New Delhi, February 01: Congress today accused BJP of politicising the issue of black money and asked what steps were taken by the NDA government to bring the funds back from foreign countries when it was in power at the Centre.
New Delhi, February 01: Major scams like 2G, CWG games, Adarsh housing and Bofors will sink the ruling UPA alliance, according to BJP chief Nitin Gadkari, who has claimed that Indians have stashed a whopping Rs 22 lakh crore in foreign banks.
Asserting that BJP is aggressively pursuing the issue, Gadkari said that it was a must to get huge illegal amounts repatriated from all safe havens outside India.
Mumbai, February 01: Calling it the “Congress Bureau of Investigation”, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Tuesday said investigative agency CBI was carrying out “politically-motivated probes” in various cases, including the Adarsh Society scam in Mumbai.
In a stinging editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna, the Sena chief said for long the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been used as a tool for political oppression by the Congress party to silence or discipline opponents.
New Delhi, February 01: For Kerala’s Congress-led United Democratic Front , looking forward to a lip-smacking victory in the upcoming assembly polls, the ghost of the ice-cream parlour sex scandal is back, threatening to blow up on its face.
In tourist-friendly Kerala, an ice-cream parlour should be part of the landscape, but an ice-cream parlour in Kozhikode was allegedly a facade for running a sex racket in the late 1990s.
Midnapore (WB),February 01:Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee tonight said she would give a report to Centre about the ‘brutal’ police lathicharge injuring several scribes and party workers in West Midnapore while rubbishing her party’s alleged links with Maoists.
Claiming that allegations about Maoist links of two arrested Trinamool men from the TC-run relief camp in West Midnapore was false, Banerjee told reporters here that “the (police) operation has been captured on video, evidences cannot lie.”
Guwahati, January 31: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat today accused the Central government of serving the interest of big business houses and the corporate sector leading to price rise.
Karat told reporters here that non-universalisation of the public distribution system (PDS) and the government’s failure to ban forward trading was leading to spiralling prices of food items.
With the prices of petrol being deregulated, the cost of petrol had been hiked seven times in as many months, the CPI(M) leader said.
Hyderabad, January 31: Senior BJP leader L K Advani, party president Nitin Gadkari and others would address a “massive” rally here on February 17.
A massive public meeting christened “War against corrupt Congress” would be organised by the party, state BJP president G Kishan Reddy told reporters today.
Criticising the Congress-led UPA government for a series of scams, Reddy said the image of the country has been hit following revelation of scams one after another.
New Delhi, January 31: Hitting out at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today accused the saffron outfit of pursuing terror tactics.
“It was an RSS man who killed Gandhiji. RSS is pursuing terror. It was involved in terror plots,” Azad alleged.
Addressing a function here in connection with Mahatma Gandhi”s 63rd death anniversary, the senior Congress leader said that the RSS” name has surfaced repeatedly in the communal riots across the country in the past few decades.
New Delhi, January 31: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani on Sunday said India had slipped three points to the 87th spot in worldwide transparency and corruption index. He attributed the fall to alleged corrupt practices in the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG).
Mumbai, January 31: Disc Jockeys can now raise their voice through Shiv Sena which has formed an organisation to bring them together.
A cine wing of the party, Maharashtra Cinema and Television Sena has set up a federation for DJs to solve their issues.
“There are about 50,000 DJs in the country and we are bringing them together for the first time. We want to solve their problems and give them professional security like licences and identity cards,” the President of the Cinema Sena Akshay Bardapurkar said.
Raipur, January 30:Amit Jogi, son of Congress leader and Chhattisgarh’s former chief minister Ajit Jogi, was arrested Sunday in the state’s Raigarh district for violating ban on assembly of five or more people.
Jogi was arrested at Hati village on way to Dharmajaygarh town, about 300 km from here, where he planneed to lead a protest Monday against a public hearing for aluminium major BALCO.
Jammu, January 30:Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde today said the government was on alert in connection with the recovery of huge foreign currency in the 17th Ugyen Trinley Dorje Karmapa’s transit home in Dharamsala.
“Do not worry, Government of India is alert on this issue. They are doing the job in this regard,” Shinde said, addressing a rally of Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) at Muthi here.
“All precautions have been taken and it will be further taken in order to meet the security aspects. There would be no security lax,” he said.
Chennai, January 30:AIADMK today held seat sharing talks with CPI for the coming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls at the party’s headquarters here.
A CPI team led by state Secretary D Pandian, Assistant General Secretaries C Mahendran and K Pazhanichami held discussions with AIADMK senior leader O Pannerselvam.
AIADMK had yesterday held seat sharing talks with its allies by holding first round of talks with CPI(M).
