Raja Chidambaram

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  P Chidambaram's 2009 Lok Sabha Election Win Holds, Says Madras High Court

  Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram's victory from Tamil Nadu's Sivaganga constituency in the 2009 national election holds, the Madras High Court said today, cancelling a petition which challenged the former Union Minister's Lok Sabha election win.

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  Amit Shah Hits Out At Kanhimozhi, Karti Chidambaram At Tamil Nadu Rallies

  BJP president Amit Shah Tuesday trained his guns on the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu, alleging that Karti Chidambaram, A Raja and Kanimozhi, fielded by the combine for the Lok Sabha elections, were tainted with corruption.

• AIADMK upbeat ahead of counting in Tamil Nadu

  The poll prospects of 845 contestants, including 2G scam accused A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, Congress' Manishankar Aiyar and Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti, will be known tomorrow when votes polled for 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu are taken up for counting.

• Key Contestant: Karti Chidambaram

  At Sivaganga in Tamil Nadu, Finance Minister P Chidambaram's son Karti is the Congress candidate. His main rival is PR Senthilnathan of the AIADMK, whose Raja Kannapan had lost by a wafer-thin margin to Mr Chidambaram in the 2009 election.

• 2G scam: warring parliamentary committee may get more time

  A parliamentary committee that has turned into a war zone between the Congress and the opposition may get an extension until the next Parliament session, say sources. The 30-member committee has conducted an inquest of the telecom or 2G scam with differing conclusions.

• Will prove my innocence and that PM was consulted: A Raja on 2G scam

  The man who is being tried for masterminding a telecom scam worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore today said, "I will prove my innocence."

• BJP slams leakage of draft JPC report on 2G scam

  Slamming the leakage of the draft Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on 2G scam as a "gross breach of Parliamentary propriety", BJP on Friday said its contents appeared like Congress documents where attempts have been made to save its leaders including the Prime Minister.

• 2G scam: Opposition furious at clean chit to PM, Chidambaram; Chacko says anger expected

  A Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) appointed to study the 2G scam has said in its report that neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the malpractices of then Telecom Minister A Raja which allowed ineligible companies to grab cheap mobile network licenses with second-wave or 2G airwaves thrown in for free.

• 2G scam: JPC report clears PM and Chidambaram, opposition furious

  A parliamentary committee appointed to study the 2G scam has said in its report that neither the Prime Minister nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram were aware of the malpractices of then Telecom Minister A Raja which allowed ineligible companies to grab cheap mobile network licenses with second-wave or 2G airwaves thrown in for free.

• If you have nothing to hide, testify, says Yashwant Sinha to PM

  BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has written to the Prime Minister, demanding that he testify for a parliamentary committee that's dissecting the telecom or 2G scam, named for the second-generation airwaves involved.

• JPC meet on 2G scam: BJP walkout over summons to PM, Chidambaram

  A joint parliamentary committee (JPC) examining the allocation of 2G spectrum is likely to shut the door on the opposition's demand that finance minister P Chidambaram be questioned by it. Senior BJP leaders, who are part of the JPC, walked out the session today demanding to know when Mr Chidambaram, as well as the prime minister and then-telecom m...

• Supreme Court dismisses petitions against P Chidambaram: Full text of order

  The Supreme Court has dismissed two petitions against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam and to be made co-accused along with former Telecom Minister A Raja. Full text of the Supreme Court judgement.

• Relief for Chidambaram, Supreme Court says no evidence against him in 2G case

  Relief for Chidambaram: The Supreme Court has dismissed cases against P Chidambaram asking for him to be investigated by the CBI in the telecom scam. The verdict offers significant relief for the Finance Minister, whose resignation has been demanded by the main opposition party, the BJP, in what is described as India's biggest swindle.

• Clean chit for Chidambaram? PM misled by A Raja consistently in 2G auction, says CBI

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told the Joint Parliamentary Committee that is probing the 2G spectrum scam that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was consistently misled by A Raja. The investigating agency also said that there is no criminal culpability of Home Minister P Chidambaram.

• Blog: The impact of election petitions

  Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram is back in the news. This time it's not over the 2G case but about an election petition filed against him by his rival candidate Raja Kanappan in Sivaganga. Chidambaram was declared the winner by a narrow margin after a recount in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. The Madras High Court today rejected Chidambaram's petit...