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Team Anna is in a mess. Its high profile members – most notably Kiran Bedi, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan – are in a mess. But the mess is one of their own making. Why blame the government? Take the case of Kiran Bedi. Her fudging of travel accounts was brought out by the Indian Express. It was this newspaper that front-paged details of the various trips that Kiran Bedi made and overcharged for. It was then the Times of India that actually spoke with some conference organizers and brought out their claim that Kiran Bedi had not informed them about her scheme at all. It was only after all of this came out that people like Digvijay Singh started commenting on her; demanding that she quit. It was she who defended herself like politicians do when they are caught – rather than accepting her mistake. It was she who did not offer to quit – while that’s what she demands from politicians all the time. She was double standards personified – and she has only herself to bl...

Jailed former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today moved the Karnataka High Court seeking anticipatory bail in three of the five cases against him relating to alleged irregularities in denotifying lands. Justice H Billappa adjourned to November 3 hearing on the bail plea of the 68-year-old BJP leader, giving time to counsel for complainant and advocate Sirajin Basha to file objections to it. Basha had filed the complaints in the Special Lokayukta Court. Yeddyurappa, who is currently lodged in the central prison at Parappana Agrahara on the city outskirts, has already filed a plea for regular bail in two cases. Special Lokayukta Judge N K Sudhindra Rao had on October 15 rejected his bail plea in regard to these two cases and remanded him to judicial custody -- first to October 22 and later extending it till November three. Arguments on his bail plea with regard to these two cases are on before Justice B V Pinto of High Court. Basha has already filed a written statement of...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) With his health improving, former Samajwadi Party  leader and an accused in the 2008 cash-for-votes scandal  Amar Singh  was Sunday discharged from the  All India Institute of Medical Sciences  ( AIIMS ) here and went to his residence. Amar Singh, who was admitted to AIIMS Sep 12 due to an infection in his kidneys transplanted in 2009, was taken in an ambulance to his Lodhi Estate home, accompanied by his aide and  Rampur MP Jaya Prada . A bearded Amar Singh was welcomed home by his children, amid slogans from supporters belonging to his outfit  Lok Manch . He had been granted bail by the  Delhi High Court  Oct 24 on humanitarian grounds. He had been arrested Sep 6 for his alleged involvement in an attempt to bribe MPs ahead of the July 2008 parliament trust vote, in what came to be known as the cash-for-votes case. Later, Amar Singh told reporters that he may have to go back to AIIMS for a check-up on Nov ...

Narendra Modi will be skipping the two-day national executive of BJP to be held in New Delhi from tomorrow, indicating that all may not be well between the Gujarat chief minister and the party. "The chief minister is not going to Delhi to take part in the BJP national executive meeting. This is not the first time that Modi is not attending such a meeting,"a source in the Chief Minister's office (CMO) told PTI. The development comes after his chief mentor L K Advani announced a rath yatra against corruption from Bihar, to be flagged off by the state's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had not allowed Modi to campaign in that state during the last assembly elections there. "He has also undertaken the fast of Navratri, and he does not go out during the fast,"the CMO source said. "The chief minister will attend a meeting of Somnath Trust tomorrow, and other routine meetings,"an official said. The national executive is likely to discuss the ...