Venkaiah Naidu replied in the negative when asked whether she would get back the post of general secretary.
Advani retained his predecessor Venkaiah Naidu in the panel and in the parliamentary board.
A road in Delhi was on Tuesday named after slain Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan on his 59th birth anniversary.
'We are confident that you, with your vast experience, will conduct the proceedings in accordance with highest traditions of democracy,' Dr Manmohan Singh.
Rajnath Singh will take over as Bharatiya Janata Party president Monday, succeeding Lal Kishenchand Advani who stepped down Saturday.
VHP working president Ashok Singhal said Advani is only good as a stop-gap BJP president.
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed said the release of the detainees had nothing to do with the talks between the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani on Thursday in New Delhi.
RSS general secretary Mohan Bhagwat met sarsanghachalak K S Sudershan at Nagpur on Tuesday and apprised him of the discussions that the organisation's top brass had with senior functionaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi on Monday.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani on Tuesday said the BJP will hold nationwide protests on Wednesday condemning the terrorist attack on the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The National Democratic Alliance convener and defence minister said Advani's name does not figure in the NDA agenda.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh also endorsed the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Among others, L K Advani, Venkaiah Naidu, P L Khandelwal Khandelwal and Pramod Mahajan are attending the daylong meeting.
They met to finalise the resolution to be adopted at the conclave and decide on a new team.
The deputy prime minister said the battle against the menace is linked with providing good governance to the people.
"While I had given his name for prime ministership in the first place, I don't expect him to return that favour to me," Advani told TV news channel CNN-IBN in an interview.
The former prime minister said he anyway does not do much work in the party now.
The opposition alliance believes "compulsive abstention" has no place in presidential elections.
On his first official visit to India, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday met leaders across the political spectrum and discussed issues of bilateral interest. Prachanda called on President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari.
Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani will meet its representatives on March 27.
Pakistani daily The News said Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani has been invited to Islamabad to discuss the treaty.
He, however, refused to say whether Advani, who is also involved in the Ayodhya case, should follow suit.
Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani will flag off the yatra and it would be led by the state unit chief of the BJP, Vasundhara Raje.
Among other dignitaries who paid tributes toSavarkar were Sushma Swaraj, S S Ahluwalia, V K Malhotra, Shri Santosh Kumar Gangawar, Maya Singh, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, members of Parliament and many former members of Parliament. Lok Sabha Secretary-General P D T Achary and Rajya Sabha Secretary-General V K Agnihotri, also paid floral tributes at the portrait of Savarkar.
"The new sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat, is perhaps the most politically inclined head of the RSS since its founder Keshav Baliran Hedgewar some eight decades ago," says American expert Dr Walter Andersen.
Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Lal Kishenchand Advani has convened a meeting of National Democratic Alliance chief ministers on Saturday to hold talks with them and evolve a strategy to counter the Congress campaign in next year's Lok Sabha elections. The meeting will begin at 11 am in the morning and continue after lunch.
Saying the CPI-M has nuked the farmers in Nandigram and the UPA government, LK Advani says the NDA will raise the Nandigram issue in Parliament.
He said this ahead of his five-day tour to France and Qatar, the principal purpose of which is to sign an extradition treaty with France.
Describing Ottavio Quattrochhi as "no different a fugitive" than underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Leader of the Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani asked Singh, who was present in the House, why the government was having a "soft corner" for the Italian.
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