New Delhi: On the third day of the LK Advani's Jan Chetna Yatra, BJP senior leader Uma Bharti on Thursday added fuel to the discussions over the party's prime ministerial candidature in the next Lok Sabha elections, supporting the veteran yatri's name for the race. Bharti pitched for Advani as the BJP's Prime Ministrial man while supporting Advani's anti-corruption yatra. Addressing a rally at Varanasi, she said, "Those who have...
01:52 PM, Oct 13, 2011
New Delhi: On the second day of the BJP National Executive Meet in the capital senior leader LK Advani will deliver the valedictory address and also pass a political resolution on the poverty figure. The Rs 32 poverty figure set by the Planning Commission is said to be one of the main talking points at the meet along with corruption. BJP leader Uma Bharti slammed the Congress saying that corruption...
12:27 PM, Oct 01, 2011
Bareilly: BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Saturday alleged the Centre was not serious about the Jan Lokpal issue and was only passing time so that Anna Hazare could be arrested. Talking to reporters, she alleged the Congress was creating an atmosphere so that law and order was affected and Hazare could be arrested on this pretext. Bharti said before Hazare's campaign and fast started...
06:59 PM, Aug 27, 2011
Ghaziabad: Apparently with an eye on the upcoming polls in the state next year, BJP leader and the party in-charge in Uttar Pradesh Uma Bharti launched her ambitious Ganga cleaning project. Starting her campaign from Garhmukteshwar, 80 kms from Ghaziabad at a public rally on Thursday evening, Uma said that she will go door-to-door to connect people through her campaign. Criticising the Centre for its alleged "lacklustre" attitude towards the...
11:51 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Guna: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday said that anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's decision to go on hunger strike from August 16 must be preceded by an 'agitation'. "Anna's decision to go on a hunger strike was okay but it should be remembered that during the freedom struggle whenever Mahatma Gandhi staged a fast, he undertook an agitation before it," Singh told reporters. "Anna's team had got a draft...
04:31 PM, Jun 30, 2011
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Saturday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and demanded that quick and effective action be taken to save river Ganga and prevent parties from playing politics over the issue. Bharti, who recently rejoined the BJP, was all praise for Gandhi, saying if the government makes any contribution to save Ganga, the credit for it would go to the UPA chairperson. "Four months ago,...
05:38 PM, Jun 25, 2011
Lucknow: BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said though the party has faith in Hindutva and the Ram temple issue, they would not be its political agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for early next year. "I have faith in Hindutva and Ram. We want Ram Rajya here. The issue of Ram temple is of faith but it's not the party's political agenda for the state. We will...
01:07 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Guna: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has favoured bringing the Prime Minister and the higher judiciary under the ambit of the Lokpal. "My view is that the Prime Minister, Judiciary, NGOs and industrial houses should also be brought under the ambit of Lokpal. But there should be a system to ensure that the Lokpal does not misuse its power," Singh told reporters at his hometown Raghogarh on Saturday evening. "When...
06:17 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Bhopal: In a strange coincidence, two political adversaries, who have been the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh in the past, will slug it out against each other during next year's Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Digvijaya Singh, the Congress General Secretary, and Uma Bharti, who re-joined the BJP only last week after a period of six years, will be rooting for their parties in the upcoming polls. While Singh donned...
02:09 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Lucknow: With firebrand BJP leader Uma Bharti given an important responsibility in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the state would now see two former chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh fighting it out for supremacy. Bharti and Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, both former chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, had crossed swords in 2003 which saw the Congress citadel crumbling in that state. "Just like in Madhya Pradesh in 2003,...
05:45 PM, Jun 09, 2011
Uma Bharti is back in the BJP fold, returning six years after she took on party leader LK Advani on the Jinnah issue. No other BJP leaders came out to welcome her return at a press conference held on Tuesday morning. Six years ago Uma Bharti stomped out of the BJP national executive taking head on the party patriarch LK Advani in full media glare. From the same podium on...
08:09 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Tuesday said the re-induction of Uma Bharti into the BJP would not make any difference to electoral fortunes of the party in the upcoming assembly polls in the state. "The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is on ventilator and neither the return of Uma Bharti nor of any other face can boost its poll prospects," Singh, a former BJP leader said. A...
05:21 PM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti, who was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in December 2005 for indiscipline, was re-inducted in the party on Tuesday after almost five and a half years. The decision to re-induct Uma Bharti was taken just days after the BJP's national executive meet concluded in Lucknow. Announcing Uma Bharti's return in the BJP, party president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday welcomed...
11:40 AM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Days after the BJP's national executive meet concluded in Lucknow, it seems Uma Bharti may return to the party's fold. The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, who was expelled from the party in December 2005 for indiscipline, is finally set to be re-inducted in the party on Tuesday. Uma Bharti was given a showcause notice by the party leadership after she had objected to LK Advani's praise of...
11:15 AM, Jun 07, 2011
New Delhi: Expelled BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday demanded building a country-wide consensus for construction of a magnificent temple at Ayodhya in wake of the Supreme Court order and said the matter should be settled outside court. "From the beginning, we have been demanding that a consensus be built across the country for a magnificent temple in Ayodhya. There is no clash of faith in Ayodhya. There should not...
07:54 PM, May 09, 2011
Remembering the sacrifices of Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, Anna said, "People accuse me of joining hands with BJP. They have forgotten the sacrifices of Bhagat Singh and Rajguru. I have kept their sacrifices close to my heart and so I'm not scared of dying." ...
10:16 AM, Apr 07, 2011
New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazare's fast-unto-death on Thursday, entered the third day. Addressing the media on Thursday, Anna said that he is sure he will be fine for another week and appealed to people not to worry about him. "I am feeling well, only feeling a bit weak. I have lost 1.5 kilograms. God is with me and he will protect me," he said. Hazare also said that one...
10:02 AM, Apr 07, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare's followers have made it clear that political leaders are not welcomed to join the anti-corruption campaign launched by the veteran social activist and Gandhian. Hazare's supporters stopped two political leaders - Uma Bharti and Om Prakash Chautala - from entering the dharna venue at New Delhi's Janatar Mantar on Wednesday. Both Uma Bharti and Chautala, who had come to meet Hazare, were heckled and forced to...
05:40 PM, Apr 06, 2011
Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Saturday demanded that Congress President Sonia Gandhi clarify whether the statements made against yoga guru Baba Ramdev by some Congress leaders were endorsed by her party. Talking to reporters at her residence in Bhopal, Bharti said that if the statements were a part of the "Congress policy" then Sonia must make public the details of properties owned by her and her...
02:51 PM, Feb 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has challenged the dropping of criminal conspiracy charges against senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani and 20 others in the Babri Masjid demolition case in the Supreme Court. The investigating agency approached the Supreme Court on Friday against the order of a Rae Bareilly court which resulted in criminal conspiracy charges being dropped against Advani and others. The other leaders allegedly...
03:34 PM, Feb 18, 2011
