Guess who reaped the most from the Advani-Khurana spat?
Advani unfurled the Tricolour to mark the launch of the campaign.
Vajpayee held consultations with Deputy Prime Minister Advani, BJP president Venkaiah Naidu and Finance Minister Jaswant Singh in this regard on Monday night.
Among others, L K Advani, Venkaiah Naidu, P L Khandelwal Khandelwal and Pramod Mahajan are attending the daylong meeting.
BJP warns MPs to steer clear of malpractices
'Our courts may fail, there may be lot of corruption in the working of our criminal justice system, but ultimately the justice of God will prevail,' says Sudheendra Kulkarni, recently released from bail in the cash-for-votes case.
The United States showed "lack of enthusiasm" in getting underworld don Dawood Ibrahim deported to India from Pakistan despite making some initial efforts, says senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand Advani. Advani, in his memoir My Country My Life, notes with deep disappointment America's reticence in pressing Pakistan to hand over Dawood, wanted in connection with 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to India.
This is the first meeting between the Hurriyat and an Indian prime minister.
The committee will hold talks with various political parties to broad base the National Democratic Alliance by talking to the political parties that are willing to share the platform.
The deputy prime minister was in Kolkata to take part in Mookerjee's birth centenary celebrations.
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Chairing a meeting of the BJP Parliamentary Party in the absence of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Advani said the suggestion, initially made by Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, will be discussed extensively at different levels within th
Declining to confirm whether Rajnath Singh had been nominated as the next party chief, BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan told reporters, "I have no information on this."
It was also said that the resolution asked the people to see Advani's remarks about Jinnah in its entire context.
BJP leader L K Advani said the NDA's boycott of Parliament was also to protest against the Centre's 'negative' attitude towards the opposition.
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.
Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani included seven former governors and five former Union ministers in the council.
'We are confident that you, with your vast experience, will conduct the proceedings in accordance with highest traditions of democracy,' Dr Manmohan Singh.
"I was responding to election results when a newsman asked me about the Quattrocchi issue. All I said was that CBI will be given full freedom in the case, and it was not my intention to hurt anybody," Dr Singh said.
The opposition alliance believes "compulsive abstention" has no place in presidential elections.
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.
The National Democratic Alliance convener and defence minister said Advani's name does not figure in the NDA agenda.
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