Speaking at a press conferences, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said the UPA leadership was divided.

Hitting out at the Prime Minister, Sushma said, “Manmohan Singh is a PM but not a leader either of the party or the country.”

“UPA allies sit with the PM to discuss problems but look up to UPA chairperson (Sonia Gandhi) for solutions,” she added.

The BJP leader pointed out that “coalitions need special leadership” and the “UPA hasn’t been able to provide the leadership that the country needs”.

“A number of times it has happened that the government took a decision which the public didn’t like and then the UPA chairperson wrote a letter seeking a rollback of the decision.”

“It has become a practice to blame the government for bad decisions, and party takes credit for the rollback,” Sushma rued.

“The NDA government had handed over a booming economy to the UPA government, which even they had acknowledged in their first Economic Survey.

“However today, the economic environment is depressing and worrying… people are not investing, but only withdrawing,” the BJP leader said expressing concern.

“Corruption has crossed all limits during the UPA regime… and the common man is suffering in the form of rising prices.

“Never before inflation has risen this much under any other government,” Sushma said.

According to her, the UPA had failed on the foreign affairs front as well and even “small nations like Maldives were dared India”.

She further noted that cases of crimes against women have risen drastically under the UPA regime.

“What are they celebrating today?” she asked, alleging that the UPA doesn’t have regard for even constitutional institutions like the CVC.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said “never before has the country seen an environment of such gloom, pessimism, cynicism and negativism”.

Inspector Balbir Singh submitted an affidavit on May 15, he alleged that CBI’s Chandigarh deputy inspector (DIG) Mahesh Aggarwal, who was close family links to Bansal leaked crucial information on Delhi CBI team’s raid at Bansal’s nephew Vijay Singla’s house on May 3 in connection with the Rs 10-crore railway scam.

More shockingly, Singh alleged that Aggarwal had tipped off Bansal nephew Vijay Singla’s family about the Delhi CBI team’s raid plan and the action was delayed giving them time to destroy evidence.

More shocking news revealed by the Balbir Singh, claimed that Aggarwal had tipped off Bansal nephew Vijay Singla’s family about the Delhi CBI team’s raid plan and the action was delayed giving them time to destroy evidence.

Balbir also alleged that Aggarwal had tried to manipulate probe against Chandigarh Municipal Corporation’s joint commissioner Rajiv Gupta – brother of Bansal’s financial auditor and close aide, Sunil Gupta – in a corruption case.

According to the Balbir Singh claimed, Aggarwal had rejected to submit to pressure from Aggarwal. Balbir was later transferred to Bhopal, he challenged the transfer order and the CAT has stayed it.

44-year old Raja Bhaiya walked into the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) camp alone to face questions from CBI sleuths.

In the DSP Zia-ul-Haq murder case, CBI had issued summons to Raja Bhaiya to face interrogation.

According to CBI sources, Raja Bhaiya, who is prime accused in the FIR registered by Kunda DSP Zia-ul-Haq’s wife Parveen Azar, has been summoned by the agency for questioning.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has already questioned close aides of Raja Bhaiyya and has grilled his cousin and Member of State Legislative Council Akshay Pratap Singh alias Gopal ji.

The Gujarat government had earlier sanctioned an appeal by the SIT seeking death for Kodnani and Bajrangi in the case. The state government is likely to consult the attorney general before filing an appeal.

The Narendra Modi government had last month sanctioned an appeal by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) seeking a death sentence for Kodnani and Bajrangi in the 2002 post-Godhra riots case.

“The state law department has asked the SIT chief prosecutor not to proceed ahead with seeking enhanced sentences for convicts in the massacre. I believe there was lots of pressure on the government from various quarters,” a lawyer privy to the investigations said.

The Modi government had faced extreme criticism from the RSS for filing death appeal against the two leaders Kodnani and Bajrangi.

