Murli Manohar Joshi questions timing of Liberhan Commission report

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Kalyan Singh, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said he was ready to face and answer every question if the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid was tabled in parliament. Now the report has come to the government and if the government wants then it can table the report in this session of parliament.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh today said that he is ready to face charges levelled against him in the Liberhan Commission report. Speaking to reporters here, Singh said, "I am ready to face whatever charges have been levelled against me.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The ruling Congress Wednesday showed its reluctance to table in parliament the Liberhan Commission inquiry report on the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition as it wants to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from making political capital out of it. Party leaders gave indications that the Congress-led government might not present the report in parliament during the month-long budget session that begins Thursday.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission submitted its report after a long delay. "It would have been good if such a long time had not been taken.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress on Tuesday said the government would take appropriate action on the Liberhan Commission report, which was appointed to probe the December 6, 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. "The Commission has submitted its report.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Liberhan Commission, which is inquiring into the destruction of the Ram Janma Bhoomi-Babri Masjid structure at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, on Tuesday submitted its report to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Tuesday thanked Justice (retd) M.S. Liberhan for his probe report on the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition while the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised the commission for taking 17 years to submit the report.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Justice M.S. Liberhan, the one man Commission probing the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque at Ayodhya, on Tuesday refused to divulge details of the much-awaited report, until the report or the Action Taken Report is presented in Parliament.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Justice (retd) M.S. Liberhan Monday said he was feeling independent and relieved after submitting the report of the Liberhan Commission that was formed 17 years ago to enquire into the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Sunday said if given a chance, he could be ready to take up the job of the Leader of the Opposition. "I am not in any race.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - L.K. Advani's decision to step down as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and accept responsibility for the BJP's electoral debacle was taken in the interest of the party, senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi said Sunday.

March 25th, 2009 VARANASI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Tuesday filed his nomination from the Varanasi constituency for the upcoming general elections. Joshi handed over his papers to the District Electoral Officer and District Magistrate of Varanasi Ajay Kumar Upadhyay.

March 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday ridiculed the newly formed Third Front, and said the grouping would benefit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the coming Lok Sabha poll. 'As its name suggests, it is already third,' veteran BJP leader and former central minister Murli Manohar Joshi told reporters here.

March 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - Terming the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a 'statistical jugglery', senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi Saturday called for a new economic thinking model that takes into account the spirituality factor to tide over the global economic crisis. Speaking at an interactive session with members of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Joshi said GDP was 'confusing and whimsical'.

February 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Seventeen years since it was formed to probe the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, the Liberhan Commission - one of the longest running inquiry panels costing the government over Rs.7 million - is hopeful of submitting its report before March 31, just before the general elections. 'I am in the right direction.