Lk Advani On Parliament

Following the parliament attack on December 13, 2001, LK Advani made a statement on the floor of the House, underscored Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, pressing Home Minister Amit Shah to make a statement on breach in parliament security.

BJP veteran LK Advani joined the chorus of party leaders in welcoming the government's decision to end Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. He called it a bold step towards strengthening national integration, in a short statement.

With the dust yet to settle on the controversy over Rahul Gandhi's sixth row seat on Republic Day, the Congress chief was given a front row seat in Parliament's Central Hall on Monday. The occasion was President's address the joint sitting of both Houses as the budget session started. The Union Budget that will be announced on February 1, is the la...

Hours after BJP veteran L K Advani expressed his anguish over stalling of Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today said she understands his "pain" and decried the disturbances caused by members.

BJP veteran LK Advani has again expressed severe disappointment at the continuous disruption of Parliament, invoking the party's gold standard Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister. Mr Advani asked union home minister Rajnath Singh to speak to the opposition and try and restore order so that the Houses can run. If Mr Vajpayee had been in Parl...

After multiple disruptions in parliament, veteran BJP leader LK Advani appeared to snap today and was seen speaking angrily to his party colleague Ananth Kumar, the Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister.

For Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party, a scandal centred on video of senior leaders -many of them parliamentarians - accepting money, reportedly in exchange for extending favours to a firm, took on new dimensions today with parliament deciding to investigate the footage.

Jaswant Singh has said that he is deeply saddened by the decision to expel him from the BJP. Mr Singh, 76, was expelled on Saturday for six years for refusing to change his mind about running as an independent candidate for Parliament from Barmer in Rajasthan.

Despite a series of house calls from the BJP's top leaders, including Narendra Modi, there's no white flag being waved yet by LK Advani. The party veteran remains bent on running for parliament from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and not Gandhinagar, the constituency in Gujarat that he has represented for five terms.

The bill to create Telangana will be taken up for discussion in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, the government today announced as the BJP warned against passing the proposal in the din of protests, without addressing the concerns of all regions of Andhra Pradesh. The main opposition party has become the focus of all efforts to stall the move, with five un...

As a beleaguered Congress struggles to push through Parliament the controversial plan to split Andhra Pradesh to carve out a Telangana state, the main opposition party, the BJP, is not offering to help.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited top BJP leaders - LK Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley - for dinner on Wednesday to discuss the stalemate in Parliament and the Lokpal Bill, which became a flashpoint between the government and the main Opposition party last week.

At a dinner meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged top BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and LK Advani to allow Parliament to function so that important legislation can be cleared before the session ends on Friday, sources said. Dr Singh reportedly assured them that his government too wants a thorough probe into "Coal-gate", ...

BJP leader LK Advani on Tuesday suggested that Defence Minister A.K. Antony should have apologised for making an "inaccurate" statement on the August 6 killing of five Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops.

After being attacked by the Opposition for letting Pakistan off the hook for the deadly ambush on five Indian soldiers in Kashmir this week, Defence Minister AK Antony today issued a new statement on the attack in Parliament, and indicted the Pakistani Army.

Following the parliament attack on December 13, 2001, LK Advani made a statement on the floor of the House, underscored Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, pressing Home Minister Amit Shah to make a statement on breach in parliament security.

BJP veteran LK Advani joined the chorus of party leaders in welcoming the government's decision to end Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. He called it a bold step towards strengthening national integration, in a short statement.

With the dust yet to settle on the controversy over Rahul Gandhi's sixth row seat on Republic Day, the Congress chief was given a front row seat in Parliament's Central Hall on Monday. The occasion was President's address the joint sitting of both Houses as the budget session started. The Union Budget that will be announced on February 1, is the la...

Hours after BJP veteran L K Advani expressed his anguish over stalling of Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today said she understands his "pain" and decried the disturbances caused by members.

BJP veteran LK Advani has again expressed severe disappointment at the continuous disruption of Parliament, invoking the party's gold standard Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister. Mr Advani asked union home minister Rajnath Singh to speak to the opposition and try and restore order so that the Houses can run. If Mr Vajpayee had been in Parl...

After multiple disruptions in parliament, veteran BJP leader LK Advani appeared to snap today and was seen speaking angrily to his party colleague Ananth Kumar, the Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister.

For Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party, a scandal centred on video of senior leaders -many of them parliamentarians - accepting money, reportedly in exchange for extending favours to a firm, took on new dimensions today with parliament deciding to investigate the footage.

Jaswant Singh has said that he is deeply saddened by the decision to expel him from the BJP. Mr Singh, 76, was expelled on Saturday for six years for refusing to change his mind about running as an independent candidate for Parliament from Barmer in Rajasthan.

Despite a series of house calls from the BJP's top leaders, including Narendra Modi, there's no white flag being waved yet by LK Advani. The party veteran remains bent on running for parliament from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and not Gandhinagar, the constituency in Gujarat that he has represented for five terms.

The bill to create Telangana will be taken up for discussion in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, the government today announced as the BJP warned against passing the proposal in the din of protests, without addressing the concerns of all regions of Andhra Pradesh. The main opposition party has become the focus of all efforts to stall the move, with five un...

As a beleaguered Congress struggles to push through Parliament the controversial plan to split Andhra Pradesh to carve out a Telangana state, the main opposition party, the BJP, is not offering to help.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited top BJP leaders - LK Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley - for dinner on Wednesday to discuss the stalemate in Parliament and the Lokpal Bill, which became a flashpoint between the government and the main Opposition party last week.

At a dinner meeting on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged top BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and LK Advani to allow Parliament to function so that important legislation can be cleared before the session ends on Friday, sources said. Dr Singh reportedly assured them that his government too wants a thorough probe into "Coal-gate", ...

BJP leader LK Advani on Tuesday suggested that Defence Minister A.K. Antony should have apologised for making an "inaccurate" statement on the August 6 killing of five Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops.

After being attacked by the Opposition for letting Pakistan off the hook for the deadly ambush on five Indian soldiers in Kashmir this week, Defence Minister AK Antony today issued a new statement on the attack in Parliament, and indicted the Pakistani Army.