The main opposition group, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has demanded resignation of Home Minister P Chidambaram for his role n the 2G spectrum spam in 2008.

Chidambaram did not comment on a recent court order in the case but the government said that there is not question of his resignation. The demand for his resignation resulted in Parliament initially adjourned till 12 pm and then till 2 pm. The parliamentarians gathered again at 2 pm to begin a crucial discussion on price rise.

Opposition parties in India have united to oppose the government’s plans to allow Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the retail sector.

The cabinet approved a plan to allow 51% foreign direct investment in the supermarket sector in the country. The move will allow global giants like Wal-Mart, Tesco and Carrefour to enter the Indian market.

Tehelka-CNN-IBN has decided to approach Supreme Court to look into the matter of godhra riots. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been asked several questions in the supreme Court for his involvement during the 2002 post godhra riots.

SIT report has been filed in the apex court which doubts Modi but does not have enough evidences against him.

Here is another story of BJP blaming the UPA government to be unwilling to catch the black money holders. BJP is directly thrashing Pranab Mukherjee, the Union Finance Minister and the party has stated that the government is not doing enough to catch the black money collectors and the persons squirreling away their money in foreign banks.

Arriving at the conclusion that the UPA Government, and mainly the Congress, was bound to be humiliated by the exposure as BJP has uttered its purpose that it would continue to follow the matter.

This is the seventh hike in prices of petrol during the last six months. CPI (M) addressed upon its state units to establish an immediate protest. Past month, there was an increase of Rs 3 per litre.

A product which costs Rs 30 is being sold-out at Rs 60 and that amounts to 100 per cent taxation. "This hike is entirely unjustified. We call for its rollback," BJP representative Prakash Javadekar stated in New Delhi.

Mumbai, July 11: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, on Sunday paid homage to the victims of the 7/11 serial train blasts in Mumbai, which killed at least 187 people.

Swaraj paid tribute to the victims at the Mahim Railway Station, where she lit candles near their photographs.

Earlier, on Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader had met one of the victims, Parag Sawant, who has been hospitalized ever since the terror attacks.

The 7/11 bombings were a series of seven bomb blasts that took place over a period of 11 minutes on the suburban railway in Mumbai.

Agartala, June 30 : Tripura's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front will not join a nationwide shutdown July 5 as it has already protested against the fuel price hike through a 12-hour strike June 28, a front statement said Wednesday.

However, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would observe a shutdown in Tripura July 5 as part of its all-India programme.

Opposition Congress blamed BJP Government in Himachal Pradesh for not offering the centre its due credit for help to the province.

State MLA Kaul Singh Thakur raised the problem of corruption and the current CD controversy in the Motion of Thanks on the Governor's address, to forecast that the Government would be unable to recuperate the damages that have been made to its reputation.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani told party MPs Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assertion that the government had implemented enhancement of pension of Army personnel had been contested by ex-servicemen.

Addressing the BJP Parliamentary Party, Advani said he had got a letter from Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM) that “till today no jawan or JCO has received any orders for enhancement of pension”.

With a government-appointed panel calling for reservation for minorities, the BJP senses an opportunity to find favour with the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) among Hindus.

The Ranganath Misra Commission has recommended 15 per cent quota for Muslims in education and employment.

In case the recommendation falls foul of law — the Supreme Court has capped reservation at 50 per cent and the provision will push it way beyond the ceiling — a minority sub-quota within the OBC bracket has been suggested. It means that from within the 27 per cent quota for the OBCs, 8.4 per cent will be for minorities.

Less than a year since it got a drubbing in the general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have got an issue to go back to the electorate.

Protesting against the recent hike in the price of petrol and diesel, BJP workers also staged a demonstration and courted arrest on Tuesday.

Carrying anti-government placards, the agitating BJP workers, led by senior party leader V. K. Malhotra and Delhi BJP president O. P. Kohli, marched towards Parliament and demanded immediate roll back of the hike in duty on petrol and diesel.

Police had to use water cannons to disperse demonstrators who tried to scale the police barriers.

Rajasthan Congress on Thursday accused the state BJP government of "deliberately" stopping scholarships for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students.

About 350 scholarships were given by the state government every year but after the Congress regime, no attention was paid to it and was stopped without any thought, leader of opposition BD Kalla said in a statement here.

About 3200 students who got these scholarships were studying for higher degrees and many have got jobs of IAS, IPS and allied services in the country, he claimed.

The crisis in the BJP was not because of small leaders but the “over ambitious” senior leaders who were seeking more and more in terms of posts and perks for themselves, said party president Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday.

Gadkari’s plain-speak came at a closed-door session on the opening day of the three-day conclave of the party’s national executive near here.

BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad briefed reporters later.

“Our problems come not from small leaders but from the big ones, who have got everything and yet are wanting more at any cost,” Gadkari was quoted as having said.

Shikarpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 7 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi has blamed Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the spiralling prices of essential commodities, naming them as Ravana and Shurpanakha.

Addressing a public rally at Shikarpur in his constituency of Pilibhit, Gandhi said, "The duo of brother and sister is responsible for the price rise in the country. The pair of Ravana and Shurpanakha are causing price rise in the country. One is ruling in Delhi and another in Lucknow."

Parties over North Indians’ right to live and work in Maharashtra intensified on Monday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sprang to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s defence, while the Shiv Sena continued its fusillade at the RSS.

The Shiv Sena had on Sunday criticised Bhagwat for saying in Guwahati that “Mumbai is for all Indians. Any Indian can go anywhere in India to earn a livelihood”.

Bhopal, Jan 10 - Asha Rani, a legislator of the ruling-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh, has been booked for abetting the suicide of her domestic help in 2007, while a case has also been registered against her husband Ashok Vir Vikram Singh for abduction and rape of the maid, police said Sunday.

"The fresh FIR (first information report) was registered in connection with the suicide of their domestic help. The victim, Tijji Bai, who had sustained serious burn injuries was found dead at the Bhopal residence of the leader in November 2007," a senior police officer told IANS.

Chandigarh, Jan 7 : Buckling under pressure from its alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and falling for populist measures, the Akali Dal-led Punjab government Thursday announced that the enhanced tariff of electricity levied on all categories of consumers since April 1 last year would be adjusted in future bills.

A state government spokesman said the enhanced tariff levied in bills of domestic consumers would be adjusted for a one-year period from March 31, 2009, till April 1, 2010.

New Delhi, Jan 7 : The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) national council meeting will be held Feb 17-19 in Indore, it was announced here Thursday.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the party's national office bearers, the first since Nitin Gadkari took over as party president.

The meeting was attended by senior leader L. K. Advani and former president Rajnath Singh, apart from other office bearers.

The national council meeting would formally endorse Gadkari's name as party president for a three-year term. (IANS)

New Delhi, Jan 7 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s national office bearers are meeting here Thursday, the first since Nitin Gadkari took over as party chief.

The meeting is to decide the date and venue of the party's national council meeting, a party source said.

The meeting is being attended by senior leader L. K. Advani and former president Rajnath Singh apart from other office bearers.

The national council meeting would formally endorse Gadkari's name as party president for a three-year term. (IANS)

Kozhikode, Jan 6 - The Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday unanimously elected its vice president V. Muraleedharan as its new state president.

His election was a foregone conclusion as his was the only nomination received. National vice president of the party Shahnawaz Hussain announced the decision at a state meeting of the party here.

The BJP has no presence in the 140-member Kerala assembly. The new president said his objective would be to work for the success of the party in the May 2011 assembly polls. (IANS)