Sultanpur: Attacking both SP and BSP for supporting Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Sunday charged both parties with supporting it for "saving" their leaders from CBI probe. "The SP and BSP have supported Congress-led UPA government at the Centre to save their leaders from the probe by CBI, which is under direct control of the Centre," Singh said while addressing an election meeting....
04:39 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Rae Bareli: Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday said her stand on not joining active politics remains unchanged even as she took on the BJP for attacking her, asking if it preferred her venturing into politics. "I have been answering this question since I was 15 years old. And the answer is constant and the same. If you do not want to accept my answer to this, and of course, if I...
06:19 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Ghaziabad: BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Sunday said his party has strong chances of winning the elections in Uttar Pradesh and dismissed the idea of forming a coalition government in case it is unable to muster a majority in the Assembly. "BJP is in a very good position of winning the election and forming the government in UP and if any situation arises against it, the party will sit in...
12:03 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Lucknow: The infighting within Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP) Uttar Pradesh again came to the fore in Lucknow on Sunday, when three functionaries resigned from their positions to protest against appointment of former party chief Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj as a general secretary. "We are at least ten years senior to Pankaj in the party and we have made out way up the ladder; and here is this lad being imposed...
01:20 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Lucknow: Cracks surfaced in the Uttar Pradesh unit of BJP when three party secretaries on Sunday resigned angry over promotion of senior leader Rajnath Singh's son Pankaj as general secretary in the poll-bound state. Pankaj, who was till now working as the state secretary, has been promoted as the seventh general secretary of UP unit of the party, BJP general secretary Vindyavasini Kumar said. Kumar, however, said he had no...
07:57 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: The JD(U) will contest all 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, party chief Sharad Yadav said on Wednesday after failure of talks with NDA ally BJP for a tie-up. "We will contest on all 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh and list of more candidates will be issued in coming days,"Yadav told reporters after announcing the first list of 32 candidates. He said the party's negotiations with BJP to...
05:45 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Former BJP president Rajnath Singh ruled out any possibility of an alliance between his party and BSP or SP. ...
06:27 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Balrampur: A day after Sonia Gandhi made a veiled attack on BJP and Team Anna over corruption, BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the Congress chief is silent on 2G, CWG and other scams plaguing the UPA government and only making statements against social activist Anna Hazare. "Gandhi says nothing on 2G, CWG and other scams, while discharges her duties merely by uttering some words against Hazare," Singh told...
03:58 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati intends to pass a resolution recommending division of the state into four parts and said, "wait for for a few days more". The resolution could be introduced in the UP assembly later this month. The proposal is to carve out Poorvanchal comprising of the 32 districts of eastern UP, while the 22 western districts will be grouped together as Harit Pradesh. Bundelkhand will...
08:41 AM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: The issue of whether he was still in the race for BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate figured on Tuesday at the 85th birthday celebrations of LK Advani who turned emotional as party colleagues praised him for his leadership. "He is a natural choice for the PM post...," said former party president Rajnath Singh, who along with Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, her Rajya Sabha counterpart Arun...
03:23 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Moradabad: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday said his party favoured reservation on socio-economic basis and would steadfastly oppose any religion-based quota. "The BJP favours reservation on socio-economic basis," he said at a function in Moradabad. "If the UPA government tries to implement a reservation policy for Muslims, the BJP will oppose it," Singh said. Alleging the UPA government had failed on all fronts, he said it was unable to...
08:26 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Lucknow: To chalk out strategy for the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a two-day meeting of BJP state executive committee would be held in Kushinagar from October 29. "The meeting will be inaugurated by former president Rajnath Singh on October 29 and national president Nitin Gadkari will be the chief guest on the second day," party spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said. He said discussions would be held on current political...
06:13 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Agra: Ruling out any tie-up ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Friday said the party would go it alone in the polls where it will highlight issues of corruption and poor law and order in the state. The people of Uttar Pradesh want to be relieved of the Mayawati government, and the BJP is responding to their wishes, he told a press...
07:29 PM, Oct 14, 2011
Lucknow: Attacking Manmohan Singh, senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Sunday said the Prime Minister, who once declared that he was committed to check corruption, was now shielding his ministers. "On completing two years in office the PM had said he was committed to check corruption, but now he is saying he is committed to save his ministers," he told a function in Lucknow. "What an irony? How corruption will...
08:22 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Lucknow: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday demanded the resignation of Congress-led UPA Government on moral grounds following a spate of scams facing the ruling coalition. "The entire UPA government is in the dock over 2G scam and it has lost moral right to continue to be in power," Singh told reporters on the sidelines of the party's Samajik Nyaya Sammelan in Lucknow. "The UPA Government should resign on...
09:14 PM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday raked up in Lok Sabha the issue of land allocation to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Haryana triggering protests by Congress members leading to disruption of the House. The issue, raised by BJP MP Rajnath Singh, forced two adjournments of the House, one soon after it met for the day and another at noon till 2 PM. Singh alleged that the Trust, headed...
05:17 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Bangalore: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday ruled out allowing scam-hit Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa to pick his successor, even as it continued efforts to make him quit without conditions. "The new chief minister will be decided based on the opinion of all legislators," state Home Minister R Ashoka told reporters after a meeting of senior state party leaders. To help elect a new leader of the legislature...
11:48 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP may have shown the door to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa after the controversial mining report, but Yeddyurappa has made it clear that he will leave on his own terms. The message to national leaders Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley was clear in the orchestrated scenes created by Yeddyurappa's supporters outside his house - the CM is still the king and he wants his man to...
07:00 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: In a move intended as a pressure tactic, about 10 BJP MLAs say they want Yeddyurappa to stay and the Lokayukta's report to be rejected. The BJP top brass, including contender Ananth Kumar, visited Yeddyurappa's residence on Friday. Pro-Yeddyurappa MLAs claimed the support of 73 MLAs and want party high command to change its decision. Pro-Yeddyurappa MLAs They have also demanded three-four days' time to arrive at a...
01:41 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Lucknow: Terming Rahul Gandhi's march to highlight farmers' problems as a political gimmick, senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Wednesday alleged both Congress and BSP were creating a situation to distract attention of the people from corruption and other issues. "Problems of farmers are aplenty and serious. But both Congress and BSP are in league on the matter and are creating a situation to distract people's attention from corruption, price...
06:47 PM, Jul 06, 2011
