In his speech on Sunday, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar listed the criteria for a prime minister and said only someone who can take all sections of society together can become take the top post. ...
10:26 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The video of the incident, captured on CCTV camera, shows the public apathy towards accident victims. ...
09:43 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The tussle over talk of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's PM candidature is threatening to split the NDA wide open. A day after JD(U) leader and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar virtually vetoed Modi, a section of the Bihar BJP is now pushing for a break with the JD(U) - but in a bid to buy some time, BJP president Rajnath Singh has asked partymen to wait till December....
09:12 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Madhubani: Describing Nitish Kumar as "parrot of RSS", RJD President Lalu Prasad on Monday said Bihar Chief Minister was opposing Narendra Modi while praising LK Advani, though both are "communalists of the highest order". He told reporters that Kumar was befooling the minority Muslim community on the Modi issue. "Godhra riots took place in 2002 when Nitish was railway minister and he applied all the tricks in his bag to...
09:05 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Not impressed by his "secular" pitch, the Congress on Monday ridiculed Nitish Kumar for his anti-Narendra Modi rhetoric saying the controversy over NDA's prime ministerial candidate was a "fixed match" between BJP and JD(U). At the AICC briefing, party spokesperson Rashid Alvi evaded questions on whether Congress will welcome JD(U) if the latter walked out of NDA saying, "We will see when it happens." In a dig at...
08:26 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Reflecting widening rift with JD(U), BJP on Monday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was "nobody" to give a certificate on secularism to his Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi and pointed out that he has remained a part of NDA even after the 2002 Godhra incident. The resentment in BJP over Kumar's scathing attack on Modi on Sunday was visible with several leaders feeling the Bihar CM had "almost...
07:16 PM, Apr 15, 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: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has raked up the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate debate again with a statement clearly backing party leader LK Advani. "There is no doubting the fact that LK Advani is our tallest leader," Chouhan said in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN. Chouhan's statement comes hours after Yashwant Sinha spoke out in support of Advani as the Prime Ministerial candidate. Sinha had said...
06:20 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hit out at its biggest ally Janata Dal United saying it should refrain from targeting its allies and instead focus on removing the "corrupt" United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had, in a veiled threat to the BJP, made it clear that his party will not accept the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the NDA's prime ministerial nominee. ...
03:58 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Most Chief Ministers on Monday chose to miss a high-level conference, convened to thrash out challenging issues on public order and policing, with only seven state leaders attending it. The conference of Chief Ministers, convened by the Home Ministry, saw attendance of only Chief Ministers of Odisha (Naveen Patnaik), Assam (Tarun Gogoi), Uttarakhand (Vijay Bahuguna), Tripura (Manik Sarkar), Arunachal Pradesh (Nabam Tuki), Meghalaya (Mukul Sangma) and Nagaland (Neiphiu...
03:00 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha has vouched for senior party leader LK Advani to be the Prime Ministerial candidate. He said if Advani is available to be the PM candidate, it will end the debate on NDA's PM nominee. "Advaniji is the senior-most, most respected leader and if he is available to lead the party and government, then that should end all discussion. Everyone should fall in...
01:42 PM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: Are the ties between the Janata Dal United and the Bharatiya Janata Party reaching breaking point over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate? Senior leaders from Bihar will meet party chief Rajnath Singh on April 18 in Delhi. The Bihar BJP leaders say Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's veiled threat over Narendra Modi is not acceptable. "The Chief Minister's attack on Narendra Modi is against...
11:22 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party is scrambling to tackle Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's ultimatum on its Prime Ministerial candidate. The Bihar BJP core group will meet party chief Rajnath Singh on April 18 in Delhi. The BJP will discuss Nitish's ultimatum on keeping out Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from the PM race. Top state leaders of the BJP will join the meeting, including Sushil Modi, Mangal Pandey,...
09:55 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) drama played out on Sunday with the Janata Dal United (JDU) giving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a year-end deadline to declare its Prime Ministerial candidate. By Sunday evening, the BJP hit back saying that the key NDA ally should rather focus on targeting the UPA than its own allies. Hoping to gain some advantage of this BJP-JD(U) squabble, the Bihar Congress tried...
07:52 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Patna: Describing senior JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's posturing as 'charade,' LJP supremo Ramvilas Paswan on Sunday claimed that Kumar would never sever ties with the BJP for the sake of power in the state. "Nitish will never sever ties with the BJP on Modi issue or any other matter not only in this life, but in the next seven lives," Paswan told reporters. Kumar's posturing on...
03:10 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: In the backdrop of NDA ally JD(U)'s attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday said relationship with coalition partners will "remain good". "Our relationships with all the coalition partners were good, are good and will remain good," he told reporters in Delhi without elaborating when asked about his reaction to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's criticism of Modi. Singh was speaking on...
02:00 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: National Democratic Alliance partner Shiv Sena said on Sunday it is not averse to any name being projected as BJP Prime Ministerial candidate, as long as all alliance partners are consulted before announcing it. The Sena's statement comes immediately after a veiled threat by Janata Dal (United) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar against projecting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate. "All parties in...
11:40 PM, Apr 14, 2013
The Janata Dal (United) has set the terms for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), giving out a stern message on the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial nominee. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did not name the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but made it very clear he is not acceptable as a PM candidate. ...
11:25 PM, Apr 14, 2013
The Janata Dal (United) has set the terms for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), giving out a stern message on the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) prime ministerial nominee. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did not name the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, but made it very clear he is not acceptable as a PM candidate. ...
10:35 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday said other NDA partners need to take cue from JD(U) which has insisted on a Prime Ministerial candidate having a "secular credibility beyond doubt". Clearly in the glee over the JD(U) resolution which is seen as a veto against Narendra Modi's possible candidature for the PM's post, senior Congress leader and I&B Minister Manish said, "Today these voices have started emanating from within the NDA....
07:55 PM, Apr 14, 2013
