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President of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Rajnath Singh (3L) addresses the media as senior BJP leaders Uma Bharti, (L), Sushma Swaraj, (2L), Nitin Gadkari, (3R), Jaswant Singh (2R) and Ananth Kumar look on during a a press conference in New Delhi on June 11, 2013. BJP president Rajnath Singh on June 11 said that LK Advani, who had resigned from all leadership positions, has decided to accept the parliamentary board's request to stay in the core party bodies. President of Bhartiya Janata Party
Chief Minister of India s western state of Gujarat Narendra Modi, center, talks to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh, right. during the BJP s national executive meeting at Panaji, Goa, India, Sunday, June 9, 2013. On the left is former party president Nitin Gadkari. India's main opposition party BJP announced Sunday that Narendra Modi, a deeply divisive Hindu ideologue will head its 2014 election campaign, indicating he would be its choice for prime minister if the party were to win. Chief Minister of India s western s
Nitin Gadkari, who just two days ago seemed like bowing out of office with grace and in the larger interests of the party, has now managed to prove many things: that he is unfit the lead, and that he continues to damage the party even when he is not its President. The income tax raids on his Purti Group may have helped tip the balance against him in the BJP presidential sweepstakes, but that is no reason for him to behave like a street-gangster. He can't afford to be a sore loser. iMard hoon, dekh loonga. I-T department yad rakhe, BJP ki Sarkar ayegi tab kahan jaoge?/i Gadkari is reported to have said to his supporters after returning to his home town of Nagpur, reports theem a href=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Nagpur/Angry-Gadkari-threatens-I-T-officials/Article1-999064.aspxHindustan Times./a /em This is the kind of underworld language that Salman Khurshid, now External Affairs Minister, managed to use with Arvind Kejriwal, when the latter made disclosures about his trust for disabled persons. They can come to Farrukhabad, but let's see how they go back, Khurshid remarked about Kejriwal's plans to hold a demo in his political backyard. Gadkari has now done a Salman. [caption id=attachment_602110 align=alignleft width=380 Nitin Gadkari, who just two days ag
BJP's ex-president Nitin Gadkari today threatened I-T department officials by asking them what they planned to do when the BJP came to power. While addressing BJP supporters in Nagpur, Gadkari said that the income tax department should know that the Congress is on its way out. [caption id=attachment_600851 align=alignleft width=380 BJP's ex-president Nitin Gadkari to
In this photograph taken November 5, 2012, Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, Nitin Gadkari, gestures at a function in New Delhi. India's main opposition party elected a new leader on January 23, 2013, after the scandal-tainted incumbent, Gadkari, resigned abruptly following a corruption scandal just over a year before national elections. In this photograph taken November 5
Newly elected President of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajnath Singh (L) sits next to the outgoing BJP chief Nitin Gadkari during a news conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi January 23, 2013. Newly elected President of India's
strongNew Delhi/strong: BJP President Nitin Gadkari said he is opting out of the race for the top organisational post as he does not want the charges of financial impropriety raised against him to adversely affect the party's interest. In a written statement, Gadkari said I have committed no wrong or any impropriety either directly or indirectly. Yet, the UPA government has been making an effort to spread disinformation about me in order to hurt me and my party. I have always said that I am willing for any independent inquiry. Gadkari is facing charges of dubious funding of his Purti Power and Sugar Limited as well as of not returning excess land alloted to the factory. I do not wish that this should in any way adversely affect the interests of BJP. I have, therefore, decided not to seek a second term as the president of BJP, Gadkari said, adding he has conveyed his decision to the party. [caption id=attachment_598541 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi/strong: BJP Preside
strongNagpur: /strongBJP President Nitin Gadkari, who was asked by the Income Tax department to appear before it in connection with the probe into alleged dubious investments in Purti group of companies, has sought more time to present his case. Citing his preoccupation with party work as the reason for his inability to appear before the tax authorities, he sought fresh time, official sources said. They said he has now been asked to appear on 1 February. The sources said that two authorised representatives of Gadkari met I-T officials here and submitted a 25-page document in reply to department's question regarding his personal transactions and investments related to the Purti group of companies and few others. Gadkari was not immediately available for comment while the BJP declined to give any reaction. Gadkari has denied allegations of any wrongdoing and said that he has resigned from the Purti Group sometime back. [caption id=attachment_597026 align=alignleft width=380 strongNagpur: /strongBJP President
