The Samajwadi Party is keen to have a "crucial role" for party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2014 but ruled out formation of any 'Third Force' before the next Lok Sabha elections.
President A P J Abdul Kalam signed the proclamation in this regard, a Rashtrapati Bhawan communiqué said.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has again caused flutters in the party with remarks that the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat were a "blot" on Narendra Modi's career though he was not personally part of it.
Even with the elevation of Nirmala Sitharaman to the post of defence minister, the party still needs to redress the gender imbalance and fill the 33 per cent quota in posts.
The issue is already being discussed at the BJP national executive, he said.
RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said: \n\n"There is no question of feeling let down by the government as we understand difficulties of a coaltion government which is bound by a different agenda from that of the BJP."
Following the debacle in the recently concluded assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir Nirmal Singh had submitted his resignation but he was told to continue for some more time BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu said.
Significantly, about half of the CEOs who took part in the survey indicated that they propose to increase their investments in near future, 45 per cent cited no change in investment levels, while only 5 per cent expected a fall.
'Bandaru Dattatreya shouldn't have blindly accepted what the ABVP told him.'
The Congress on Monday disapproved of the remarks of party general secretary Shakeel Ahmed and party MP Rashid Masood that the 2002 Gujarat riots had led to the formation of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen.
The Congress said it will observe 'Save Democracy Day' on Friday with party workers and leaders holding protest marches at all district and state headquarters.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday charged the Congress with trying every trick, including invoking the threat to secularism and tying up with any force, to keep the main opposition from coming to power after seeing the "writing on the wall that its defeat is certain" in Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress chief also presented a bouquet to Mayawati in the presence of a large number of journalists.
'If dissolution comes by end of January or first week of February, elections can be announced by February 15 and the process can be completed by March end', the BJP general secretary said.
After tasting electoral success in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said it would contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls from 20 states, including Uttar Pradesh, where it would field candidates from all 80 constituencies.
But the party also made it clear that such a law cannot be passed in Parliament without the support of the NDA allies and the Congress Party.
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday ruled out contesting all 545 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, but will field candidates in maximum number of seats and announced a nationwide fortnight campaign for enrolling new members from January 10.
The BJP president said the Gujarat poll outcome has "demolished the myth" that the Congress is getting revived on account of its leadership.
State BJP in-charge Om Mathur said the party has decided to form a core group of workers in each polling booth for the election.
Merger of the three key ministries is expected to help in removing the hurdles in these areas.
Consultations within the Bharatiya Janata Party on government formation gained momentum on Friday with Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi holding a long meeting with party chief Rajnath Singh and other senior leaders.
Kumar said he had no option but to walk out of the grand alliance as continuing in it would have meant compromising with corruption.
'The UP election results show that people voted not on caste and religion lines; they went above that and voted for development, honesty, pride in the country, etc.' 'If UP can show the way, the rest of the country also can follow.'
Fresh protests erupted in several United States cities for a second night as coast to coast demonstrations witnessed thousands of people filling the streets, including at the White House and outside Trump's properties.
Springing a surprise, Vijayakanth-led Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam on Wednesday struck an alliance with the four-party People's Welfare Front for the May 16 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu with the actor-turned-politician being declared as the chief ministerial candidate of the alliance.
The Centre has assured all help to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh where a "very severe" cyclone is expected to hit on Saturday and sent nearly 500 personnel of National Disaster Response Force for relief and rescue operations.
Expelled members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan will lead a meet which aims to 'explore future course for alternative politics'
In an apparent attack on the UPA government, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday alleged that no other country in the world had seen the kind of deteriorating situation as India did in the last 10 years, saying people were now looking for an alternative.
Prashant Bhushan on Monday said he wanted to meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to put an end to the row
