Haridwar: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi found support in seers as yoga guru Ramdev on Friday backed and rooted for him in Haridwar. Modi, who inaugurated Ramdev's new school Acharya Kulam, said that India has been built by saints and religious leaders, and not by any politician. "I want to announce from this stage that not a single religious leader has ever asked for anything from me. Today I am happy that in Haridwar I have received the honour to meet saints," declared Modi.
Supporting Ramdev, Modi stated that Ramdev has one life, one mission. "These saints have an important role in building our nation. In the past people used to say these saints do nothing. Today when these saint are doing so much, the same people complaint and ask why they are involved in other activities," said the BJP leader.
Saying that there are no ill motives behind Ramdev's actions, Modi added that Ramdev and he are twin brothers. "We are targeted in the same manner. I am not asking anything but the country is seeking an answer from people in Delhi," said Modi.
The BJP leader, who is the frontrunner for the prime minister candidate within the BJP, said that he has no dream or ambition in life. "Only dream I have is to serve the people," Modi declared to a roaring applause from seers in Haridwar....
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04:48 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Patna: Apparently distancing himself from suggestions that he was targeting Narendra Modi, Senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said his comment made at the recent party conclave that triggered a controversy was not against anybody. "I had also praised former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the successful run of NDA coalition...How can it (the comment) be construed as comment against somebody," Kumar said, addressing...
01:45 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Janata Dal (United) on Saturday made it clear that party leader Nitish Kumar was not in the race for the PM post. It also made its opposition to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi loud and clear. "Modi failed to tackle the Gujarat riots," JD(U) General Secretary KC Tyagi said at a press conference in Delhi. At the party conclave on Sunday, the JD(U) resolution is expected to...
09:16 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Narendra Modi is widely held as a dictatorial person who likes no second power centre and has been able to cut the RSS and VHP machinery in Gujarat to its size. But leading a national coalition is a different ball game. Is Modi up to it? Senior associate editor of The Hindu Mukund Padmanabhan joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. If Modi becomes PM, does it...
06:15 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Panaji: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will approach opinion makers from all religions and talk to them about the party, a strategy it adopted during Goa polls, for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, a senior party official said on Wednesday. The BJP workers will sit with opinion makers from all the religions and talk to them about the organisation, which has been "wrongly labelled" as a communal party, BJP's national...
02:39 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP was not in favour of toppling a stable (UPA) government but it could go due to its own internal contradictions, party president Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday. "The BJP doesn't want to destabilise a stable government but we would not be responsible if it goes due to its internal contradictions. It is a loss to exchequer if there are frequent polls," Rajnath Singh told a TV...
06:02 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Patna: BJP on Monday categorically ruled out any tussle among top leaders over the prime minister's post and said parliamentary board of the party will take a decision on it. "There is no no tussle within the BJP over the prime ministerial candidate and the party's top leadership stands united behind the president Rajnath Singh," the party general secretary Rajiv Pratap Rudy told reporters. He also sought to downplay speculation...
02:47 AM, Apr 09, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP will set the agenda for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, emerge victorious and the people will get a "Congress-free India", Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. In an interview to TV news channel, Modi expressed confidence about his Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the next Lok Sabha polls, but remained tight-lipped over his own candidature for the prime minister's post. "In 2014, the...
05:22 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Varanasi: SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday heaped praise on BJP leader LK Advani for the third time in as many weeks, but ruled out any alliance with BJP "People get angry when I say Advaniji is an honest person, he has suffered a lot during the country's partition and has spent a life in hardship. "But, if a person is truthful and honest, irrespective of the party he...
04:05 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Nagpur: Union Minister and NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday ruled out the formation of a Third Front for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014. "There is no possibility of a Third Front as talked about by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh," Pawar, who is the Union minister for Agriculture, told reporters at Wardha near Nagpur. When asked about his recent meeting with Mulayam Singh, Pawar said that not much...
02:30 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: BSP supremo Mayawati has said that conditions signal early elections in the country. Responding to questions, the former UP chief minister said though she does not favour early polls, the current political conditions suggest the elections could be held early. The BSP Chief, whose party gives outside support to the UPA government, was responding to a question. "No matter when the elections are held, my party is ready....
02:11 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh met his party MLAs and MPs in Lucknow on Saturday. The meet was held to review the progress on 2014 Lok Sabha election preparations. Earlier, meeting of the presidents of district and city units were also held. The Samajwadi Party has declared candidates on 71 Lok Sabha seats. Meanwhile, party leader Ram Ashrey Khushwaha did not ruled out the possibility of a Third Front...
02:47 PM, Apr 06, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday did not rule out the possibility of a third term while saying that he will welcome Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi as the prime minister of the country any day. When asked on the sidelines of the Padma Awards ceremony in New Delhi on Friday if he welcomed Rahul Gandhi as prime minister, Manmohan said, "oh yes, any day." Manmohan did not...
01:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
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04:31 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A day after the BJP announced its new team for the 2014 general elections, the focus has shifted to the newly appointed General Secretary, Amit Shah. Shah faces murder charges in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case and is out on bail. So will Narendra Modi's trusted aide become an embarrassment for the BJP? ...
10:51 PM, Apr 01, 2013
BJP President Rajnath Singh finally unveiled his team for the 2014 general elections. Gujarat Chief Minister and party strongman Narendra Modi is back in the Parliamentary Board after a gap of six years. He will also be a member of the central election committee. ...
10:01 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Responding to the salvo fired by Congress leader and Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma that the Samajwadi Party (SP) would win just four seats in the 2014 polls, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that people will see the reality of the Congress-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) relationship. ...
04:49 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Janata Dal (United) chief Sharad Yadav on Friday claimed that corporate houses were fuelling the debate on the National Democratic Alliance's prime ministerial candidate. ...
02:06 PM, Feb 08, 2013
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's recent statements to join hands with cousin Raj Thackeray is the direction ahead for the party says party spokesperson Sanjay Raut. ...
11:22 AM, Jan 30, 2013
A patch up is reportedly in the offing between the Thackeray cousins ahead of the 2014 elections. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray hasn't dismissed the idea. ...
08:14 AM, Jan 30, 2013
