Ayodhya: Application to summon Vajpayee opposed

Indiainfo.com News
New Delhi: Hours after an application was moved before the Liberhan Commission today (Feb 24, 2005) to summon former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his alleged involvement in the conspiracy to demolish the disputed structure at Ayodhya in 1992, counsel for senior BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) leader L K Advani opposed it by terming it as politicially motivated. ...
... Immediately filing reply to the application, counsel for Advani and senior BJP leaders M M Joshi and Uma Bharati sought its dismisssal terming it as "misconceived" and "politically" motivated.
"The allegations levelled by Bhure in this application against Vajpayee are absolutely false, baseless and highly vague. They are all denied in to-to.
"The alleged CD was already before this Commission and no such conclusion of any involvement of Vajpayee either could be drawn or can be drawn, as being done by Bhure from the content of the CD," advocate Satya Pal Jain said in the reply. ...

Ayodhya Commission Petitioned To Summon Vajpayee

IndLaw.com
A petition was today filed before the Liberhan Commission inquiring into the demolition of Babri Masjid to summon former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the wake of a new CD showing his speech in Lucknow a day before the demolition. ...
... Exercising the right to reply to the application to summon Mr Vajpayee, Opposition leader L K Advani's counsel Satya Pal Jain said the allegations raised were "absolutely false, baseless and highly vague".
Mr Jain said the CD was already before the Commission and so such conclusion of any involvement of Mr Vajpayee could be drawn from its contents.
"The application is totally misconceived and politically motivated," he said seeking its dismissal.

BJP protests Congress policies

No Oppn member in the Advisory Council'
Chandigarh Newsline
Chandigarh, January 31: The city unit of the BJP staged a dharna today at Sector 17 Plaza in protest against corruption and anti-people Congress policies.
Addressing workers, city BJP chief Yash Pal Mahajan alleged that the Congress was "an organisation of corrupt people" and it has nothing to do with the welfare of the people. He said that due to the wrong policies of the Congress, the inflation had gone up during the last eight months.
Former MP Satya Pal Jain said it was for the first time in the history of Chandigarh that the Congress has not given representation to any other political party in the Chandigarh Advisory Council just to gag the voice of the Opposition parties. Representation has not been given to the trading class, residents of labour colonies, lawyers, doctors and women in the Advisory Council, he added. Assailing the Central government, the Chandigarh Administration and the Congress-ruled Municipal Corporation, he said that the Congress was trying to hush up all corruption cases involving ex-mayor, its councillors and chairman of the market committee. He demanded a CBI investigation in all these cases.
Jain said that the BJP would launch a campaign at Mandal level in the city against the Congress and ensure participation of the public.
Leaders, including Purshotam Mahajan, Ravi Parkash Kansal, Davesh Moudgil, Shingara Singh, Manjit Kaur, Santosh Rana, Megh Raj Verma, Dr Anwar Ali, Deen Dayal Tripahi, Jagdish Lal Bajaj, Shashi Shankar Tiwari, Manoj Kumar and Jagdish Rohilla, also addressed the dharna.

Cong pursuing anti-people policies: BJP

Chandigarh Tribune- Chandigarh, India

BJP activists stage a dharna in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Monday. (Image courtesy: Chandigarh Tribune)
CHANDIGARH, JANUARY 31: Activists of the local unit of the BJP organised a dharna in Sector 17 here today in protest against the "anti-people" policies of the Congress.
Addressing the participants, Mr Yash Pal Mahajan, president, local BJP unit, alleged that the prices of the commonly-used commodities had risen sharply since the UPA Government came to power at the Centre. All sections of society, including traders, farmers, employees and working class, were fed up with the present regime, he added.
Mr Satya Pal Jain, a former MP, alleged that the Central Government was putting pressure on the Chandigarh Administration to hush-up corruption cases against the former Mayor, Ms Kamlesh, and the Chairman of the Market Committee, Mr Bhupinder Singh Badheri.
He demanded a CBI inquiry into the charges against the two leaders. ...