Victorious Varun, Maneka Gandhi meet L.K.Advani

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After refusing to upgrade the security of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi to the top Z plus category, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said the level of security provided to him was being periodically reviewed.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi Sunday claimed that underworld criminals arrested in Delhi a day earlier were plotting to kill him and urged the home minister to take urgent action. "The plot against my life by dangerous underworld criminals apprehended yesterday by Delhi Police exemplifies exactly the kind of terror and violence against which I stand and have been warning against.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Saturday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi's reaction to the alleged security threat to her son Varun was "most ironical" and wondered how she had failed to react as strongly to her son's anti-Muslim speeches. "I am finding (it) most ironical that Mrs.

July 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi Sunday alleged that members of underworld mobster Chhota Shakeel's gang were plotting to kill him while his mother and party leader Maneka Gandhi complained to the prime minister that the home ministry was treating the threats to his life casually. A day after six sharpshooters of Chhota Shakeel - one of India's most wanted gangsters - were arrested from various parts of the capital, Varun Gandhi urged Home Minister P.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Homage was paid to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi on his 29th death anniversary at his memorial 'Shantivana' in New Delhi on Tuesday. BJP leader and Sanjay Gandhi's widow Maneka Gandhi, her son and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Senior Congress leader Moti Lal Vora led a host of distinguished persons who paid homage to the late leader.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Defending her son Varun Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Maneka Gandhi Sunday said forensic reports verifying the contents of a CD containing his purported hate speeches were a "one-sided version" and the "entire tape is doctored". "The entire tape is doctored, words have been interchanged...

June 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maneka Gandhi has said some party seniors were targeting her son and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi and blaming him for the party's poll debacle. According to reliable sources, Maneka was responding to party leaders Shahnawaz Hussain and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi at the BJP's two-day national executive meeting which began Saturday.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi took oath as the members of the 15th Lok Sabha on Tuesday.cknowledging greetings from opposition ranks, Rahul shook hands with Leader of Opposition L K Advani. He also greeted former Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kalyan Singh.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - If Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, behind bars for alleged hate speeches, cannot contest from Pilibhit, his mother and former minister Maneka Gandhi will fight the Lok Sabha elections from there, party sources said Tuesday. Maintaining that all options were open for Varun Gandhi, the sources said if all measures fail, Maneka Gandhi will contest from Pilibhit, from where she has been elected to the Lok Sabha five times, as well as from Aonla, the new constituency she shifted to.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - If Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi, behind bars for alleged hate speeches, cannot contest from Pilibhit, his mother and former minister Maneka Gandhi will fight the Lok Sabha elections from there, party sources said Tuesday. Maintaining that all options were open for Varun Gandhi, the sources said if all measures fail, Maneka Gandhi will contest from Pilibhit, from where she has been elected to the Lok Sabha five times, as well as from Aonla, the new constituency she shifted to.

March 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Coming out for the first time in defence of her son Varun Gandhi over his alleged hate speeches, former union minister Maneka Gandhi Thursday attacked the Congress, saying the party was pursuing his case actively to 'conceal' its 'anti-Sikh acts'. 'It has become imperative for the Congress to show such tapes (of hate speeches) to conceal their anti-Sikh acts,' Gandhi told a regional news channel, PTC News.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Varun Gandhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh, Friday filed a reply to the notice he had received from the Election Commission for his alleged communally inflammatory campaign speeches. The reply was filed around 10.30 a.m.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With mediapersons going berserk trying to get hold of Varun Gandhi, a 22-year-old youth sat quietly waiting to get an audience with him or even his mother and five-time MP Maneka Gandhi at her Delhi residence Thursday. Guddu, a shop owner, had come from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh to meet the mother-son duo to seek help following a theft in his shop.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has had to put up with a volley of questions on Varun Gandhi, who allegedly made communally inflamed speeches. One even compared him poorly with his animal activist-MP mother Maneka Gandhi.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Maneka Gandhi, mother of Varun Gandhi who has created a furore for his hate campaign against Muslims in Pilibhit, refused to comment Tuesday on the swirling controversy. 'I don't want to say anything,' Gandhi, who is five time MP from Pilibhit, told IANS.