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  CWG Medallist Divya Kakran Gets Rs 5 Lakh Reward From BJP MP Manoj Tiwari

  BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Friday rewarded with Rs 5 lakh Commonwealth Games medallist wrestler Divya Kakran

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  Government Probing Many Scams, No Need for Rahul to Challenge Us: BJP

  BJP today mocked Rahul Gandhi over his dare to the Narendra Modi government to arrest him, saying the Centre is already probing a host of alleged scams that occurred under the Congress-led UPA government and there was no need for him to challenge it.

• Suresh Kalmadi faces protest during visit to Pune civic body

  Activists of BJP and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) staged a noisy protest in the premises of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) today when the scam-tainted Congress leader and city MP Suresh Kalmadi visited the civic body headquarters this morning.

• Probe demand on Kalmadi's appointment not a personal attack on Sonia: Jaitley

  On Tuesday morning, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stepped up the ante in the CWG war of words, blaming Congress president Sonia Gandhi for Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman. On Tuesday evening, senior BJP man Arun Jaitley sought to make clear that it was not a personal attack.

• CWG mess: BJP protestors in Delhi clash with police

  A protest by members of BJP youth wing in Delhi turned violent today, with the activists clashing with the police. Members of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha were demanding resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on irregularities in the Commonwealth Games.

• CWG mess: BJP now targets Sonia

  There is war over the Commonwealth Games and the report of the government's auditor on it. In Parliament, where heated words were exchanged between the Opposition and the Treasury benches in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) shouting slogans against Congress president Sonia Gandhi alleging that she had a role in appoi...

• CAG report on CWG: BJP targets Maken, wants Sheila out

  Parliament did not transact any business on Monday. The Opposition came armed with two CWG-related issues - they wanted Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to resign for being faulted by the government's auditor and wanted a debate on Sports Minister Ajay Maken's statement on Suresh Kalmadi's appointment, that, it claimed, misled Parliament. Af...

• CWG fiasco: BJP to take on Govt over auditor's report

  A day before Parliament resumes, BJP top leaders met today to discuss the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi last October.

• BJP leader VK Malhotra 'applauded' Suresh Kalmadi

  As the NDA slammed the government for the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the head of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, we revisited an RTI application which revealed how in a 2008 meeting, BJP leader VK Malhotra "applauded" Mr Kalmadi for the "excellent services rendered by him." Mr Malhotra also proposed Mr Kalmadi's re-election as In...

• CWG scam: Where is Shunglu Report, asks BJP?

  The BJP trooped out of the Lok Sabha this morning over the government's delay in tabling the Shunglu report that assigns responsibility for the massive corruption that infected the Commonwealth Games held in September in India.  The report - now available online - concludes that there was gross mismanagement by different teams that reported to...

• Kalmadi should turn approver, says BJP

  BJP on Friday dubbed the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI raids on the residences of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi as "too little, too late" and accused the government of trying to shield the real culprits behind the scam."The raids are too little, too late. This is what the BJP thinks on the development," party sp...

• Advani places 2G scam, CWG at top of BJP agenda

  Senior BJP leader L K Advani today alleged that the government had misused CBI to implicate RSS in terror attack cases and asked party MPs to demand in Parliament JPC probes into anomalies in 2-G spectrum allocation, CWG projects and Adarsh Housing allotments.Addressing a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party, Advani alleged that there were large-...

• Watch: Gadkari on Chavan, Kalmadi exit

  After the Congress sacked Suresh Kalmadi and Ashok Chavan in connection with the CWG and Adarsh scams respectively, the BJP party president says this is proof that the Congress has accepted corruption within its ranks.Chavan has been Maharashtra Chief Minister since December 2008.Kalmadi has been dismissed as Secretary of the Congress Parliamentary...

• CWG scam: 30 places raided include BJP leader's home

  Ready, set, go. The teams involved with uncovering the corruption that seemed metabolic to the Commonwealth Games have hit the ground running.Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials have reportedly registered a case of foreign exchange violations against members of the Organising Committee (OC), headed by Suresh Kalmadi. The CBI is checking out 20 c...

• Cong govt behind CWG corruption, says Gadkari

  BJP today attempted to drag the Prime Minister's Office into the CWG controversy, questioning why the PMO and Union Cabinet did not verify before approving the "inflated budget" of various Games projects and demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into alleged irregularities.Terming the alleged bungling as a "very big scam", BJP president Ni...