New Delhi: Deploring the act of a BSP MP walking out of the Lok Sabha during playing of the National Song, BJP on Wednesday said the Speaker should act "firmly" on the issue.
"Members have no right to insult the National Song especially when they have taken oath. The Speaker has taken the right move by naming the MP. He has insulted Parliament," party leader Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters outside Parliament.
Supporting Speaker Meira Kumar for taking the name of BSP MP Shafiqur Rahman Barq, he said, "The Speaker should be more strict on this and act firmly." Barq, BSP member from Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was seen walking out of the House as Vande Mataram was being played with all members standing in attendance....
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04:10 PM, May 08, 2013
Salman Khurshid was all smiles when he requested BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain to let Parliament function. Hussain retorted with an equally winning smile saying protests will stop if ministers Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Kumar Bansal resign. ...
12:08 PM, May 08, 2013
Allahabad: The BJP on Friday attacked Rahul Gandhi for his comments about Prime Ministership saying it smacked of "shirking responsibility and enjoying power without accountability". "Rahul Gandhi's comments about Prime Ministership confirm that he, like his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, does not want to take any type of accountability and keep enjoying power without accountability," BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters in Allahabad. "What does the Congress Vice...
01:17 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Arvind Kejriwal accused Chidambaram of first allowing the CBI to raid Stalin and then expressing his displeasure. ...
11:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Commenting at Nitish Kumar's Adhikar rally in New Delhi, BJP slammed the Congress for not doing much to improve backwards states. "Backward states should stop expecting anything from Congress. When BJP-led NDA will come to power, we will take care of everyone. Congress will do nothing for them," said BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain. ...
05:12 PM, Mar 17, 2013
KC Tyagi, senior JD(U) leader and close confidante of party president Sharad Yadav, on February 2 filed nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat vacant from Bihar following resignation of rebel leader Upendra Kushwaha. ...
04:48 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday hit back at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that Congress will be in a minority in Gujarat after the Assembly elections. Rubbishing Singh's remark that minorities were feeling "insecure" in the BJP-ruled state, BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain said the results will show that Congress will be far short of majority. ...
07:25 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Visa woes continue for senior BJP leader Narendra Modi ahead of the Gujarat elections as 25 US lawmakers urged their government not to go the UK way and continue to deny a visa to the Gujarat Chief Minister. ...
11:09 AM, Dec 04, 2012
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday indicated it may take disciplinary action against Ram Jethmalani who has demanded party president Nitin Gadkari's resignation and disagreed with the party's stand over the appointment of new CBI director. ...
08:43 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: Terming the graft allegations made by Walmart as a "serious issue", BJP on Saturday demanded a probe into the matter and asked the government to come out with a reply. "This is a serious issue. BJP demands a probe into the allegations made by Walmart. BJP wants that the government should reply to the nation on this issue," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said. At a time when the...
04:40 AM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition has once again taken on Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi after he was appointed to lead the party's co-ordination committee to strategise for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Raking up the Congress's debacle in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Assembly elections despite Rahul Gandhi leading the campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally the Janata Dal (United) mocked at his track record. Claiming that the...
01:40 PM, Nov 16, 2012
Shimla: Scams under the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government have tarnished the image of the country globally and eroded the democratic system, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani alleged on Thursday. Winding up the campaign at Majra in Sirmaur district, just 24 hours before the closing of campaigning for Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, Advani slammed the UPA government saying surfacing of new scams every day has "tarnished the...
10:30 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Kisanganj: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain on Saturday reacted sharply to anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal's allegation of corruption against party president Nitin Gadkari and said there was no buyer to his "falsehood." "There is no buyer to falsehood spread by Kejriwal against Gadkari as he has always worked for the welfare of farmers," Hussain, who is also BJP's national spokesperson, told reporters in Kisanganj. Hussain, BJP Lok...
07:28 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be keeping its top minority faces out of the Gujarat election campaign. Both Shahnawaz Hussain and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi do not figure in the list of 39 star campaigners for the polls. State minority morcha president Sant Mehboob Ali Baba is BJP's lone minority face who is confirmed for the campaign. Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi, who has been critical...
12:17 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Patna: BJP on Tuesday condemned the transfer of the Haryana IAS officer probing land dealings of Robert Vadra and said an emergency-like situation was prevailing in the country under the UPA rule. "An emergency-like situation is prevailing in the country under the UPA rule...those who speak against the government or Sonia Gandhi family are dealt with severely," BJP spokesman Syed Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters here. He was reacting to late...
11:19 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma's comments on the charges against his Cabinet colleague Salman Khurshid on Monday saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking potshots at him and asking him to concentrate on his ministry's functioning instead of creating such gaffes. "Beni Prasad Verma is another Digvijay Singh. He is not focusing on his ministry and is giving such statements," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters in...
08:02 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Activist Arvind Kejriwal is all set to make his his much-anticipated foray into active politics. He is expected to outline the vision of his party, its constitution, the selection of candidates and a party manifesto on Tuesday. Kejriwal chose Gandhi Jayanti to make his big announcement as he takes his fight against corruption to the next level. An internal Lokpal will also be appointed by the party to probe cases ...
12:54 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday accused the Samajwadi Party of entering into a deal with the UPA government and playing the "communal card" to justify its support to the Congress-led government at the Centre. BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain claimed that people of the country were forgetting the word communalism. "Barring Assam and Uttar Pradesh, there is no communal strife in the country. There is no communalism especially in NDA-ruled...
03:20 AM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav expressed his opposition to foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and hike in diesel prices but was still willing to support the government, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain noted on Sunday. Referring to Mulayam Yadav's son, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's remarks that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had much explaining to do on matters concerning the economy, Hussain said that the Samajwadi...
12:20 AM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Under pressure from its key NDA allies Shiv Sena and JD(U) on coalition issues, the BJP was on Monday at pains to insist that the alliance is "fully united" to replace UPA in next elections and will together take a call on matters like their Prime Ministerial candidate. While Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had caused a flutter in the BJP on Sunday when he said Sushma Swaraj...
08:27 PM, Sep 10, 2012
