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strongNew Delhi:/strong Chairing his first meeting as head of BJP's election campaign committee here today, Narendra Modi met the party's national general secretaries and discussed the poll strategy for coming assembly and Lok Sabha elections. In the two-hour meeting, Modi discussed the broad outline of the party's blueprint for the coming elections. [caption id=attachment_884865 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Chairing hi
Indian women activists of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stop a car during a protest in Patna, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The activists protested Janata Dal (United), a powerful socialist party in eastern Bihar state, leaving BJP Sunday after the dominant party appointed a Hindu ideologue, Narendra Modi, to lead its campaign for parliamentary elections next year. JDU says it fears that with Modi of the Hindu nationalist BJP in charge, the alliance could alienate voters because of his anti-Muslim image. Indian women activists of the main
Chief Minister of Indian state of Gujarat Narendra Modi greets media person sitting inside his car as he leaves after meeting Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader L.K.Advani, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Chief Minister of Indian state of G
strongPatna:/strong Embittered by JD(U) snapping ties with NDA, Bihar BJP has decided to expose duplicity of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by playing CDs of his speeches before people in which he consistently praised Narendra Modi since the 2002 riots. We have a number of CDs in which Kumar has publicly and uninhibitedly praised his Gujarat counterpart and even praised him to the effect that his services and leadership will be beneficial to the country...We have collected all these CDs for display before the people of Bihar so that his duplicity could be exposed thoroughly, senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters today. [caption id=attachment_878229 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna:/strong Embittered by J
Facing a BJP that seems to have lined up behind Narendra Modi, the Congress says that it has lined up a youthful team of leaders in the All India Congress Committee that it expects will be able to connect with voters across the country. In the history of the party, perhaps, this is the first time that the average age of party's office bearer is 52 years, Ajay Maken said, talking about the fresh faces being inducted in the Committee. He said the party needed a mixture of age and experience but the Congress commitee had adequate youth representatives now. Maken, who resigned on Saturday as union minister of housing and poverty alleviation, is one of the newly inducted general secretaries of the committee. [caption id=attachment_877959 align=alignleft width=380 Facing a BJP that seems to have lin
strongNew Delhi: /strongBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday congratulated Iran's president-elect Hassan Rouhani, expressing hope that moderate voices would now be strengthened in Iran. [caption id=attachment_875041 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi: /strongBharatiya J
A Janata Dal (United) worker burns crackers in celebration in Patna, India, Sunday, June 16, 2013. The second-biggest party in India's main opposition alliance quit the group on Sunday after the dominant party appointed a Hindu ideologue to lead its campaign for parliamentary elections next year. Janata Dal, a powerful socialist party in eastern Bihar state, left the National Democratic Alliance, saying it fears that with Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in charge, the alliance could alienate voters because of his anti-Muslim image. A Janata Dal (United) worker burns
strong11. 50 am: Bihar cabinet meet begins, BJP not present/strong The Bihar cabinet meet called by Nitish Kumar has begun, but no BJP ministers are present at the meet. There are 11 BJP ministers in the 29-member Bihar council of ministers. BJP ministers, state party president Mangal Pandey and other senior members are holding a meeting at Sushil Modi's house to plan future strategy. Meanwhile, in a press conference, BJP leaderShahnawaz Hussain said, If a party thinks that we will split the right to choose PM candidate then they are wrong,that right belongs to BJP. However, he said thatthe BJP wants the alliance to go on. strong10. 50 am: Shanawaz Hussain confirms BJP won't attend cabinet meet called by Nitish Kumar/strong BJP leader Shanawaz Hussain confirms that the party will not attend Nitish Kumar's cabinet meet. Think that JD(U) will take a decision in favour of the people of Bihar.We are waiting for their (JD(U)) decision,that is why our party members are not going for the cabinet meet. strong10.15 am: Bihar BJP may skip cabinet meet/strong Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who has expressed his anguish over Modi's elevation in clear terms, has called a meeting of the Bihar Cabinet at 12.30 pm. However, according to reports, the members of the BJP are likely to skip the meet. Bihar BJP President Mangal Pandey told reporters, What is the point of cabinet meet? Nitish Kumar should clarify his plans for alliance. strong10.00 am: JD(U)-BJP split announcement likely after Bihar Cabinet meet/strong It seems the stage is set for the end of 17-year-old alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal(United). While it has already been made evident that the parties are not willing to remain together after the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP poll panel chief, a formal announcement on this is expected today. All the BJP ministers in the state are slated to meet at the residence of senior party leader and deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi. [caption id=attachment_874843 align=alignright width=380 strong11. 50 am: Bihar cabinet meet
strongPatna:/strong As the proposed separation between BJP and JD)U) is set to enter the decisive phase, Janata Dal(U) President Sharad Yadav arrived in Patna tonight for discussions with his party colleague and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. On arrival in Patna, Yadav told reporters the situation will be clear by tomorrow. I have come here for holding discussion with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and other JD(U) legislators and leaders over the developments taking place in the past few days to take a decision whether to continue in NDA or not, the JD(U) President, accompanied by General Secretary K C Tyagi, said. [caption id=attachment_874269 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna:/strong As the proposed
