New Delhi: In a scathing criticism of the BJP and senior party leader LK Advani, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said on Tuesday that the party seemed to be in utter confusion and disarray. "What is wrong with the BJP? Are they ill? Have internal internal fissures made the party frustrated? As usual it is their internal matter... but I cannot say, 'forget it'," he said. He continued, "It is...
11:33 AM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has said that it will go it alone in the 2014 General Elections and the 2013 Panchayat elections in West Bengal. This is the first official indication by the party that it may exit the UPA in 2014. TMC leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay said on Monday that the party would win all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. Ironically, he made the statement...
07:16 AM, Aug 07, 2012
LK Advani sent ripples through his party when he blogged that a non-BJP and non-Congress prime minister was possible in 2014. ...
09:26 PM, Aug 06, 2012
LK Advani sent ripples through his party when he blogged that a non-BJP and non-Congress prime minister was possible in 2014. ...
09:53 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought an assurance from the BJP that his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi will not be NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections. Kumar made this clear to BJP President Nitin Gadkari when he met him during the oath taking ceremony of Pranab Mukherjee as President last month, sources close to the Bihar chief minister told PTI. The sources said Gadkari...
01:48 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Reacting to senior BJP leader LK Advani's comments on his blog on Sunday, whereby he wrote that a non-BJP, non-Congress PM was 'feasible' in 2014, the Congress said that it was nothing but an admission of defeat. "He has conceded defeat. He has said that a BJP prime minister cannot be made in the 2014 General Elections," said Congress leader Rajeev Shukla. "I hope that history repeats itself...
01:04 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani stoked the Nitish Kumar-Narendra Modi war of nerves yet again on Sunday writing on his blog that a "non-Congress, non-BJP Prime Minister heading a government supported by one of these two principle parties" was feasible. "This has happened in the past also. But, as the Prime Ministership of Ch Charan Singh, Chandrashekharji, Deve Gowda ji and Inder Kumar Gujral ji, as also of...
11:42 AM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday welcomed Anna Hazare's indication of floating a new party to fight the 2014 general elections and said the activist and his team should also contest the polls. "It is a very welcome statement. I welcome it. Anna Hazare should contest. Ramdev, Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Kiran Bedi, everyone should contest election," Singh told reporters while reacting to Hazare's statements. In a...
05:17 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Indore: Senior BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh minister Babulal Gaur on Monday described Narendra Modi as the second Vallabh Bhai Patel and a "secular" leader to the core. "Narendra Modi desh ke dusre Vallabh Bhai Patel hain... shudh secular hain, (Narendra Modi is the second Vallabh Bhai Patel of this country... He is secular to core)," the municipal administration minister told a press conference after unveiling the "Narmada River Conservation...
11:45 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Janata Dal United leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday sparked off the debate on prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections by hinting that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is unacceptable as the Prime Ministerial candidate to his party. In an interview to the 'Economic Times', Kumar had insisted that the National Democractic Alliance should name its Prime Ministerial candidate before the 2014 Lok...
12:02 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: In more trouble for the BJP, crucial NDA ally, the JD(U) said on Tuesday that it must name its Prime Ministerial candidate before the 2014 General Elections, and must name a person who has secular credentials, which is being seen by many as an indirect jibe at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar made the statement early on Tuesday morning. Modi and Nitish have been...
10:19 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Law Minister Salman Khurshid has said that minority sub-quotas are not aimed at minority appeasement but the empowerment of all communities. ...
10:14 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: It's a blow which the government was quick to recover from. Less than 24 hours after Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down the sub-quota for minorities, the government is adamant to pursue it. The government has proposed creation of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for notified minority groups out of the 27 per cent reservation meant for OBCs - a move which the Opposition says smacks of votebank...
09:44 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi get ready to present their report card for the UPA-II's third year, it seems there would not be much to celebrate. It has been a year of controversies for the UPA-II... attacks, couter-attacks... angry and sulking allies... and finally defeat. The fact that the PMO had to send repeated reminders to ministers to send their list of achievements...
07:29 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Battling serious perceptions of policy paralysis, the UPA government completes three years in office in its second term tomorrow amidst uncertainty over passage of key economic legislations and decisions like FDI in retail and faces tough challenges in the run up to the general elections two years hence. Hopping from crisis to crisis, particularly in the last more than a year, the government presents a picture completely different...
02:41 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is one of the party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Gadkari said, "Modi has got the potential for becoming the Prime Minister." Gadkari's statement came a few hours after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) report on Gulbarg Society massacre during the 2002...
05:05 PM, Feb 09, 2012
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that he will not contest the 2014 General Elections. ...
09:24 AM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of his proposed yatra against corruption, senior BJP leader LK Advani is meeting RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur on Wednesday. Advani is meeting Mohan Bhagwat ostensibly to seek his support and allay apprehensions about his future plans, party sources said. The RSS has not been too happy with Advani's proposed Yatra against Corruption as they feel he took this decision without consulting them. Sources also indicate...
08:28 AM, Sep 21, 2011
New Delhi: Upset with senior BJP leader LK Advani announcing his rath yatra against corruption without consulting them, the RSS has told Advani that they will back his yatra only if he opts out of the PM race for the 2014 general elections, said sources. Sources said that it has been conveyed to the former deputy prime minister that support from the RSS for the yatra is contingent upon an...
07:19 PM, Sep 17, 2011
