New Delhi: 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.
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.
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.
Patna: 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.
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.
New Delhi: Bharatiya 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.
