Opposition Shiv Sena-BJP today submitted a joint letter to Protem speaker Ganpatrao Deshmukh proposing the name of BJP leader Eknath Khadse as the new Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.The letter was signed by Girish Bapat, chief whip of the BJP Legislature party and Subhash Desai, the Sena leader in the lower House, BJP general secretary and MLC Vinod Tawde said.The Leader...
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JAIPUR: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, whohad asked the top BJP leadership to sort out problems in the wake of Lok Sabhadebacle, today seemed to suggest that the party may need a "surgery" or even"chemotherapy" treatment, a view rejected by BJP chief Rajnath Singh."As far as BJP is concerned, whatever surgery, medicine,chemotherapy is essential for them, it has to be diagnosed by them (BJP)," hetold a press...
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RSS chief Mohanrao Bhagwat has sounded a mild warning to the BJP to either accept the Sangh’s advice or risk remaining a “divided”, dysfunctional and rootless party.“The BJP is a divided house and a divided house can’t function properly,” Bhagwat was quoted by news agencies as telling reporters in Pune. He reportedly added that the BJP needed to rediscover its roots.The Sangh chief said he had counselled...
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latest buzz in BJP circles is that LK Advani, Venkaiah Naidu and Arun Jaitley are trying hard to get Narendra Modi to the Centre, but it is the Gujarat CM who is reluctant to go.Quoting reports from Delhi, BJP sources said that the three senior BJP leaders are resisting Maharashtra state BJP chief, Nitin Gadkari's candidature for the post of national party president. Gadkari is the RSS's choice for...
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chief Mohan Bhagwat, who had asked the top BJP leadership to sort out problems in the wake of Lok Sabha debacle, on Tuesday seemed to suggest that the party may need a "surgery" or even chemotherapy" treatment, a view rejected by BJP chief Rajnath Singh."As far as BJP is concerned, whatever surgery, medicine, chemotherapy is essential for them, it has to be diagnosed by them (BJP)," he told a press...
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The recent crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka was focused on whether B S Yeddyurappa would remain as the chief minister or would the rebels get their way, or whether the BJP central leadership would succeed in affecting a compromise.But the real significance of this crisis lies elsewhere. The events in Karnataka showed up the brazen nexus between politics and a big business that the BJP had...
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Correspondent
Lucknow
Nov. 15: The BJP has hit rock bottom in Uttar Pradesh — the state that once catapulted the party to power at the national level.
A detailed look at the results of the recent byelections held in UP show that the BJP now ranks lower than even the Independents and smaller parties in some constituencies.
In the Kolasala Assembly...
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An article published in BJP house journal stated that BJP is stronger than Shiv Sena and the Sena is overestimating its strength in Maharashtra.This statement in the article could be the last straw in the already deteriorating relation between the Sena and BJP.According to the journal the assembly polls was not as bad for BJP as it was for the Sena and BJP had to compromise with Sena to keep the alliance...
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JAMSHEDPUR:Former chief minister Madhu Koda seems to have provided the BJP with just theright kind of ammunition to make a clean sweep of the three Assemblyconstituencies in Jamshedpur. While Jamshedpur East and West have always beenconsidered BJP strongholds, the party has never won the Jugsalai seat. With theCongress in no position to back the scam-tainted Koda and the BJP upbeat aftersweeping nine...
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Nitin Gadkari could take over as the next BJP president as early as next month. With the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the parent body of the BJP, succeeding in pushing his name for the post, the Sangh does not want to delay the takeover at the top.Accepting the Sangh’s fiat, BJP leaders, too, would not object to the 52-year-old Gadkari taking the post as early as possible.The BJP leaders have...
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