Goa: Former president of the Bharatiya Janata Party Nitin Gadkari is likely to get a new role in the party. Sources said on Sunday that Gadkari is likely to be appointed as the manifesto panel head for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The announcement, however, is unlikely to be made on Sunday, said the sources. On Saturday, there were reportedly demands within the party to appoint Gadkari as the election...
11:18 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Udaipur: Former BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday expressed confidence that his party will come back to power in poll-bound Rajasthan. Gadkari, who was here to address a public meeting of the first phase of the Suraj Sankalp Yatra, told reporters that "if people want to see Rajasthan as a developed state, then they must bring back BJP to power". Campaigning for the party during the yatra along with state...
11:16 PM, Apr 16, 2013
In a major setback for former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, a Nagpur court on Thursday rejected the closure report of the CID in the Yogita Thakre murder case. The body of Yogita Thakre was found in a car in the residential compound of Gadkari in Nagpur. ...
04:31 PM, Feb 21, 2013
In a dramatic twist to the battle for the next president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former party chief Rajnath Singh has emerged as the frontrunner for the post. According to sources, current president Nitin Gadkari has told RSS leader Bhaiyaji Joshi that he favours the former party chief if there is no consensus on his name. ...
09:30 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The race for the next Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president could turn into a bitter battle with senior party leader and Hazaribagh MP Yashwant Sinha likely to contest against Nitin Gadkari. Yashwant Sinha's aide has taken the nomination papers from BJP office on Tuesday for the election which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. ...
06:04 PM, Jan 22, 2013
In what comes as an embarrassment for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, an aide of veteran leader Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday took the nomination papers for the party presidential elections. ...
05:15 PM, Jan 22, 2013
There is trouble within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the leadership and it's presidential election. Even though the road seems clear for the second term of current party president Nitin Gadkari, BJP leader Mahesh Jethmalani has said there should be a contest for the post. ...
07:31 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Is the BJP right in giving a second term to Nitin Gadkari as party president? CNN-IBN's National Bureau Chief Bhupendra Chaubey joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
05:45 PM, Jan 03, 2013
New Delhi: After Gulabi gang leader Sampat Pal's eviction, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu also stepped out of the 'Bigg Boss 6' house on Friday. Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur requested TV channel Colors to let him leave the house. BJP Chief Nitin Gadkari wants Sidhu to campaign in Gujarat. Navjot Kaur told PTI lately, "Till yesterday I had no doubts about him (Sidhu) staying on the show, but I received a...
12:07 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Chandigarh: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is set to quit 'Bigg Boss' after a month long stay on the reality show as BJP wants him to campaign in Gujarat, his wife said today. "Till yesterday I had no doubts about him (Sidhu) staying on the show, but I received a call from BJP Chief Nitin Gadkari asking me that he is needed by the party for poll campaigning in Gujarat," Sidhu's...
04:45 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New Delhi: Unfazed by the Congress attack over the letter row involving him, BJP President Nitin Gadkari said he will quit politics if there is any proof of his business links with Ajay Sancheti in the irrigation scam. He said he had asked the Centre to release funds for the Gosikhurd project to help the farmers and not for the benefit of any contractor close to him. Gadkari also said...
08:02 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Surajkund: Don't touch any colleague's feet in order to go up the party ladder, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Concerned over a culture of patronage, Gadkari declared at the party's National Council meeting here: "There will be no protocol in the party... I am ordering it." Citing his own example, Gadkari said if an ordinary worker like him could become the party president, others too had...
05:03 PM, Sep 27, 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
Nagpur: Claiming that there were no differences within NDA, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Monday stated that alliance partners Shiv Sena and JD (U), which are supporting UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential elections, were "independent". "Though they are very much a part of the NDA, they also maintain their independent status, and the media tried to project some differences within the NDA which is unjust...the chapter is closed,"...
07:40 PM, Jun 25, 2012
