'I believe and agree with the view that the demolition case is politically motivated and that it does not involve issues of criminal and moral turpitude,' he said.\n\n\n\n
The petition challenges the Rae Bareli court decision against him in the Ayodhya demolition case.
Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Sanjay Paswan had on Monday had walked barefoot on a 15-feet stretch of smouldering coal as part of a faith healing ritual.
He expressed his resolve to take the Ayodhya issue to the people and fight the case to its logical conclusion in the court.
A spokesperson told reporters in New York that Vajpayee has been in touch with Joshi, who resigned after a special court in Rae Bareli decided to frame charges against him and six others in the Babri Masjid demolition case on Friday.
The case is thus political motivated and does not have any moral turpitude, he said.
Sources in the human resources development ministry expressed 'displeasure' over the decision and asked IIT to go into the whole issue afresh.
The history of the Northeast, an area whose past is little known in the rest of the country, will now find a place in NCERT textbooks, says Arjun Singh.
The human resources development ministry has decided to set up an Indian Institute of Management in the North East mainly to cater to the students of the region.
President A P J Abdul Kalam will deliver the first Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Lecture, instituted in the memory of the late chairman of Reliance Group of Industries, in Mumbai on July 6.
Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing on the IIM fee-cut issue on Friday, the human resource development ministry has received a shot in the arm with IIM-Lucknow extending its support to the controversial move.
However, masters degree with National Eligibility Test or PhD would continue to be the minimum eligibility criterion for direct recruitment in colleges, a senior official said.
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In a significant decision aimed at benefiting a large number of students, the human resource development ministry on Thursday decided to drastically reduce the fees for the post-graduate programmes
Amid a row over Human Resource Development ministry's alleged move to keep schools "open" on Christmas day, government on Tuesday asserted that it had no such intention whatsoever.
Joshi said on Friday that the large-scale spending on the premier technology schools of the country were not paying back ample dividends.
