'Gun-toting' former MP Vitthal Radadiya is BJP's candidate from Porbandar for Lok Sabha by-polls
Edited by Mala Das (with inputs from PTI) | Tuesday May 14, 2013
Former Gujarat MP Vitthal Radadiya, infamous for pulling a gun at a toll booth attendant, has been chosen as the BJP's nominee from Porbandar for the Lok Sabha bypolls slated for June 2.
Zakia Jafri files plea against closure report giving clean chit to Narendra Modi in 2002 riots
Press Trust of India | Monday April 15, 2013
Zakia Jafri, wife of 2002 post-Godhra riots victim and former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, today filed a protest petition in a local court seeking rejection of the SIT report giving a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others in the Gulberg S...
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Narendra Modi's in-house rival for the 'good governance' tag
Edited by Mala Das | Tuesday April 2, 2013
On a massive stage, with 5000 people in attendance, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced uninterrupted power supply today in state capital Bhopal. The trappings and scale of the function, and a well-timed tweet by Mr Chouhan ...
Vitthal Radadiya, the MP who brandished gun at toll booth, joins Narendra Modi's BJP
Edited by Mala Das | Friday March 8, 2013
The canny Narendra Modi would have done a detailed SWOT analysis on this one. Vitthal Radadiya, famously known as the "gun-toting MP", has joined Mr Modi's party, the BJP today. He quit the Congress in a huff last month.
Gujarat Congress leader Vitthal Radadia to join BJP tomorrow
Press Trust of India | Thursday March 7, 2013
Former Congress MP and farmers' leader from Saurashtra Vitthal Radadia, who had hit the headlines last year for brandishing a gun at a toll-booth, would be joining BJP in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at a function at Dhoraji t...
Gujarat leader Vitthal Radadiya, who pulled gun at toll attendant, resigns from Congress
Reported by Rohit Bhan; Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Tuesday February 26, 2013
Vitthal Radadiya - the former Gujarat MP who was caught on camera last year brandishing a gun and allegedly threatening a toll booth attendant - has resigned from the Congress and has indicated his new political preference by praising the BJP's Naren...
Narendra Modi tells state MPs to raise issues of Gujarat in Budget Session
Press Trust of India | Saturday February 16, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today held a meeting of state Members of Parliament (MPs) and asked them to raise issues related to Gujarat's development during the upcoming Budget session of Parliament.
Election Commission reprimands Navjot Singh Sidhu for Model Code violation during Gujarat polls
Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 30, 2013
The Election Commission has reprimanded BJP MP Navjot Singh Sidhu for violating the Model Code of Conduct by making personal remarks against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Gujarat poll campaign.
Gujarat MP from BJP allegedly slapped, threatened doctor
Press Trust of India | Wednesday January 2, 2013
A BJP leader in Gujarat allegedly slapped a government doctor and threatened to kill him yesterday, after the doctor refused to take his phone call while on duty.
Narendra Modi shown black flag after BJP MP calls Keshubhai Patel 'anti-national'
Reported by Rohit Bhan, Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Wednesday December 5, 2012
Former cricketer and BJP's Member of Parliament Navjot Singh Sidhu's remark, in which he termed Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) president Keshubhai Patel as an 'anti-national leader', has triggered a political storm in the state only days ahead of the...
Keshubhai Patel seeks Election Commission action against Navjot Singh Sidhu
Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 5, 2012
Taking umbrage at Navjot Singh Sidhu's remark in which he termed him as an "anti-national leader", Gujarat Parivartan Party president Keshubhai Patel on Saturday appealed to the Election Commission to take suo motu action against the BJP MP and his p...
Gujarat polls: Congress fields candidates with 'winnability' factor
Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 5, 2012
Out of power since 1995, the Congress is leaving no stone unturned to snatch the mandate from the Narendra Modi-led BJP in Gujarat and has fielded three sitting MPs for the upcoming assembly battle, banking on their 'winnability'.
Nitin Gadkari crisis: Agree in principle with Ram Jethmalani's letter, says Yashwant Sinha
Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Tuesday November 6, 2012
Yashwant Sinha said today that he agrees with the sentiments expressed in a letter by lawyer and BJP MP Ram Jethmalani in which he warns of disastrous consequences for the BJP if Mr Gadkari is not removed.
Gun-waving MP gets pulled up by angry High Court judge
Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday October 30, 2012
When Gujarat MP Vitthal Radadiya pulled out a gun at a toll plaza in Vadodara, he perhaps wasn't aware that he was being caught on candid camera.
MP, who pulled out gun at toll plaza, won't apologise; refused bail
Edited by Shamik Ghosh | Wednesday October 17, 2012
When he pulled out a large rifle at a toll booth plaza in Gujarat, Congress MP Vitthalbhai Radadiya said that he had acted in self-defence. He repeated the same explanation today as he applied for anticipatory bail in a court in Vadodara today, which...
