New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on Friday amidst reports of growing rift within the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership. The meeting assumes significance given the unease in the party and a growing distance between Modi and senior leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj. Modi, who has come to attend a Planning Commission meet in Delhi, is keen...
06:26 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) takes on the government on a host of issues, the party is fighting an open battle at the top. Senior leader L K Advani on Thursday posted a blog expressing his discontent with party president Nitin Gadkarai. Advani even blamed Gadkari of undermining the campaign against corruption. But what sparked his criticism of the BJP president and praise for Sushma Swaraj and...
09:22 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The war between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party president Nitin Gadkari and L K Advani is now out in the open. Hours after the veteran leader slammed Gadkari for poor leadership, reports suggested that the party president was upset with the frontal attack on him. According to reports, a meeting has been called by Gadkari at his residence to discuss the impact of the bandh, where Advani and...
06:25 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front hit out at the UPA government over falling the GDP. BJP leader Arun Jaitley said, "It's high time for the government to take concrete steps. The government has run out of ideas." Talking about policy paralysis, Jaitley said, "The government needs to build up consensus on policies within the party, alliance and the Opposition and come up with a proper...
04:08 PM, May 31, 2012
New Delhi: The rift between the BJP top brass is out in the open with senior leader LK Advani criticising party president Nitin Gadkari over the crucial decisions taken during UP elections and also the handling of the crisis in Jharkhand and Karnataka units of the party. Advani took on Gadkari in his blog, saying that the mood in the BJP is not upbeat. "The mood within the party these...
01:02 PM, May 31, 2012
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11:52 PM, May 25, 2012
Bangalore: In a U-turn, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa has decided to attend the BJP national executive meet at Mumbai. "Yeddyurappa will fly to Mumbai tomorrow morning to attend the BJP national executive meeting after he had a telephonic conversation with Nitin Gadkari (BJP president) and senior party leader Arun Jaitley," a source close to Yeddyurappa said. Yeddyurappa, who is sulking over the party central leadership for 'sidelining' him,...
10:05 PM, May 24, 2012
MP Kirti Azad said he will continue his protest against the IPL and the Cricket Board. ...
10:37 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition on Monday slammed the government for the proposal of "sending the amended Lokpal Bill to the Select Committee in a haste", saying that the anti-corruption legislation needs a serious discussion. The BJP questioned the way in which the Lokpal Bill was proposed, saying any request for sending the Bill to the Select Committee could be only made by the member in-charge, the minister who introduced the...
06:42 PM, May 21, 2012
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central leadership is deputing a two-member team including its senior leader Arun Jaitley to defuse the crisis that has besieged the ruling party in Karnataka in the wake of revolt by former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. Jaitley accompanied by Dharmendra Pradhan, who is also in-charge of BJP affairs in Karnataka, will arrive in Bangalore on Friday and during their two-day stay will interact...
05:49 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: Had internet been there, the Emergency of 1975 would have been a "fiasco", said Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Thursday as the Upper House of Parliament took up a debate on a motion to annul a set of government's rules on internet. A motion to annul the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011, moved by P Rajeeve of the Communist Party of India-Marxist...
04:07 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: It is a cartoon controversy that has almost no one laughing. After a furore by MP's over BR Ambedkar's caricature, the government has banned all cartoons in textbooks. The question is whether politicians take themselves too seriously. RJD chief Lalu Prasad's was the loudest voice in Parliament demanding a ban on cartoons in textbooks, following a 60-year-old cartoon on BR Ambedakr that united leaders across party ranks. But...
10:17 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader and eminent lawyer Arun Jaitley on Wednesday opposed any guideline to regulate the media but asked it to "discipline" itself when it comes to coverage of criminal cases where it is in the habit of passing judgments. Jaitley also alleged a "free and fair trial" has become "extremely difficult" in India because of "irresponsible judgements" being made by the media. "In India, free and fair trial...
01:03 AM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: There were fresh fireworks over the Aircel-Maxis deal in Parliament on Monday as the government dismissed Opposition charges of delay in clearing investment by Aircel-Maxis in 2006 during the tenure of P Chidambaram as Finance Minister. An emotional Home Minister also clarified saying yet again that his family was not directly or indirectly related to the controversial deal and that he was ready for a probe. Chidambaram mounted...
08:32 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda held a crisis meet with senior BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari and Arun Jaitley on Sunday after former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa raised the pitch of his revolt. In a meeting lasting over an hour, Gadkari, Jaitley and Karnataka incharge Dharmendra Pradhan discussed the state affairs with Gowda. Sources said there is likely to be no change of Chief Minister in Karnataka. Earlier...
09:21 PM, May 13, 2012
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