Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani visited actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who is recuperating in a city hospital in Mumbai after a bypass surgery, and wished him speedy recovery.
Asansol is home to a sizeable migrant population, and the BJP had hoped that Singh would be an effective counter to Sinha, the actor-politician who was in the saffron party for decades before walking out in 2019.
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"It pains me like anyone else when I see that the state is being ruined by the president of the RJD and his party. I am prepared to make any sacrifice to end the corrupt and inefficient RJD rule in Bihar," the BJP leader said.
Feeling angry and unhappy over being sidelined within his party, Bollywood actor-turned-politician and Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib, Shatrughan Sinha has decided to boycott BJP president Amit Shah's rally on Tuesday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has denied a Rajya Sabha ticket to popular actor Shatrughan Sinha. Instead, the party accommodated former health minister Dr C P Thakur. "The party has decided that popular leaders should be saved for the party campaign in the Lok Sabha elections," Anant Kumar told reporters when asked why Sinha was denied a nomination.
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Sinha says he is not in favour of the BJP baying for Kumar's blood and calling the break up with JD-U a betrayal.
Absence of name of actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha as BJP candidate from Patna Saheb seat on Friday caused heartburn among his supporters even as a large number of party legislators are angry over selection of "turncoats".
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shatrughan Sinha expressed sympathy on Tuesday for jailed RJD president Lalu Prasad and said he prayed that he comes out soon with the help of an upper court order.
Actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Shatrughan Sinha said that it is high time for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to resign on the moral grounds since he is 'responsible' for the coal scam and cannot escape accountability.
Two days after the much-awaited team of office bearers was announced, Sinha on Thursday refuted suggestions that he was a contender for any post, but felt party stalwart and former Union minister Yashwant Sinha should have been included.
The actor-turned-politician whose criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has grown progressively sharper, didn't figure on the BJP's list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
Bharatiya Janata Party's actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday said all was not well within the party, as senior leaders had been left out of the new team of office-bearers, constituted by party chief Nitin Gadkari. "All is not well within the BJP as senior leaders like Yashwant Sinha, C P Thakur and Shehnawaz Hussain have been ignored in the new team," the MP told reporters.Sinha suggested that the BJP chief should take a fresh look at the new team.
Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate Shatrughan Sinha from Patna, who is up against the Congress' Kunal Singh, a Bhojpuri actor, described Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a 'dabaang action hero'and said that he and his party workers are concentrating on making him the prime minister of the country.
Among the keenly watched contests are those involving former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav (Kannauj, UP) and Union ministers Giriraj Singh (Begusarai, Bihar), Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur, Bihar) and Raosaheb Danve (Jalna, Maharashtra).
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"It will be a matter of pride if Amitabh Bachchan, a cultural icon, is made president of the country," Sinha said.
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Former union minister Shatrughan Sinha, will be the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for the Patna Saheb seat in Bihar in the Lok Sabha elections, a top functionary involved in selection of candidates disclosed on Friday. He was not nominated to the Rajya Sabha and so it is logical that the party will field him in the Lok Sabha elections, the functionary said adding that the final decision would be taken by the party's central election committee.
Entertainers can be good politicians if they treat the citizens as the audience, and treat their job like a live show, and work hard to make sure the audience likes them, asserts Sandeep Goyal.
'While I was performing it, I had a weird feeling that people would love it because it's so bizarre.'
With actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha creating storm through his comments against Narendra Modi and describing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as "PM material", the latter on Monday praised the Bharatiya Janata Party leader for his uninhibited opinion.
Several leaders of the TMC slammed the rural development minister for his comments on the chief minister attending the Kolkata International Film Festival.
Though the MLAs termed it a courtesy meeting, they said they will support Raje if the party leadership chooses her for the post in the state.
Cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest from the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat, whereas Kirti Aazd will fight from the Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency.
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The draft will be examined, studied and discussed before it is tabled in the assembly on February 6, he said.
Sinha had also been attacking the BJP saying it was encouraging criminalisation of politics in Bihar.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi will fight again from Varanasi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as it named 34 Union ministers in the first list of 195 candidates.
Actor and Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Shatrughan Sinha on Wednesday dismissed reports that he had some differences with the party over denial of ticket to one his supporters from Bankipore assembly segment in his Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency for the Bihar polls. He said that he was not the one to harbour any grudge against anyone and that he and the party were "made for each other."
Addressing a gathering of around 6,000 in-charges of 'Shakti Kendras,' each comprising two to three booth-level areas, at Marine Drive, the prime minister said that Kerala has the potential to influence who will be in power in Delhi.
'Pressing sedition charges against students for activism within the campus shows the failure of the administration.'
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With his recent utterances on Narendra Modi and L K Advani leaving many leaders in Bharatiya Janata Party red faced, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday said he did not violate party discipline and stuck to his remarks.
Rajsamand MP Diya Kumari and Jaipur Rural MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore are among the seven BJP parliamentarians who will contest the Rajasthan Assembly polls, according to the first list of 41 candidates issued by the party on Monday.
Bollywood stars arrived in large numbers to congratulate the Deols, as Sunny Deol's eldest son Karan wed Drisha Acharya, Bimal Roy's great granddaughter and Basu Bhattacharya's granddaughter on June 18.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Shatrughan Sinha on Tuesday backed senior party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani saying he could prove to be a 'very good prime minister of the country.'
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Several states declared a holiday for schools, while government offices, other establishments and public sector banks remained closed for half a day.
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