India’s main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said the Congress-led UPA government can not expect its security forces to ‘win’ against terrorism and extremism. “It seems that the UPA Govt. is clueless and confused on the strategy to fight terrorism. Be it a Naxal challenge in the heartland or a challenge from separatists [...]
Taking forward Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s case to the Muslims in Bihar, the BJP would be organising minorities conference in Patna on July 14, which will be attended by all the party leaders in the state.Though Narendra Modi would not be a part of the convention, lest Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gets provoked [...]
In a major embarrassment to the BJP, a party legislator was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by a fast track court for murder during the anti-Christian riots in Kandhamal district of Orissa in 2008. G Udayagiri MLA Manoj Pradhan (30), along with his accomplice, Prafulla Mallick, was convicted of a murdering Parikhit Digal, a Christian [...]
Having decided to bury the hatchet and forget about Jinnah and Kandahar episodes altogether, expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh was readmitted into the party after a gap of 10 months. It was in August 2009 at the ‘chintan baithak’ of the party in Shimla that Jaswant Singh, who had served the party for 44 years, [...]
Even as the BJP Central leadership was all set to assuage the ruffled feelings of the state leaders over the return of the Rs 5 crore cheque, there was fresh tension between the JD(U) and the BJP in Bihar. Not in a mood to spare Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar sent the Bihar [...]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday reconstituted its central election committee, discipline committee besides appointing chiefs for various wings. Small screen star Smriti Irani has been nominated as the president of party’s Mahila Morcha. Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, Uttar Pradesh strongman Minister Kalraj Mishra, former Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda and Dharmendra [...]
The Bharatiya Janata Party is worried over the Rajya Sabha elections in Rajasthan after it named Ram Jethmalani as a candidate. With 78 BJP MLAs voting, Jethmalani appears to be two votes short of victory because he is the party’s second preference candidate and 41 votes are needed for a win. The BJP as also [...]
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two-day national executive meeting began here Saturday with a speech by party president Nitin Gadkari. Posters, banners and saffron flags of the BJP dotted many roads of the Bihar capital as the meet began amid tight security at the Maurya Hotel. The party is to deliberate on a strategy for [...]
In a Short Press Release, Shri L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha) condemned attacks in recent weeks on Indian students in Australia. He said: [ad#Google-post-Ad-Big]I am appalled by, and strongly condemn, a series of racist attacks in recent weeks on Indian students studying in Australia. As many as 95,000 Indian students study in [...]