Srinagar: The BJP on Saturday said that the party is in no hurry to name its prime ministerial candidate for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "We still have two years to go for the next general elections. What is the hurry (of naming the prime ministerial candidate)?" BJP leader Rajnath Singh, who is heading a party delegation on study tour of Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters in Srinagar. The former BJP...
02:39 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Ahmedabad: In his bid to wean away Muslim voters from Congress' fold in election year, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is making efforts that include experimenting social engineering and even shedding his saffron persona to woo the community towards BJP. In what appears to be a well thought out strategy, Modi is holding a meeting of the state BJP Minority Cell at Staff Training College in Gandhinagar on Wednesday to...
11:00 PM, May 29, 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
Guwahati: Several politicians from the northeastern states want to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its president, Nitin Gadkari, said in Guwahati on Sunday. "Several senior leaders from various regional parties have come and met me here and expressed their willingness to join the BJP," he said. One of them was Manipur Peoples' Party leader Chaoba Singh, he said. "I cannot name them all at this moment but I can...
06:34 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) welcomed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's comments on early elections, the Left called it a case of blackmail. CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said, "These small parties blackmail the government. We have reached here passing all the challenges till now and we would fight this challenge also. It has become impossible for parties like ours to fight in the elections." Yechury's comments...
02:00 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and triggered a debate on the possibility of early general elections. She claimed she has information that a political party in Delhi had held a meeting to advance the Lok Sabha poll to 2013 and asked her partymen to be ready for it. The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed Mamata's comments on early general elections. Reacting to Mamata's...
10:03 AM, May 12, 2012
Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that the general elections will happen as scheduled. ...
09:20 AM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has welcomed UPA ally and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's comments on early general elections. The Trinamool Congress Chief sparked speculation of early elections when she was addressing her party workers in Kolkata on Friday. Reacting to Mamata's comments, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said, "Mamata Banerjee should get rid of this government. She has hinted at early polls in 2013. The BJP wants the...
08:41 AM, May 12, 2012
Washington: Reforms are unlikely before the 2014 elections, Prime Minister's Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu has suggested. Speaking at the US-based think tank Carnegie Endowment meet on Wednesday, Basu said relatively less important bill might go through Parliament. He was addressing concerns expressed by US corporates on some recent decisions of the Indian government. Basu blamed the slowdown in decision making on the spate of recent corruption related scams saying the...
08:49 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, upbeat after his party's resounding win Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, has asked his party leaders to be ready for mid-term Lok Sabha polls. Mulayam, while speaking at a function to mark Dr Ram Manohar Lohia's 102nd birth anniversary in Lucknow, told the party workers that the manifesto must be implemented to bring visible changes in Uttar Pradesh within six months. "I have handed...
06:17 PM, Mar 23, 2012
The Time magazine recently, through a controversial cover story on the BJP mascot and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, made the argument that Modi may be the biggest threat Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would face in the 2014 general elections. "Modi, 61, is perhaps the only contender with the track record and name recognition to challenge Rahul Gandhi," says the story. Indian politics at the Centre today is largely between...
12:05 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Washington: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may pose a challenge to Congress's young scion Rahul Gandhi in India's next parliamentary elections, Time magazine said. Modi, who figured on the cover page of the latest issues of the Asia edition of the prestigious magazine, which hit the stands on Friday could put up a challenge to Gandhi in particular after the recently held Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, where Congress fared poorly....
10:26 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Threatening to launch a 'big protest' for a strong Lokpal bill, Anna Hazare on Friday said the government will have to go if it does not bring a strong anti-corruption law. He said he will campaign for a strong Lokpal Bill till the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and if it does not come by then, he will sit in protest in Ramlila Maidan in Delhi soon...
12:21 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Holding that the BJP is suffering from "Congress patch" in UP, the RSS has said it will be difficult for the saffron party, which has a "bigger army of leaders than workers" in the state, to come to power in 2014 Lok Sabha elections unless it answers the questions posed by Assembly poll results. In the editorials of its mouthpieces Organiser and Panchjanya, the Sangh asked the BJP...
07:43 PM, Mar 11, 2012
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