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BJP invited Yeddyurappa back, date undecided

B s yeddyurappaB S Yeddyurappa has pending corruption cases against him but it seems the BJP are not bothered about it. Karnataka is the only state in the southern region where BJP seeks to win sizeable number of seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party are ready to accept the criticism  that it has not learnt its lesson despiste the victory of AAP in Delhi.

L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj have raised their concerns but the party now seems to induct the leader. B S Yeddyurappa has said that on Thursday he would merge his Karnataka Janata Party woth BJP. “While January 5 or 6 was fixed for his return, the KJP leader wants to make it after January 15. We have left the dates to him,” a senior leader said.

Virbhadra has threatened Jaitley a defamation case

Arun Jaitley Virbhadra SinghThe ongoing fight between Arun Jaitley and Virbhadra Singh reached new heights over the latter granting undue favours to a hydro power company in which his family allegedly got a Rs 3.9-Crore loan. The Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Sigh has accused BJP leader Jaitley of illegally securing his income tax returns. He also threatened a defamation case.

Singh has said that Jaitley leveled him with “wild” and “baseless” allegations and illegally procuring his I-T return details. Singh said, “Jaitley not only procured details of my income tax returns, which cannot be obtained even under RTI without the consent of the assessee, he flashed them at press conference in Shimla on October 23, 2010, withholding parts of it to suit his political agenda.”

On the other hand Jaitley remained calm and posted in social network after reacting to Singh’s threat to sue him: “Virbhadra Singh has said he would consider filing a defamation action against me. He is certainly entitled to do so. In that event I would be pleading truth as defence and cross-examining him on each case of these issues.”

Jaitley also asked Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to make a public declaration as to why they feel that Singh is innocent. He claimed that he has enough evidence against the CM of Himachal Pradesh.

About Aam Aadmi Party

AAP

Aam Aadmi Part also known as AAP is an Indian Political Party. It was launched on 26th November 2012. Arvind Kejriwal brought this party into existence to put political demands on the Jan Lokpal Bill. The AAP campaigned for the price rise of electricity and water in Delhi. Their hardwork were appreciated by many the citizens of Delhi and AAP became the second-largest party in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly Election, winning 28 of the 70 seats. The meaning of the phrase Aam Aadmi is “common man”. The AAP has taken the way of Gandhian concept of swaraj to reverse the way the of accountability and operation of the government. The party believes that they will be only accountable to the people through swaraj. Anand Kejriwal says “We are aam aadmis. If we find our solution in the left we are happy to borrow it from there. If we find our solution in the right, we are happy to borrow it from there.”

DELHI ASSEMBLY ELECTION, 2013

AAP contested its first election in the 2013 Delhi state assembly election. It emerged as the second-largest party in Delhi winning 28  of the 70 Assembly seats. The BJP(Bhartiya Janata Party) won 31, Indian National Congress won 8 and three were won by others. On 28 December 2013, the AAP formed a minority government in the Assembly, with what Sheila Dikshit describes as “Not unconditional” support from Indian National Congress. Arvind Kejriwal became the second-youngest Chief Minister of Delhi.