Asked about the Congress's role in the alliance, he said the party had a strong support base in states such as Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, where it would play the dominant role.

A defence spokesman said that even the UPA government had rightly rejected the EADS offer of 20 per cent discount in 2012 after opening of bids as violative of procedure.

The Congress leader also rejected Modi's claim in an interview that there was no personal allegation against him, saying this is not true as the entire nation is asking him direct question.

The country's economic system 'collapsed' because of the measures implemented by the Modi government, he alleged and challenged the Prime Minister for a debate on the issue.

The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha for the second time in less than a year after a heated debate on Thursday.

As many as 9000 phones and 500 e-mails were intercepted each month in 2013 during the United Progressive Alliance government, a RTI reply has revealed.

The saffron alliance had swept the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, winning 31 of the state's 40 seats.

Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram had Wednesday called the revision a "bad joke."

The government on Wednesday lowered the country's economic growth rate during the previous Congress-led UPA regime, shaving off over one percentage point from the only year when India posted double-digit GDP growth post liberalisation and from each of the three years with 9-plus per cent expansion.

It is expected that the ED will soon issue summons to a few officials and others involved, asking them to appear before it.

Modi said that while the previous government took 18 months to build one house, the present government readied them in just 12 months with all amenities for the beneficiaries.

The Modi government has proposed to amend the RTI Act seeking to remove statutory safeguards ensuring the independence of information commissioners at the Centre and in the states.

The Congress leader had earlier clarified that he was always in favour of an alliance between the BSP and the Congress.

The weakest period of economic growth in the last 15 years has in fact come in a time when we have had a government with an absolute majority

Vanzara accused the UPA of 'plotting' to 'topple the democratically-elected (Gujarat) government' vis-a-vis the 'politically motivated' CBI chargesheet.

The Congress’s tweet, which mixed business with grief while tweeting out condolence message over the actor’s death, appeared to be cashing in on her.

In the book 2G SAGA UNFOLDS, Raja says DG Audit told Pariliamentary panel he had deleted the presumptive loss figure from the report because it was not part of the accounting code accepted internationally, but was later included by senior officers at the insistence of Vinod Rai.

"The UPA government's and even more so Dr Manmohan Singh's palpable silence in relation to defending my wholly justified actions" was like "silencing of our nation's collective conscience".

The trial by media and judicial decisions following the cry of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has a huge financial burden still breaking on the economy.

The judgment had some searing comments against the prosecution, which should white heat but became rudderless as the case progressed.