If what anti-corruption crusader Anjali Damania says about Nitin Gadkari is true, then there could be no greater tragedy for the Bharatiya Janata Party that is systematically getting exposed and isolated with each passing week. And there could be nothing more dangerous to Gadkari’s personal and political future. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:44 am
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Anjali Damania, Bharatiya Janata Party, Coalgate, hindustan times, Narendra Modi, Nitin Gadkari, Singly political, Sujata Anandan
If this had been the Youth Congress or even the Yuva Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bal Thackeray would have gone red in the face, spouted some purple prose and cried blue murder. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Aditya Thackeray, Bal Thankeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, hindustan times, NCP, news, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Yuva Morcha
For first time in my life, ever, I felt sorry for L K Advani. The elder ’statesman’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who has done more for his party than any other leader, including Narendra Modi, does not even have a right to his own ambition? Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bharat Mata, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, Jain havala scam, LK Advani, Mohan Bhagwat, Nagpur, Narendra Modi, parliament, Prime Minister, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Race Course Road, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, yatra
It would have happened sooner rather than later. But Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party was prepared for this one. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress-NCP government, Dilip Deshmukh, Eknath Khadse, Gopinath Munde, Jayant Patil, Maharashtra Assembly, Nationalist Congress Party, Nitin Gadkari, Praful Patel, R R Patil, Shahid Balwa, Sharad Pawar, Shashank Manohar, Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, Vilasrao Deshmukh
For all the trolls who go from blog to blog on the Hindustan Times website and label all its editors as Congress stooges or paid journalists, I finally know where they are getting that from. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Amar Singh, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bangaru Laxman, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, BJP leaders, Bombay Congress president, bribe, cash-for-vote, Congress, hindustan times, Kripashankar Singh, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Samajwadi Party, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Sushma Swaraj
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari, speaking to me in another context (of Pramod Mahajan’s troubled son Rahul), had once said, “Jaisa beej boya, vaisa hi phal paya (as you sow, so you reap).’’ Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bindumadhav, hindustan times, Matoshree, news, Nihar Thackeray, Nitin Gadkari, Pramod Mahajan, prostitution racket, Raj Thackeray
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
Minutes after senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani had apologised to Sonia Gandhi for falsely accusing her and her family of having Swiss bank accounts of their own, Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, had tweeted Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged apologising¸ Draupadi, Bhagat Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, Dusashan, hindustan times, L K Advani, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajguru, Rajiv Gandhi, RSS, Samajwadi Party, Sharad Pawar, Sonia Gandhi, Sukhdev, Tushar Gandhi, Valentine’s Day