Month: June 2012

The poster war between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his arch-rival Sanjay Joshi reached Jaipur Friday.

One of the posters appeared mysteriously outside the gates of the BJP state headquarters in the C-Scheme area here. However, it was taken off by the BJP workers.

The multi-colour posters had a large image of Joshi. The poster read: “Pahle Joshi, Phir Modi.” (First Joshi, then Modi).

Sources said that the posters were put up late in the night.

The BJP state office-bearer evaded questions about who put up the posters.

India believes that LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was with 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal in the control room set up in Pakistan with some kind of “state support”, Home Minister P Chidambaram said today.

“Such a control room could not have been set up without some kind of state support,” he said at a press conference here.

–PTi

The government described as “completely wrong” that Surjeet Singh, the Indian prisoner who has just returned from Pakistan, had been sent by intelligence agencies to that country as a spy.

Union Home Secretary Raj Kumar Singh said it was completely wrong to say that Surjeet Singh was sent by Indian intelligence agencies for espionage in Pakistan.

“We do not accept this. It is completely wrong. We deny it. We do not do this kind of thing (spying on other countries). Neither we do spying, nor we send spies,” he said at a press conference here.

Uttar Pradesh Police expert who lifted finger prints and shot photos at the scene of teenager Aarushi Talwar’s murder in May 2008, Friday failed to explain to a local CBI court here the technique by which he lifted the finger prints.

Chunni Lal Gautam submitted that he had clicked 23 photos and submitted these to the CBI. He revealed to the court that he lifted the finger prints from Aarushi’s room, its door, Aarushi’s family servant Hemraj’s room and its door and the spot where the dead body of Hemraj was found at the terrace.

Naxalism is a wake up call for the country, former Union home secretary G K Pillai said here, while blaming poor governance for the rise in the problem.

“Maoism or Naxalism is a wake up call for India’s democracy. I think today the major political parties in India have still not realised the magnitude of the problem.

“They have not woken up to the fact that this is a very serious problem which has to be tackled not just by security, not just by development, but also by very serious political management of the situation,” Pillai said.

Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal on Friday refuted the suggestion that Pranab Mukherjee was named among the 15 ‘corrupt’ ministers only because he became the UPA’s Presidential candidate.

“We announced the list on May 26 and at that time Pranab Mukherjee’s name was not decided at all,” he said, addressing a press conference here.

At a time when probe is widening on key Mumbai terror attacks handler Abu Hamja, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said that the 26/11 control room in Karachi had full support of Pakistan.

“The confession of Jundal, who played a key role in the 26/11 control room in Karrachi, has established beyond doubt that there was support of Pakistani state actors in the Mumbai terror attacks” Chidambaram said addressing a press conference here.

“Such a control room could not have been established without state support”, he added.