New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership is hardening its stand on LK Advani, but the party patriarch and his camp are not giving up the fight. BJP President Rajnath Singh will be in Banswara in Rajasthan, his absence from the capital at the time of a crisis seems to be intended to send out the message that it is business as usual in the BJP.
Speaking to the media, Rajnath Singh took pains to explain that the RSS had no hand in the decision to promote Narendra Modi as the party's campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar also said that Advani's resignation hasn't been accepted and that all party leaders are in touch with Advani.
Among other key leaders Arun Jaitley is going abroad on Tuesday. Narendra Modi remained in Gujarat and addressed a rally in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
Sources close to the leadership say Modi's elevation has been ratified by the party's National Executive and individuals can't change it. ...
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01:38 PM, Jun 11, 2013
Nagpur: Terming senior BJP leader LK Advani's decision to quit all party posts as "shocking", veteran RSS leader MG Vaidya on Monday said some other resignations may follow. "It's shocking that a leader of such a great stature has to quit. It is now evident that all is not well in BJP. Advani was probably perturbed over the inner crisis in BJP and therefore quit all positions," Vaidya, a former...
08:05 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Panaji: BJP Vice President Uma Bharti, who kept away from the national executive meet in Panaji citing ill-health, on Saturday wrote a letter to party chief Rajnath Singh apologising for embarrasment caused due to her absence and ensuring her full support to any decision taken at the conclave. In the letter written by her from Bhopal, Bharti said she is saddened by media reports which have "needlessly made me a...
01:50 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Bhopal: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti has decided to give a miss to the national executive meeting, which will be held in Goa later this week. In a letter to BJP president Rajnath Singh, Uma said she cannot attend the meeting as she has not been keeping well. Earlier on Wednesday, Uma had said expressed unhappiness over not being invited regularly for important programmes organised by the party...
07:16 PM, Jun 06, 2013
Indore: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said that party officials in Madhya Pradesh seldom invited her for the important programmes organised by them and claimed that she was clueless as to why that was so. She clarified, however, that she had no differences with MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. "I have been invited by people across the country. But I am surprised on not being invited to...
11:21 PM, Jun 05, 2013
Sounsar: Expressing concern over the growing incidents of rapes in the country, BJP Vice-President Uma Bharti on Thursday said the issue should be tackled urgently by keeping aside political and regional considerations. "I am concerned with the growing incidents of rapes especially with minor girls, in the country. I am of firm opinion that the issue should be looked into by all concern by keeping aside politics and state-specific element,"...
01:27 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Nagpur: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti on Tuesday demanded that child rapists be hanged within a month after fast-tracking trials in such cases. "The government should set up fast track courts to try rape cases within 15 days and the rapist should be hanged within a month. Government should decide upon the mercy petition, if any, of the convicts in such cases within 30 days to ensure that...
01:15 AM, Apr 24, 2013
Bhopal: Amid growing clamour to declare Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, party vice president Uma Bharti on Sunday said that people look at him as a strong leader, as they want someone who can tackle issues like terrorism, naxalism. "Though I am not eligible to say whether Modi should be declared as BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate or not, I understand the psyche of...
12:20 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Bhopal: BJP Vice-President Uma Bharti, a sitting MLA from Uttar Pradesh, is likely to contest the next Lok Sabha election from Amroha in the neighbouring state. "The BJP is seriously considering fielding Bharti, a prominent face of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, from Amroha seat in Uttar Pradesh," sources close to her said on Friday. The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister forayed into Uttar Pradesh poll politics in 2012 and was...
04:58 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Bhopal: Senior Congress leader Ajay Singh on Monday hit out at BJP Vice President Uma Bharti for her remarks that the 'final rites' of Congress would be performed during the Assembly elections later this year. Uma on Monday said that she had decimated Congress in 2003 and added that, "in 2008 its last rites took place. In 2013, I am sure its pind-daan' (rituals after cremation) will be performed." Ajay...
06:06 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Bhopal: Claiming that Madhya Pradesh was "ahead of Gujarat" in development, BJP Vice President Uma Bharti on Monday said the party would add to its tally in this year's assembly elections under leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In the past, Bharti had bitterly resented elevation of Chouhan as Chief Minister and had left the party in a huff eight years ago. Bharti and other newly-appointed members of BJP's...
10:18 PM, Apr 08, 2013
BJP leader Uma Bharti, who was appointed party vice president on Sunday, said the best way to find a solution to the Ayodhya dispute was through talks. ...
06:12 AM, Apr 01, 2013
In a major tragedy on the most auspicious day of the Maha Kumbh on Sunday, at least 37 pilgrims were killed and many were injured in a stampede at the Allahabad railway station. BJP leader Uma Bharti, who visited the accident site and later met the injured, questioned the arrangements made by railways ahead of the religious gathering. ...
12:49 PM, Feb 11, 2013
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed a Rae Bareily court to expeditiously hear Babri Masjid demolition case against senior BJP leader LK Advani and 19 others against whom charge of criminal conspiracy was dropped by the trial court. ...
03:48 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed a Rae Bareily court to expeditiously hear Babri Masjid demolition case against senior BJP leader LK Advani and 19 others against whom charge of criminal conspiracy was dropped by the trial court. ...
03:48 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed a Rae Bareily court to expeditiously hear Babri Masjid demolition case against senior BJP leader LK Advani and 19 others against whom charge of criminal conspiracy was dropped by the trial court. ...
03:48 PM, Dec 06, 2012
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed a Rae Bareily court to expeditiously hear Babri Masjid demolition case against senior BJP leader LK Advani and 19 others against whom charge of criminal conspiracy was dropped by the trial court. ...
03:48 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday recorded his statement in a local court in connection with a defamation case he had filed against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti in 2003. However, due to paucity of time, the process and his cross examination by the defence lawyer remained incomplete. ...
10:51 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Rivers are a source of life and their protection should be given top priority, BJP leader Uma Bharti said on Wednesday. "Rivers give us life and their protection is our prime responsibility," she said. ...
04:05 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Patna: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti onSaturday held that FDI in multi-brand would render crores unemployed once foreign retailers set up shop in the country. She said contrary to the Prime Minister's assertion, seven crore people, mostly traders, would become jobless and as also another 20 crore employed in the retail business. The senior BJP leader, who is on a 'Ganga Samagra Yatra' to create awareness on the cleanliness of...
03:22 PM, Oct 06, 2012
