New Delhi: A day after JD(U)'s bitter exit from the NDA, the BJP has now released a 2003 video which shows Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the then railways minister in the NDA government, praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He is seen congratulating Modi for his electoral win and calling the Gujarat riots a sad incident which people must move on from.
The video has now led to a new war of words between the JD(U) and the BJP. In the video, Nitish said, "I hope that Narendra Modi will not confine his services to Gujarat and will soon serve the nation. The Gujarat riots were sad. But we have to move on. It's not right to focus only on one incident."
It is a huge change of stance from then to now with Nitish Kumar breaking the alliance over Narendra Modi. However, clarifying his speech on Monday, Nitish said whatever he spoke in that video was not political.
"When I used to visit other states as a railway minister, those speeches were never political. It's part of the protocol to praise the host state and not to speak against them," Nitish said....
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04:20 AM, Jun 05, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court will on Tuesday continue hearing Zakia Jafri's case, where she has challenged the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others. She continues to claim that they were conspirators in the 2002 Gujarat riots in which her husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was one of those killed in the Gulburg Society massacre in Ahmedabad....
10:41 AM, Jun 04, 2013
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court will on Monday continue hearing Zakia Jafri's case, where she has challenged the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 61 others. She continues to claim that they were conspirators in the 2002 Gujarat riots in which her husband and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri was one of those killed in the Gulburg Society massacre in Ahmedabad....
08:53 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi High Court judge on Friday recused himself from hearing a plea of senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging a lower court order by which the CBI was asked to further investigate his role in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. "In any case, I am not going to hear it. Put this matter on July 3 before another bench," Justice Kailash Gambhir said, without assigning any reasons...
03:07 PM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will decide on a plea filed by Congress leader Jagdish Tytler challenging the trial court's decision to order the re-opening of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against him. Tytler had moved the High Court on Wednesday challenging the trial court's order which had set aside a clean chit given to him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a 29-year-old anti-Sikh riots case...
09:25 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: The UK'S interests in Gujarat were best served by engaging with the elected leadership there, the British High Commissioner to India James Bevan here said on Thursday while clarifying his country's decision to end a decade-long boycott of Chief Minister Narendra Modi. In his first 'twitter interaction', Bevan also said "it is the views" of Indian voters that count when asked how the UK views Modi and his...
07:59 PM, May 30, 2013
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04:49 PM, May 30, 2013
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06:18 PM, May 24, 2013
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04:44 PM, May 22, 2013
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06:42 PM, May 18, 2013
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08:47 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday flayed Gujarat government for withholding its decision to seek death for Maya Kodnani in the Naroda Patiya case, saying there has been no change in the mindset of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his feelings about a community. "It proves that Modi has not changed. He was like this in the past and will remain so in the future. There has been no change in...
02:14 PM, May 14, 2013
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08:51 AM, May 14, 2013
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05:34 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday sought death sentence for three of the five convicts in an anti-Sikh riots case as it told a Delhi court that they were engaged in "planned communal riot" and "religious cleansing". Arguing over quantum of sentence to be awarded to the five convicts, CBI demanded death for three of them - Balwan Khokkar, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal - held...
04:18 PM, May 09, 2013
