The BJP on Wednesday said India's talks with Pakistan would prove fruitless as long as actors like ISI and the army in the neighbouring country continued to sponsor and abet terror against it.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front on Monday slammed the Group of Ministers on the Bhopal gas issue for recommending that the government pick up the tab on payment of compensation to victims."The GoM report has disappointed the people," BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said. Communist Party of India - Marxist leader Nilotpal Basu told PTI, "It is unfair that the taxpayer has to pick up the compensation bill."
Asked about the BJP-JMM formula to run the government and if the chief minister's post would be rotated, Hussain said "as of now the government will be formed under the leadership of Arjun Munda. There are no conditions to forming this government."
Lalit Modi on Wednesday sought to drag Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader Varun Gandhi in the escalating row involving the controversial former IPL chief.
'Our approach is forward-looking. The central leadership wants young leaders to lead the charge now. This will also send a clear signal that lapses will not be tolerated. We are targeting beyond 2025.' Satyavrat Mishra reports.
After the tough talk and retaliation, Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday appeared keen on not breaking its alliance with Janata Dal-United in Bihar while Chief Minister Nitish Kumar kept the cards close to his chest.
Counter-attacking the divisive and communal barb, BJP on Monday said Congress was the 'biggest communal party' because it was responsible for the partition of India and the Bhagalpur riots.
BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain was replying to questions by mediapersons on what the party had to say on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's comment that the Ram Mandir movement had helped BJP but the Sangh was not looking for help from anyone to run its movement.
An hour before Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani was scheduled to address a press conference on Thursday evening, party leaders informed him that he could face a media boycott as some senior journalists were irked with him, for meeting only a select group of journalists for a news briefing the day before.The BJP quickly went into a damage control mode, with Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy acting as trouble shooters to appease the scribes.
The gross expenses made by the party, including by the central headquarters and the state unit between the announcement and completion of the elections, stood at nearly Rs 71.73 crore, while the gross receipts during this period were to the tune of Rs 35.83 crore.
Former minister Shahnawaz Hussain won in Bhagalpur.
To bring Muslims into its fold ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a brainstorming session of senior saffron party leaders will be held at Hyderabad next month to chalk out a comprehensive strategy. "The BJP is no longer untouchable for Muslims and they will have no problems under the leadership of L K Advani," senior BJP leader and party's national president of the minority cell Shahnawaz Hussain said.
The BJP leader said the demand for reducing the level of security forces in Jammu and Kashmir was being made by anti-national forces and those who did not want to anger Pakistan.
Shahnawaz's security has been beefed up.
Varun, the 27-year-old son of party parliamentarian Maneka Gandhi, was believed to have the backing of Vajpayee and Advani but faced strong resentment in the state party unit,
Buta orders judicial inquiry into police firing in Bihar
Taking on the Congress-led UPA coalition, the BJP leader said it has done "nothing on the ground" for the Muslims except making announcements in its three-year rule.
India, which plans to start flights to Kabul whenever Pakistani airspace opens, on Wednesday agreed to take a slew of steps, including waiving off expenses, to assist Afghanistan in building up its aviation infrastructure.
The government on Tuesday withdrew the Airports Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2000, in the Lok Sabha saying it had decided to introduce a comprehensive legislation on the issue soon, Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said.\n\n\n\n
The BJP leader from Bihar sought to compare his defeat in Kishanganj LS seat to that of Congress' Buta Singh after the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The BJP said, in a statement, that its workers held protests in district headquarters across the country, with its national general secretary Arun Singh leading the stir in Bhubaneswar, Maharashtra party chief Chandrakant Patil in Mumbai and Bihar unit president Sanjay Jaiswal in Patna, among other places.
The Union Government will invest Rs 2000 crore (Rs 20 billion) for making Mumbai airport into a world class one, Union Civil Aviation Minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said in Mumbai. \n\n
The American Boeing 757, flying to Male from Karachi, was forced to land in Mumbai on Monday after it was found violating Indian air space.
Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Airports Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, 2003 paving the way for private investment in greenfield airports and restructuring of existing airports.
A decision on upgradation of Delhi and Mumbai airports is likely to be taken by the finance ministry in a week's time as part of government's efforts to create world-class civil aviation infrastructure in the country.\n\n
The government on Monday denied any pressure on it regarding selection and procurement of aircraft for the Indian carriers.\n\n\n\n
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, approved the proposal of the civil aviation ministry to remove IA and A-I from the divestment roster.
A summary of all the action from Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Tuesday.
The government is shortly going to move ahead with the process of developing airports at New Delhi and Mumbai to international standards, Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said on Friday.\n\n\n\n
Civil Aviation Ministry will shortly take the view of the Union Cabinet on divestment of Air India and Indian Airlines before it proceeds with the proposal for fleet acquisition of the two carriers.
Alleging that something was fishy in the Jet-Etihad deal, BJP today demanded that the Prime Minister's Office should come clean on the issue.
The government indicated on Saturday that an early decision was likely on the proposals of fleet acquisition by Air-India and Indian Airlines as well as of privatisating the four metro airports.
The US-led war against Iraq and the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome have led to sharp decline in demand for air travel and raised costs on account of aviation turbine fuel, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
The cost of deploying Central Industrial Security Force for aviation security at all functional airports across the country would rise by Rs 138 crore (Rs 1.38 billion) per annum, Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said.
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