Varun Gandhi meets Advani, urged to respect SC order

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - BJP leaders Varun Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi arrived here to meet Lal Krishna Advani at his residence on Sunday morning, following reports of the latter's wish to step down from party's parliamentary board. On Saturday, Varun Gandhi won from the Pilibhit Constituency and his mother Maneka Gandhi registered victory from Aonla Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

May 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Wednesday said Varun Gandhi had 'no moral right to use Gandhi as his surname' because of his 'violent behaviour'. 'A person with violent behaviour can never be a Gandhi,' Mayawati said referring to Mahatama Gandhi 'who was the greatest exponent of the doctrine of ahimsa (non-violence)'.

April 22nd, 2009 PILIBHIT - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi will file his nomination papers from Pilibhit today. Varun, who is on a two-week parole after being jailed under the National Securities Act (NSA) for his alleged hate speech, will be accompanied by his mother Maneka Gandhi.

April 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani has criticised the Congress for calling his party communal. "On issues like secularism and communalism the Congress party takes an indefensible stand.

April 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi Saturday met the party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani, who advised him to exercise restraint during the poll campaign, a party leader said.

April 1st, 2009 ETAH - There was pandemonium outside the Etah jail Wednesday with activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) clamouring for the release of Varun Gandhi, who reached here and sent a message saying he wanted to meet only his mother. Varun Gandhi, the BJP candidate in Pilibhit who was jailed for his communal campaign speeches, was moved to Etah, 300 km away, in the early hours of Wednesday.

March 31st, 2009 RANCHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L K Advani condemned slapping of the National Security Act (NSA) on Varun Gandhi by the BSP Government headed by Mayawati. "I remember that the National Security Act (NSA) was used by this government during the emergency.

March 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Breaking his silence over the alleged provocative speeches by Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Sunday asked his party candidates to exercise restraint while making election speeches and said the Election Commission had no right to ask any party not to field a particular candidate.

March 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party on Sunday criticised senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani for challenging Congress president Sonia Gandhi for a political debate LIVE on television. " Has he (L K Advani) received a new light after five decades? There has been an established tradition of election debate since 1952 in this country.

March 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Sunday defended Varun Gandhi, who has been arrested following his inflammatory speeches, and criticised the Election Commission for asking the party not to field him in the Lok Sabha elections.

March 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani on Sunday said that the party's decision to reject Election Commission's advice not to field Varun Gandhi for the Lok Sabha Polls, was right. "The party has taken a correct stand under the law and in accordance with Constitution," Advani said.

March 28th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial aspirant L.K. Advani, addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh Saturday, chose not to comment on young party leader Varun Gandhi's reported hate speeches.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should immediately withdraw Varun Gandhi's candidature from Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat if it has any respect for democratic principles, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury said here Wednesday. If the BJP did not withdraw Varun Gandhi's candidature, it would be established that the saffron party supports 'the unfiltered communal venom Varun Gandhi has poured', Yechury told reporters here after launching the party's election website.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said it has dissociated itself from the statements attributed to its Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi. 'The BJP disapproves and dissociates itself from the statements attributed to Mr Varun Gandhi,' party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told a news conference here.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress leaders Tuesday met Election Commission officials here to complain about Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi and his alleged hate-Muslim speeches. 'Whatever Varun Gandhi has said is not only deplorable but deserves action by the Election Commission.