New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi will kick off his election campaign for the upcoming Assembly Elections with a yatra on Tuesday. It's being called the Vivekanand Yuva Vikas Yatra to mark the day Swami Vivekananda made a historic speech in Chicago 150 years ago. The yatra will begin with a rally from from Becharaji in Mehsana district and will cover 182 assembly constituencies. Senior BJP...
08:09 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Raipur: Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the deadlock in Parliament over allocation of coal blocks will continue unless Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resigns from his post on "moral grounds". He, however, clarified that the party would not bring a no-trust motion against the UPA government. "The irregularities in allocation of coal blocks are part of the biggest-ever scam in the Independent India. BJP wants all the (coal...
11:14 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Ghaziabad: The BJP on Thursday said it is ready to provide active support to Yoga guru Ramdev's campaign against black money stashed abroad if he asks for it. "BJP has provided moral support to both Anna Hazare's and Ramdev's campaigns in the past and is even ready to lend active support to the yoga guru's stir if he approaches the party for it," former BJP president Rajnath Singh said. Any...
07:44 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Bangalore: In a last minute hitch, the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting to elect Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister was delayed on Tuesday with outgoing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda's camp setting forth three conditions for his resignation from the post. Nearly 46 MLAs and 8 MLCs pledged their support to the outgoing Chief Minister saying they would resign enmasse if their demands were not met. The Gowda...
04:03 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 46 MLAs and 8 MLCs on Tuesday pledged their support to outgoing Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda saying they would resign enmasse if their demands were not met. The Gowda camp had earlier in the day set three conditions for the Chief Minister to resign. They said that Gowda should be made the state unit's President, that the Deputy CM of the state be Gowda's confidante Gobind...
12:58 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: In a last minute hitch, the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting to elect Jagadish Shettar as the Karnataka Chief Minister was delayed on Tuesday morning with outgoing Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda's camp setting forth three conditions for his resignation from the post. Ministers and MLAs loyal to Gowda are believed to be pushing for making him the party's state unit President, and his close confidante Gobind Karjol...
11:46 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka BJP is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to formally elect Jagadish Shettar as the new Chief Minister. Shettar is currently the Rural Development Minister and belongs to the pro-BS Yeddyurappa camp. Shettar and the outgoing Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda are expected to meet the Governor after the meeting. Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh and Karnataka in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan are in Bangalore to oversee the...
08:15 AM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh are expected to head to Bangalore on Monday to oversee the formal election of Jagadish Shettar as the new Chief Minister. Ex-CM Sadananda Gowda, who stepped down from the post on Sunday, is likely to be made the unit president or given a Rajya Sabha seat. Shettar is said to be close to former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, who insisted...
07:02 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Srinagar: The BJP on Saturday said that the party is in no hurry to name its prime ministerial candidate for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "We still have two years to go for the next general elections. What is the hurry (of naming the prime ministerial candidate)?" BJP leader Rajnath Singh, who is heading a party delegation on study tour of Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters in Srinagar. The former BJP...
02:39 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh said he agreed with senior leader LK Advani's remarks on party president Nitin Gadkari and the mood within the party. "Advaniji is the seniormost leader of the BJP and I accept whatever he says with all regards to him," Rajnath Singh said. Advani criticised party president Gadkari over the crucial decisions taken during UP elections and also the handling of...
02:33 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday passed an amendment to its constitution which will now enable party president Nitin Gadkari's term to be extended by another three years. The amendment was brought by former party president Rajnath Singh, and seconded by another former president M Venkaiah Naidu. Announcing the amendment, party's general secretary JP Nadda said it will also enable extending the tenure of district and state presidents...
01:14 AM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: Decks were cleared for a second consecutive term for Nitin Gadkari as BJP President with the national executive on Thursday amending the party constitution to facilitate the move. Gadkari's current term as president ends in December when he is expected to get a second term, thereby giving him a tenure upto December 2015. A resolution amending the party constitution was moved at the national executive meeting here by former...
11:10 PM, May 24, 2012
Bangalore: Joining issue with senior party leader Rajnath Singh over his "no vacancy" comment, beleaguered BJP Karnataka strongman BS Yeddyurappa on Monday said his comments were "unwarranted" and maintained that he had never clamoured for any party position. "I have never clamoured for any party position or chief minister's post.. the comments are unwarranted," Yeddyurappa said in Bangalore. The former Karnataka chief minister, who recently pushed the party government in...
03:56 PM, May 21, 2012
Lucknow: Former BJP national president Rajnath Singh on Tuesday stressed on the need for an intense debate of the economic model that has been adopted to accelerate reforms in the country. "The model adopted is not suitable keeping in mind the socio-economic and geographic situation of the country and a debate on the issue is must...," Rajnath said. "The main reason (for the debate) is because income disparity is increasing,...
11:46 PM, May 15, 2012
Ghaziabad: In case the Congress fails to prove majority in Uttarakhand Assembly the Governor should invite the BJP to form the government, BJP leader Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. "In Uttarakhand, BJP will form the government if Congress does not prove the majority in the House and in case of failure of Congress in proving the majority the Governor should invite BJP to form the government," the former BJP president...
11:12 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Even as Akhilesh Yadav claims his father Mulayam will be the UP CM, clamour within SP has been growing for Akhilesh. ...
11:15 PM, Mar 07, 2012
After a spectacular victory of his party, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is all set to become the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. ...
10:12 PM, Mar 07, 2012
New Delhi: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which got 31 seats, one short of the Congress, in Uttarakhand Assembly elections, on Wednesday began efforts to form the government with its senior leaders trying to establish contact with Independent MLAs and the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD). The BJP is also in touch with UKD (P) MLA (who is actually close to senior Congress leader Satpal Maharaj) but was denied ticket....
05:12 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Rajnath Singh said that if the BJP does not get a clear majority in the UP Assembly polls, it will not form a coalition government in the state. ...
04:56 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Panaji: BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday claimed that his party was the front-runner in the Assembly elections in five states, including Goa. Singh said the common man was fed up with Congress, and BJP would do well in the polls in five states. "The man on the street is exasperated with the anti-people policies and poor performance of the Congress-led governments at the Centre and the states," Singh, who...
06:06 PM, Feb 23, 2012
