The Shiv Sena has asked the BJP to clarify its stand on its Prime Ministerial candidate before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that the NDA should decide its candidate in advance. ...
09:24 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Amid calls for Narendra Modi to be made the BJP's PM candidate, senior party leader Rajnath Singh has now asked BJP leaders to exercise restraint while making statements in public. ...
12:15 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Shiv Sena's declaration of support for Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj as NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate on Tuesday is the latest in a series of pronouncements the party has made on who should be the NDA nominee for the country's top job. ...
08:47 AM, Jan 30, 2013
BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said that the party needed to be prepared for 2014 General Elections and that the Gujarat Chief Minister was the party's best bet. ...
10:20 PM, Jan 29, 2013
The Juvenile Justice Board, which has ruled on the basis of the accused's school records, said there was no doubt he was a juvenile. ...
09:37 PM, Jan 28, 2013
A day after the meeting between BJP president Rajnath Singh and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, senior party leader Yashwant Sinha pitched hard for him, saying that the party should name Modi as its prime ministerial candidate. ...
08:22 PM, Jan 28, 2013
After party leader Yashwant Sinha made a strong pitch for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi saying that he should be made the BJP's PM candidate, party president Rajnath Singh said that a decision on it will be taken by the party parliamentary board. He, however, did add that Modi, at the time, was the most popular leader of the party. ...
07:19 PM, Jan 28, 2013
In yet another indication that he is being groomed for a larger role, Gujarat Chief Minster Narendra Modi now has the open backing of senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha. Sinha has pitched hard for Modi as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
04:44 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday joined the chorus for Rahul Gandhi as Prime Ministerial candidate in 2014, saying the demand not only reflected feeling in the Congress party, but also those of millions of youth across the country. ...
05:28 PM, Jan 25, 2013
"I know my limitations. And I live and conduct myself according to my limitations." This was the response of Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday when asked to comment on DMK chief M Karunanidhi's remarks that he was potential prime ministerial candidate. ...
08:52 PM, Dec 31, 2012
BJP national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday ruled out the possibility of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar becoming NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "There is no doubt that NDA's Prime Ministerial nominee will come from the BJP, which is its major constituent," Prasad said. ...
01:16 AM, Dec 16, 2012
BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Friday quashed the hopes of Narendra Modi's supporters to declare him the party's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Gadkari said that the BJP would declare its candidate only after 2014 Lok Sabha elections. ...
12:16 PM, Dec 07, 2012
By openly endorsing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's name for the post of the prime minister, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj has revived the debate of who will be the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP in the next Lok Sabha elections. ...
11:20 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Bal Thackeray has perhaps taken ally BJP by surprise by naming Sushma Swaraj as the best choice for the prime minister's post. ...
09:11 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday expressed amazement at Uddhav Thackeray's remarks that Shiv Sena will not support Kumar as NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for protesting the arrest of an accused by Mumbai police from Bihar and asked who has sought Sena's support and for what. "Ek adbhut bayan ek neta ka aya hai (an amazing statement has come from a leader)," he said referring to Thackeray's rant...
09:57 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday shrugged of remarks by BJP chief Nitin Gadkari that he is one of the party's six Prime Ministerial candidates, saying he remained unaffected and that his focus was on the uplift of six crore people in the state. Modi also sought to draw an analogy with 'pranayam', a popular breathing exercise, on his approach to the prime ministerial issue. The next Lok...
07:27 PM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday claimed there was no divide in NDA on the issue of its Prime Ministerial candidate for 2014 parliamentary polls and said a decision will be taken only after consulting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who is reportedly opposed to Narendra Modi filling the slot. BJP President Nitin Gadkari dismissed reports of a growing split in NDA on Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister, being the PM...
09:37 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has been consistent in his opposition to Narendra Modi, the Hinduvta posterboy, emerging as the NDA's prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections. In a recent interview with a business daily, Nitish insisted that the NDA should name its prime ministerial candidate before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and that the candidate must have 'secular' credentials and a 'liberal' frame of mind. While...
10:05 AM, Jun 20, 2012
The BJP on Thursday bowed to Narendra Modi's dikat by removing his arch rival Sanjay Joshi from the party executive. ...
11:26 PM, May 24, 2012
Narendra Modi always hogs the headlines and always generates sharp responses of two kinds. One from the people who believe Modi is the future of ...
05:52 PM, Apr 25, 2012