At least now the BJP should stop being hypocritical. The party has decided its political course. It has made up its mind to break off from its past and start afresh under a new leader, who is vastly controversial, not acceptable to many yet still a leader. It's Narendra Modi. He's a risk the confused and rudderless party had to take. Now that it has done it, it should not pretend that it did not anticipate the consequences. [caption id=attachment_874323 align=alignleft width=380 At least now the BJP should stop be
strongPatna:/strong The BJP and JD(U) appeared set for imminent parting of ways in Bihar on Sunday when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar meets his top party leaders to take a final call in the wake of Narendra Modi's elevation. Further hints of the break-up in the 17-year-old alliance were given today by senior JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari who said the announcement of a split was a mere formality. [caption id=attachment_874245 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna:/strong The BJP and JD(
strongPatna:/strong Accusing the BJP of forcing it to walk out of the alliance by not being forthcoming on Narendra Modi's future role, senior JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari today said the announcement of a split in the coalition was a mere formality. Tiwari also dubbed Modi as an arrogant and divisive personality who cannot take all sections along. We have been looking for a categoric assurance that Narendra Modi will not be the prime ministerial candidate in whatsoever situation, but that has not been forthcoming from them (BJP) during talks to save the NDA amid imminent walk out of the JD(U), said the senior JD(U) leader.[caption id=attachment_873691 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna:/strong Accusing the BJ
strongChennai:/strong Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi's leadership came in for flak today from Samajwadi Party, which alleged he has always failed in that front and would continue to be so in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Narendra Modi campaigned in Karnataka. Did you see what happened? He campaigned in Himachal Pradesh. Did you see the Congress coming to power there? His leadership has always failed, SP National General Secretary Kiranmay Nanda toldem PTI./em [caption id=attachment_873919 align=alignleft width=380 strongChennai:/strong Gujarat Chief
strongPatna:/strong In a further souring of ties, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday told Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to quit and seek a fresh mandate if Bihar's ruling coalition splits. BJP leader and minister Chandra Mohan Rai told the media: Nitish Kumar should resign as chief minister because people of the state gave the mandate to the NDA in 2010. [caption id=attachment_873905 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna:/strong In a further so
strongPatna:/strong As fissures within the NDA widened today, the BJP slammed JD(U) leader and Bihar chief minister as opportunistic and accused Nitish Kumar of using his pseudo secular image as a virtue to split the NDA. State BJP minister Giriraj Singh asked, Why did not Kumar resign (as the railway minister) from the NDA government in 2002 (after Gujarat riots) if he was so concerned about his secular credentials?[caption id=attachment_873793 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna:/strong As fissures wit
strongLondon:/strong Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley today sent out a stark message to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar over a possible JD(U) split with the NDA, saying the state might have to pay a price if the alliance ends. All I will say is that Bihar was in a terrible situation for years and in the last seven-eight years, I think things have improved. Therefore, it is in everyone's interests, including the interest of the state, to keep the political and social alliance which has been able to deliver an impact. [caption id=attachment_872695 align=alignleft width=380 strongLondon:/strong Senior BJP lea
strongNew Delhi:/strong The BJP will launch a nationwide Jail Bharo Aandolan - fil jais agitation - from June 17 to June 30 against scams, corruption, price-rise and misuse of constitutional institutions by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, a party leader said Friday. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that party workers will court arrest at district and state headquarters during the protest. [caption id=attachment_872361 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong The BJP wil
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Friday said that it was important for NDA allies to stick together to defeat the Congress. This comes amid speculations that the JD(U) is on the verge of walking out of its 17-year-old alliance with the NDA. [caption id=attachment_872149 align=alignleft width=380 BJP leader Sushma Swaraj on Friday
Indian opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani looks on a during a meeting at his residence in New Delhi on June 14, 2013. India's Hindu nationalist opposition party patriarch L.K. Advani returned to the fold, after he quit in apparent protest at the naming of hardliner Narendra Modi to head the 2014 election campaign. In a shock move, Advani, an 85-year-old stalwart of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former deputy prime minister, resigned June 10 from all his positions in the party which he helped build into a national force. Indian opposition Bharatiya Janata
strongNew Delhi:/strong BJP today said no assurance has been given to ally JD(U), which is opposed to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's elevation as Election Campaign Committee head of the right-wing party, on who will be the party's Prime Ministerial candidate. In reply to a question on the issue, BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said I don't think there is an assurance to JD(U) on who will or who will not be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the party. [caption id=attachment_869771 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong BJP today s
