Bangalore: The ruling BJP will launch its campaign for the May 5, 2013 Assembly elections in Karnataka from Monday with the party stalwarts L K Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to skip the event. The two leaders' absence seems to have taken some sheen off the rally, which would be addressed by party President Rajnath Singh, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her counterpart in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley.
Modi kept away from BJP's Central Election Committee that met last Friday when the first batch of 140 candidates for the Karnataka polls was decided, with party leaders maintaining that he had prior engagements and hence could not make it. Modi would be in Delhi on Monday to address a programme organised by FICCI's ladies wing. The second round of the CEC meeting is expected to be held on April 9, 2013.
There is intense speculation over whether the Gujarat Chief Minister, being projected by a section of the BJP as a presumptive prime ministerial candidate of the party for the next Lok Sabha elections, would campaign in Karnataka poll but party leaders insist that he would address public meetings for sure. His poll programme is yet to be finalised. The question is also being asked if Modi's campaign programme would be full-fledged or it would be limited to a "minimum" in the background of the ruling BJP being saddled with anti-incumbency factor and desertion of some 30 MLAs and corruption charges against a
04:58 AM, Apr 08, 2013
The allies of the National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday held a meeting at the residence of veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani ahead of the Budget Session of Parliament, which is slated to begin from Thursday. ...
05:32 PM, Feb 20, 2013
Nearly seven years after courting a controversy by praising Mohammed Ali Jinnah, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on Sunday said it was a prominent Swami of the Ramakrishna Mission, who had drawn his attention to the Pakistan founder's desire for a secular state. ...
08:44 AM, Dec 31, 2012
LK Advani came under fire during a debate on the situation in Assam in Parliament. ...
10:04 PM, Aug 08, 2012
An angry Sonia Gandhi goaded Congress MPs to shout slogans after BJP leader LK Advani took a jibe at the UPA-II and accused the government of indulging in horsetrading to win votes in the House. ...
09:57 PM, Aug 08, 2012
There was ruckus in Parliament on Wednesday after veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani made a controversial remark against the UPA government. ...
09:23 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: There was ruckus in Parliament on Wednesday as veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani made a controversial remark against the UPA government. The veteran leader began a debate on the violence in Kokrajhar in Assam putting the blame squarely on the illegal migrants from Bangladesh, but went on to make some controversial remark against the UPA-II government, causing uproar in Parliament. "Never in the Indian...
05:37 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani on Tuesday came in the line of fire over his blog wherein he talked about the possibility of a non-Congress and non-BJP Prime Minister after the 2014 general elections. While long-time ally Bal Thackeray hit out at him terming his blog as demoralising, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, who has been a close aide of Advani, also expressed...
11:10 PM, Aug 07, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with rebellion in the party's state unit on the issue of portfolio distribution, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar on Saturday met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari and other central leaders to seek guidance on Cabinet expansion. Accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister R Ashok, Shettar also met senior BJP leaders including L K Advani, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj at Gadkari's residence in New Delhi. BJP's...
10:51 PM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: A strategy meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the presidential elections is being held at the residence of senior leader L K Advani. The meeting is also being attended by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, veteran leader Jaswant Singh and Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy. According to sources, Swamy is keen on launching an all out attack on UPA presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee...
06:34 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: Speaking openly for the first time on the issue, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its mouthpiece 'Panchajanya' slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the infighting amongst its leaders. The RSS slammed the infighting within the BJP, saying several leaders in the party carry Prime Ministerial ambitions. The mouthpiece however said that several Chief Ministers as well as national leaders were capable of becoming the Prime Minister....
05:27 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Is L K Advani's repeated public criticism of the BJP proof of deep divisions at the top of the party? ...
10:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012
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 had come to attend a Planning Commission meet in Delhi, is keen...
08:02 PM, Jun 01, 2012
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
Mumbai: The divide within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is out in the open with veteran leader Lal Krishna Advani and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, skipping the national executive meeting in Mumbai. They have also decided to not attend a rally of the party. The absence of the senior leaders came as the BJP decided to extend Nitin Gadkari's tenure as the party president while some...
05:43 PM, May 25, 2012
Madurai: Comparing building a party to a battle field involving two armies, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Lal Krishna Advani on Thursday said challenging the Congress' hegemony was one of the party's biggest achievements. Tracing the journey of BJP from the Jan Sangh days, he said it had become one of the top two recognised political parties in the country ensuring a bi-polar polity. "This was not a casual achievement...
12:05 AM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of the second half of the budget session, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday held an executive party meeting at the residence of senior party leader Lal Krishna Advani in Delhi. The purpose of the meeting is to decide on the party's agenda for the second half of the Budget session of Parliament that begins on Tuesday. At the meeting, the party is also deciding whether...
12:41 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Facing strong protests from within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its Rajya Sabha candidate from Jharkhand, Anshuman Mishra, has said that he will withdraw his nomination on Thursday. The decision came hours after BJP MLAs from Jharkhand decided to dump Mishra and abstain from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections following his attack on veteran leaders L K Advani and Yashwant Sinha. BJP leader Ananth Kumar said that...
07:49 PM, Mar 21, 2012
