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  End of Atal-Advani era in BJP as party shunts out veterans into a toothless body

  Politics | August 27, 2014 6:31 IST

  New Delhi: In a move marking the end of the era of stalwarts like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday came up with a list

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  Atal,Advani,Joshi dropped from BJP parliamentary board, signalling end of an era

  Politics | August 26, 2014 20:11 IST

  New Delhi: For the first time in the history of the BJP, three big names Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L K Advani and M M Joshi will not be part of the party's Parliamentary Board.BJP President

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  BJP has a galaxy of leaders; Piyush Goyal

  Politics | August 21, 2014 12:00 IST

  Ranchi: Union minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal was today non-committal on the name of the BJP chief ministerial candidate ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in Jharkhand.“(There are a) galaxy of leaders in

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  Advani does it again, says BJP's LS victory more because of Congress than Narendra Modi

  Politics | August 16, 2014 10:10 IST

  New Delhi: BJP patriarch L K Advani has once again made a statement that reflects his unwillingness to give full credit to Narendra Modi for BJP's spectacular performance in 2014 Lok Sabha elections.On a day

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  Thambidurai of AIADMK files nomination for Lok Sabha Dy Speaker

  Politics | August 12, 2014 16:30 IST

  New Delhi: AIADMK leader M Thambiduari today filed his nomination for the post of Deputy Speaker in Lok Sabha.Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj were among the proposers for Thambidurai.According to

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  India needs 200 PMs: Narendra Modi

  Politics | August 10, 2014 11:54 IST

  New Delhi: In a 30 minute speech at the BJP National Council meet Saturday PM Narendra Modi jovially remarked that India requires 200 PMs- Primary members. His sense of humor filled the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

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  BJP should give new shape to India's politics: Advani

  Politics | August 09, 2014 19:16 IST

  New Delhi: Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani Saturday said he hoped the party will in the coming days realise the aspirations of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya who wanted to give a new

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  Indians not speaking country's languages is 'painful': L K Advani

  Politics | August 07, 2014 9:17 IST

  New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani today batted for the promotion of Indian languages and said it was very humiliating that while people of various countries spoke in their own language on foreign trips,

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  Opposition not being allowed to speak in parliament, Rahul Gandhi complains to Advani

  Politics | August 06, 2014 16:53 IST

  New Delhi: An upset Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is understood to have today conveyed his displeasure to senior BJP leader L K Advani about the opposition allegedly not being allowed to speak on important

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  In Modi era little place for BJP seniors

  Politics | August 05, 2014 13:59 IST

  New Delhi: They anchored the rise of the BJP in the 1990s and guided it through the tumultuous years in the opposition but do not appear to have a role in the party's first full-majority

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  Shatrughan Sinha hopeful of being inducted into Narendra Modi Cabinet

  Politics | August 03, 2014 8:35 IST

  New Delhi: Bollywood filmstar-turned-BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha is hopeful of being inducted into Narendra Modi's Cabinet, but he has added that he would never seek a ministerial post on his own, and will not refuse,

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  Modi sends Advani, BJP old guard into exile

  Politics | August 02, 2014 15:35 IST

  In the Hindu way of life, old age entails exile from home and hearth. As the Manu Smriti says, when a man sees "his skin wrinkled and his hair gray and when he sees the

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  Natwar Singh's account of frosty relations between Sonia and PV Narasimha Rao

  Politics | August 01, 2014 16:09 IST

  New Delhi: The frosty relationship between Sonia Gandhi and late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao comes out in full view in Natwar Singh's autobiography which says Gandhi was “never fond of” Rao who wondered

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  'Akhilesh playing politics of vendetta against BJP'

  Politics | July 27, 2014 14:06 IST

  Lucknow: He is possibly the only one from the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh to have the ears of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Accredited with the groundwork for the party's unprecedented success in the

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  BJP needs to be made stronger in East and South: Amit Shah

  Politics | July 12, 2014 12:18 IST

  Ahmedabad: Setting out his agenda, BJP's new President Amit Shah today said the party needs to be strengthened in eastern and southern parts of India.  “BJP is not yet strong in southern and eastern states.

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  Amit Shah may be announced BJP president Wednesday

  Politics | July 08, 2014 14:37 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah may be named the next BJP president Wednesday, party sources said.The parliamentary board of the BJP, its top decision making body, will be meeting in

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  Saffron alliance strong and intact, says Uddhav

  Politics | July 05, 2014 13:30 IST

  Mumbai: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray today downplayed the demand made during the BJP state executive meeting about going solo in the upcoming Assembly elections, saying that the saffron alliance put together by its top

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  Yashwant Sinha uses unparliamentary word at public function

  Politics | July 02, 2014 13:14 IST

  Ranchi: In an apparent slip of tongue, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha today used an expletive word that raised eyebrows.“Media people come and put their mike, asking who would become the chief minister. How does

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  I will never go back on my words: Digvijay on Rahul comments

  Politics | July 01, 2014 7:00 IST

  New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh today stood by his comments that Rahul Gandhi lacked the temperament of a ruler, a statement the party's rivals had used to say Rahul was not prime ministerial

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  Advani welcomes Antony's 'honest soul searching' on Congress minority policy

  Politics | June 30, 2014 8:04 IST

  Surajkund: BJP on Sunday welcomed the public admission of senior Congress leader AK Antony that his party's secularism is slanted in favour of minorities, calling it "honest soul searching" and said its position on the