strongNew Delhi:/strong Taking potshots at BJP over the recent developments within that party, CPI(M) today said Narendra Modi's rise represented an unalloyed communal agenda combined with advocacy of corporate and big business interests. The resignation of LK Advani and his subsequent retreat had brought out conflicts and contradictions into the open, within RSS, BJP as well as NDA, it said. [caption id=attachment_869399 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Taking pots
strongHyderabad:/strong Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu today asked JD(U) to follow coalition emdharma/em after some of its leaders allegedly criticised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, widening the rift between the two parties. Speaking to reporters in Hyderabad, Naidu said, Some friends in JD(U) are making derogatory remarks against Modi which neither will help you (JD-U) nor the country. Please follow the coalition emdharma/em, he said without taking any names.[caption id=attachment_869069 align=alignleft width=380 strongHyderabad:/strong Senior BJP
strongNew Delhi: /strongThe BJP on Thursday said it favoured passing the food security bill in the monsoon session of parliament with some amendments. We want that the food security bill is passed in the upcoming monsoon session of parliament with some amendments, Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh told reporters here. [caption id=attachment_868955 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi: /strongThe BJP on
strongNew Delhi:/strong Taking a dig at developments in BJP, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today described Narendra Modi as 'Bhasmasur', a mythological character known for trying to destroy his creator, and said the Gujarat Chief Minister has consumed his mentor LK Advani. Ramesh, a Congress strategist, also compared his party leader Rahul Gandhi and Modi-the two possible prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 elections, saying while Gandhi was trying to create a structure and a system in the country, Modi is saying he is the system and the structure.[caption id=attachment_869359 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Taking a di
strongRanchi:/strongBJP leaders in Jharkhand feel that the party unit in the state could derive some benefits from a split with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) at the national level. Our party will remain in benefit in Jharkhand if JD-U decides to part ways with us at the national level. We cannot tolerate interference of any party in our internal issues. (Gujarat Chief Minister) Narendra Modi is our respected leader and we cannot bear unparliamentarily comment on our leader, Pradeep Sinha, Jharkhand BJP spokesperson, told IANS. [caption id=attachment_869055 align=alignleft width=380 strongRanchi:/strongBJP leaders in
strongPatna/New Delhi:/strong The JD(U) on Thursday kept BJP on tenterhooks over its continuance in NDA with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar saying that his party is concerned about recent developments in the coalition and would take a call on them after discussing the matter within the party. Kumar also said that it would be good if regional parties like JD(U), Trinamool Congress and BJD form a common front. [caption id=attachment_869269 align=alignleft width=380 strongPatna/New Delhi:/strong The J
BJP patriarch LK Advani is no longer a powerhouse in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Most of the party supporters want Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to be projected as the prime minister candidate for the next general elections as soon as possible. According to a poll conducted by Centre for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research (C-Voter) among randomly selected 2,527 BJP supporters across all metros, 81 percent of the respondents said that the party should project Modi as prime ministerial candidate.[caption id=attachment_866563 align=alignleft width=380 BJP patriarch LK Advani is no longe
strongNew Delhi: /strongThe BJP Wednesday said its alliance with the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) in Bihar was continuing in the interest of people of the state and any break in ties will ruin hopes of the electorate. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said the two parties were voted to power by the 10.5 crore people of the state and they wanted that a good government should continue. [caption id=attachment_866177 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi: /strongThe BJP Wed
While the Bharatiya Janata Party has managed to pacify patriarch LK Advani and prevented a potential internal crisis from turning unmanageable, a bigger storm is brewing for it outside. The party's relationship with its allies after the elevation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as poll campaign chief has taken a hit. Worse, it has created the possibility of the resurrection of the Third Front. Fringe political parties and their leaders are already voicing their desire to come out of the shadows of the two national parties - the Congress and the BJP- and initiate efforts to present themselves as an alternative at the Centre. Till now, the Third Front has a chequered history and the experiment has been a very limited success. [caption id=attachment_865903 align=alignleft width=380 While the Bharatiya Janata Party ha
The BJP may have just defused one crisis after party patriarch LK Advani agreed to withdraw his resignation, but now they could be headed straight into another. There are now indications that its Bihar ally, the Janata Dal (United), could sever ties with the party over the elevation of Narendra Modi to the position of the party's 2014 campaign committee chief. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held a meeting with senior JD(U) leaders on the issue, butrefused to comment on the state of the alliance. When asked by reporters about the alliance, Kumar cryptically stated,Wait for some time. The Chief Minister, whose party had threatened to cut ties with the BJP over the departure of Advani, said he wouldn't like to comment on the party stalwart's decision to take back his resignation. [caption id=attachment_864273 align=alignleft width=380 The BJP may have just defused one c