PM Modi, BJP leaders greet LK Advani on his 96th birthday
Former Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu called on Advani at his residence to extend his birthday wishes.
Former Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu called on Advani at his residence to extend his birthday wishes.
For a long time, Mulayam Singh Yadav, a veteran politician who saw Uttar Pradesh go through many ups and downs during his five-decade-long career, remained synonymous with the politics of the state.
The Centre’s ordinance last year taking control of supervision of cooperative banks has already sparked a legal and political battle and its latest move is likely to ensure that stakeholder cooperation is unlikely going forward.
Targeting and demonising political opponents, while it does not change attitudes, does embolden individuals to express, and act on, pre-existing views they had once hidden. The results are there for all to see in West Bengal.
Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, 92, Murli Manohar Joshi, 86, Uma Bharti and Kalyan Singh were not present in the court but joined the proceedings via video link.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had given time till August 31 to the trial court in Lucknow to deliver its verdict.
A Special CBI court hearing took place last week on the Babri mosque demolition case via video conferencing to record statements of nine accused, including former deputy prime minister LK Advani.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani was to depose through video conferencing on Tuesday and former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi on Wednesday, the two days the court will now not sit.
The court had asked the central government body, to make arrangements at the residence of 10 of the 32 accused who had opted to record their statements through video conferencing.
Framed by a special CBI court in 2017, the investigation agency has charged BJP leaders Advani, Joshi, Bharti, Kalyan Singh and others of criminal conspiracy in the Babri demolition case.