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Why was former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi replaced? What prompted the BJP leadership to ignore senior party leaders and instal Munda in place of Marandi (in 2003)?"...Claiming that the BJP did not have answers to these questions, he said...
Tags: Koda, Arjun Munda, Congress, BJP, India, Mumbai, Bharatiya Janata Party, Politics, Indian National Congress, Jharkhand, Madhu Koda, Babulal Marandi
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday slammed the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition in Ayodhya, saying the report is a 'political document for character assassination'. Participating in the debate on the report in the Lok Sabha,...
Tags: BJP, Babri Masjid, India, Lucknow, Ayodhya, Bharatiya Janata Party, Liberhan Commission, Politics, Tourism in Uttar Pradesh, Lal Krishna Advani, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Ministers of India, Sindhi people, Politics of India, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Faizabad, Kalyan Singh, Rajnath Singh
The Liberhan Commission's Report on the Babri Mosque demolition and the Action Taken Report (ATR) on it, will be discussed in Parliament on Monday. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has said the discussion would be held under Rule 193 that does not entail...
Tags: demolition, Mona Sharma, BJP, China, Kashi, Bharatiya Janata Party, Babri Mosque, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Liberhan Commission, Indian National Congress, Islam in India, Ayodhya, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Beaten in all elections since 2004 in Karnataka, the Congress appears to lack the confidence to take on even a faction-ridden Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on its own in the Dec 18 elections to 25 legislative council seats. The obvious beneficiary of this...
Tags: Karnataka Congress, BJP, State Congress, B.S. Yeddyurappa, India, Mumbai, H. D. Deve Gowda, H. D. Kumaraswamy, Bharatiya Janata Party, Kannada people, Politics, Janata Dal, B. S. Yeddyurappa, Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, Politics of Karnataka
The relief might, however, be short-lived given that parliament will begin debating on Monday the report of the Liberhan Commission set up in the aftermath of the demolition, and it will not surprise me if some parties use the opportunity to reignite...
Tags: India, Mumbai, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindutva, Parliament of India, Rajya Sabha
What Congressmen dread is that the debate will again expose the failure of the Rao-led Congress government in preventing the demolition of the Babri Masjid...The Congress' floor managers have the unenviable task of trying to draw a distinction between...
Tags: Complete Coverage What Congressmen, India, Mumbai, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindutva, Politics
The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday organised a marathon to protest the delay in various projects for next year's Commonwealth games. The participants ran from Dhyan Chand Stadium to the head office of the Games organising committee...
Tags: Delhi BJP, various projects, Vijay Goel, India, New Delhi, Bharatiya Janata Party, Archaeoastronomy, Politics, Jantar Mantar, Yantra Mantra, Delhi
Opening the debate in the parliament for the BJP, party president Rajnath Singh rubbished the Liberhan Commission report saying that it had distorted the facts. He said that Liberhan Commission took 17 long years to finish the report but still it has...
Tags: BJP, Liberhan Commission, Rajnath Singh, commission report, Babri Masjid, Rajya Sabha, Justice Liberhan, Parliament, Lok Sabha, Ayodhya-Faizabad, India, New Delhi, Politics, Bharatiya Janata Party, Lal Krishna Advani, Ayodhya, Sindhi people, Venkaiah Naidu, Tourism in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Ministers of India, Politics of India, Ayodhya debate, Sushma Swaraj, Parliament of India, Hindutva, Bankura, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Babri Mosque, Basudeb Acharia, Vinay Katiyar, Faizabad
India's environment minister came under fire in parliament on Monday for his pledge last week that the country would reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels. Jairam Ramesh's announcement came ahead of the start...
Tags: Alarmed India Inc, climate change, environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, prime minister, India, New Delhi, Environment, Politics, Carbon finance, Economists, California Air Resources Board, Kyoto Protocol, Indian National Congress, Arun Jaitley, Diplomatic conferences, Carbon dioxide, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bharatiya Janata Party, Sales, Climate change in the United States, Carbon credit, Personal selling, Brinda Karat, Marketing, Environment of California, Negotiation, Action on climate change, Dispute resolution, Emissions trading, Manmohan Singh
Speaking to reporters here, Swamy, who had already sought prime minister Manmohan Singh's sanction to prosecute Raja under the PCA, said "I will give the prime minister one more notice to grant me sanction." DMK must immediately send its approval to the...
Tags: India, Mumbai, Bharatiya Janata Party, Dravidian political parties, Hindutva, Prime Ministers of India, Politics, Janata Party, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Manmohan Singh