Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's dinner on Thursday for the Bharatiya Janata Party top brass failed to break the impasse over the Foreign Direct Investment in retail issue with the opposition party insisting on a discussion in Parliament on it under provisions which entail voting.
Union minister Beni Prasad Verma on Monday accused Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of conniving with Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani in the run-up to the demolition of Babri Masjid, while debunking a debate on whether he or Narendra Modi would be a better prime ministerial choice.
"Leaders like Vajpayee, Advani treated me with respect," the JD-U leader said.
"The Parliament session has a very heavy legislative agenda. We are reaching out to the various political parties to carry through these agenda in the four weeks that we have for the session," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today at a press conference in New Delhi.
Jagadish Shettar will be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in the Karnataka Assembly polls, Rajnath Singh said on Monday, even as he downplayed the issue of corruption that has plagued the party-led government in the southern state.
On October 5, 2019, the sessions court hearing the matter had said that as per Supreme Court orders, all evidence has to be presented before December 24, 2019, which would be the last working day.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Monday said the collegium system of appointing Supreme Court judges should be revisited to include the Executive in the process, as reports of corruption, nepotism, favouritism and other ills have been gaining ground in the judiciary.
Mahatma Gandhi was on Tuesday fondly remembered with President Pranab Mukherjee leading the nation in playing glowing tributes to the Father of the Nation on the occasion of his 143rd birth anniversary.
Keen to win more allies, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been identified with the Hindutva tag, on Friday decided to strive for an "imaginative reprojection" of its "commitment to secularism" and reassured minority community that it does not support discrimination on basis of religion.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said it will strongly raise in Parliament the allegation of payment of bribes in the VVIP chopper deal and ask for a reply from the government on whether the contract stood scrapped and who were the ultimate beneficiaries.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh has reiterated no senior party leader had been sidelined to favour Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The party also rejigged its Central Election Committee and included former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, Om Mathur and its women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan.
State funding of polls to curb use of black money, EVMs which provide a paper trail, checking paid news, speedy trial in cases against politicians to bar criminals from contesting are some electoral reforms that Bharatiya Janata Party is set to suggest to the Election Commission.
The shock treatment that Advani administered to the BJP has simply no parallel in India's modern political history, says Sudheendra Kulkarni.
A day after walking out of the National Democratic Alliance, Janata Dal-United President Sharad Yadav on Monday said his party could consider coming back to the alliance if veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani gets back at the helm of the party.
After undergoing surgery for an undisclosed aliment over a month ago, Sonia Gandhi on Sunday made her first public appearance when she attended a prayer meeting at Raj Ghat on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 142nd birth anniversary.
Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily today took potshots at the BJP patriarch L K Advani saying he was responsible for nurturing Narendra Modi on whose elevation his is now sulking.
Taking potshots at National Democratic Alliance, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Wednesday asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to clear his party's stand on secularism vis-a-vis Narendra Modi and said that the Gujarat chief minister is now BJP's face as "L K Advani has also surrendered to RSS diktat".
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday emerged from the throes of one of its worst crises yet when party patriarch L K Advani withdrew his resignation from key posts and agreed to "accept" the party's decision to appoint controversial Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the president of its campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said the question of L K Advani's resignation does not arise once it has been rejected by the party's highest decision-making body. "The question of resignation does not arise once we have rejected it," Swaraj, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha told reporters.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Rajnath Singh on Tuesday denied reports that the party was under pressure from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh over the crisis triggered by the resignation of senior leader L K Advani from all party positions.
L K Advani had no option but to strike now to ensure that Modi is not announced as the prime ministerial candidate under any circumstances before the general election, says Sheela Bhatt
"Over ambition' of some Bharatiya Janata Party leaders has resulted in the resignation of party patriarch L K Advani and it would be difficult for many of them to work with the same ambition without its 'architect', actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha on Monday said in Patna.
It is for the third time in eight years that Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani has resigned from top party posts including once over the huge controversy over his praise of Pakistan's founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
Janata Dal-United on Monday gave first indications of parting ways with the National Democratic Alliance, saying it is "difficult" to remain in the alliance which is on "ventilator support" in the wake of resignation of L K Advani from top BJP posts and anointment of Narendra Modi as party's campaign committee chief for next Lok Sabha polls.
It was a day when Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani was at the receiving end both within and outside his party.
Endorsing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as BJP's prime ministerial candidate for the first time, party patriarch L K Advani on Wednesday said he would be happy to see him as the Prime Minister.
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.
Days after L K Advani showered praise on Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the latter described Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as his "senior and elder brother" and clarified that he was not a contender for the prime minister's post.
President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday telephoned Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj after reports suggested that they were upset about the seating arrangements made at the 'At Home' function on the occasion of Independence Day.
The suspension of veteran lawyer Ram Jethmalani from the Bharatiya Janata Party, for daring the party to act against him on the issue of appointment of the Central Bureau of Investigation director, may be revoked.
"The remark is disgraceful and unfortunate," Dr Singh told reporters in Parliament when asked to comment on Advani's statement in Lok Sabha.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who is being projected by a section within the Bharatiya Janata Party as its prime ministerial candidate for the next general elections, on Tuesday met senior party leader L K Advani and termed the meeting as "wonderful".
Lalu, who is in his late 70s and suffers from multiple ailments, had been awarded sentences by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in fodder scam cases.
Blaming large-scale immigration from Bangladesh for the clashes in lower Assam, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani on Tuesday said the government's "inaction" in dealing with the problem of infiltrators has resulted in indigenous communities feeling threatened.
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday turned 88 with senior leaders, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wishing him a healthy life.
Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentary party chief L K Advani on Saturday called up Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to express his concern over the severe police action on students and young protesters who were marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan to demand justice for the Delhi gangrape victim
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who has been under attack from the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, on Tuesday reached out to the Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Parliament and walked with one hand on her shoulder, ostensibly to win support for the passage of crucial Bills.
Setting a tough condition before the government, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said it will not allow the passage of any bill in Parliament till Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resign or are sacked. The opposition party also made it clear that it will not allow the passage of either the National Food Security Bill or the Land Acquisition Bill.
