Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Wednesday kept up the suspense on continuance of outside support to the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre, saying a decision on the issue will be taken soon. She also asked party cadres to be ready for snap polls which "can take place any time" in view of the "instability" at the Centre.
Anshuman Mishra, the non-resident Indian businessman who unsuccessfully tried to get a Rajya Sabha nomination from Jharkhand, may have played a key role in convincing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to attend last week's Bharatiya Janata Party national executive in Mumbai.
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will probably be missing in action at the National Executive Meeting of top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which starts on Tuesday. Yeddyurappa, who is facing a slew of corruption cases, has enrolled himself for a three-day course at the Art of Living Foundation in Bangalore.
The Maharashtra Congress on Saturday termed as a "miserable failure" the leadership of Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari, while accusing the saffron party of being "desperate" for power. The pointed remark came a day after the conclusion of the two-day BJP national executive meeting in Mumbai, which re-elected Gadkari as the party president for the second term.
BJP's National Council meeting in Haryana on September 27 and 28 will clear the decks for a second consecutive term to Nitin Gadkari as party President after it gives a nod to the amendment in the party Constitution.
Shedding his defiant posture after persuasion by party leaders, former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Friday left Bangalore for Mumbai to attend the concluding session of the Bharatiya Janata Party's National Executive meeting. "I am leaving for Mumbai to greet Nitin Gadkari on his re-election as the party president for the second successive term," said Yeddyurappa, who had earlier decided to skip the meet as he was apparently upset over being sidelined.
Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari's stress on unity and discipline in the party gave fodder to the media to shoot uncomfortable questions, including whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was the target, during the briefing of the party national executive on Thursday.
Though Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary and spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad labelled it as a 'non-issue', the resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi-baiter Sanjay Joshi from the national executive and BJP president Nitin Gadkari's announcement on Thursday morning that Modi will attend the two-day meet hogged all the limelight, even as Prasad spent three-fourths of the press conference convincing the media that there was no infighting in the party
BJP National Secretary Kirit Somaiya alleged the current rupee dollar fluctuation was a major scam and it needed to be investigated by an expert group on a par with special investigation team.
Battling growing infighting, the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday went on damage control mode by deciding to restructure it and rejected resignation of its senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Shazia Ilmi, who had attacked Arvind Kejriwal for lack of internal democracy in the party.
Narendra Modi came to Patna after a gap of 28 months and was lustily greeted by Bharatiya Janata Party workers who raised slogans wanting him to be the next prime minister.
Hukum Singh said the 'migration' of Hindus from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh was 'not communal' in nature but had more to do with the law and order situation.
Launching a fresh attack on United Progressive Alliance's presidential nominee Pranab Mukerjee, Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Friday alleged that his signatures on the papers he put in while resigning from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata were not genuine.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday described as "unfortunate" and in "bad taste" remarks made by Congress leader Saif-ud-Din Soz against L K Advani.
The poster war continued in the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday with more pro-Sanjay Joshi posters and others apparently targetting Narendra Modi appearing in various parts of Rajkot city, the venue for the BJP's state executive meeting.
Veteran Communist Party of India leader and former Assam minister Promode Gogoi died in Guwahati on Friday following a brief illness. Gogoi, the party's central secretariat and national executive member since 1975, was 82 and a bachelor, CPI's state council decretary Bhogeswar Dutta said.
With Narendra Modi set to take over as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, a combination of big capital and Hindutva could prove the undoing of the rule of law and Indian democracy. He must be stopped -- to start with, in Gujarat, says Praful Bidwai.
The Aam Aadmi Party received a jolt on Saturday after senior party leader Yogendra Yadav and Haryana convener Naveen Jaihind tendered their resignation from party's political affairs committee and national executive respectively over alleged bickering between the two.
He said the wait for the court's verdict on the long-pending issue has been too long.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has become less of a party with a difference and more an aggregate of leaders with their own individual ambitions and agendas, says Neerja Chowdhury
Bharatiya Janata Party's internal problems showed no signs of ebbing with senior leader L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj on Friday skipping a public meeting in Mumbai as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi appeared to be strengthening his grip over it.
Vikram Vakil chronicles the decade-long feud between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Sanjay Joshi.
BJP sources claim that before Nitin Gadkari received the nod from Narendra Modi that he would attend the party national executive meeting in Mumbai, the Gujarat leader's intermediaries secured an assurance that if Modi registered an impressive victory in the state assembly election, scheduled for the winter, then BJP leaders would "invite" Modi to perform a bigger role on the national stage.
Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman called the Jammu & Kashmir interlocutors' report being published on a website just 36 hours after the conclusion of the budget session of Parliament as UPA II's "backdoor exposure" of a sensitive report.
The group led by Akhilesh Yadav is the Samajwadi Party and is entitled to use its name and reserved symbol bicycle, the three-member Election Commission headed by Nasim Zaidi said in its order.
'Our great Indian nationalists are rousing passions against their own people, not against another nation. Our fraud nationalists go after their own citizens for their religion, or for their views. Their concern and their passion is the enemy within. That is not love of nation or love of anything else. It is hatred and it is bitterness,' says Aakar Patel.
In embarrassment for the BJP, former Union minister Sanjay Paswan on Thursday accused Union ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya of showing "grave insensitivity".
After forcing Sanjay Joshi out of the Bharatiya Janata Party's national executive, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday ensured that his bete noire is also out of the party. BJP, whose president Nitin Gadkari and Modi joined hands at the party conclave at Mumbai a fortnight ago to force Joshi to resign from the executive, on Friday announced that Joshi has resigned from the party too.
The national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party, held in Mumbai, has made it amply clear that no important decisions can be taken in the party by sidelining Narendra Modi, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said on Saturday.
Senior BJP leaders said that the amendment of Article 21 of its constitution to enable an incumbent president a second term in office was not done keeping Nitin Gadkari in mind. Prasanna D Zore reports
Despite a new found bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Nitin Gadkari, differences in the Bharatiya Janata Party seem to be far from over at its national executive meeting in Mumbai on Friday with leaders L K Advani and Sushama Swaraj set to stay away from a rally scheduled for evening.
There is no doubt that the United Progressive Alliance government is hugely unpopular among the people. But that is not to say that the principal opposition party, the BJP, is reaping a windfall in terms of public acceptance.
Bharatiya Janata Party Member of parliament Varun Gandhi, who was in the thick of controversy for his anti-Muslim hate speech during the 2009 Lok Sabha election, is undergoing an image makeover, or so it seems.
Samajwadi Party today sacked Kamal Farooqi as its Secretary in the wake of his controversial remarks that Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was arrested as he was a Muslim.
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa said on Saturday that he will not participate in the national executive meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party scheduled to be held in Mumbai on May 24 and 25.
The former IAS officer was sworn-in as Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Tourism; and Minister of State in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
Former Union Minister Rasheed Masood was on Monday made special invitee to the Congress Working Committee with immediate effect. The announcement was made by party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday brushed aside Union minister Giriraj Singh's racist comment saying she need not reply to a person with "neech mansikita" (narrow mindset)
The national executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party met in Mumbai on May 24 and 25.It was not just any old meeting of the executive.
Advani is unhappy with the manner in which the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has dominated the show behind the scene to insist on Nitin Gadkari setting a second tenure as the party president.
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