Parliament continues to be stalled by the principal opposition organization, the Bharatiya Janata Party and it appears that the entire Monsoon session is going to be washed out given the Saffron Brigade’s refusal to give up its demand for the resignation of the Prime Minister. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Filed under Media, New Delhi, india · Tagged Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Capital Closeup, coalgate, Congress, Hindustan Times, Joint Parliamentary Committee, LK Advani, Lok Sabha elections, news, Pankaj Vohra, Sonia Gandhi, UPA
The last few weeks have seen so much being written on individual views and actions of Team Anna members. Of course no one can endorse what Kiran Bedi has done. Similarly why should Arvind Kejriwal not pay his dues to the government or why should Prashant Bhushan’s remarks on Kashmir be not considered anti national. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Filed under New Delhi, india · Tagged Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Capital Closeup, Congress, Hindustan Times, Hisar by election, lokpal bill, news Kiran Bedi, Pankaj Vohra, Prashant Bhushan, Ramlila ground, UPA, Vijay Tendulkar
Last week’s high political drama, which resulted in, Anna Hazare finally breaking his fast has shown up sharp divisions within the ruling Congress party. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Anna Hazare, Capital Closeup, Congress, Hindustan Times, Jyotirditya Scindia, lok sabha, lokpal bill, news, Pankaj Vohra, Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, ramlila grounds, Sandeep Dikshit, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, Team Anna
Anna Hazare’s fast at the Ramlila ground has attracted unprecedented crowds. For someone who was born and grew up in Delhi, I have not seen anyone getting this kind of support even if it is from a certain section of our people. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Anna Hazare, Babu Jagjiwan Ram, BJP, Chaudhury Charan Singh, Congress, Indira Gandhi, JP movement, ramlila maidan, RSS
The events of the last few days leading to the arrest of social activist and Gandhian Anna Hazare and its political fall out have left no one in doubt that the present UPA government seems to be incapable of governance. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Filed under Activism, india · Tagged 2G scam, Anna Hazare, Congress, corruption, NDA, parliament, Protest, Supreme Court lawyers, Team Anna, Tihar jail, UPA, UPA government
Realising that it made a grave error in agreeing to an understanding with the ruling dispensation over the debate on price rise in Parliament last week, the BJP seems to have suddenly become wiser. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Anna Hazare, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, BS Yeddyurappa, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Karnataka, LK Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Pankaj Vohra, price rise, RSS, Sadananda Gowda, Saffron party, Sonia Gandhi, UPA government
The time has come for the Congress and its government at the Centre to seriously introspect and make course correction before it is too late. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 2Gscam, Akbar Allahabadi, Anna Hazare, Baba Ram Dev, Capital Closeup, centre, Congress, Constitution, CWG scam, Pankaj Vohra, parliament, Prime Minister
I was in Chennai last week when Anna Hazare was dominating the news everywhere. Read more
Posted by Pankaj Vohra on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Filed under india · Tagged A Raja, Adarash scam, Anna Hazare, Ashok Chavan, CAG, Chattrrapati Shivaji, Chennai, Commonwealth Game scam, corruption, Guru Gobind Singh, Hindustan Times, inflation, L.K.Advani, Manmohan Singh, news, Shunglu committee report, Suresh Kalmadi