Pm And Team Anna

• Six Delhi Metro stations to close on Sunday to keep protestors from homes of PM, Gadkari

  Six Metro stations in Central Delhi will be closed for most part of the day on Sunday, an apparent precautionary step following a call by erstwhile Team Anna to gherao residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari over the coal block allocation issue.

• Coal block allocation: Protest at PM, Gadkari homes, says Kejriwal

  Alleging that Congress and BJP were hand-in-glove on the coal block allocation issue, erstwhile Team Anna has announced gherao of the residences of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Sunday.

• Allegations about PM aren't baseless, says Anna to Sonia Gandhi

  Rejecting Congress president Sonia Gandhi's defence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, social activist Anna Hazare today said suspected whether Singh is clean after going through CAG report on coal allocation and the file prepared by his team.

• Sonia Gandhi defends PM against Team Anna's allegations

  The Prime Minister took on Team Anna again on Monday with a second round of strong remarks against the activists and their allegations of corruption against him and 14 of his senior ministers. "Canards and falsehoods being spread" he said, describing the people behind the allegations as "disparate, desperate elements unified only by their oppositio...

• PM, Sonia don't name Team Anna, but take aim at Congress meet

  The Prime Minister took on Team Anna again on Monday with a second round of strong remarks against the activists and their allegations of corruption against him and 14 of his senior ministers.

• Highlights of PM's speech at Congress Working Committee meeting

  The Congress' highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC) is meeting today to discuss the economic and political crises that the UPA government finds itself mired in. Here are the highlights of what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the meeting:

• Attacks on PM are part of conspiracy, says Sonia Gandhi without naming Team Anna

  In her address to the Congress party's highest decision-making body, its Working Committee (CWC), Mrs Gandhi took on Team Anna, which has recently and aggressively targeted the Prime Minister for allegedly allowing a massive swindle in the allocation of coal fields to private companies. She said the attack on the Prime Minister and the government i...

• PM should allow inquiry into reported coal scam, say Hegde, BJP

  After the Prime Minister promised to resign if "even an iota of truth" was found in the allegations of corruption levelled against him by Team Anna, he has been urged by Justice Santosh Hegde, who has worked closely with the activists in the past, to allow an inquiry to prove his innocence.

• Will give up public life if you prove allegations: PM to Team Anna

  The Prime Minister responded strongly this evening to allegations by Team Anna that he is permissive of corruption and that his party uses him to shield ministers guilty of graft. "I will give up my public life if allegations are proved against me," Dr Manmohan Singh said to reporters on his way back from Mynamar. Over the weekend, lawyer-activist ...

• Team Anna rift: Justice Hegde not on board with allegations against PM

  Justice Santosh Hegde, one of the most senior and respected members of Team Anna, is upset with the group's recent allegations of corruption against the Prime Minister and 14 senior ministers. Mr Hegde, who has served as the ombudsman or Lokayukta of Karnataka, told NDTV on Tuesday that he "disassociates himself" from the comments made over the wee...

• Congress using PM as a shield, says Team Anna

  Just days after accusing 15 top ministers including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of corruption, Team Anna has hit out again, this time targeting the PM directly. Team Anna's legal brain Prashant Bhushan has said that the PM is weak and is being used as a shield by the Congress to hide corrupt dealings.

• Anna Hazare says PM is a simple man, team disagrees

  Just a day after key members of his team levelled serious allegations of corruption against several ministers in the UPA government as also Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare today contradicted it, saying that the "Prime Minister is a simple man and there is no corruption case against him".

• In letter to PM, Anna asks if Antony is being targeted for honesty

  Demanding an impartial inquiry into the controversy surrounding the Army, Team Anna has alleged that probe by the CBI and Intelligence Bureau (IB) will not bring out the truth as the bodies are "under the control of government".

• Anna writes to PM again, asks how could you betray the country?

  In a bid to project a non-partisan face, Anna Hazare and his team on Sunday shot off a series of letters to leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and BJP president Nitin Gadkari, trying to put them on the mat on the Lokpal issue ahead of Assembly polls in five states.

• Lokpal Bill battle: Team Anna writes open letter to PM, MPs; government steps up attack

  As Congress has stepped up its attack on Anna Hazare with less than two days to go before his scheduled fast at Mumbai's MMRDA Ground, Team Anna's India Against Corruption (IAC) group today wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister and Members of Parliament, re-voicing their demand for a 'stronger' Lokpal Bill.