Gandhian Anna Hazare is "hurt" by the Congress terming him the face of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), civil rights activist Arvind Kejriwal said here on Tuesday. "He has a lot of self-respect and is very hurt by this statement. He is writing a letter on it and you will have ...

Social reformer Anna Hazare and other civil society members Monday boycotted the Lokpal bill drafting panel meeting saying the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev had "strengthened the doubts" about the government's intentions to have a strong anti-corruption body. "Recent events since our last meeting don't inspire any confidence that the government ...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley on Sunday described the crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev's anti-graft fast as "a shameful chapter in the history of Indian democracy". "What happened last (Saturday) night at the Ramlila Ground is a shameful chapter in the history of Indian democracy. It was a ...

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said here Sunday the central government seemed to have lost its “mental balance” and would have to “pay for its action” of cracking down on yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s stir in Delhi. “The government swooped down on Ramdev and his supporters as if it were ...

In his reaction to the crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on Sunday urged President Pratibha Patil to convene an emergency session of parliament. "I want the president to take cognisance of the happenings in the country for the past six months and convene ...

Strongly backing Baba Ramdev's "peaceful" agitation against corruption, Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal today assured the yoga guru of "full security" if he decides to continue his protest in the state. "If he (Ramdev) wants to continue his agitation and protest in Uttarakhand, then he has full freedom to do it," ...

Sharpening his attack on Baba Ramdev, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday dubbed his indefinite fast as a “five-star satyagraha” sponsored by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to divert people’s attention from “Sanghi terror”. “Now it is absolutely clear as to what are the credentials of ...

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Friday vowed to press ahead with his hunger strike against corruption Saturday even as the government made last ditch efforts to stop him. He said corrupt ministers and officials must be tried in fast track courts and given the death sentence. "My fast will start from ...

Despite a round of talks with senior United Progressive Alliance ministers, yoga guru Baba Ramdev rejected pleas to call off his planned hunger strike, asserting that he will begin his agitation against corruption and black money from Saturday. ‘The agitation from June 4 will spread from Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to 624 ...

Veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari Wednesday refused to appear before the Delhi High Court and moved an application stating that he cannot be forced to give a blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit filed by a 31-year-old man who says Tiwari is his biological father.  Tiwari, 85, ...