The Delhi Police had filed FIR against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Vinod K Jose and Anant Nath for allegedly misleading the public over the death of a protestor during the Republic Day violence in New Delhi.
Earlier, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists have been booked by the Noida Police for sedition, among other charges, over the violence during the farmers' tractor rally in Delhi, officials had said.
The Rajya Sabha MP said he had written to the Prime Minster but had received no replies to his complaint.
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN believes there will always be bickering over seats and also that the alliances trouble perhaps is being overdone.
The numbers thrown out by the tracker show that that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance or NDA is within striking distance of a majority in the Lok Sabha, the caveat, if the elections are held today.
At a seat projection of 212-232, the room for NDA to grow further looks limited, Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor of the IBN18 Network, said, but it continues to remain the best bet to have a shot at power after the elections.
The countdown has begun – 31 days to go before the first ballot is cast. It is time now for the CNN-IBN Lokniti poll survey. Today we will bring you the big national picture; who does India want as the next Prime Minister. Let us first take you through the methodology of this survey.
Between February 17 and 23, 9,104 voters were surveyed across 512 locations of 138 parliamentary constituencies. These were the same constituencies sampled in the first two rounds of the survey. The sample profile is representative of caste, gender, religion and weighted by census 2011 figures where necessary.
CNN-IBN in partnership with Lokniti has done an extensive poll survey across key battleground states. Starting today we will bring you the details on who's winning and who's losing as the battle for 2014 heats up.
Politics has moved into high gear as the clock ticks towards elections 2014 and it promises to be the most closely fought elections in recent times.
In our special series, Election Tracker - in the last two day's we have brought you the details of the CNN-IBN survey conducted in the East and the South. Today we are moving to the Narendra Modi bastion -states like Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. CNN-IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai gets us the details.
The questions we are asking today is does this stand worry corporate India, or is it reality that it is willing to live with. Before that, will this general election see the AAP become more than just a Delhi phenomenon and go national?
RS Surjewala, Spokesperson, Congress; Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-In-Chief, CNN-IBN; Amit Baruah, Senior Journalist & Author and Sunil Jain, Managing Editor, Financial Express gave their analysis on Rahul Gandhi‘s speech and the road ahead for Congress.
Even though there has been speculation about Rahul Gandhi (being the PM candidate), the fact that he seemed reluctant in the past, he hasn‘t come out and openly staked his claim, hasn‘t exactly helped, feels Bhartia.
Rahul Gandhi is being projected as the leader who will take Congress to a new level, but the party will still need alliances to battle out key states with most number of Lok sabha seats.
Aam Aadmi Party can play a role in denting Congress‘s prospects in Maharashtra, but will have a limited impact nationally in 2014 Lok sabha elections, which will ride on Modi's popularity.
Refusing to get drawn into the numbers game, Kejriwal said AAP will not form the government in Delhi as he does not have the mandate. He also refused to tie-up either with the Congress or with the BJP saying both the parties are corrupt and same.
It‘s election season, and that generally means increased viewership for television news channels. Exhaustive coverage also means that voters are now accustomed to a range of gadgetry, punditry and minute-by-minute scoring to a degree unequaled in the past. So, what makes for good election coverage?
December 8 is going to be the high packed, high emotion day as results of state assembly elections held in five states - Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram will be declared. Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN-IBN talks about what to expect tomorrow.
It is widely expected that the Congress will be routed in the states of Madhaya Pradesh and Rajasthan while facing a stiff fight in Delhi and Chhattisgarh assembly polls.
Earlier, the National Conference also dared General VK Singh to name the ministers who were given funds. Speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, General VK Singh had admitted that the money from the secret fund was used in Kashmir but only towards social schemes.
Rajdeep Sardesai says the BJP has gambled big time by putting all eggs in Narendra Modi‘s basket. If LK Advani, opposed to Modi becoming the PM candidate, decides to leave BJP, it will send shockwaves across the saffron party.
Oil Minister Veerappa Moily clarified that there was no such proposal to keep petrol pumps from 8 pm to 8 am. Speaking to IBN18's Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Moily said that people must be coining ideas. It does not mean that the ministry initiated the proposal.
Rajdeep Sardesai believes the Prime Minister's speech today made him (PM) realise that his personal reputation is at stake and for self-preservation, he needed to strike out.
Three days after the tragedy, there have still been no arrests even as the forensic report is expected on Friday. The headmistress of the Chhapra school, who has been named in the FIR, is still absconding.