BJP leader Gopinath Munde demands Padam Singh Patil’s resignation

September 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)- Shiv Sena alliance has came out with notable promises in its manifesto for the Maharashtra State assembly elections, which includes 15per cent quota in jobs, educational institutions for economically backward classes and developing infrastructure. It was disclosed by Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray, senior BJP leaders Gopinath Munde and Nitin Gadkari in Mumbai on Monday.

September 8th, 2009 MUMBAI/LONAVLA - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde said on Tuesday that he is ready to court arrest and has challenged the local authorities to try and stop him from heading to curfew-imposed Sangli. Munde has been slapped with a prohibitory notice by the Sangli Collector to stay away from the area which has been very tense over the past few days following riots between Hindus and Muslims.

September 8th, 2009 PUNE - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary Gopinath Munde charged the Maharashtra Government with attempting to change history by negating the glorious role of Chhatrapati Shivaji. Commenting on the communal tension prevailing in the state's Sangli District Munde blamed the State Government for it.

September 7th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Gopinath Munde was detained at Mumbai airport by state police on Monday before he could go to violence-hit Sangli district to address a meeting there. Officials said he was detained as his address could aggravate the tense situation in the district.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sources said on Saturday that they would be questioning National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Chairman and former Union Home Minister Buta Singhin connection with the Rs 1 crore bribery case involving his second son Sarabjot Singh. Sources said that Sarabjot Singh had told the CBI after his arrest, that he had informed his father about 'settling' the complaint against Nashik civic works contractor Ram Rao Patil, that had been lodged with the National Commission for Scheduled castes.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Chairman Buta Singh on Friday termed the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) questioning of his son Sarabjot Singh in connection with a bribery scam as a political conspiracy against him and members of his family. "It is a conspiracy against me and members of my family.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes Chairman Buta Singh's son Sarabjot Singh is reported to have cracked under the CBI's pressure and admitted on Friday to his involvement in a bribery scam. According to sources, Sarabjot allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - Former union minister Buta Singh's son Sarabjot Singh was Friday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly accepting Rs.1 crore bribe. The former home minister termed the arrest of his son as a conspiracy against his "personal and political life".

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior BJP leader from Uttarakhand B. S. Koshiyari opted to withdraw his resignation from Rajya Sabha on Friday as per suggestion of the party's central leadership.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - After failing to win any Lok Sabha seat of the five in Uttarakhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday sent two senior leaders to the party-ruled state to analyse the situation. BJP president Rajnath Singh Thursday sent Gopinath Munde and Thavarchand Gehlot to Dehradun and report to him.

March 27th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing leader Poonam Mahajan-Rao, daughter of late Pramod Mahajan, Friday met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, then said there was 'nothing political' about the meeting. After the meeting, Poonam denied rumours that she was quitting the BJP and joining the MNS.

March 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) received a pre-election jolt when its sitting Lok Sabha member from Beed constituency walked over to the Shiv Sena here Thursday. The NCP's Jaisingrao Gaekwad Patil had trounced the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prakash S.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ironing out their differences, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena Tuesday announced they would begin joint campaigning in Maharashtra for the Lok Sabha polls March 20. BJP general secretary Gopinath Munde said that party chief Rajnath Singh and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackrey would start canvassing together.

December 26th, 2008 NAGPUR - Opposition legislators in the Maharashtra assembly Saturday gunned for state director general of police A.N. Roy again - this time over a court directive to register an FIR (First Information Report) against him.

December 23rd, 2008 NAGPUR - The family of slain Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare could not get his insurance amount of Rs.1 million as the Maharashtra government had failed to deposit the agency's group insurance premium, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde alleged in the state assembly Wednesday. Participating in the debate on the law and order situation in the state, Munde described the serious lapse as a social crime and demanded enquiry into it followed by stern action against the guilty.