Advocate files contempt petition against Modi on Godhra remark

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Gujarat government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was set to challenge the court's April 27 order for a probe into the role of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 62 politicians as well as bureaucrats in the communal violence of 2002. Senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi, appearing for the Gujarat government, stated this to judges D.K.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Janata Dal- United (JDU) President Sharad Yadav today said that projection of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as future prime ministerial candidate had caused immense harm to the Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA. "Projecting Modi as a prime ministerial candidate had created confusion among the people's mind.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The chief of the capital's civic body administration faces contempt charges for not abiding by the Delhi High Court's orders on night sweeping in the city. Justice Manmohan issued a notice to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner K.S.

May 3rd, 2009 AMBALA - Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday critcised Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh for not taking any action over the atrocities committed on Sikh community in Pakistan.

May 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A contempt of court petition was filed against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Friday for his reported comments on the Supreme Court order of a probe into his role during the communal violence of 2002. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, acting as amicus curiae in cases relating to the Gujarat violence before the Supreme Court, filed the plea seeking contempt of court proceeding against the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader.

April 28th, 2009 ANAND - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he was ready to go to jail if his involvement in the 2002 Godhra riots was proved. "I will abide by the Supreme Court directives and fully cooperate in any probe.

April 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday termed the apex court order to probe the role of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots as a 'convention' that cropped up ahead of elections and said it would not be able to find anything against the BJP leader. 'It has become a convention during the last 10 years to raise the issue of Gujarat riots in and outside the court,' BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters here.

April 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Despite being portrayed in his larger than the party image, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has clarified that he is not a one man army. "I am not a one-man show.

February 28th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - An email campaign to boost Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's image was launched across Gujarat Friday, seven years after the burning of a train in Godhra town killed 59 people and unleashed a communal frenzy that claimed more than 1,000 lives. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managers say the campaign was launched on the seventh anniversary of the Godhra burning as the chief minister's contribution to the state was ignored while the media kept accusing him of not having taken sufficient action to prevent the riots in several parts of the state.

February 28th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Seven years on, it is still unclear how the Godhra train attack that killed 59 people on Feb 27, 2002 happened, but the anniversary comes in the backdrop of a revelation that destroys the claim of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's government that it was a terrorist conspiracy. The Gujarat High Court's upholding Feb 12 this year the findings of a Supreme Court appointed committee that there was no terrorist conspiracy in the Godhra incident flies in the face of the chief minister's claim that enraged Hindus assaulted Muslims because of this.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday rebuffed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for saying Pakistan-based terrorists could not have attacked Mumbai without support from within India, prompting Modi to claim he was misquoted.

February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday rebuffed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for saying that terrorists from Pakistan could not have attacked Mumbai without help from within India.

February 7th, 2009 NAGPUR - The Nov 26 attack in Mumbai was not possible without local support to the Pakistani terrorists, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said here Sunday, questioning the central government's position. A handful of boys held so many people at ransom for 60 hours and such an operation could not have been taken place without local support, Modi told the national council meeting of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) here.

January 25th, 2009 GODHRA - The Gujarat government continued its policy of taking official celebrations of the national days to towns other than the capital as Governor Nawal Kishore Sharma and Chief Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Republic Day in Godhra Monday. The governor unfurled of the national flag at the SRP parade ground in Godhra - about 140 km from Gujarat's main city Ahmedabad - as helicopters showered rose petals from above.

January 24th, 2009 HALOL - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has chosen Godhra town in Panchmahal as the venue of official celebrations of Republic Day Monday, and the district has received a special developmental package. On the eve of Repubic Day, Modi laid the foundation stone of a new radial tyre plant of Ceat at Halol in Panchamahals, about 200 km from Ahmedabad.