In a U-turn, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has decided to attend the Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meet at Mumbai.
This year, the proceedings at Kushabhau Sthal will be monitored by the leader of Opposition in Parliament L K Advani.
The stage was on Friday set for a stormy Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, with senior leader Arun Shourie joining others in demanding an open discussion on the party's Lok Sabha poll debacle that has turned the party into a badly divided house.
Narendra Modi will be skipping the two-day national executive of Bharatiya Janata Party to be held in New Delhi from Friday, indicating that all may not be well between the Gujarat chief minister and the party.
While PM Narendra Modi-Amit Shah dominated the national executive, senior chief ministers and 'margdarshaks' LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi were ignored
Under attack over the land bill, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it will launch a mass contact programme to dispel "myths and propaganda" spread by the opposition and engage farmers in dialogue even as it insisted that it remains open to changes suggested by rival parties and farmers.
In an atmosphere enlivened by music and the cheering crowd, the roadshow started from Patel Chowk and continued till the NDMC convention centre.
The Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meeting has been postponed to May 27 to 28 and the venue has been shifted from Ludhiana to Delhi.
Hema Malini and Shaina NC have also been omitted from the group.
Among other things, the strategy for the assembly elections in Maharashtra will be discussed.
While Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has confirmed that he will attend the Bharatiya Janata Party's National Executive meet, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa is still adamant about skipping the crucial event. Incidentally, Yeddyurappa has not missed a single executive meeting of his party in the last two decades. Yeddyurappa and his followers, including five colleagues in the Karnataka cabinet, will not attend the meet.
The Bharatiya Janata Party will hold its national executive meeting in Surajkund, Haryana on Wednesday, where it is expected to formulate its strategy on the current political and economic situation in the country. This event will be followed by a two-day National Council meeting, which begins on Thursday.
Opposed to Narendra Modi's elevation in the party, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Saturday stayed away from the national executive which looks set to make the Gujarat chief minister the chief of campaign committee.
The newly constituted national executive of Bharatiya Janata Party shall meet in Bengaluru from April 2 to 4.
Uma Bharti's travails began on November 10 last year when she was sacked as party general secretary and suspended from its primary membership after she openly defied party president Advani in full glare of national television cameras.
A party statement said the new national executive members are Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Deepak Prakash, Satish Punia and Sanjay Jaiswal, former BJP presidents in Telangana, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Bihar, respectively.
The two-day meeting to be attended by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani and other senior party leaders is expected to adopt two resolutions -- one political and the other economical.
Shah held a meeting with office-bearers, state chiefs and key organisational leaders to finalise agenda items, including resolutions, which the national executive is expected to discuss on September 25, the birth anniversary of Hindutva icon Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.
This information was given to reporters by BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu in Hyderabad.
On the eve of the BJP's National Executive in Bengaluru, questions arose over whether party stalwart L K Advani will address the two-day conclave.
A warm welcome to everyone in this meeting of the National Executive in Delhi today. We had met in Nagpur. We fought the 15th Lok Sabha elections with our full political strength.
Expansion of the BJP's base in the South, will be the main focus of the party's two-day national executive meeting
The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to get into election mode with the finalisation of strategy for the forthcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections being the main focus in the national executive meet next month, party vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Saturday.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sanjay Joshi, bete noire of Narendra Modi, on Thursday resigned ahead of the party's National Executive meeting beginning in Mumbai, a move seen as an effort by the party president to buy peace with the Gujarat chief minister."Joshi, who was invitee member of the National Executive, has in a letter to party president Nitin Gadkari said that he is relinquishing his post in the larger interest of the party," BJP sources said.
Rallying behind the government, the BJP decided to launch a counter-offensive against the opposition "disinformation campaign" on the controversial land bill with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that his growth model was pro-poor.
The Delhi government, now led by the BJP, has withdrawn all cases filed by the previous AAP administration against the Union government, the Lieutenant Governor, and several senior bureaucrats.
The PM's landing will be followed by an IAF airshow featuring around 16 aircraft.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has rescheduled its national executive meet to the first week of February from the original date of January 23. The venue, however, has not been changed and the meet would be held in Nagpur.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday sacked expelled party leader Jaswant Singh's son Manvendra Singh from its National Executive in the wake of reports that he was campaigning against the party's candidate Sonaram Chaoudhary in Barmer.
Given Modi's track record from the time he became Gujarat chief minister in October 2001, it is highly improbable that Nabin will get opportunities to display his individual capacity. Even the team of organisational leaders that he will 'appoint' in a few weeks or months, will unlikely to be his choice, predicts Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
'It would have polarised the Marathi-non Marathi divide further. 'Fadnavis had a very clear strategy: Let all Marathi people campaign for us (the BJP), and whatever results we get will be delivered by Marathi people only.'
'The move to appoint a person with a profile, markedly lower than the leader Nitin Nabin will replace, has the potential to put the brakes on the careers of several others in the party and government in the positions they currently hold,' points out Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Ram Vilas Vedanti, a prominent leader in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and former Bharatiya Janata Party MP, died of a heart attack at the age of 67 in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. His last rites will be performed in Ayodhya.
Addressing the valedictory session of the BJP's national executive, Modi stressed that the BJP runs on the values of 'Sewa, Sanklap aur Samparan (service, resolution and commitment)' and 'does not revolve around a family', urging its members to work for people, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav said quoting the prime minister.
The two-day meeting will begin with BJP president J P Nadda's speech and at least two resolutions, including a political resolution, will be passed during the proceedings.
'When a grassroots worker has laboured day and night for the organisation, does the party not have a responsibility to recognise and uplift such workers?'
Making an intervention during the discussion on the motion for granting constitutional status to the national commission for backward classes, Modi highlighted that there are sections among Muslims, who are backward, adding that they should be included in the discussion over backward classes.
BJP president L K Advani has not been invited.
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