Nitin Gadkari could get a second consecutive term as BJP President. However, according to a href=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bjp-tussle-advani-proposes-sushmas-name-for-party-president-rss-sticks-to-gadkari/316711-37-64.htmlIBN-Live/aBJP senior leader, LK Advani has proposed Sushma Swaraj's name for the post. The party will issue a notification today for its Presidential elections and Gadkari is expected to submit his nomination for the top organisational post. BJP sources said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke to L K Advani last night and is understood to have discussed the party Presidential poll. RSS is keen that Gadkari gets a second tenure as BJP chief. [caption id=attachment_594783 align=alignleft width=380 Nitin Gadkari could get a second co
strongPune:/strong BJP president Nitin Gadkari today said the UPA government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should adopt a ruthless stand on Pakistan's recent ceasefire violations on the LoC and the killing and decapitation of Indian soldiers. Stating that Pakistan had violated human rights and international norms, Gadkari said, People of this country are angry and the government and Prime Minister should take a ruthless stand in the matter. Gadkari, who spoke to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised by the Symbiosis Institute at its campus at Lavale, near here, said that it was expected that Pakistan would regret its action, but it did not happen as it continued to be in the denial mode. [caption id=attachment_590886 align=alignleft width=380 strongPune:/strong BJP president Ni
Gujarat state chief minister Narendra Modi, center, gestures to supporters as he holds hands with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, left, during a reception at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012. Modi, who has served as the Gujarat state chief minister since 2001 was sworn in Wednesday for a fourth consecutive term. Background reads, Gujarat state chief minister Narend
strongAgartal:/strong BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said the UPA government at the Centre is in intensive care unit and claimed that his party would form government in the next elections. The UPA government is in ICU. Time has come for the BJP to form a government at the Centre, Gadkari said while addressing a public meeting here. [caption id=attachment_531952 align=alignleft width=380 strongAgartal:/strong BJP President
Nitin Gadkari, president of India's main opposition Bhartiya Janta party, addresses supporters during a protest against the Indian government s recent decision to open India's retail sector to foreign investment in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. Nitin Gadkari, president of India's
India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari (R) and BJP senior leader and former BJP president Ramnath Singh attend a rally to protest against Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) prior to the Winter Session of Parliament which begins November 22, in New Delhi on November 21, 2012. The BJP is staging a nationwide protest rally against Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, a recent decision of the government which has thrown open the retail and aviation sectors, corruption and price rise. India's main opposition Bharatiya
strongNew Delhi:/strong Nitin Gadkari today met LK Advani, who is apparently unhappy over the BJP President's continuance in his post, to wish him on his birthday. Gadkari met Advani at his residence. The meeting between the two lasted for 15 minutes. Delhi BJP leader Vijay Jolly, who was present on the occasion, said, The atmosphere was very cordial when Gadkari met Advani. Gadkari touched Advani's feet and sought his blessings. [caption id=attachment_518854 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Nitin Gadka
strongNew Delhi:/strong Nitin Gadkari has done it again. But this time around he has hit the core of the ideological family that he represents, the Sangh Parivar and the party that he heads as its president, the BJP. His rather bizarre equation of Swami Vivekananda's intelligence quotient (IQ) level with fugitive underworld don Dawoood Ibrahim, whose name figures on top of India's most wanted has surprised and shocked even his supporters in the party. Gadkari could not have chosen a worse time to proclaim himself as psycho-analyst who has laid his hands on the non-existent IQ test results of an all time revered Sanyasi and Pakistan-based don. In any case, he is under tremendous pressure to save two things that would matter to him most at the politically young age of 55 -- his personal credentials and his second term in office as party president. He is currently under investigation by various central government agencies for alleged wrongful deals for his business venture, Purti Group. If those headlines were fading out a bit and the party leadership under pressure from the RSS was working hard to be seen to be supportive of him and blaming it on government machinations and agenda reporting by a section of media, then his latest headline grabbing Swami Vivekananda-Dawood Ibrahim statement has raised fresh questions. Unfortunately, for him these statements will allow all those around him to relate to his own intelligence quotient. [caption id=attachment_514861 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Nitin Gadka
Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, Nitin Gadkari, gestures at a function in New Delhi on November 5,2012. Gadkari has been the target of corruption allegations from anti-corruption activists for alleged financial impropriety in business dealings in connection with his Purti Group, a group of companies with presence across multiple industries such as real estate, energy, and infrastructure. Indian Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
strongBhopal: /strongBJP president Nitin Gadkari today saidthe intelligence quotient level of Swami Vivekananda and DawoodIbrahim was almost the same, but the spiritual leader had usedit for nation building while the underworld don for pursuingcrime. In psychology, we measure IQ level of people... But itdepends from person to person, in which area they use theirintelligence, Gadkari said at an award ceremony here. [caption id=attachment_514273 align=alignleft width=380 strongBhopal: /strongBJP president
By strongRajdeep Sardesai/strong Nitin Gadkari isn't quite known to mind his language. A few weeks after he took over as BJP president, he expressed himself with typical candour to a group of journalists: I know you must be wondering who is this bloody 'mota' guy from nowhere. I want to tell all of you I am on a mission, not here for commission! Three years later, those words may well come to haunt him as he is slowly pushed into exile from the Delhi durbar. In this open season against corruption, it would be easy to see Gadkari as yet another high profile 'target' of the growing public anger against political corruption. What might have been dismissed as 'sharp' business practices in another period is now evidence of yet another politician trying to wink at the law by a mix of recklessness and subterfuge. Why else would a self-proclaimed 'social entrepreneur' choose to set up a maze of fictitious shell companies unless he believed he could get away with it using political clout? And yet, the eclipse of Gadkari is not just about a popular rage against the neta. It also reflects a growing crisis within the country's premier opposition party. In the last three years, in the relentless gaze on the wrongdoings of UPA 2, the BJP has been in soft focus. And yet, the travails of the BJP at times suggest that its future is just as uncertain as the Congress. [caption id=attachment_512259 align=alignleft width=380 By strongRajdeep Sardesai/strong N
Nitin Gadkari, BJP President, appeared very combative after landing in Mumbai on Wednesday. Hundreds of supporters cheered and chanted slogans hailing him. He pointed fingers at the Congress and asked why various agencies under the control of the central government were not investigating Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, who faced similar charges. The only thing he got wrong was the venue. Two days before the end of campaigning in Himachal Pradesh - in places where polling is to be held on 4 November - the BJP chief should have been there trying to get his party back to power. But he has been forced by recent media disclosures about his Purti Group to hold rallies in Mumbai and Nagpur so as to draw strength on home turf. The rallies are probably his way of telling party colleagues, critics and possibly the public at large that he is a leader rooted to the ground, no matter what allegations of dubious business practices are levelled against him. He probably wants to tell his party that even if they didn't want him in Himachal, he still has popular support. [caption id=attachment_509549 align=alignleft width=380 Nitin Gadkari, BJP President, appea
strongNew Delhi/strong: BJP president Nitin Gadkari's company Purti Group, which is facing a government probe into allegations of dubious funding, tonight claimed it has been complying with the requirements of laws from time to time. A statement issued by the Purti Power & Sugar Ltd (PPSL) said it expected fair investigation from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in such a way that baseless allegations making rounds by media should not prejudice the enquiry proceedings. [caption id=attachment_504517 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi/strong: BJP preside
Even as Nitin Gadkari maintains a studious silence over the investments in his conglomerate Purti Group, the unraveling of the web of investments in the group continues and raises the question whether the BJP has erred by sticking their neck too far out for their party chief. A report in the emTimes of India/em today has shown that as per records with the Registrar of Companies, over 100 companies may have invested in the BJP President's Purti Power and Sugar Limited and have funds where the origin of the funds is virtually impossible to trace. The report showed how one of the companies, Update Merchantile, that held 29 lakh Purti shares was controlled by 39 shareholders including Gadkari's chauffeur Manohar Panse and the BJP leader's accountant. [caption id=attachment_502050 align=alignleft width=380 Even as Nitin Gadkari maintains a s
