After announcing Kumar Vishwas's candidature against Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, there is a buzz that the party might pit Shazia Ilmi against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in the upcoming general elections.
On party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's remarks in Rampur on Saturday that the second-generation leadership would lead the party in the next elections, he said there was nothing unusual about his statement.
There is no change in the Bharatiya Janata Party's decision to go it alone in the assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, a senior BJP leader said Monday.
The formation of a committee to review NCERT books is nothing but an eyewash," the party said in a resolution adopted on the concluding day of its three-day national executive meeting in Mumbai.
He said that he would brief the BJP high command about the "prevailing atmosphere of fear" in Gujarat.
He ruled out any discussion on the possible sacking of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the BJP's national executive meeting commencing in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday said it will contest over 350 Lok Sabha seats and vowed to take on tainted candidates and political leaders who have become "symbols" of corruption and criminalisation of politics.
After boycotting Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani on the first day of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh national executive in Haridwar, top Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders are expected to attend the meeting on Saturday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a meeting with ministers of state with independent charge
Terming as "unconstitutional and illegal" Aam Aadmi Party's national council meeting where they were ousted from a key panel, dissidents Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan on Saturday did not rule out taking legal recourse against their removal.
Making it clear that there will be no compromise on corruption, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said anyone embroiled in corrupt practices will not be spared be it former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, any Bharatiya Janata Party member or even his own party member.
The Congress said it will observe 'Save Democracy Day' on Friday with party workers and leaders holding protest marches at all district and state headquarters.
Even with the elevation of Nirmala Sitharaman to the post of defence minister, the party still needs to redress the gender imbalance and fill the 33 per cent quota in posts.
The national executive proposed a resolution to rededicate the party to its idealism and redouble its commitment to developmental issues.
The dinner meeting was supposed to take place on Tuesday night at a five-star hotel in suburban Andheri in Mumbai.
The JD(U) at its national executive meeting has asked BJP to clarify on its stand on the temple issue.
The four MLAs said they were quitting the party for its failure to address key public issues.
He said the BJP was possibly caught in a dichotomy between governance and politics and its political strategy was perhaps not prudent.
The panel's report will be discussed in the 'brainstorming session' in July.
The former prime minister confirmed what had been widely speculated earlier that he personally favoured Modi's removal but was prevailed upon by hawks in the Sangh Parivar.
Kumar said he had no option but to walk out of the grand alliance as continuing in it would have meant compromising with corruption.
The divestment of HPCL and BPCL may be delayed by at least three years because of "existing hurdles", prime minister's economic advisory council committee member and BJP national executive member Jagdish Shetigar said on Thursday.
Promises have been made in the past about cleaning up bank boards, revamping processes, purging vested interests. How far away is that Promised Land?
'If the JD-U wants to join hands with LJP, then it will have to break its alliance with BJP and in case Congress and Left Front want to have alliance with LJP, they are warmly welcome,' Paswan said.
'Bandaru Dattatreya shouldn't have blindly accepted what the ABVP told him.'
If the BJP returns to the old agenda(Hindutva), then we will not be with them, said senior JD(U) leader Digvijay Singh.
The Samajwadi Party is keen to have a "crucial role" for party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in 2014 but ruled out formation of any 'Third Force' before the next Lok Sabha elections.
'The UP election results show that people voted not on caste and religion lines; they went above that and voted for development, honesty, pride in the country, etc.' 'If UP can show the way, the rest of the country also can follow.'
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has again caused flutters in the party with remarks that the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat were a "blot" on Narendra Modi's career though he was not personally part of it.
'We will discuss it with an open mind,' the former PM said.
In contrast, NCP president Sharad Pawar has indicated that he was ready for a pre-poll tie-up with the Congress.
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