The left party’s state Secretary G Ramakrishnan had handed over a wish list of 25 constituencies to the AIADMK team.
Mumbai, January 30:In an embarrassment to Maharashtra’s ruling Democratic Front government, former chief minister Ashok Chavan has been named as one of the 13 accused in the FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam, top sources in the CBI said here Sunday.
Besides Chavan, the first information report (FIR) filed before a Mumbai court Saturday afternoon also names 12 people, including politician Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, former Mumbai collector Pradeep Vyas, a former major general M.M. Wanchu and R.C. Thakur, sources said.
New Delhi, January 30: The issue of alliances in the coming Assembly polls in five states including West Bengal and Tamil Nadu is ticklish for the Congress with the regional parties in both the states playing the ‘big brother’.
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is virtually playing the big brother in West Bengal with the Congress which is all set to go with the DMK in Tamil Nadu.
DMK has quite an uphill task in the wake of the 2G spectrum scam, but Congress leaders say that they have no other option but be a part of the DMK-led alliance in Tamil Nadu.
New Delhi, January 30: Senior BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha feels the timing of the party”s failed campaign to hoist the national flag in Srinagar was not appropriate and that the advice given by key ally JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar to desist from that was “valid”.
The former Union Minister also felt that the party should reconsider the issue of continuance of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa who is facing charges of irregularities.
New Delhi, January 30: Senior BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha feels the timing of the party’s failed campaign to hoist the national flag in Srinagar was not appropriate and that the advice given by key ally JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar to desist from that was “valid”.
The former Union Minister also felt that the party should reconsider the issue of continuance of Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa who is facing charges of irregularities.
Ahmedabad, January 30: A day after the Special Investigation Team raised doubts about genuineness of Ishrat encounter case, the Congress on Saturday said the BJP government in Gujarat is “famous worldwide for fake encounters”.
“We are not surprised. The Narendra Modi government in Gujarat is famous worldwide for fake encounters. About half-a-dozen IPS officers there are already behind bars for fake encounters,” party spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed said.
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Kakdwip (west Bengal), January 29:Taking a potshot at Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said there were advertisements in newspapers every day that new railway factories were being set up while the railway ministry said there was no money for projects.
New Delhi, January 29: Mocking the BJP’s Ekta Yatra , Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday said the saffron party should instead ask the RSS to hoist the national flag at its headquarters in Nagpur.
He said the real intention of the party in hoisting the Tricolour is to stoke trouble in disturbed areas under the garb of patriotism.
Singh also came down hard on the Sangh Parivar and even coined a new term for Hindutva terror. He said the bomb blasts at Malegaon, Mecca Masjid and Ajmer should be cited as instances of ” sanghi” terrorism.
Mumbai, January 29: The black money stashed in banks abroad belonged to the people and must be utilised for their welfare, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said Saturday.
“The Indian Youth Congress is ready to ensure that this money can be channelized for public welfare activities,” Gandhi told reporters here while replying to a question on the huge unaccounted cash stashed in foreign banks for tax evasion.
Mumbai, January 29: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Saturday condemned terrorism in all forms and said no religion preaches “killing of innocent people”.
Addressing a media conference here on the final day of his three-day trip to Maharashtra, Gandhi said that religion and terrorism had no connection.
“I have not come across any religion which preaches violence or killing of innocent people. Terrorists kill innocents and I strongly condemn it,” declared Gandhi, who lost his father Rajiv Gandhi to a terror attack in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu in 1991.
Mumbai, January 29: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday expressed shock at Maharashtra official Yeshwant Sonawane being burnt alive by the oil mafia and said there was a need to act against corruption and “cleanse the political system”.”I am shocked at the Sonawane case. I do not want it to be repeated,” Gandhi told reporters on the final day of his three-day visit to Maharashtra.
Nashik additional district collector Sonawane was burnt to death in broad daylight by a gang of petrol robbers when he raided their warehouse near Manmad in Maharashtra Tuesday.
New Delhi, January 29: It is difficult to understand why the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should have suddenly adopted a combative patriotic posture on Kashmir in the midst of its fairly successful campaign against the Congress on the corruption issue.Prima facie, it is a self-defeating move. It has been criticised not only by its political opponents and the mainstream media but also by its ally the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) while the Akali Dal has maintained a studied silence.
New Delhi,January 29:The Congress and Left parties in the capital on Friday backed demands by non-governmental organisations to release a “white paper” on the number of Muslim youth arrested and detained on charges of terrorism over the past few years. These demands were made as families of the victims gathered at a day-long national meet organised by NGO Anhad and related chilling stories of detention, arrests, torture, trial by media and the callous behaviour of the Indian judiciary.