India and China needed to develop mutual trust and respect to strengthen bi-lateral relations, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari said in Itanagar on Thursday.
In an attempt to placate mining magnates Reddy brothers who failed to get ministerial berths in Karnataka, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Friday told them that "a ministerial post is not permanent in politics". Gadkari, who inaugurated a mass marriage programme organised by the district BJP unit in Bellary under the leadership of former minister B Sreeramulu, exhorted the Reddy brothers to devote their energies to the service of the people.
A little over three months after taking charge as president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajnath Singh has managed to annoy his predecessor, Nitin Gadkari, by not standing by the former party chief in his fight against corruption allegations.
'The Gadkari issue is not about staying on the right side of the law, it is about public perception. How does the public perceive Nitin Gadkari?' asks T V R Shenoy.
Eight persons were killed after a blast at the ordnance factory in Maharashtra's Bhandara district on Friday, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj should 'pull up' Nitin Gadkari for his anti-Sonia Gandhi remarks, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said on Thursday.
Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari on Monday came under attack from senior leader and lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani, who resigned from the national executive, saying he would not continue in the party's highest decision-making body as long as he was its president.
Rallying behind party president Nitin Gadkari, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders today rejected charges of any wrongdoing by him in acquiring land in Maharashtra and said the allegations would be fought politically and not legally.
Terming as "baseless" the allegations made against him by Arvind Kejriwal, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday wondered if there was a collusion between ruling Congress and India Against Corruption to divide the votes in a bid to occupy the opposition space.
Congress will benefit if Nitin Gadkari continues as Bharatiya Janata Party president since it will help in exposing the main opposition party's "corrupt face" in public, party general secretary Digvijay Singh said on Saturday. "Continuance of Gadkari as BJP president is in the interest of the Congress as it will help the party in exposing BJP's corrupt face in public," he told reporters.
Right to Information activist Anjali Damania tells Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore that she is confident that if a judicial probe is ordered into the irrigation scam, NCP leader Ajit Pawar would surely be implicated.
An RTI activist has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari did not want her to pursue the irrigation scam in Maharashtra, a charged dismissed as baseless on Thursday by the saffron party which accused the Congress of being behind a disinformation campaign.
The rally was taken out to showcase the public angst against the steeply rising prices of commodities drew BJP supporters from across the country.
This restoration, according to the officials, is seen as a crucial step towards initiating a healing process, reinstating constitutional rights and safeguarding the unique identity of the region's residents.
The campaign for the resignation of beleagured Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday got fresh ammunition with senior leader Yashwant Sinha demanding that he step down immediately.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari has released a report card on achievements during his one year in office, claiming his tenure had seen a more aggressive and energetic organisation, which successfully cornered the government on issues of price rise and corruption.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday denied making a direct comparison between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Mahatma Gandhi."I never compared Modi to Mahatma Gandhi," Gadkari told reporters in Bengaluru, asserting that there were video clippings of his speech to prove it. "I said that Modi, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Deedayal Upadhyaya, was carrying out programmes to help the poor and was following in their footsteps," he said.
Nitin Gadkari, president of Bharatiya Janata Party, has charged the Manmohan Singh government of looking the other way while officials and others associated with organizing Commonwealth Games were making money.
With his party's government in Karnataka in throes of a burgeoning crisis over B S Yeddyurappa's demand for his reinstatement as chief minister, the Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Monday said no decision would be taken under pressure and asked him to have patience.
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray likened BJP president Nitin Gadkari's plight after his remarks on Swami Vivekananda to that of L K Advani, who had to step down as chief of the saffron party following his comments hailing Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah as secular.
Bharatiya Janata Party's oldest ally Shiv Sena on Tuesday said that while L K Advani "lost ground" due to the controversy over his remarks on Jinnah, similarly Nitin Gadkari has been jolted because of the Swami Vivekananda comments row.
"One has to follow one's self-conscious. I resigned because Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari had appointed me in the party's national executive. It was the favour done by him to me. I am not satisfied with his actions now, so I resigned." says advocate Mahesh Jethamalani while talking exclusively to rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
The Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari said that the intelligence quotient level of Swami Vivekananda and Dawood Ibrahim was almost the same, but the spiritual leader had used it for nation building while the underworld don for pursuing crime.
Murmurs grew louder in the Bharatiya Janata Party about the continuance of Nitin Gadkari as party president as RSS virtually washed its hands of him, saying any individual or organisation indulging in illegal activity must be subjected to impartial probe.
Activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday demanded that BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and Robert Vadra declare all their business interests and details of their land assets in the country.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari is confident that his party will come back to power in Uttrakhand as well as Punjab, where it has an alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal. He also believes that the party will fare way better in Uttar Pradesh than the predictions made by several exit polls. "I am confident that we will win the elections in Uttrakhand and Punjab," he said.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari and senior party leader L K Advani would address NDA's public rally in Hyderabad on Thursday against the Central government, highlighting the issue of corruption.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Syed Shahnawaz Hussain spoke to rediff.com's Onkar Singh about the recent controversy surrounding party chief Nitin Gadkari and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's remarks about Shashi Tharoor.
The growing rift and war of words with key National Democratic Alliance ally Janata Dal-United on Monday led BJP president Nitin Gadkari to ask all party functionaries and alliance partners to "exercise restraint" while airing views on coalition- related issues.
Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda and his immediate predecessor B S Yeddyurrappa landed in the city and held talks with the Bharatiya Janata Party National President Nitin Gadkari at his residence in Nagpur.
In a sudden and dramatic last-minute twist, Nitin Gadkari, facing allegations of dubious funding of his company, was on Tuesday forced out of the race for BJP President's post and Rajnath Singh appeared to have emerged the consensus candidate.
In a scathing attack on Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday dubbed the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit's activities as "right-wing Maoism" and said its move to elicit views of people to form government in Delhi was a "mockery" of democracy.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani was not eyeing the prime ministerial post, party president Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday indicating that the former deputy prime minister has already made it clear that he is not in the race.
Reacting to the meeting of former Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Gadkari with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray in Mumbai, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday said if a senior leader from BJP supports Raj or Sharad Pawar, it can affect the alliance.
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday mounted a fresh attack on party President Nitin Gadkari, accusing him of dragging the party on a suicidal path and took potshots at Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj over the appointment of new CBI Director.
With her remarks on Arun Jaitley regarding Reddy brothers threatening to snowball into a major row, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday stepped in to virtually snub Sushma Swaraj, saying any debate on the choice of ministers in Karnataka in the media is "totally unnecessary".
Yeddyurappa's strongly-worded letter said: "I did not find the need to resign, as I enjoy the support of 80 MLAs. However, I am a committed worker of the party and I respect the decision of the party high command, which has told me to step down. I enjoy the support of a majority of the leaders who consider me their leader. I should be made the president of the party in the state."
Following that, Sudhakaran, at another event in Alappuzha on Thursday, claimed that what he had said earlier was not completely true and he had added something extra to it from his "imagination".
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari escaped unhurt on Tuesday when the stage he was sitting on collapsed during an election rally in Uttar Pradesh.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday night spoke to Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda over phone on the issue of two ministers of the state being caught on TV camera watching allegedly porn clippings on mobile phone during state assembly proceedings in Bangalore.
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