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari (L) chats with MP Banwarilal Purohit (C) and BJP MP Ajay Sanchite during the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Vijaya Dashmi programme at the Reshambagh grounds in Nagpur on October 24, 2012. The RSS, a right wing Hindu nationalist organisation, was founded by Keshava Baliram Hedgewar in 1925 with its ideology based on service to the nation. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) presid
strongNagpur:/strong For now, Nitin Gadkari is safe as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Or so it seemed, with the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat seen sharing the dais with Gadkari and choosing not to slam BJP chief during his annual Vijay Dashmi day address today morning. However, the RSS chief was not so kind on the government as he attacked the Centre on corruption and assured the groups fighting illicit practices of RSS backing.[caption id=attachment_500961 align=alignleft width=380 strongNagpur:/strong For now, Nitin
strong12.30 pm: BJP says Gadkari is open to an investigation/strong BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman, has spoken out in defence of party President Nitin Gadkari, saying that he is open to an investigation and daring the Congress party to do the same with Robert Vadra. Unlike the Congress, our president has said he is open to any inquiry, said Sitharaman. Gadkari has come under increasing fire, after an emNDTV/em expose over the weekend revealed that a company that won infrastructure projects during Mr Gadkari's term as minister of Maharashtra's Public Works Department, went on years later to invest in his business, Purti Power and Sugar. [caption id=attachment_499687 align=alignleft width=380 strong12.30 pm: BJP says Gadkari is
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari, third right, celebrates war veterans of the India-China war Narendra Chandra Das, third left, and Kumar Singh Gurung, second right, before the start of the Shahid Shraddhanjali Yatra, Journey to pay homage to Martyrs, in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The BJP conducts the tour from Guwahati to Tawang bordering China to pay tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives during the war. Bharatiya Janata Party President Ni
strongNew Delhi/strong: BJP President Nitin Gadkari rejected allegations that he had acquired land in Maharashtra in an improper manner and expressed readiness for any kind of probe while his party leaders rallied behind him with a vow to fight the charges politically. Soon after Arvind Kejriwal levelled the allegations, Gadkari dismissed these as baseless, wrong and unfortunate and said the activist-turned-politician was trying to usurp the opposition space in collusion with Congress whose image has suffered due to corruption cases. The allegations of land (grabbing) are absurd. Land has been given on lease to a charitable trust which functions like a cooperative. It is not owned by me, Gadkari said. I am ready for any kind of probe, he said, while claiming that the land (about 100 acres) was a wasteland valued at only Rs 20 lakh.The land has not been given to a private company or an individual. It is not personal, he insisted. Senior party leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley rallied behind Gadkari, claiming he had done no wrong and the allegations were false and baseless. [caption id=attachment_494412 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi/strong: BJP Preside
Indian anti-corruption activists Anjali Damania, left, and Arvind Kejriwal display a calendar during a news conference in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Kejriwal on Wednesday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, of being involved in an irrigation scam in western Maharashtra state, news reports said. Indian anti-corruption activists An
While BJP party president Nitin Gadkari may want to wait till the 2014 elections to declare the party's Prime Ministerial candidate, senior lawyer and BJP MP Ram Jethmalani has openly come out in support of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the best man for the job. In a letter to BJP President Nitin Gadkari, Jethmalani has asked him to make Modi the party's official PM candidate.Jethmalani claimed that Modi wass the BJP's best choice for the post of Prime Minister. In an interview to emTimes Now/em on his proposal, Jethmalani said that he wanted the party leaders to discuss the candidature of Modi for the top post. He also said that he had spoken to many leaders and was confident of support for Modi's candidature. [caption id=attachment_493712 align=alignleft width=380 While BJP party president Nitin Gad
strongBhopal:/strong BJP president Nitin Gadkari today said Congress-led UPA government was worse than dacoits of Madhya Pradesh. The dacoits of Madhya Pradesh were better than the Congress-led government at the Centre...a Rs 4.38 lakh crore scam was unheard of before, Gadkari said. He was addressing 'Yuva Sankalp' bike rally organised by the youth wing of BJP to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekanand here. [caption id=attachment_487808 align=alignleft width=380 strongBhopal:/strong BJP president