13 Feb : Two comprehensive resolutions on politically sensitive issues of price rise and internal security will be passed in the forthcoming BJP National Council at Indore, which will also ratify the election of Nitin Gadkari as the party’s national president.”The BJP National Council will pass two resolutions relating to price rise, and internal and national security. The meet will also discuss political, social and economic issues facing the country and the anti-people policies of the government,” party Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said in New Delhi on Saturday.
He said a …

8 Feb : BJP President Nitin Gadkari is all set to be elected as the party president for a three-year term in the organisational polls on Tuesday.
The submission of nomination papers, scrutiny and withdrawal of papers has to be done between 1000 hrs to 1300 hrs.
Gadkari, who took over as Party President from Rajnath Singh in the last week of December, was likely to be the lone contender and in all probability would be elected unopposed, party sources said.
Electoral Officer Thawar Chand Gehlot will conduct the party presidential elections.
The National …

18 Dec : A generational change in the BJP hierarchy may be on the anvil with L K Advani all set to quit as Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha on Friday and party President Rajnath Singh stepping down on Saturday.
57-year-old Sushma Swaraj, deputy leader of the party in Lok Sabha, is tipped to succeed Advani (83), who makes way under an RSS-conceived move to usher in younger leadership against the backdrop of the debacle in Lok Sabha polls.
Advani may be made the Chairman of BJP Parliamentary Party, a post …

25 Nov ; CPI(M) has said the Liberhan Comm report has demolished the defence of BJP that Babri Masjid demolition was a “spontaneous movement” but has laid itself open to the charge of a political bias by not pinpointing the failure of Centre to take action.
The CPI(M) Politburo said the Commission has made “a clear and sharp” indictment of the RSS, the BJP and other constituents of the Sangh Parivar.
“The report demolishes the defence put out by the BJP that it was a spontaneous movement which went out of control …

24 Nov : The BJP appeared to be deflecting the Liberhan Comm focus from indictment of senior leaders L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi by raking up the issues of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, being named in the report, and the leakage of document to the media.
Initiating a tirade against Justice Liberhan Commission report and the ATR tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, Deputy Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said, “Findings of this report are perverse, ill-founded and against the evidence placed before the Commission.”
Swaraj asserted that …