Stepping up his attack on the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani said the "corrupt" government has brought "disgrace" to democracy.
"Because of corruption, the central government has become paralysed, has become dysfunctional and is unable to take any decision," he said.
Sudheendra Kulkarni, former aide of Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani and an accused in the cash-for-vote case, on Saturday moved the Delhi high court against refusal of bail to him by the trial court. Besides Kulkarni, former BJP Members of Parliament Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora also approached the high court, challenging the verdict of the trial court dismissing their bail pleas.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Saturday accused the government of trying to make coalition partners a scapegoat of corruption for which the government as a whole is responsible. He also attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over rising inflation and said that price rise is continuing unabated even though "we have supposedly an economic expert" at the helm of affairs.
The Karnataka high court has adjourned further hearing on the bail plea filed by former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to Monday. Justice B Pinto who has been presiding over the marathon arguments heard the objections on Friday while adjourning hearing to Monday.
A high-level meeting, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday discussed ways to make the Somnath temple complex in Gujarat more attractive for tourists and create the related infrastructure for the purpose.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Sunday alleged elaborate attempts at a cover-up in 2G scam and demanded "serious investigation" to ascertain the role of the then finance minister P Chidambaram in spectrum allocations.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani's anti-corruption rally at Bangalore has been cancelled. The yatra will still pass through Mangalore and Udupi as per schedule. No official reason for the cancellation of the rally has been given. According to sources, the rally was cancelled as most BJP ministers in the state are facing major corruption charges.
Now that the Supreme Court has dismissed Delhi police's appeal to prosecute two journalists for conducting a sting operation in 2005, the police are standing on flimsy grounds in their 2008 cash for votes scam investigations.
Accusing the United Progressive Alliance government of betraying the people over Telangana statehood demand, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Tuesday asked the Centre to move a bill for formation of the state in the winter session of parliament and said his party would support it.
Alleging that terror attacks in India were a proxy war waged by Pakistan, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Thursday said the Indian government must adopt zero tolerance towards terrorism.
Eight-term member Sumitra Mahajan was on Friday unanimously elected Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha, becoming the second woman presiding officer of the Lower House after her predecessor Meira Kumar.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha has said there are many "capable" prime ministerial candidates in the party, including himself, but a decision on whether or not to project anybody for the coveted post would be taken before the Lok Sabha elections. Sinha also sought to downplay reports of differences between BJP leader L K Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
As Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advanis 'yatra' reached the UP-Bihar border, he launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh alleging he is presiding over the "worst and most corrupt government of independent India".
The brakes applied on Bhartiya Janata Party veteran L K Advani's much-hyped Jan Swabhiman Yatra were finally released by the Uttar Pradesh government, as it finally gave the state's nod for holding a rally at Mughal Serai in Varanasi district, about 300 km from Lucknow, late on Wednesday evening.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Sunday said the issue of bringing back Indian black money illegally stashed away abroad would figure prominently during his anti- corruption 'Jan Chetna Yatra' across the country.
Jamphel Yeshi, the Tibetan activist who set himself ablaze during a protest against Chinese President Hu Jintao's India visit, died at a hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday morning.
The Congress on Monday hit back at L K Advani for describing it as a 'fiefdom' of a single family, saying his views reflect "his frustration from unfulfilled desires".
Denying reports of his resignation, Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda has said the question of a leadership change does not arise in Karnataka.
Putting at rest speculation over his participation in senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani's 'rath yatra' in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday announced he would flag off the event from Sitab Diara in Saran district on October 11 to mark birth anniversary of Jay Prakash Narayan.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday decided to oppose certain provisions in the Lokpal Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha and move for amendments in it.
A new Lokpal Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday and the existing one withdrawn.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday decided to seek amendments in the Lokpal Bill if its suggestions and concerns on the legislation are not incorporated. This decision was taken at a meeting of BJP parliamentary party chaired by L K Advani and attended by other senior party leaders, where the Lokpal Bill was discussed.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, summoned by a Delhi court for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-votes scam, on Monday failed to appear before it and pleaded that he be exempted from personal appearance for the day.
Jagruti Pandya, wife of slain former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Haren Pandya, has decided not to go to the venue of Chief Minister Narendra Modi's fast -- to hand over a memorandum seeking justice for her husband -- after speaking to senior party leader L K Advani over phone on Saturday.
Praising Chief Minister Narendra Modi for Gujarat's development, Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Saturday said if the whole country adopted a policy of "zero tolerance" towards terrorism and corruption like him, India would rise to new heights at the global level.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday started his three-day fast at the Gujarat University Convention Centre for "peace, harmony and unity in the state".
Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said L K Advani's proposed rath yatra against corruption should not be seen as a 'competition' to Anna Hazare's anti corruption campaign, but as a 'complementary' action.
Seeking to capitalise on the poor performance of the Congress in the assembly polls, the National Democratic Alliance on Sunday decided to add another partner to the alliance by taking in its fold Janata Party headed by Subramnian Swamy.
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'Certainly if Advani had agreed to Vajpayee in sacking Modi, then we would never have been talking of Modi today.'
'Our courts may fail, there may be lot of corruption in the working of our criminal justice system, but ultimately the justice of God will prevail,' says Sudheendra Kulkarni, recently released from bail in the cash-for-votes case.
By the looks of it, the Congress cannot hope to return to power even in election 2024. What it can do is to start from the bottom, hold organisational elections, which are honest, and co-opt those elected to form teams of office-bearers at all levels, right up to the working committee. By the very nature of the elections that they are going to lose, the party should use the interim to shore up youth power, or whatever remains, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
L K Advani's proposed yatra against corruption was Sunday discussed threadbare in a meeting of BJP's core group.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said it will hold peaceful protests across the country against the crackdown on Baba Ramdev's agitation and meet President Pratibha Patil to demand convening of a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue.
Reacting to newspapers reports Leader of the Opposition Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj denied that Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani's Yatra against corruption had taken the party's second rung leadership by surprise.
Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament will submit on Friday declarations to the presiding officers of their respective Houses of Parliament, stating that they do not have any illegal money stashed in any foreign bank or tax haven abroad. BJP leader L K Advani had declared that all party MPs will submit declarations that they do not have any illegal funds in Swiss banks or tax havens. The issue was discussed at the BJP parliamentary party meeting on Thursday.
"The Prime Minister's television interaction with some leading journalists last week has been disappointing. It shows much less concern about corruption than about phoney coalition constraints," Advani wrote on his blog on Sunday.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari and senior party leader L K Advani would address NDA's public rally in Hyderabad on Thursday against the Central government, highlighting the issue of corruption.
Demanding immediate recall of Gujarat governor on Lokayukta appointment issue, a delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament led by senior leader L K Advani on Friday met President Pratibha Patil who informed them that the matter is sub-judice.
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