President Droupadi Murmu administered him the oath at a brief ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
This followed the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against Bharti in a rioting case by a Karnataka court.
Education ministers of BJP-ruled states will meet party president Venkaiah Naidu and decide the future course of action vis-à-vis their decision not to revert to old NCERT textbooks.
BJP Members of Parliament from Assam, Rajen Gohain and Narayan Chandra Borkotoky, have been appointed in-charge of Mizoram and Nagaland respectively.
He has done so at instruction of the party high command.
The CM, along with Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker M Thambidurai, met the PM at his office in Parliament House.
Former deputy chairperson of Rajya Sabha Najma Heptulla would contest from Rajasthan.
Details of the meeting are yet to emerge.
Health Minister Shatrughan Sinha is likely to be allotted another portfolio, BJP sources said.
The TDP also distanced itself from the National Democratic Alliance, during the latter's boycott of Parliament.\n\n
The Bhartiya Janata Party on Saturday disputed the expenditure amount for the 'India Shining' media campaign.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader passed away on Tuesday night after a massive cardiac arrest.
As the members of the Rajya Sabha will be seated at multiple locations, including the galleries of the House and in the Lok Sabha, a hotline facility between the chambers of the two Houses has been created for the technology-aided session.
A map showing the number of homeless persons per 1000 population in districts across India.
Seeking another term at the Centre, the party sought to woo the minorities by asking its workers to "seize the opportunity" by moving forward and bringing Muslims and Christians into the partyfold.\n\n
Singh joined the party at the BJP headquarters in the presence of general secretaries Pramod Mahajan and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and UP leaders Kalraj Mishra and Vinay Katiyar.
In his resignation letter to BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu, he expressed a desire to quit active electoral politics.
Against the backdrop of an open fight between the JD (U) and the Congress, there was no option left except to go to the people, said Venkaiah.
A staunch Rajput leader, Singh had opposed the manner in which UP legislator Raja Bhaiyya and his father were arrested by the then Mayawati Government under POTA.
Predicting early polls to the Lok Sabha, the BJP was gearing up to meet it, senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday.
The government now seeks to bring a constitutional amendment bill in this regard in Lok Sabha on Tuesday and in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, for which the session has been extended.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu also made a fervent appeal to the leaders of various parties at an all-party meeting to ensure smooth and effective functioning of the House during the Budget Session.
His name for the post was proposed by outgoing BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu and seconded by the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Jaswant Singh.
Investigators probing the minor blast near the Israeli embassy have not come across "anything concrete" yet as most of the CCTV cameras near the site of the explosion were "non-functional"
An emergency meeting of the BJP parliamentary board has been called to discuss the developments in UP.
In a surprise move, Telugu film star and BJP Mahila Morcha vice-president Vijayashanti said she had rejected the party's offer for nomination.
In the wake of Star India's proposal to uplink its news channel from India raising a major controversy, the government is understood to have decided to revise the uplinking guidelines.
The former Union minister quit the party accusing it of 'insulting' minorities and Dalits.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to make an in-depth analysis of its rout in the recent Lok Sabha election, during the party's `Chintan Baithak' which gets underway in Panaji, Goa, tomorrow
Bharatiya Janata Party chief M Venkaiah Naidu and Union Finance Minister Jaswant Singh were also present at the prime minister's Race Course Road residence when the discussion took place.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was on Monday named as the Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, while Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad was declared the Leader of the Opposition.
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