The SIT wanted the 10 convicts, who played major roles in the 2002 post-Godhra riots case, to be punished by the death sentence. The SIT court awarded severe punishments to these 10 persons – Kodnani, Bajrangi, Naresh Chhara, Morli Sindhi, Haresh Rathod, Suresh Langado, Premchand Tiwari, Manoj Sindhi and Bipin Panchal and Suresh, alias Shehzad – for their criminal conspiracy and active involvement throughout the fateful day, in the killing of 97 persons in the industrial locality in eastern Ahmedabad on February 28, 2002.

Digvijay also said that the such comments may impair importance of the national institutions

“Hon Supreme Court calls CBI a Parrot in a Cage; CAT calls Intelligence Bureau a Chicken. Are we not belittling our Institutions? (sic)”, Digvijay wrote on Twitter.

“I want you to respond. I will request you to try and get access to all those who are calling our institutions chicken or parrot. You should take reaction from them also,” Singh, who is an AICC general secretary, told.

On the other hand the CAT had drawn parallels between the Intelligence Bureau and a chicken. The Cat said the IB was like an Augean Stable that requires systematic clean-up. “It is like a chicken. A bird? — Yes. Can it fly? — No”, the Bangalore bench of CAT had said while passing orders on a woman IPS officer’s application against her repatriation to her cadre.

“If the morale of CBI has been degraded then it is because the CBI was deliberately not allowed to function properly,” Ravi Shankar Prasad added.

The 64-year-old Siddaramaiah has been sworn in as the 22nd Chief Minister of the state by Governor H R Bhardwaj. Mr Siddaramaiah at a ceremony at Sri Kanteerava Stadium.

In this ceremony their home district Mysore and thousands of people around the areas and many Congress leaders like Union Minister Veerappa Moily and Maharasthra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan too attended the ceremony.

Siddaramaiah, who was elected on May 10 as the Congress Legislature Party leader in a stormily-contested race, edging out party veteran and Union Labour Minister M Mallikarjuna Kharge.

The AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Antony declared in the Congress Legislature Party meeting the election of Siddaramaiah, who had joined Congress from JDS 6 years ago and was a Deputy Chief Minister under N Dharam Singh.

According to the reports, The country is going to visit the new railway minister and the law minister. Both government ministers (Kapil Sibal and CP Joshi) are going to charge more.

Kapil Sibal will replace Ashwani Kumar as a Law Minister and CP Joshi replace Pawan Kumar Bansal as a new railway minister, who resigned as Union Minister here on Yesterday.

Kapil Sibal and CP Joshi will be also in charge of these portfolios in addition to their existing ministries of Telecom and IT and Road and Transport respectively.

Ashwani Kumar, who stepped down as the union law minister on Yesterday for its interference in CBI’s probe into the coal blocks allocation scam.

Ashwani Kumar, who stepped down as the union law minister on Yesterday for its interference in CBI’s probe into the coal blocks allocation scam.

Ashwani Kumar said that, “My conscience remains clear and I believe I will stand vindicated because divine justice ordains that truth and justice will prevail”.

Ashwani Kumar also said he resigned because he was asked to do so by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the party.

Earlier, a meeting was organised by the Congress party to evoke the view of the new legislators on the chief minister’s post.

Siddaramaiah moved a resolution requesting that the Congress legislative party leadership be left to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

K Siddarmaiah is likely to be take oath in as the Chief Minister of the Karnataka on May 13.

On the other hand Law Minister Ashwani Kumar is likely to be shifted from the Law Ministry.

It is believed that during the next cabinet reshuffle, Law Minister Ashwani Kumar’s portfolio may be changed and Railway Minister Bansal can be removed from the post.

Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who is facing calls for resignation in the wake of his nephew Vijay Singla’s arrest in a Railway bribery case.

Law Minister Ashwani Kumar, who is facing calls for resignation for having interfered in the preparation of the CBI’s status report on probe into Coalgate.

It is believed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the view that if the Law Minister Ashwani Kumar quits, he too would come in the line of fire.