The Swadeshi Jagran Manch has asked the government to go back on its WTO commitments until the rich nations fulfilled their promises
'If the civil code has to be put on hold, what card can the BJP play if it finds the going tough in the run-up to the general election of 2024?' asks Amulya Ganguli.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani on Wednesday made it clear that the concept of 'Akhand Bharat' (undivided\nIndia) was no more relevant.
Expressing solidarity with the people of Lakshadweep, the Kerala Legislative Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution demanding the recall of island administrator Praful Khoda Patel and requesting the immediate intervention of the Centre to protect the lives and livelihood of the islanders.
The Emergency greatly influenced the RSS' makeover from a fringe force in the Indian political imagination to one that could have its own man sworn in as prime minister in two decades' time. A riveting excerpt from Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil's India's First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-1977.
The leaders met for about 15 minutes, party sources said. However, the two were not willing to comment on the meeting.
The BJP and its senior leader L K Advani may have closed the chapter on the Jinnah controversy, but for the VHP, a key member of the Sangh Parivar, the issue is not yet "clear". "Things have to be made clearer by him (Advani)," senior VHP leader Ashok Singhal said on Thursday.
'The arrested women ceased to believe that law enforcement machinery could uphold their constitutional and legal rights,' a Vishwa Samwad Kendra release said.
The former prime minister confirmed what had been widely speculated earlier that he personally favoured Modi's removal but was prevailed upon by hawks in the Sangh Parivar.
"I have not said anything more than Valmiki, who authored Ramayana. Valmiki had even stated that Ram was a drunkard. Have I said so?" he said
Five persons, including founder of local terror group Tehreek-Ghalba-e-Islam Viqaruddin Ahmed, were on Tuesday killed in an encounter with the police in Telangana's Warangal district.
'Deepening and widening the Sethu canal, will provide a more direct route for some of the tsunami energy to travel and impact southern Kerala,' says Prof Tad S Murthy
Congress on Sunday expressed surprise over the Modi government's "inability" to rein in affiliates of Sangh Parivar "brewing communal hatred and mistrust" for electoral gains.
BJP President & Leader of the Opposition LK Advani's speech at a function organised by The Karachi Council on Foreign Relations, Economic Affairs & Law, June 5.
Even as senior leaders lined up to receive the party president at the airport, Hindu Jagran Manch put up a poster which read -- 'Jinnah Samarthak, Pakistan Premi Advani, Vapas Jao (Jinnah supporter Advani go back).'
The Samata Party general secretary made a scathing attack on party president and Defence Minister George Fernandes dubbing him 'the most unapologetic and vocal supporter of divisive forces'.
Curfew was imposed in the three towns in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district following violent incidents during Wednesday's bandh by Sangh Parivar outfits.
"Whatever the sants decide, we will certainly execute that," VHP vice-president Acharya Giriraj Kishore.
"None is above law. Whatever the misfortune I am suffering, I am okay," the seer was quoted as saying by former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti, who met him in jail in Vellore on Tuesday.
"We had not spared Gandhi. You are nothing to us at all. We will not spare you also," he had said, mentioning the names of Chief Minister Bommai, former CM B S Yediyurappa and state Muzrai Minister Shashikala Jolle.
The KCBC, in a statement, said that even the United Nations reports have made it clear that money earned from drug trafficking is being used for terrorist activities.
But the party also made it clear that such a law cannot be passed in Parliament without the support of the NDA allies and the Congress Party.
Meanwhile, traffic on the Indore-Ahmedabad route has resumed.
Party spokesman Satyabrata Chaturvedi accused the BJP and Sangh Parivar of raking the issue for electoral gains.
