Former Gujarat chief minister Suresh Mehta, who is already camping in New Delhi, is expected to meet BJP president Rajnath Singh on Wednesday morning.
The Indian National Lok Dal on Sunday rejoined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance and announced that it will contest the coming Lok Sabha elections in Haryana in alliance with the BJP.
As defence minister, Singh's most crucial challenge will be to speed up the long-delayed modernisation of the three services besides ensuring overall coherence in their combat readiness.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra launched a scathing attack on the BJP in her maiden Lok Sabha speech, accusing the government of trying to weaken the Constitution and prioritizing the interests of one individual over the people. She criticized the BJP's alleged attempts to change the Constitution, the growing monopoly of the Adani Group, atrocities on women, and the demand for a nationwide caste census. She also challenged the BJP to hold elections using ballot paper, saying it would expose the reality.
The process to induct former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa back into the Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to take another month. The first stumbling block for the BJP in Delhi was BJP MP Ananth Kumar and the other is BJP patriarch L K Advani.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday picked first-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma as Rajasthan's new chief minister, ending days of speculation that followed its victory in the assembly polls.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday warned the Centre that if it failed to contain price rise in the next three months, it would launch a nation-wide agitation.
In an open letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party's senior leader Arun Jaitley has urged him to put an end to the alleged misuse of investigative agencies by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government.
Seeking to revive the Ram temple issue after a long hiatus, new Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh Thursday appealed to Muslims to take the initiative to enable the construction of a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya.
(Excerpts from former BJP vice-president Yashwant Sinha's letter to party President Rajnath Singh)
"All those who are supporting the demand for clemency for Afzal Guru are traitors. [Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister] Ghulam Nabi Azad is a traitor."
The veteran leader's decision came a day after the party anointed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the campaign committee chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, ignoring his reservations on the matter.
The Bharatiya Janata Party got a shot in the arm on Monday with two sitting Independent members of the Lok Sabha from Bihar -- Putul Kumari and Om Prakash Yadav -- joining the party ahead of the general elections.
Soon, the party will launch a network linking more than 1,000 party offices across the country, which will include facilities like computer-based faxing and instant messaging. More than 30 lakh partymen are to be given official e-mail addresses and each cadre would be able to approach party president Rajnath Singh via video-conferencing.
The theme of the President's Fleet Review-2022 was 'Indian Navy -- 75 years in Service of the Nation', commemorating the Azaadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
Union home minister says religious persecution will never be allowed.
Asked about his presence at the venue, Rahul said BJP president Rajnath Singh had invited him for lunch.
The BJP and the Congress will also use vans equipped with television screens to showcase campaign material and attempt to woo voters using TV advertisements and social networking websites like YouTube and Orkut.
The BJP has often highlighted the global recognition of his leadership and India's enhanced stature at the international level in its political discourse, an issue which is likely to rise in salience following the G20 meeting.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani Wednesday broke his Bharat Suraksha Yatra and rushed to Mumbai.
Dhankar wins vice presidential election by bagging more than 500 votes.
In a sudden development, Janata Dal-Secular has suspended its negotiations with the Bharatiya Janata Party on the transfer of power in Karnataka.
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"I appeal to the Muslims to understand that the soft approach of the UPA government to terrorism has endangered the security of all sections," BJP chief Rajnath Singh said.
Sources said Rajkhowa's dismissal may come as early as Thursday evening when the two-day special session of the Arunachal Pradesh assembly, which has been convened to ratify the goods and services tax, gets over.
Rajnath Singh, who was selected the new president, would assume office on Monday.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani continued to sulk over the choice of Narendra Modi as the party's prime ministerial candidate even as party leaders, including Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj, met him in an apparent bid to mollify him and later denied that the party patriarch is upset.
The AIIMS has not issued any bulletin on Jaitley's health condition since August 10.
"Those who are sitting on dharna are farmers and are born to farmers' families. We have a lot of respect for them," Singh said.
Buying of land should be left to developers and land owners: Venkaiah.
"Some of the top party leaders, including party president Rajnath Singh have spoken to Munde on phone and asked him not to precipitate matters and come to Delhi to talk about his problems," a senior BJP leader told rediff.com on Monday morning. According to sources, others who spoke to Munde include Arun Jaitley and BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
L K Advani admitted that there were few errors in his book 'My Country My Life', which was re-launched by the party president Rajnath Singh along with a special website created by the party. "When I saw the story about S A Dange in a national daily, I realised the mistake and I called him up and apologised to him for the mistake. Such mistakes should not have taken place but somehow it happened," Advani said.
The re-entry of the 71-year-old former Delhi chief minister assumes significance as it comes ahead of the assembly elections to be held by November. The party, however, has made no commitment on giving any post to the former Delhi BJP strongman and discussions in this regard are expected in the next few days.
Karnataka would vote on May 10, and the results will be declared on May 13.
The BJP on Tuesday announced a nationwide agitation, including a two-hour 'rasta roko'(road blockade) on Wednesday to protest the hike in petrol and diesel prices and the UPA government's "failure to hold the price line".
Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh said the government formation in Karnataka should be on the basis of the agreement entered into between his party and the JD (S) 19 months ago.
In the morning, he offered prayers at the Dashashwamedh Ghat and the Kaal Bhairav temple in Varanasi.
Those joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers for the first time include three former chief ministers -- Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana) and H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka).
