New Delhi: Defending Narendra Modi, veteran BJP leader LK Advani on Sunday accused the media of indulging in vilification of the Gujarat Chief Minister while reporting on former president APJ Abdul Kalam's book where he discusses his visit to the state after the 2002 riots. Referring to Kalam's latest book Turning Points, Advani in his blog on Sunday said that no other politician has been as systematically and viciously maligned...
04:46 PM, Jul 08, 2012
New Delhi: In the aftermath of the 2002 riots in Gujarat, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee appeared to be not keen on President APJ Abdul Kalam's official visit to the state, according to a book. Giving an inkling of what the Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart thought about his visit in his soon-to-be-released book "Turning Points", Kalam said there were also suggestions at the ministry and bureaucratic level against...
06:46 PM, Jun 30, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing his offensive against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted to sack him after the Gujarat riots. However, the RSS came out to Modi's defence and the Sangh chief called for a Prime Ministerial candidate committed to Hindutva. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat intervened in the battle for 2014 raging between two Chief...
09:42 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on Friday amidst reports of growing rift within the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership. The meeting assumes significance given the unease in the party and a growing distance between Modi and senior leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj. Modi, who had come to attend a Planning Commission meet in Delhi, is keen...
08:02 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on Friday amidst reports of growing rift within the top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership. The meeting assumes significance given the unease in the party and a growing distance between Modi and senior leaders LK Advani and Sushma Swaraj. Modi, who has come to attend a Planning Commission meet in Delhi, is keen...
06:26 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: "Music rippling, blazing - Not knowing where you are; In the fire of your own tune, resound, resound; I love songs; There is tempest in tunes; Resound, resound in the fire of music; And compose a tune....; Sway your Vina in the dreams; Let beauty rise in your tune and rhythm; Beat by beat with your Vina; So many sorrows I forget" - Mamata Banerjee (Melody of the...
07:48 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Mumbai: His political differences with Congress notwithstanding, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray admires Indira Gandhi as a "woman with guts" who had the capability to govern. Thackeray was replying to a question as to who he thought was the best Prime Minister of India, in an interview published in party mouthpiece Saamana on Wednesday. "When Indira Gandhi won the Bangladesh war, even Vajpayee (Atal Bihari Vajpayee) hailed her as an...
01:46 PM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday said there was never a shred of evidence against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and they stand vindicated after the Supreme Court order on the 2002 Godhra riots. Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh asked Modi to show remorse for the riots. Rajdeep Sardesai: Do you believe that the celebratory tone among the BJP is justified, do you believe that BJP has a reason to...
07:19 AM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Wednesday said he feels "awkward" attending functions where he feels his long-time associate and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee should have been present. "I feel awkward at programmes where Vajpayeeji should have been ...but he can't attend," Advani said here at the launch of a project to compile the works of Vajpayee in a digital format. He said at the programme...
10:58 PM, Jun 08, 2011
New Delhi: With her remarks on Arun Jaitley regarding Bellary brothers threatening to snowball into a major row, BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Saturday stepped in to virtually snub Sushma Swaraj saying any debate on the choice of ministers in Karnataka in the media is "totally unnecessary". "Any debate about the choice of ministers in the Karnataka government at this stage in the media is totally unnecessary," Gadkari said. With...
08:13 AM, May 29, 2011
New Delhi: With her remarks on Arun Jaitley regarding Bellary brothers threatening to snowball into a major row, BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Saturday stepped in to virtually snub Sushma Swaraj saying any debate on the choice of ministers in Karnataka in the media is "totally unnecessary". "Any debate about the choice of ministers in the Karnataka government at this stage in the media is totally unnecessary," Gadkari said. With...
08:13 AM, May 29, 2011
Aranthangi: He has been the darling of the masses and commands considerable respect, but former BJP Union minister S Thirunavukarasu may have to walk the extra mile this time to enter the Tamil Nadu Assembly for the seventh term from his traditional stronghold, this time on a Congress ticket. People in this rural constituency in Pudukottai district near Trichyrapalli in central part of the state still remember Thirunavukarasu's "good work...
02:15 PM, Apr 06, 2011
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday turned 87, an occasion which was used by his party BJP to demand 'Bharat Ratna', the country's highest civilian award, for him. BJP leaders, including former party president Rajnath Singh and Jaswant Singh, visited Vajpayee's residence here and wished him on his birthday. After wishing Vajpayee, Rajnath Singh said the former Prime Minister deserved Bharat Ratna for his contributions to...
05:16 PM, Dec 25, 2010
New Delhi: Lawyer-turned-politician Ram Jethmalani has become a major source of headache for the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). However, the BJP is downplaying the embarrassment for the time being. Ram Jethmalani had surprised many by getting a BJP Rajya Sabha ticket from Rajasthan on June in 2010. However this wasn't the first time that he had left the party red faced. In 2000, he was forced out of the law...
10:05 AM, Oct 28, 2010
Earlier, he had unsuccessfully contested against former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee during 2004 Lok Sabha polls. ...
05:46 PM, Jun 06, 2010
