PM, Jul 25, 2011
