Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari hit out at Public Accounts Committee chairman Dr Murli Manohar Joshi on Friday, for not taking the members of the committee in confidence before the scheduled meeting on Thursday, and for trying to push his report.
The Congress and the Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam on Thursday slammed the draft report released by Public Accounts Committee chairman Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and demanded that he should resign from his post. The meeting is expected to be a stormy one in view of the different stances taken by various political parties.Leaders of DMK and Congress addressed a joint press conference, where they questioned Joshi's decision to release the draft report to the media.
The 18-month-old boy, who was kidnapped allegedly by a domestic help from his Delhi home three days ago, has been rescued from neighbouring Faridabad with arrest of four persons, including two women, police said on Wednesday.
The CBI had earlier sought a 14-day custody of Kalmadi, who was arrested by the anti-corruption branch the investigating agency, to question him about several major aspects of CWG scam.
Former India cricket captain Bishen Singh Bedi has welcomed the arrest of Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi over corruption charges in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games, which were staged in Delhi last year.
Terming the arrest of Suresh Kalmadi in the Commonweath Games scam as 'belated', Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Goel demanded that the government should remove him from the post of Indian Olympic Association.
Piyush Goyal, treasurer of Bhartiya Janata party and noted charted accountant, has confirmed that he did advise D B Realty -- a Shahid Balwa company, one of the prime accused in 2G spectrum scam -- for raising equity by going to the public.
Anti-corruption crusaders Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi, tried their best to pacify hostile media at a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday evening but could not say much in defence of Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant.
In the continuing war of words with the Bhushans, Amar Singh on Wednesday dismissed the claim of eminent lawyer Shanti Bhushan that the two have never met and that he had used his chartered aircraft to go to Lucknow for appearing in a case.
At a hurriedly called press conference in New Delhi after learning that lawyer Prashant Bhushan had filed a criminal contempt petition against him in the Supreme court for releasing an audio tape maligning the image of Shanti Bhushan and his son Prashant, Amar Singh denied any role in release of the illegal tape.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who is a member of the newly constituted 10 member draft committee of the Lokpal Bill along with his father Shanti Bhushan, has decided to move a criminal contempt petition in the Supreme Court on Monday."I am moving a criminal contempt petition in the Supreme Court against those who have brought out a controversial CD against my father Shanti Bhushan with the intention of maligning his name," Prashant Bushan said.
In a 206-page petition submitted to Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Sunday, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy sought to prosecute Congress President Sonia Gandhi under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the Bofors case.
Talking to mediapersons at a dinner hosted by him at his residence in New Delhi on Friday evening, Union Minister of Human Resource Kapil Sibal said that there are no dictators in democracy.
Appointed the co-chairman of the much-talked about Lokpal Bill panel, former law and justice minister Shanti Bhushan speaks to rediff.com's Onkar Singh on the urgent need of ant-corruption law, why Ramdev finds no place on the committee and more.
In the wake of the confession by Canadian Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana, the Bhartiya Janata party asked the government to not hold any talks with Pakistan.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj, who was in charge of the party's campaign in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry, on Tuesday claimed that her party would make its presence felt in south India. She was addressing a press conference after campaigning in the poll-bound states."Our party is winning in at least four constituencies in Kerala. I personally feel that we will do better than that," she told newspersons at the party headquarters on Tuesday.
The comments, made in the latest edition of Congress newsletter Sandesh commemmorating the anniversary celebrations of Indian freedom fighters, have drawn criticism from different quarters.
Gandhian Anna Hazare on Sunday brushed aside Baba Ramdev's criticism on inclusion of father-son duo Shanti and Prashant Bhushan in Lokpal Bill drafting committee and virtually ruled out any change in the nominees, saying the focus is on having an effective anti-graft measure.
"The government of India did not do anything to secure my release. But for my elder brother Anand Vir, advocate Arvind Kumar Singh and the honourable Supreme court of India, I would have still be rotting in Pakistani jails. The agencies, which hire you, disown you the moment you are arrested. The Indian high commission in Pakistan did not help either. They took their own sweet time for giving me temporary travel documents," he said.
Speaking to rediff.com about social activist Anna Hazare's indefinite fast, Fali Nariman, constitutional expert and a former member of Rajya Sabha said that was nothing wrong in co-opting five eminent Indian citizens in drafting the Lok Pal Bill. He, however, made it clear that this does not mean the government should have people from outside to draft a bill every time.
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