Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday termed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a "role model" of development while appealing to states to imitate him. ...
12:14 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, in a bitter jibe at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch LK Advani, on Sunday asked if he had given up his Prime Ministerial dreams. When asked about BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's strong backing for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate, Digvijaya said, "First ask Advaniji. Has he lost his hopes?" ...
05:17 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Leaders cutting across political parties paid rich tributes to Bal Thackeray on Tuesday evening, with BJP veteran LK Advani describing the late Shiv Sena chief as "a rare, unique and original" leader. "I have seen a lot of leaders. I am in politics since the first general elections in 1952. But I have not seen anyone like Balasaheb. He was a rare, unique and original leader," Advani said. ...
04:39 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday accused RSS of supporting BJP president Nitin Gadkari even as corruption charges against him were being probed. ...
10:39 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that since so many leaders have campaigned in Gujarat, it indicates that the entire BJP is behind Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. ...
06:18 PM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: With the Lok Sabha Speaker's all-party meeting failing to break the logjam on FDI in retail issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited the top brass of main Opposition BJP for a dinner on Thursday to ensure smooth functioning of Parliament in the winter session. Singh had invited BJP Parliamentary Party Chief LK Advani, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and her Rajya Sabha counterpart...
02:45 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on Saturday paid tributes to Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray who died in Mumbai and said it will be difficult to fill the void left by him. Advani said he had come in contact with many leaders in the past 65 years since India gained Independence but he can say that Thackeray was a great individual whose "imprint on the country's...
02:53 AM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will host a dinner for the BJP leaders on Saturday to win over political support for retail FDI ahead of the crucial Winter Session. After playing host to UPA allies on Friday night, the Prime Minister will continue his dinner diplomacy by hosting senior BJP leaders at his residence on Saturday. Senior BJP leader LK Advani, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma...
07:34 AM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: RSS ideologue MG Vaidya in his blog has said that the needle of suspicion in the campaign against BJP president Nitin Gadkari points to Gujarat BJP and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Vaidya says, "Ram Jethmalani in one breath said he is seeking the resignation of Gadkari and that he also wanted to see Narendra Modi as PM in 2014." This, he says, seems to suggest that the campaign...
09:43 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In what appeared to be a pat for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for dislodging the CPI(M) from power in West Bengal, BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday said, "it happened due to the commitment and determination of a single individual." "It was because of one single individual's determination and commitment that CPI(M) was defeated in West Bengal," the BJP stalwart said without referring to Banerjee, who heads...
02:40 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani on Sunday said clean politics is the touchstone by which people would judge the leaders in a democracy and his party would not compromise on this vital principle. "You must be able to provide clean politics when away from power and good governance while in power, by which the people will judge the people in public life," he said at a...
05:00 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Tirupati: Senior BJP leader L K Advani offered prayers at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at nearby Tirumala on Saturday. The veteran BJP leader arrived at Renigunta airport near here on Friday afternoon. After an overnight stay on the hills, he offered prayers at the temple early this morning, where he spent about half an hour, temple sources said. Advani was also presented with sacred prasadam, silk cloth...
01:09 PM, Nov 10, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP is still fighting against voices of dissent from within, for its President Nitin Gadkari. Another voice of dissent within the BJP against Gadkari, National executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar, said the party president must take a cue from senior party leader LK Advani who resigned from the Lok Sabha in the nineties after similar charges were levelled against him. BJP National Executive member Dr Jagdish Shettigar...
08:11 AM, Nov 10, 2012
The Andhra Pradesh HC on Thursday lifted the life ban on former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin, calling it illegal and unsustainable. ...
11:21 PM, Nov 08, 2012
BJP leader LK Advani on Friday celebrated his 85th birthday, making him the oldest politician to ever be in active politics. ...
09:08 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Lal Krishna Advani, the man who propelled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from an also ran to power in Delhi in just over a decade, on Thursday celebrated his 85th birthday and finally announced that he was not in the race to become the Prime Minister of India. Forced to play second fiddle to BJP patriarch and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for a major part of his career,...
07:22 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday ridiculed the BJP for giving a clean chit to its President Nitin Gadkari after an internal examination of his business accounts by RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy wondering if he was BJP's CAG. "Gurumurthy BJP's CAG?" Singh wondered in a post on micro-blogging site Twitter. Firing a fresh salvo at the BJP, Singh had on Wednesday reminded that Gadkari had in past defended...
04:29 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has made it clear that he no longer has any ambitions of becoming the Prime Minister. Advani said the party has given him all he wants and that it is much more than becoming the Prime Minister. "The party has given me so much that it is much more than becoming the prime minister," Advani said as he turned 85...
12:28 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Troubled BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Thursday met senior party leader LK Advani, who is apparently unhappy over Gadkari's continuance in his post, to wish him on his 85th birthday. Gadkari met Advani at his residence in New Delhi for nearly 15 minutes. The meeting came three days after Advani skipped the BJP core group meeting in Delhi where the party leadership once again announced its support for...
11:20 AM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Beleaguered Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari is likely to meet senior party leader LK Advani on Thursday. Advani is celebrating his 85th birthday on Thursday. In what was perceived as a snub, the senior leader had skipped the BJP core group meeting in Delhi on Monday night at which the leadership had once again announced its support to Gadkari. Advani is reportedly upset with the RSS...
09:05 AM, Nov 08, 2012
