Jaswant Sinha

• 2G scam: all-out war for Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)

  It's war in the joint parliamentary committee or JPC that dissected the telecom or 2G scam. Opposition members have said they have no confidence in Congressman PC Chacko as its chairman and want his removal. The Congress has hit back demanding the removal of three of the BJP's six members - Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Ravi Shankar Prasad for ...

• 2G scam: Committee at war, Samajwadi Party is key for Congress

  In a new example of an old habit, the Congress is in an awfully tight spot, and needs the Samajwadi Party (SP) for a bailout. The Congress' problem is this: exactly half of a parliamentary committee that examined the telecom or 2G scam has today demanded the removal of Congressman PC Chacko as the committee's head.

• Congress asks for removal of three BJP leaders from JPC: Full text of letter to Speaker

  It's war in the joint parliamentary committee or JPC that dissected the telecom or 2G scam. Opposition members have said they have no confidence in Congressman PC Chacko as its chairman and want his removal. The Congress has hit back and given a letter to the Speaker demanding the removal of BJP members Jaswant Singh, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Yashw...

• 2G scam: all-out war for joint parliamentary committee

  It's war in the joint parliamentary committee or JPC that dissected the telecom or 2G scam. Opposition members have said they have no confidence in Congressman PC Chacko as its chairman and want his removal. The Congress has hit back demanding the removal of BJP members Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Ravi Shankar Prasad for what it calls "confli...

• House panel meet on 2G: BJP softens stand on summoning PM?

  Ending its nearly two-month-old boycott, BJP members today attended the meeting of Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G and said they would continue to press for summoning of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as witnesses.

• 2G scam probe: Parliamentary panel meets today, BJP will attend

  The Joint Parliamentary Committee that's studying the allocation and pricing of the 2G spectrum between 1998 and 2009 is meeting today. And ending its boycott, the BJP will attend today's meeting - two of the party's leaders Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh will be present in the meeting.

• BJP meeting, expected to back Gadkari, begins; Advani missing

  The BJP is scheduled to declare tonight that despite a very public and high-decibel revolt today, the party stands by its president, Nitin Gadkari, and that he will remain in office till December when his term expires.

• Nitin Gadkari crisis: Agree in principle with Ram Jethmalani's letter, says Yashwant Sinha

  Yashwant Sinha said today that he agrees with the sentiments expressed in a letter by lawyer and BJP MP Ram Jethmalani in which he warns of disastrous consequences for the BJP if Mr Gadkari is not removed.

• Why the BJP's Nitin Gadkari crisis centres so much on Narendra Modi

  The BJP is likely to declare in a few hours that despite a very public and high-decibel revolt today, the party stands by its president,Nitin Gadkari, and that he will remain in office till December when his term expires.

• Continued presidentship of Nitin Gadkari disaster for nation, BJP: Ram Jethmalani in letter to LK Advani

  Upping the pressure on BJP president Nitin Gadkari, the party's Rajya Sabha MP and eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani said that it wasn't just him but also senior leaders like Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh want Mr Gadkari to step down.

• 2G: Samajwadi Party joins demand for Chidambaram to testify at JPC

  An important ally of the government, the Samajwadi Party, has said that Finance Minister P Chidambaram must testify before a parliamentary committee that's studying the telecom scam, worth 1.76 lakh crores according to the national auditor.

• Yashwant Sinha demands CBI probe into Jharkhand poll

  Lauding the Election Commission for its "bold" decision of scrapping the Rajya Sabha poll in Jharkhand, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha has asked it to get a thorough probe conducted by the CBI or any other agency into the events since the start of election process.

• 2G Scam: BJP loses ground over its JPC members

  The political magnitude of its agenda is so considerable that the government fought for months to avoid constituting a parliamentary commission to study the 2G spectrum scam. But a sustained and united campaign by the Opposition forced the government to surrender, and now it's time for the 30 members of Joint Parliamentary Committee to get to work....

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  All is not well within BJP: Shatrughan

  Sinha said points raised by senior party leaders Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and Jaswant Singh should be given due importance.