
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has had his way, forcing the resignation of Sanjay Joshi from the BJP National Executive. After which he decided to attend the two-day meeting which he had earlier planned to boycott. Sanjay Joshi's exit was made a prestige issue by the Gujarat Chief Minister for attending the two day party conclave in Mumbai. BJP president Nitin Gadkari said, "Joshi has resigned in the...

08:43 PM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the BJP national executive meet after he spoke to the party president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday. Modi got his way once again as he forced the resignation of arch rival and critic Sanjay Joshi from the BJP national executive in exchange for his presence at the party meet. A vociferous Modi detractor, Joshi's exit saved the BJP the embarrassment of...

12:06 PM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has his way as his critic and BJP National General Secretary Sanjay Joshi has resigned from the party. This comes on a day when the party is set to begin its two-day national executive meet in Mumbai. "Joshi, who was invitee member of the National Executive, has in a letter to party president Nitin Gadkari said that he is relinquishing his post in...

08:47 AM, May 24, 2012

Mumbai: As the BJP national executive meeting begins in Mumbai on Thursday, all eyes are at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi who has yet not confirmed his participation. While there has been no word of confirmation from Modi, the party leaders are worried that his absence from the meeting may overshadow the entire executive agenda. Reports suggest that instead of travelling to Mumbai from Ahmedabad, Modi might visit Udaipur, where...

08:17 AM, May 24, 2012

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is likely to skip the national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to be held in Mumbai. Reportedly, the Gujarat Chief Minister is upset at being overlooked for the post of BJP president. This comes after reports suggested that current president Nitin Gadkari is set to get an extension till 2014 at the national executive meeting. Nitin Gadkari was given a...

06:42 PM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: On the second day of BJP's National Executive Meet the party tried hard to come out of Narendra Modi's shadow. In its political resolution, the party took a strident line against the UPA Government and asked its cadres to prepare for mid-term polls in the wake of internal contradictions within the ruling Congress Party. "The Government with all the internal fueds many not last its full term. The...

09:31 PM, Oct 01, 2011

New Delhi: Calling the UPA arrogant and beset with internal contradictions, the BJP has decided to ask its cadres to prepare for mid-term polls. A political resolution adopted at the party's two-day national executive claims there is a crisis of governance at the Centre and therefore, there is a sense of drift. The BJP has called the truce between Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram a farce...

04:12 PM, Oct 01, 2011

New Delhi: On the second day of the BJP National Executive Meet in the capital senior leader LK Advani will deliver the valedictory address and also pass a political resolution on the poverty figure. The Rs 32 poverty figure set by the Planning Commission is said to be one of the main talking points at the meet along with corruption. BJP leader Uma Bharti slammed the Congress saying that corruption...

12:27 PM, Oct 01, 2011

Modi-baiter Sanjeev Bhatt has been arrested in Ahmedabad. The Centre has failed to achieve Telangana breakthrough. ...

11:32 PM, Sep 30, 2011

New Delhi: The two-day BJP National Executive Meet has been overshadowed by a cold war between the party's two big guns - LK Advani and Narendra Modi. While who's who in the BJP trooped into the national capital for the party's National Executive Meet, Modi made his presence felt by his absence. The Gujarat Chief Minister skipped the event, even though open support for him came as one of the...

09:29 PM, Sep 30, 2011

Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday raked up the Ram Temple issue and invoked former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as part of its strategy to make a comeback in Uttar Pradesh with party chief Nitin Gadkari ruling out having truck with any party for next year's Assembly polls. "While in Lucknow, just about a few kilometers away from Ayodhya, we have an occasion to rededicate ourselves to...

04:47 PM, Jun 03, 2011

New Delhi: The BJP national executive meet begins in Lucknow on Friday. The Baba Ramdev fast and Sushma Swaraj-Arun Jaitley spat are likely to dominate the session. The party's top brass will be gathering in Lucknow today as it desperately seeks to settle leadership issues in the post-Vajpayee era. Preparations for the 2014 general elections will be high on agenda but cracks have been noticed recently with two leaders of...

07:36 AM, Jun 03, 2011

He was speaking at the national executive meet of the BJP. ...

06:44 PM, Feb 18, 2010

Jaitley's resignation was accepted immediately. ...

10:38 PM, Jun 16, 2009

They didn't even wake up when Rajnath spoke of Ayodhya. ...

06:38 PM, Feb 07, 2009