New Delhi: BJP Parliamentary Board on Tuesday appointed former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi as leader of the party in the Legislative Council and Nand Kishore Yadav as the head of the party in the state Assembly. Yadav will be the Leader of the Opposition in state Assembly as BJP is now the main opposition after JD(U) snapped ties with it.
He was the Road and Highways minister in the JD(U)-BJP government led by Nitish Kumar. JD(U) walked out of the NDA on June 16 on the issue of appointment of Narendra Modi as head of BJP Election Campaign Committee. Sushil Modi will be the chief of the BJP Vidhan Mandal (comprising of all party legislators from both the Houses).
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12:42 AM, Jun 19, 2013
After the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) fined ICICI, HDFC and Axis banks for flouting customer norms, highlighted by a Cobrapost expose, the latest sting operation by the online magazine exposes how some employees in two foreign banks in India have also been involved in accepting black money and agreeing to launder it. ...
11:32 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: The impasse regarding who will be India's representative at the Annual Conference of the ICC took a new turn as senior vice-president Arun Jaitley's name cropped up as a likely choice for the high-profile meeting in London on June 25. "Mr Jaitley is in London right now. There is a possibility that he might represent BCCI at the Conference on March 25. If Mr Jaitley agrees, he will...
10:31 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: After the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) fined ICICI, HDFC and Axis banks for flouting customer norms, highlighted by a Cobrapost expose, the latest sting operation by the online magazine exposes how some employees in two foreign banks in India have also been involved in accepting black money and agreeing to launder it. HSBC and Standard Chartered officers have been caught in a Cobrapost sting operation, offering to...
10:00 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: Former BCCI president and a member of the anti N Srinivasan group, IS Bindra, has lashed out at the Board's interim head Jagmohan Dalmiya for accepting what he termed an "illegitimate stop-gap" arrangement. Bindra, who now regularly writes blogs stated his views to a question posed to him about whether the BCCI has gone a decade back by appointing Dalmiya as the head of the interim group after...
07:19 PM, Jun 18, 2013
After the dramatic split of the JD(U) and the BJP what does the future hold for both the parties as well as the NDA? Senior journalist Arati Jerath joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Mam, in your opinion, with Mr Modi ascendancy, where will the major gains/losses lie UPA or regional parties of UP & Bihar? Asked by: Kamal A. Even without Mr Modi's ascendance, I...
07:02 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya has agreed to undergo a polygraph test in the Kunda killings case. CBI sources said Raja Bhaiya appeared before a special CBI court in Lucknow on Tuesday and gave his consent to undergo the polygraph test in connection with the murders which took place in his assembly constituency Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh on March 2. "I have neither changed...
03:11 PM, Jun 18, 2013
The Bihar Bandh called by the Bharatiya Janata Party two days after the Janata Dal United walked out of the National Democratic Alliance has been partially successful in some parts of Patna. ...
11:01 AM, Jun 18, 2013
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11:50 PM, Jun 17, 2013
The JD(U) walked out of the NDA alliance on Sunday, leaving the BJP with just Shiv Sena and Shiromani Akali Dal, while UPA is battling with a string of scams that has even dented the clean image of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. ...
11:10 PM, Jun 17, 2013
After their dramatic split, what does the future hold for the JD(U) as well as the NDA? CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar discusses the issue with a panel of experts. ...
10:37 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Patna: A day after walking out of NDA, JD(U) President Sharad Yadav on Monday said his party could consider coming back to the alliance if veteran BJP leader LK Advani returns at the helm of the party. "We will consider rejoining NDA if LK Advani returns to helm of the party. We had fought 2009 elections projecting Advani as our Prime Ministerial candidate," the JD(U) chief said. The statement comes...
10:15 PM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Within 24 hours of the Bharatiya Janata Party-Janata Dal United split, the two parties are taking potshots at each other. The BJP has hit back at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for accusing that the BJP does not respect its elders. Addressing a press conference in Patna, BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said that people of Bihar will get to see the 'real' face of Nitish Kumar very...
07:30 PM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party-Janata Dal United split, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday reached out to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, calling him a secular leader. Taking a potshot at the Gujarat Chief Minister, the Prime Minister also said that Narendra Modi is not a threat to the Congress in the next Lok Sabha elections, as the people know what he stands for. On the...
07:14 PM, Jun 17, 2013
The fissures in the BJP were visible after Narendra Modi was made the campaign chief for 2014 polls and now the JD(U) parts ways with its long-time electoral partner on the Modi issue. Is the rise of Modi doing more harm than good for the NDA? CNN-IBN's deputy bureau chief Sumit Pande joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. Who is more at fault, JD(U) or BJP?...
04:46 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Long-time alliance partners JD(U) and BJP have parted ways after 17 years. Will the departure of the JDU upset BJP's national ambition for 2014? Social scientist Saibal Gupta joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. Q. What do you think is the exact reason for Nitish to move out from NDA? Asked by: Kemi A. The advent of Narendra Modi in the scheme of the things decided by...
04:40 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Chennai: Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday criticised former NDA ally Janata Dal United for questioning the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the party and advised the Sharad Yadav-led outfit not to "poke its nose into other parties". "It is our right to decide who should preside, who should be the chairman of the campaign committee. If anyone says who should be the JD(U) President,...
03:45 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Patna: Within 24 hours of the Bharatiya Janata Party-Janata Dal United split, the two parties are taking potshots at each other. The BJP has hit back at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for accusing that the BJP does not respect its elders. Bihar BJP leader Giriraj Singh said Nitish Kumar has a double face and was frustrated. "Nitish ji has a double face, he is speaking because of his frustration."...
02:22 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Malda: Local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nripen Mondal was shot dead by unknown assailants in Malda district in West Bengal late Sunday night. The assailants opened fire on Mondal's car in the Habibpur police station area of the district. The BJP leader's driver was critically injured in the attack. Mondal was the Leader of the Opposition in the Habibpur Panchayat Committee and a Zila Parishad candidate for the upcoming panchayat...
12:15 PM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: A day after JD(U)'s bitter exit from the NDA, the BJP has now released a 2003 video which shows Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the then railways minister in the NDA government, praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He is seen congratulating Modi for his electoral win and calling the Gujarat riots a sad incident which people must move on from. The video has now led to a...
11:40 AM, Jun 17, 2013
