Earlier this week, even as the controversy over the army chief’s exposes and revelations was raging round the country, there was a tweet from a fake account of the PMO (with the ‘o’ in small letter but otherwise identical to the original) which said, “A senior leader of Congress has some documents and call records to prove that Army Chief is an RSS agent.” Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 2G scam, AB Vajpayee, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, army chief, defence minister AK Antony, Digvijaya Singh, FIR, George Fernandes, Hindustantimes, PM, PMO, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Supreme Court
I must say a new respect has dawned in my heart for noted lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani. He was candid enough to admit that if any of the ministers in the Jan Lokpal Committee had to have been caught out in various acts like the Bhushan father-and-son duo have been, he would have been baying for their blood. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Adarsh scam, Amar Singh, Ashok Chavan, Bhushan, Bhushans, bjp, CBI, Congress, DMK, Enforcement Direcotrate, Jan Lokpal Bill, Jan Lokpal Committee, Mahesh Jethmalani, niira radia, Nitin Gadkari, Sharad Pawar, Vir Sanghvi, Yedyurappa
Sometime during the 1990s, Sharad Pawar was caught in a situation where he just could not get it right. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Baramati, Bombay riots, CBI, Central Bureau of Investigation, corruption, Dawood Ibrahim, DB Realty, Dynamix dairy, havala, Hitendra Thakur, Justice Srikrishna, Maharashtra, Manohar Joshi, niira radia, Pappu Kalani, Shahid Balwa, Sharad Pawar, Sudhakarrao Naik
There was a particularly bounteously placed functionary in the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra, today highly placed in New Delhi, who once called in a carpenter to make a concealed safe within a bedroom wall. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, bombay high court, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gujarat riots, Joint Parliamentary Committee, JPC, kapil sibal, Leader of Opposition, minister of state for urban development, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Raj Purohit, Shiv Sena, Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister, Union Rural Development Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh
After much of the dust over the Niira Radia tapes has settled down, I am beginning to wonder what the fuss was all about to begin with. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 2G scam, 2G spectrum scam, A Raja, hindustan times, IAS officer, indian politicians, Madhavrao Scindia, niira radia, political journalism, political journalists, radiagate, Union Telecom minister, Vir Sanghvi