The man who took on Law Minister Salman Khurshid and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, activist Arvind Kejriwal, is set to take centrestage again on Wednesday.
The clamour for Law Minister Salman Khurshid's resignation is growing with both the Opposition and India Against Corruption saying he must quit before the allegations against his NGO go in court
The India Today group, which is under attack from Law Minister Salman Khurshid, tonight said it stands by the report carried by its TV network alleging financial irregularities in a trust run by the Khurshid couple.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has refused to meet India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday, saying he has prior appointments.
With a Special CBI court today framing charges against former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanomozhi and 15 others in the multi-crore 2-G spectrum scam, Law Minister Salman Khurshid today said this will pave the way for the hearing of their bail applications.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee claimed on Thursday that the controversial note on 2G spectrum allocation scam that his ministry had sent to the Prime Minister's Office was just a background paper on the entire issue and nothing more.
Amid the controversy generated by a Finance Ministry note suggesting that then Finance Minister P Chidambaram could have insisted on auctioning 2G spectrum, Law Minister Salman Khurshid today said there could be 'no question mark' on the senior minister and he deserves the support of the government.
Team Anna and government held another round of talks here today to end the deadlock over the Lokpal Bill ahead of the debate on the issue in Parliament.
A day after talks between government and Team Anna ended in a deadlock on resolving key issues , Government today said it is "concerned" about Hazare's health and that the door was "open" for further discussion.
Carrying forward their dialogue, government and Team Anna today held another round of discussions to sort of sticky issues even as government insisted that ending of fast by the Gandhian assumed greater urgency than passage of Lokpal Bill.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid is said to be in touch with Anna Hazare's close aide Arvind Kejriwal, who today demanded that government mandate somebody officially for discussing the Lokpal issue.
As government went into a huddle to resolve the stand off with Team Anna Hazare, Law Minister Salman Khurshid today said the Standing Commitee looking into the Lokpal Bill can reflect upon the Jan Lokpal Bill, which has been submitted before it by a Congress member.