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The Congress on Monday served a notice of no-confidence against the BJD-BJP government in Orissa over the killing of VHP leader Laxmanananda Saraswati
Accusing the UPA government of offering the Chief Ministership of Jharkhand to JMM leader Shibu Soren as a trade-off for supporting it in the trust vote, the BJP on Saturday hinted this would lead to more corruption in the state.
In a move being read as an attempt to keep the Amarnath agitation above the realm of party politics, the Shri Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti has reportedly asked BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh to stay away from their rally on August 25.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chief of Hurriyat Conference on Monday asked the Union government to hold trilateral talks with Pakistan and Kashmiri leaders to resolve the 60-year-old dispute.
Voicing dismay at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's omission of the 'cash-for-vote' scam in his Independence Day speech, senior BJP leader L K Advani said on Friday that the scandal "dented" people's faith in democracy.
Being at the helm of power seems to have given the Congress an edge over other parties in getting more coverage on the front page of newspapers.
Rail and road traffic across the country was hit Wednesday as activists of the VHP blockaded roads and railway tracks to protest the cancellation of land transfer to SASB.
The BJP on Tuesday demanded that the UPA should "seek pardon" for misguiding the country on the cash-for-vote sting operation by "wrongly" naming a party chief minister to be a part of it.
Ruling out of a rebellion mounting in its state unit, the BJP on Monday ruled out any change in the Uttarakhand leadership.
In a veiled attack on some Kashmiri leaders, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Saunday said no one can question allotment of land for Amarnath pilgrims in the valley.
The rebel group of 25 BJP MLAs from Uttarakhand met party president Rajnath Singh on Sunday to vent their ire against state Chief Minister B C Khanduri, party sources said in New Delhi.
The Left parties on Sunday said there will be a third alternative to the UPA and the NDA before the Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress on Sunday said people should take cognisance of the fact that bomb blasts took place in the country when the BJP was in trouble.
Raising the pitch for the party's agitation over the Amarnath issue, BJP leader L K Advani on Saturday asked the party cadre to get ready for struggle and to make sacrifices.
The seven member Lok Sabha panel constituted to look into three Bharatiya Janata Party MPs' allegations that they were bribed to abstain during the July 22 trust vote has been given an extension till Aug 29.
BJP President Rajnath Singh Friday cleared the air on sending a party representative to Jammu as part of the all-party delegation for a dialogue with the Amarnath agitators.
A day after the government asked the BJP to reconsider its decision on a three-day nationwide agitation over the Amarnath land transfer issue, the party's core committee on Thursday decided to go ahead with the protest.
BJP MP Ashok Argal, who along with three other members created a storm in the Lok Sabha by showing wads of cash during the trust vote, has said that the CD of the sting operation submitted by a private news channel to Parliament is doctored.
The Chhattisgarh Civil Supplies Corporation in Raipur was supposed to send the trucks to the tribal regions of Bustar and Ambikapur. Although the trucks left Raipur, they never reached their destination.
The BJP has demanded that security forces be deployed in full swing at the borders and sought a list from the Centre mentioning the number of Bangladeshi nationals who had obtained valid passport since 1972.
The monsoon session of Parliament, earlier expected to begin on August 11, will now be convened in the second of week of September, according to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi.- The BJP on Monday said that the CD released by UPA ministers and Samajwadi Party leaders did not deny the charges levelled by it against SP leader Amar Singh's involvement in the cash-for-vote episode.
Criticising the Congress-led UPA for its soft approach towards terrorists and Naxalites, the BJP on Monday asked the central government to convene an all-party meet on terrorism.- UPA allies on Monday released a tape on the 'cash-for-vote' scam, while accusing the BJP of enacting the episode to make it an issue in the coming elections. The tape comes as a parliamentary panel probing the scam met on Monday.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi called BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday to discuss the Amarnath row in Jammu and reportedly sought the opposition's support in bringing normalcy to the region.
