The party fielded senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu to handle the controversy.
While Defence Minister Rajnath Singh spoke about the consensus, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said there is no need for a separate discussion in Parliament on the Pegasus issue during the budget session.
The Opposition hit out at the government over the absence of Rajya Sabha Chairman, Lok Sabha Speaker and ministers from the traditional event marking the birth anniversary of those whose portraits adorn Parliament's Central Hall.
BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and M Venkaiah Naidu have made this request to P S Badal
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday demanded the arrest and dismissal of Uttar Pradesh Haj Minister Mohammed Yaqoob Qureshi
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday demanded the arrest and dismissal of Uttar Pradesh Haj Minister Mohammed Yaqoob Qureshi
Police have made tight security arrangements for the swearing-in ceremony. Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh and the party's senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu will be present
Naidu demanded the UPA government to involve the farmers as stake holders in SEZs by giving 15-20 per cent development land to those whose land was acquired for the zone.
Naidu was in Faizabad to lead a march to mobilise public opinion on national security, which he alleged was threatened by incidents of terrorism in different parts of the country.
Meanwhile, in the Congress camp, efforts to form an alternative government began in right earnest.
The two new B777 planes will come to India from US facility of Boeing by July next year. They will have the call sign 'Air India One'. Only IAF pilots will be flying the two new aircraft for PM, president and vice president.
Dhankar wins vice presidential election by bagging more than 500 votes.
Advani would also attend today's meeting, the sources said.\n
During the tenure of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government, Bhandari was appointed Governor of Bihar and Gujarat.
Senior congress leader Gulab Singh Thakur was nominated as the BJPs candidate for the upcoming polls in Himachal Pradesh.
But the numbers game does not favour Shekhawat. The race for the presidency is hotting up with more and more candidates likely to join the fray in the next couple of weeks.
An interview with BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu
The guidelines said that in the event of the secretaries wanting to enter electoral politics, they would have to resign from their posts and remain in an incubation period of two years.
The BJP on Wednesday asked the Centre to enact an effective law to curb incidents of terrorism, which it claimed was on the rise ever since UPA government assumed office.
Karnataka leg of Advani's yatra called off
Naidu exhorted party men to maintain discipline and follow the party's constitution strictly.
This information was given to reporters by BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu in Hyderabad.
The entire thing was a planned conspiracy and the Congress is back again at its dirty and habitual game of destabilising duly elected governments, he said.
In a report submitted Monday to Rajya Sabha chairman and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs also said there was a need for a comprehensive public health law to keep a tab on private hospitals and check black-marketing of medicines.
Reacting to the development, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala asked whether or not there is any parliamentary system in the country.v
Venkaiah Naidu replied in the negative when asked whether she would get back the post of general secretary.
Buying of land should be left to developers and land owners: Venkaiah.
Rajnath Singh, who was selected the new president, would assume office on Monday.
Naidu said RSS was a committed, disciplined and dedicated organisation and BJP could not afford to lose its connection with it.
Advani retained his predecessor Venkaiah Naidu in the panel and in the parliamentary board.
The 16-day yatra began from Hubli in Karnataka and travelled nearly 3,500 km through seven states and one Union territory.
President Droupadi Murmu administered him the oath at a brief ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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