Bareilly: Varun Gandhi praised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh and said he has as much potential as former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to unite the country.
"His (Vajpayee's) thoughts were so great that every child in the country remembers his rule. I can say with full confidence that if there is any individual in the country who has that ability to bring together people of different religions and castes, then it is our honourable Rajnath Singh," he said speaking at a public meeting in the presence of the BJP chief.
"There are no two views on it... there is an reflection of Atalji in Rajnath Singhji," Varun Gandhi said while addressing a party rally' in Devsara Mandi in the Aonla Lok Sabha constituency represented by his mother Maneka Gandhi
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06:48 PM, May 01, 2013
Patna: Apparently distancing himself from suggestions that he was targeting Narendra Modi, Senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said his comment made at the recent party conclave that triggered a controversy was not against anybody. "I had also praised former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the successful run of NDA coalition...How can it (the comment) be construed as comment against somebody," Kumar said, addressing...
01:45 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has trashed the draft JPC report on the 2G spectrum case and will most likely present its own report on the probe panel's findings, sources said on Tuesday. The sources said that the main opposition party will seek rejection of the draft report. The JPC is expected to meet on Thursday to consider the draft report. Speaking to reporters, BJP leader Yashwant Sinha...
06:46 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Apparently seeking to pacify an angry BJP, JPC chief PC Chacko on Tuesday dismissed reports that the panel has named former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in its draft report in the 2G scam. "We have the highest regard for Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This report has not mentioned the name of Vajpayee. We have not made any reference to the former Prime Minister," Chacko, who is also the...
06:17 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The draft JPC report on 2G scam has questioned NDA's decision to grant concessions to telecom companies on licence fee despite protests by Telecom Minister Jagmohan and says the then government had to "forego" over Rs 42,000 crore in offering Migration Package to cellular operators. On the issue of extending concessions to telecom operators such as moratorium on payment of licence fee, the panel said the government went...
07:16 PM, Apr 19, 2013
JD(U) leader Sabir Ali said Nitish Kumar was railway minister during Sabarmati tragedy, however, Vajpayee said 'raj dharma' should be followed. So, it was not needed for Nitish to react, PM had said it all. ...
07:01 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday set clear terms for future alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), giving enough hints that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will not be acceptable as the prime ministerial candidate to the JD(U). Nitish praised the virtues of senior BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee thrice in his speech, saying Vajpayee's 'Raj Dharma' was the way forward. Nitish said, "Under Vaypayee's leadership,...
03:15 PM, Apr 14, 2013
The newly constituted BJP parliamentary board has included not just Narendra Modi but also his trusted lieutenant, Amit Shah. Advani loyalists like Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh have been left out, powerful regional leaders like Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Arjun Munda have also been kept away. So is it all going according to Modi's gameplan? CNN-IBN's National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue....
06:50 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Senior BJP leaders Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha are among the prominent leaders who have failed to find a place in the new party President Rajnath Singh's core team. Both Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha have been senior Ministers in the NDA colaition government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee. ...
07:30 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is being projected by some in BJP as its Prime Ministerial face for 2014 elections, on Sunday asked his party cadres to work hard to present an alternative to the UPA government. ...
01:45 PM, Mar 03, 2013
The Congress party is a commission party, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi made his pitch for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and urged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers to treat the election as a freedom struggle. ...
12:42 PM, Mar 03, 2013
The UPA government went into damage control on Thursday over the AgustaWestland chopper deal, issuing a detailed factsheet on the AgustaWestland deal, putting the blame on the NDA. The Congress has alleged that in 2003, the then National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra wrote to the then defence secretary that the existing rules were unfair as it allowed only single bidding and that the qualifying height of the choppers should be...
07:49 AM, Feb 15, 2013
Rajnath Singh, who was elected President of BJP on January 23, finds himself in the familiar role of leading the party at a time when the party is dogged by factional feud and the Lok Sabha polls not too far away. 61-year-old Singh from Uttar Pradesh, who takes over from Nitin Gadkari, returns to the political terrain in which the low-profile, soft-spoken and articulate leader found himself about six years...
01:25 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday turned 88 with senior leaders, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wishing him a healthy life. Singh drove down to Vajpayee's 6A, Krishna Menon Marg residence and spent about 15 minutes with the veteran leader. ...
03:44 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on ruled out possibility of an alliance between National Conference and NDA, saying their previous association was only due to his party's relationship with former Prime Minister and BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee. ...
06:58 PM, Dec 21, 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
Former Chief Justice of India JS Verma has sought a probe into Digvijaya Singh's claim of having evidence of graft against relatives of BJP leaders AB Vajpayee and LK Advani, saying it was "very disturbing" and indicated a "conspiracy of silence" at the top. ...
09:27 PM, Oct 28, 2012
New Delhi: Former Chief Justice of India, JS Verma has hit out at the political class saying that politicians are colluding with each other against the fight to end corruption. While speaking to Karan Thapar on this week's Devil's Advocate, he accused the politicians of conspiring to tolerate corruption at the highest level. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said to this...
07:59 AM, Oct 28, 2012
Digvijaya Singh had said that even though the evidence of corruption against families of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani is enough to embarrass the two leaders, the party would refrain from going public with it. ...
09:31 PM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress, after being cornered over party president Sonia Gandhi's son-in law Robert Vadra's land deals, has now said that it has enough evidence of corruption against families of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and senior BJP leader LK Advani. However, General Secretary Digvijaya Singh said his party will never disclose the details. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Digvijaya said that even though the evidence...
07:30 AM, Oct 21, 2012
