The Gujarat Chief Minister said in an interview to ANI.On his silence in the post-riots scenario, he said, "I was not silent. I answered questions from every top journalist in the country from 2002-2007.""But I noticed there was no exercise to understand the truth. It was unknown entity causing conspiracies."
The 6th phase of the 9-phase Lok Sabha election goes to polls on Thursday that will be held in 11 states and one Union Territory. Votes will be held in 117 constituencies.
In a bid to cap controversies over hate speeches by VHP leader Pravin Togadia and other leaders, BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday tweeted to say that he disapproved of the inflammatory remarks.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad`s (VHP) president Pravin Togadia who is a cancer surgeon by profession sent temperatures soaring in Bhavnagar with a hate speech that targeted Muslims for buying properties in Hindu areas.
In her crisp lemon yellow handloom saree, black three-fourth sleeves T-shirt blouse & flat sandals, Priyanka Gandhi disembarks from the white Fortuner she travels in & mingles with the crowds. When she climbs the stage, TV cameras block her view of the people. She steps down, crosses the barriers separating her from the crowds, gets onto a plastic chair and asks the ecstatic crowd, `Ab dikh rahi hoon sabko?`
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev Friday said that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi visits houses of "Dalits for honeymoon and picnic", sparking a controversy with the Congress complaining to the Election Commission and seeking a ban on Ramdev`s public speeches.
The expected unbelievable has happened - Narendra Modi has led the nation to its greatest grassroots revolution since the sun set on one-party dominance in 1977. the challenger from Gujarat has single handedly made the BJP India's new dominant party with a clear majority of 283 seats (NDA 338) at the time of writing, reducing the Congress to its worst ever tally of 45 (UPA 58) (the figures may change slightly at final count).
On the eve of the Lok Sabha election results, A Congress leader on Thursday suggested that all regional secular parties should come together and elect West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the leader to keep BJP out of power.
With most of the exit poll surveys predicting the BJP-led NDA winning the Lok Sabha elections, regional parties and estranged allies seem to be warming up the saffron party.While the BJD indicated that it might extend conditional support to the NDA,an AIADMK leader too hinted that the party may end up joining the BJP-led alliance.
