Sushil Modi claims Lalu asked for Jaitley’s help to ‘manage’ CBI

Senior BJP leader and Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi claimed that RJD chief Lalu Prasad had sought help from Arun Jaitley in 2017 to manage the CBI in his favour in the fodder-scam case and assured that he would topple the Nitish Kumar government in return. Read More
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Christian Michel: ‘Rakesh Asthana threatened to make my life hell’

The alleged middleman in AgustaWestland chopper scam case, Christian Michel, has claimed in a Delhi court that former Rakesh Asthana, former special director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, had “threatened him” in Dubai. Read More
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Prashant Bhushan to Supreme Court: ‘Made a genuine mistake’

Advocate Prashant Bhushan admitted before the apex court that he made a “genuine mistake” by tweeting that the government submitted fabricated minutes of meeting of the selection committee on the appointment of M Nageswara Rao as an interim CBI director. Read More
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Giriraj Singh says Mamata Banerjee is a ‘super nautanki master’

Union minister Giriraj Singh, on Tuesday, while commenting on the stand-off between the CBI and Kolkata Police, said, the West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, is a “super nautanki (drama) master”. Read More
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Adityanath says ‘nothing more shameful than a CM on dharna’

While commenting on Mamata Banerjee’s “dharna”, he said, “Nothing can be more shameful for a democracy than a chief minister sitting on a dharna.” Read More
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Arun Jaitley: Mamata Banerjee’s strategy is to ‘hog centre stage’

Union minister Arun Jaitley spoke on the Mamata Banerjee and her stand-off with the Centre over the CBI’s probe into the chit-fund scam, he said that this is her strategy to project herself as the nucleus of the opposition and defocus its leaders. Read More
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Mamata says Supreme Court order on CBI is a ‘people’s victory’

Soon after the Supreme Court ordered that Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar cannot be arrested as of now, the West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, stated that her stand is “vindicated”, and the apex court’s order is a “victory of the people of Bengal”. Read More
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Mehbooba backs Mamata, says ‘disheartening to see institutions’

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, called up the West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, to extend support to her over the confrontation with the Narendra Modi-led government. Read More
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Chandrababu backs Mamata, says ‘Modi is losing all hope’

Chandrababu Naidu tweeted and extend the support to her. He wrote: “After opposition parties started uniting and started to fight together to save democracy, the Modi led BJP is losing all hope.” Read More
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Omar backs Didi: ‘Modi’s misuse of institutions crossed all limits’

Former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister and Jammu & Kashmir National Conference chief Omar Abdullah also spoke to Mamata Banerjee and conveyed his party’s support to her dharna against the CBI’s action against Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar. Read More
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