New Delhi: The trouble for BJP President Nitin Gadkari is more within than outside. One after the other, senior party MP's have sought his resignation in the wake of allegations against Gadkari's Purti Group. And the latest ones alluding that Gadkari's wife and sons held shares in three Purti shell companies, attempt to debunk the clean chit by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy on the basis of whose in-house investigation. The BJP and the RSS have so far stood by the party president.
Gurumurthy through his tweets once again sought to explain the matter. He tweeted, "That Mehtas have written to the IT dept owning these 3 companies, like they have owned the 14, is very critical." Gurumurthy's argument so far has been that it was Manish Mehta who was behind the shell companies and not Gadkari.
Quite interestingly, the recent attack within the party first by Yashwant Sinha and then Shatrughan Sinha comes just when the RSS made its first move to test waters in Delhi. Still backing Gadkari, four top RSS leaders met a BJP leader over dinner last week and broached the topic of Gadkari's renomination as the party president.
The RSS suspects that tirade against Gadkari is linked to the unresolved leadership issues within the BJP - especially in the light of BJP recently ammending it constitution making Gadkari eligible for the second consecutive term when the first one ends in December, 2012....
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05:30 PM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: The clean chit by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to party president Nitin Gadkari is now spiraling into a fresh controversy. RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy is now being accused by the Congress of conducting an in-house inquiry that has only further embarrassed the BJP leadership. However, the BJP is sticking to its stand, saying Gadkari is a social entrepreneur who has committed...
10:21 PM, Nov 14, 2012
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
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
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
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: RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, who has mediated on behalf of beleaguered BJP President Nitin Gadkari following allegations against him of dubious funding by his company Purthi Sugar and Power cropped up, on Wednesday came out in his support saying he is "legally and morally" clear. "Re Gadkari. I examined legal & moral aspect. The 14 questioned cos belong Nagpur group that invested in Purti in 2004 and told...
12:00 AM, Nov 08, 2012
