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 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
New Delhi: Senior leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj skipped the BJP national executive meet in Mumbai on Friday raising several eyebrows. But the man who really stole the show was Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. After two days of high political drama at the national executive a temporary truce has been called between Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari with Sanjay Joshi's exit from the meet, but not all issues...
07:17 AM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: The May 31 Bharat Bandh (shutdown) announced by National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners may not feature any petrol or diesel vehicles, the BJP said on Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj suggested that the workers should be encouraged to use unconventional vehicles for the protest which is against a hike in petrol price. The party will be undertaking an eight-day mobilisation drive before the shut-down. However, no diesel...
02:27 AM, May 26, 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
Mumbai: Despite a new found bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari, differences in BJP seem to be far from over at its National Executive meeting in Mumbai on Friday with leaders LK Advani and Sushama Swaraj set to stay away from a rally scheduled for Friday evening. "Advani's schedule was fixed earlier so he won't be there and Swaraj has to attend a programme in Ghaziabad tomorrow morning," party...
04:14 PM, May 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Opposition on Wednesday created uproar in the Lok Sabha over the presence of just one Cabinet minister during Zero Hour when it was raising matters of public importance. Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj complained against the 'casual attitude' of the government towards important issues being raised in the House. HRD and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal was the only Cabinet minister present in the House. The Treasury...
04:48 PM, May 16, 2012
P Chidambaram read a statement by his son on the Aircel-Maxis deal in Parliament on Thursday, which the Opposition said was a violation of House rules. ...
01:44 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: A cartoon depicting BR Ambedkar purportedly published in a NCERT textbook and row over Home Minister P Chidambaram's statement in the Aircel-Maxis deal on Friday led to disruption of the Lok Sabha. As soon as the House met, Thirumaa Valavan Thol (VCK) trooped into the Well waving placards claiming insult to Ambedkar in a cartoon in an Class XI NCERT textbook. The House was first adjourned till noon...
12:41 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership got into the fire fighting mode on Monday evening to defuse the crisis plaguing the party in Rajasthan. BJP leaders spoke to former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje, who has been defying the party's summons and has got 60 MLAs supporting her to tender their resignation from the state Assembly, and tried to mollify her. The party leadership suggested that she play down...
05:47 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Defence Minister AK Antony on Monday defended the Tatra deal in Parliament saying that the trucks were bought mainly due to operational needs of the Army and that not a single Tatra truck had been purchased post 2008. Seeking to turn the tables on the Opposition, Antony said the present government had not purchased a single new Tatra truck and the current deliveries were being made as per...
12:04 PM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: Contrary to earlier speculation, the Congress-led UPA appears to be placed in a comfortable position for getting its nominee elected to the President's post, thanks apparently to some sharp remarks from BJP's Sushma Swaraj rejecting a candidate from the ruling party. A couple of months ago, political circles were agog with permutations and combinations on the President's election suggesting a possible ganging up of non-UPA parties to stall...
02:56 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: In the race to the Rashtrapati Bhavan it was RJD chief Lalu Prasad's turn to make a political statement. The RJD chief said that he was willing to back Vice President Hamid Ansari. But in the Opposition, BJP leader Sushma Swaraj met NDA convenor Sharad Yadav to sort out differences on the Presidential candidate. This comes a day after cracks appeared in the NDA over Ansari's candidature. The...
09:31 PM, May 02, 2012
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