Singh's entry to the BJP comes ahead of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation elections slated next year.
Kripashankar Singh, Mumbai Pradesh Congress Chief, has resigned from the post in the wake of party's poor showing in the civic elections last week.
Tulsidas Nair, who has been granted protection by the courts, is the latest cause of worry for the embattled Kripashankar Singh, former chief of the Congress party in Mumbai, reports Prasanna D Zore
Sanjay Tiwari has become the bane of powerful Congress leader Kripashankar Singh's existence. Tiwari, who hails from a humble slum in Mumbai, has alleged that Singh has amassed huge wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. After obtaining information by filing several RTI applications, Tiwari filed a PIL against him in the Bombay high court.
On Friday morning, the Mumbai crime branch is carrying out raids at premises of former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh including his Bandra residence. The raids come after a first information report was recently filed against the Congress leader for amassing disproportionate assets worth crores.
Police on Tuesday registered an FIR against senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh under anti-corruption law in connection with a disproportionate assets case, nearly a week after the Bombay high court had directed it to prosecute him for "criminal misconduct".
Beleaguered Mumbai Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, facing charges of amassing illegal wealth, on Saturday said he had done nothing wrong and will fight "as per law."
The Special Investigating Team, probing the alleged amassing of disproportionate assets by former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family, on Monday recorded his statement.
He was discharged for want of sanction for his prosecution.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the next Mayor of Mumbai will be from the ruling alliance and will be 'both Hindu and Marathi,' as political campaigning heats up for the city's top civic post.
The Supreme Court put an end to the investigation monitored by it against former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets and left it to the trial court to consider supplying final report to activists on whose public interest litigation the probe was ordered.
In fresh trouble for Kripashankar Singh, the Bombay high court on Thursday ordered a magistrate inquiry against the former Mumbai Congress chief, following a petition by a city-based social worker who has accused the leader of threatening him after usurping his properties. A division bench of Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode was hearing the petition filed by one Tulsidas Nair alleging that Kripashankar and his son had usurped his properties worth crores.
Senior Maharashtra Congress leader Kripashankar Singh on Friday invited the Supreme Court's ire for having mentioned his plea against a corruption case against him and his family members before a different bench on Friday after getting the same withdrawn from the court's mentioning list on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to stay the investigation against Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members for allegedly amassing disproportionate assets but put an interim stay on the process of attaching and seizure of their properties.
Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, accused of amassing disproportionate assets, has been booked under the Arms Act for allegedly possessing bullets beyond permissible limits, and declared as a wanted accused, police sources said on Saturday.
The Special Investigation Team formed by the Mumbai police to probe into the alleged amassing of disproportionate assets by former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family, has submitted its report in the Supreme Court, police said on Monday.
12 properties of former Mumbai city Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family were on Friday attached by the Mumbai police, three days after lodging an FIR against them for possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted eight weeks to the Special Investigating Team to complete its probe into the alleged amassing of disproportionate assets by former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members.
The first report was filed on April 16 in compliance with a March 13 order of the Supreme Court which had asked Patnaik to conduct a probe and collect documentary evidence regarding all movable and immovable properties of Kripashankar and his family, including his wife, son, daughter-in-law and daughter while seeking a report in a sealed envelope.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on September 3 a plea of the Maharashtra government to continue with Arup Patnaik as chief of Special Investigating Team probing the alleged amassing of disproportionate assets by former Mumbai Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and his family members.
Urmila, who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election in April from Mumbai, said she was quitting owing to "petty in-house politics" in the party.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray has again asked Union minister Nitin Gadkari to leave the Bharatiya Janata Party if he is being 'insulted', saying the opposition in Maharashtra would ensure his victory in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Besides the national capital, polling will be held Saturday in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 seats of Haryana, eight seats each in Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, four seats in Jharkhand and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir. Simultaneously, polling will be held for 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha.
Mumbai police is likely to take assistance of the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate for probe into the disproportionate assets case involving senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, his family members and aides.
Senior Mumbai Congress leader Kripashankar Singh has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court direction for his prosecution under the Prevention of Corruption Act and attachment of his immovable properties in a case of alleged disproportionate assets.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday said if north Indian-origin leaders in Mumbai did not stop making inflammatory statements, there would be "riots".
'The people here understand that the Congress is not trying to exploit the voter on the basis of their caste, their religion. It wants development.'
The Congress is keeping the Nationalist Congress Party guessing on their pre-poll alliance in Maharashtra, with no decision taken over it even on Monday, during a meeting of senior party leaders chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi. "No decision on the alliance with NCP has been taken," said Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh, who attended the crucial meeting. Currently, there are both pro- and anti-alliance views within the party.
With an eye on Lok Sabha polls, the Congress in Maharashtra is trying to rope in celebrities like superstar Shah Rukh Khan, former cricket captain Dilip Vengsarkar and Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kisen to boost its electoral fortunes.
The Maharashtra govt justified the code saying certain dance bars have become pick-up joints and venues to carry out illegal activities.\n\n
Promising Indian tennis ace Karan Rastogi says though he didn't play a game in the Davis Cup match against New Zealand, all the same it was a great learning experience.
Three were picked up from Mumbai a suburb on Saturday night and were being interrogated, police sources said on Sunday.
While people voted in a fifth round that will set the tone as this election rounds into the straight, and while Modi on the stump chews the cud of personal grievances and hackneyed promises that have long since passed their use-by date, there is a rogue wave rising -- what damage it will do, we will know 16 days from today, observes Prem Panicker.
A look at pictures from the funeral.
All India Congress Committee General Secretary Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday threatened to immolate himself if his demand for reduction in power tariff in Mumbai was not accepted.
Rane's tour is being seen a major show of strength by the BJP ahead of the crucial BMC polls, due early next year.
On Sunday, a team comprising deputy commissioner of police Hemraj Singh Rajput, assistant commissioner of police Nitin Jadhav and two inspectors, reached Fadnavis's bungalow 'Sagar' around noon.
Nirupam said he has spoken to the party's central leadership and offered to resign for the poor show in the civic polls.
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