New Delhi: In a bid to control the damage after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) patriarch LK Advani resigned from all party posts on Monday, the leadership has prepared a compromise formula. Sources say Advani has shown signs that he is ready for a truce after he was ignored by the party at the Goa national Executive meet where Gujarat Chief Minister Natrendra Modi was made the Central Election Committee chief even though he had signalled that he was against such a move.
Sources say a statement will be read out by either BJP President Rajnath Singh or LK Advani stating clearly that all issues raised by Advani will be looked at very closely. A parliamentary board meet may be called soon to specifically address concerns raised by Advani.
BJP MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and Rajnath Singh have conveyed to Advani that a decision on the party's prime ministerial candidate will not be taken without his consent. The statement is likely to reiterate that Advani is a committed worker of BJP and will remain so.
The party has been plunged into a major crisis much to the comfort of its rivals ever since Advani sent his scathing one-page resignation letter to Rajnath Singh on Monday afternoon. In the ltter Advani said that he was resigning from the three main fora of the party - the National Executive, the Parliamentary Board, and the Election Committee....
05:36 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are likely to meet patriarch LK Advani at his residence on Tuesday in a bid to resolve the crisis brought about by his resignation over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's elevation as the 2014 campaign committee chairman at the National Executive meet in Goa. The meeting will be held after party chief Rajnath Singh returns from Rajasthan later in the day. The BJP...
05:19 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Sidelined and left out in the cold by a party that he had nurtured since its infancy, Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch Lal Krishna Advani on Monday came out with all guns blazing by announcing his resignation from all party posts in a strongly-worded letter to party President Rajnath Singh in which he criticised leaders for trying to project themselves at the cost of the organisation. But the manner...
11:39 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Stunned by party patriarch LK Advani's decision to quit key posts, BJP's top decision-making body Parliamentary Board on Monday night rejected his resignation, insisting that the party needs his "guidance more than ever before". The Board held an urgent meeting at the residence of party chief Rajnath Singh hours after Advani resigned from Parliamentary Board, National Executive and Election Committee to protest Narendra Modi being made Campaign Committee...
10:45 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj Monday expressed "surprise" at BJP patriarch LK Advani's decision to resign from all party posts but said she was confident she would be able to convince him to take back his resignation. "I am going to his house and will talk to him and I am sure we will be able to convince him. I have spoken to him over phone and told...
05:21 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: A number of senior BJP leaders including Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj and party Vice President SS Ahluwalia rushed to LK Advani's residence here after the announcement of his resignation today from key party fora. Apart from Swaraj and Ahluwalia, former party president M Venkaiah Naidu, BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar and senior leader VK Malhotra also reached Advani's residence immediately after the 85-year-old...
03:53 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: 9:14 pm: BJP chief Rajnath Singh says party's Parliamentary Board has rejected its patriarch LK Advani's resignation and has asked him to withdraw the same. "We have rejected Advani's resignation unanimously. As the party president, I would not accept the resignation letter at any cost," he says. "All Parliamentary Board members were consulted on phone and personally. All members have requested Advani to take back his resignation. He...
02:53 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Goa: While many senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have decided to give the National Executive in Goa a miss, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has taken the centrestage at the meet. Speculations are rife that Modi could be named as the party's campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and party sources have said a decision on the same is likely to be announced on Sunday. Ahead of...
09:27 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: It seems like Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is within a touching distance of his goal and is set to be chosen as the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign committee for Lok Sabha elections on Sunday. But it is a decision which is being bitterly opposed by a faction of the party, led by party patriarch LK Advani. This lot of leaders fell sick just in...
09:16 PM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to make the big announcement on whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will head its campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in the next 48 hours. Sources say the Gujarat Chief Minister is adamant that the decision be announced by the end of national executive meet that takes place in Goa this weekend. Under pressure, BJP President Rajnath Singh has...
09:35 AM, Jun 07, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to make its big announcement on Friday on whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will head its campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Sources say the Gujarat Chief Minister is adamant that the decision be announced by the end of the national executive meet that takes place in Goa this weekend. Under pressure, BJP President Rajnath Singh has called for...
08:06 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena remains non-committal on its choice of the NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate. On Wednesday, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said the party was neither opposed to, nor in favour of any person. "Rajnath Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party president) has said that (Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra) Modi is a 'lokpriya neta' and that's why he has been made the campaign in-charge of the BJP. It's their internal decision,"...
05:09 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Mumbai: The family of Delhi girl Preeti Rathi, who succumbed to acid attack injuries at Bombay Hospital on Sunday, met Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil and demanded a CBI probe into the incident. Preeti's father Amar Singh, mother and other family members and some social activists met Patil and expressed anguish over the pace of probe being conducted by the GRP. "We do not trust Government Railway Police investigation. We...
10:19 AM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: Amid government's move for a special session of Parliament to pass the Food Security Bill, the BJP on Sunday said it is not opposed to it even though it preferred advancement of monsoon session. "There are media reports that government is considering the option of an Ordinance or to convene a special session of Parliament. The ordinance route for such an important legislation is not desirable. We are...
03:35 PM, Jun 02, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday targeted the UPA government over appointment of Shashi Kant Sharma as the new Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and said there was "institutional conflict of interest" as he will be auditing defence deals which were finalised during his term as defence secretary. Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley said he was not making remark about the individual but it was an "institutional conflict...
05:08 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: As the UPA II completes four years and is set to release its report card at its celebration dinner on Wednesday evening, the Bharatiya Janata Party has questioned as to what is the celebration for. Attacking the UPA government over a range of issues, the BJP said the UPA government has failed on all fronts. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj began by attacking the UPA over the lack of...
12:06 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: An advanced digital breast cancer detecting machine with the capability to see the lesions in breasts with much more clarity than ever before was unveiled in the national capital on Sunday. The mammography machine 'Amulet' by Fuji films is claimed to be India's first low dose resolution system. Speaking at the launch, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj said: "Every woman should be aware about ever growing breast...
05:33 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Ahead of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India, about 50 people on Saturday held a protest in Delhi demanding suspension of talks with China. The protest was organised at Jantar Mantar by the Nationalists Forum of India and support by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad - the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh - and the Swadeshi Jagran Manch. The protestors burnt an effigy of the...
06:02 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj has welcomed the demand for bringing back the mortal remains of last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar from Rangoon in Myanmar for its burial in Delhi. Supporting the demand, the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha said this will be a befitting tribute to the last Mughal Emperor in the country. "I welcome and support the demand to bring back the mortal remains...
01:43 AM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The BJP upped the ante against Law Minister Ashwani Kumar on Wednesday after the Supreme Court said that the heart of CBI's coal report was changed by the government officials. The apex court, while examining the affidavit submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with coal scam, on Wednesday took a very strong stand and called the investigating agency a "caged parrot speaking in its...
04:37 PM, May 08, 2013
