Dissolution talk to frighten MPs: LK

BJP Parliamentary Party chairman L.K. Advani is of the view that the talk of dissolution of the Lok Sabha was “intended to frighten MPs” as the entire Opposition is determined on a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into scams, including the 2G spectrum allocation, resulting in Parliament logjam. Writing on the issue in his blog, the senior BJP leader said: “No government chooses to go in for an early election unless it is confident of victory. The UPA’s stocks have never before been as low as they are today. The talk of dissolution was intended to frighten MPs. All Opposition MPs, left, right and centre, had become a solid phalanx in support of the demand for a joint parliamentary committee.”
Mr Advani has written that the Vajpayee government recommended dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha and fresh elections, which were otherwise due in September 2004 as the “political mood in the country seemed very positive in favour of the NDA.” However, he admitted that the NDA lost “mainly because of overconfidence and consequent complacency.” He has also mentioned that to strengthen the organisation, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari favoured bringing back former party colleagues, including Ms Uma Bharti.

***
No politics please, says Advani
Gururaj A. Paniyadi
Udupi, Karnataka

Dec. 11: Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani on Saturday refused to speak politics during his visit to Udupi to participate in the 80th birth anniversary celebration of Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji of Pejawar Adhokshaja Mutt.
“I request my friends from the media to give a holiday to politics,” he said. “I don’t want to evade questions.”
When reporters persistently questioned him of the BJP’s problems in the state, he said, “So far as the ‘problem’ of the Karnataka BJP is concerned our party president Nitin Gadkari along with Arun Jaitley was in the state only recently. They will deal with it.”
He did not talk much politics even during the party meeting and spoke of the development of Udupi and BJP in the south and his days in the Bangalore Jail during the Emergency.
Mr Advani also recalled that Udupi municipality was the first body in South where BJP came to power, about 42 years ago.
“Karnataka was the first state in South where the BJP came to power,” he said.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/47051" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: &lt;a&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;code&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;dt&gt; &lt;dd&gt;</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-400c4fb59d498b219c0866f658e01190" value="form-400c4fb59d498b219c0866f658e01190" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="89390805" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.