Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has sent feelers to expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh to join his party. "I have spoken with him and I have very candidly told him that he is not alone. I am too small a fry to invite him to my party, but it will be my fortune to enable him to do something to be active in politics through the platform of SP," Amar Singh told television channels.
Sudheendra Kulkarni, who has quit the Bharatiya Janata Party over ideological differences with its present leadership, has equated one time mentor L K Advani with expelled party leader Jaswant Singh as far as remarks on Jinnah are concerned. Kulkarni described the expulsion of Jaswant Singh as unfortunate, graceless and baseless action.He said that he has decided to end his active association with the BJP because of ideological differences.
This is the former external affairs minister's second letter to the prime minister.
Jaswant Singh's expulsion from the the Bharatiya Janata Party has caused further embarassment for the party as Speaker Meira Kumar had just appointed Singh as chairman of the prestigious Public Accounts Committee of the Lok Sabha.
Coming to the defence of expelled Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Jaswant Singh, former party leader K N Govindacharya said on Monday that the party top brass should have read the book and summoned Singh for an explanation instead of "summarily and shabbily" dismissing him.
A special court on Wednesday gave a clean chit to former External Affairs Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh and nine others in the infamous opium case which surfaced in October last year.Apart from Jaswant Singh, the special court of Narcotics and Anti-Drug Substances in Jodhpur absolved six party legislators, including three cabinet ministers, and three BJP Members of Parliament of all the charges in the case.
Jaswant Singh on Tuesday met Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav amid speculation that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader could be lobbying for the vice president's post
Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar now faces a maximum of death penalty and a minimum of life term in prison after being convicted on Wednesday by a Delhi court in a murder case stemming from 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The investigation into the case of a woman who was buried after her murder in Haryana's Faridabad has revealed that the victim was allegedly raped by her father-in-law before her murder, said police.
Party sources said Jaswant Singh has forwarded the letter purportedly written by a US diplomat to a Senator, which has a reference to the 'mole' in the PMO during Rao's tenure.
Expelled leader Jaswant Singh was dealt with unfairly by the BJP, senior party leader Yashwant Sinha has said.
The motive behind the murder is yet to be revealed, even though the accused said he killed the woman because she caused a rift in the household.
Rajya Sabha Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Wednesday rejected Congress member V Narayanasamy's privilege notice.
Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh found an ardent supporter in former vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat today when the latter praised his book on Pakistan-founder M A Jinnah and also appeared to reprimand the party for asking him to quit Parliament's Public Accounts Committee chairman's post.
The Prime Minister's Office has denied that Jaswant Singh had named the 'mole' in his letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Sajjan Kumar is currently lodged in Tihar jail.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari has termed as "closed" the issue of Jaswant Singh's book praising Pakistan founder M A Jinnah and said return of leaders like him will strengthen the party.
The National Democratic Alliance during its rule conducted the nuclear tests, he said.
Seventy-six is not an age to be plowing a lonely furrow in the heartless electoral fields of India, especially in Rajasthan, given the heat in summer, but Jaswant Singh, the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party veteran, is not exactly alone, says Rediff.com's Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
The legislator was taken into custody under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after he was detained by agency officials from a public meeting he was holding in Malerkotla, they said.
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With the Bharatiya Janata Party taking Jaswant Singh back into its fold, the Congress on Thursday said the opposition party should explain to the country whether it endorses his views on Pakistan founder M A Jinnah. "The BJP has become like a revolving door of a hotel. It throws out people outside at one time and brings them inside the next time," said party spokesman Manish Tewari. Tewari added that the BJP should give an explanation to the country on the issue.
The Janata Dal - United, which had backed United Progressive Alliance's Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee, on Monday supported the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Jaswant Singh for the vice presidential election.
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"Views expressed by Jaswant Singh in his book Jinnah -- India, Partition, Independence does not represent views of the party. In fact, the party completely dissociates itself from the contents of the book," party chief Rajnath Singh told media persons in New Delhi.
"I have worked with him for sometime and it would be in the fitness of things if he were to resign. Some of our MP's did not attend the meeting called by him. I request him publicly to quit otherwise we would have to talk to the Speaker," Swaraj said.
Upset over denial of Lok Sabha ticket, senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Monday filed his nomination papers from Barmer as an Independent, leaving the central leadership sulking over his decision.
Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh will not be visiting Pakistan for the launch of his controversial book Jinnah- India, Partition, Independence, his son Manvendra Singh revealed to a new agency.
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Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Thursday invited rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh to join his party saying that its doors were open for him.
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Upset over the denial of a ticket, former Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Jaswant Singh on Sunday said he has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections as an independent from Barmer constituency in Rajasthan and will file his nomination papers on Sunday.
After expelling party stalwart Jaswant Singh, now it seems that the Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to take action against the veteran leader's son and legislator Manvendra Singh for allegedly campaigning for his father.
Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi created a stir on Saturday when she first came out openly in support of expelled party leader Jaswant Singh, but hastily backtracked from her stance later.Maneka, who was visiting Budaun in Uttar Pradesh, to oversee the party's preparedness ahead of the by-election to two state assembly segments which fall under her Aonla Lok Sabha constituency, told reporters that the BJP had been unfair to Jaswant.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday sacked expelled party leader Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra Singh from its National Executive in the wake of reports that he was campaigning against the party's candidate Sonaram Chaoudhary in Barmer.
