“Indian democracy if it truly wants many well meaning people to stake their experience for mature and good governance, needs a civil culture and law abiding environment. ( I am being mild in saying this). Here is my tryst with electioneering. Hope to see it change in my life time. Am relieved my parents were not alive to hear the ...

By M.R. Narayan Swamy It will be too tempting to solely blame it all on Kiran Bedi, the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate, for the party’s humiliating rout in Delhi. Nothing can be farther from the truth. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be committing a blunder if it does not accept the larger ugly reality that the main culprit for ...

With Delhi Exit polls not lying, BJP leader Niramala Sitharaman rushed to see the party chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi at her residence on Sunday to assure her not to loose heart over the unseemly developments. “We are waiting for the results. We are hopeful that we will win,” Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters outside Kiran Bedi’s house a day after ...

By Sridhar N. Yogendra Yadav, who has asked his former friend and supporter in a professional opinion poll agency, to conduct a survey said AAP may get 6 to 8 percent of votes ahead of BJP since both parties were able to marginalise the Congress in Delhi. The survey of 3,500 voters in 35 constituencies showed that AAP may win ...

Aam Aadmi Party Leader Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday asked BJP CM candidate Kiran Bedi why she is avoiding his invitation for a debate and running away. On his micro blogging site, Kejriwal tweeted, “Why kiran ji running away from debate? She is busy but surely she can take out 2 hrs from busy schedule. Ppl want 2 know her stand ...

Aam Aadmi Party Chief Ministerial candidate Arvind Kejriwal warned the former IPS Officer and BJP CM candidate Kiran Bedi on Wednesday, saying she is being used as a scapegoat by the party. Addressing the gathering at Krishna Nagar, he said BJP is looking for a scapegoat for the election on February 10 and said, Bedi will be blamed once she ...

After a day BJP declared former police officer Kiran Bedi as its Chief Ministerial candidate of Delhi assembly poll, the Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal will file his nominations for the same today. All the speculations came to an end after the declaration on Monday by BJP. Addressing a press conference, Party President Amit Shah announced, “Kiran Bedi will ...

The former key figure in the Anna-Hazare group, Kiran Bedi, who joined BJP appears to be a typical politician with her statement, “New, decisive leadership wiped out my aversion to politics.” Bedi, once who said, “One day NaMo will need to respond with clarity about riots massacre. Despite Courts clearing him so far,” has changed her statement on Sunday, saying, ...

After India’s first woman IPS officer, Kiran Bedi, joined BJP on Thursday, her entry to the party ahead of the Delhi assembly poll gives a hint that she may be played as a trump card against AAP Chief Arwind Kejriwal in the upcoming election. Joining BJP, she said, “I wanted to sacrifice my entire life to social work. But he inspired ...

Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Kiran Bedi on Thursday joined the BJP and will be fielded in the Feb 7 Delhi assembly elections as possible chief ministerial candidate against Aam Aadmi Party’s Arvind Kejriwal, though AAP chances to get majority on its own still look slim. Flanked by Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah and union Finance Minister Arun ...