Bihar Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) minister Ashwini Kumar Chaubey has been threatened that he and his family would be killed, police said Tuesday.
‘I received a threat call on my personal mobile phone late Monday. Soon after that I informed the police,’ Chaubey said.
Chaubey, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader who represents Bhagalpur constituency [...]
Jharkhand government alliance partners Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) are facing resentment from within over cabinet expansion.
Chief Minister Shibu Soren expanded his cabinet Saturday evening and inducted nine ministers, taking the total strength to 12. Soren was sworn in Dec 30 along with a nominee each of allies BJP and the [...]
Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived here Friday evening on a three-day visit, during which he would have ’special sessions’ with young workers of both the RSS and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to ‘develop their leadership skills’.
While the RSS has not mentioned any specific objective behind Bhagwat’s three-day visit, sources said he [...]
Five persons, including a local BJP leader, were killed when a speeding truck hit their car in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh, police said Thursday.
The victims were on their way to Shivpuri town, 325 kms from here, late Wednesday when the accident occurred.
They have been identified as local BJP leader K.K. Mishra, Keshav Pathak, Kasturi, [...]
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh announced formation of his new Jan Kranti Party on his birthday Tuesday and said he would work as its ‘patron’.
‘I will work as a patron for this party. The party will be led by Rajvir Singh alias Raju Bhaiyya,’ Singh told reporters.
A former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, [...]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday slammed the ruling Congress for its ‘conspicuous silence’ over the escape of three Pakistani terrorists from a city hospital here last week.
‘It has been three days (since the escape) and there is no trace of them,’ BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.
The BJP described as a ’serious [...]
Raipur, Jan 4 (IANS) Though the results of Chhattisgarh’s municipal corporation polls were declared last week, the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is yet to come out of shock as its leaders debate how they lost in the state’s most populous towns Raipur and Bilaspur.
The results of all the nine municipal corporations were declared [...]
Shimla, Dec 28 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Monday alleged that the central government ignores the interests of the hill state while expanding rail network or for extending special industrial package.
‘It was not fair on the part of the central government to ignore the interests of the people of the small state [...]
Ranchi, Dec 28 (IANS) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief Shibu Soren, who is set to form the government in Jharkhand with support from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), Monday left Ranchi for Mumbai to meet BJP president Nitin Gadkari.
‘Soren left for Mumbai along with AJSU chief Sudesh Mahto, [...]
Ranchi, Dec 24 (IANS) With the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) emerging as kingmaker with 18 seats, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are exploring the possibility of forming the next Jharkhand government with the JMM, but are finding it hard to accept the terms of Shibu Soren.
The BJP has now said it is [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (ANI): The foremost test for the newly appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari is to end the infighting in the BJP’s Rajasthan unit. Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje was successful in postponing a debatable election that was supposed to take place on Thursday for the post of Rajasthan [...]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh said on Friday (December 18) that no consultations were held with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) over the change made in party’s top leadership.
Earlier on Friday, senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani stepped down [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Friday handed over the baton of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to Sushma Swaraj and assumed charge as the first chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party.
The Parliamentary Party earlier unanimously amended its constitution to enable the transition.
While relinquishing his [...]
Bangalore, Dec 18 (IANS) About 98 per cent of over 93,000 members of local bodies in Karnataka voted Friday to elect 23 members to the state legislative council. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) warned dissidents as Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) talked of exploiting rebellion to bring it down the government.
‘Around 98 percent of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (ANI): In what could be could be considered as a plan for the future, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to change the party’s leadership. Senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani, who is also the leader of opposition in Parliament, may resign on Friday from his post making way for [...]
Raipur, Dec 17 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which says it is fighting the civic bodies polls with limited resources, has hired three helicopters for the election campaign.
‘We have taken development schemes to village-level since the BJP formed the government in December 2003. Now we want to reach out to the maximum number [...]
Panaji, Dec 17 (IANS) Goa’s Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar Thursday alleged that an alcohol scam to the tune of Rs.40 crore is being carried out in collusion with the state excise commissioner and officials of the excise department.
Speaking during Question Hour in the state assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said that excise [...]
New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday accused the government of ‘playing with the sensitivities of people’ on the Telangana issue and reiterated its demand for a roadmap on the creation of the separate state.
‘What is happening in Andhra Pradesh is a matter of anguish. The government of India has complicated [...]
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Taking a cue from the government’s decision to start the process for formation of Telangana state, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh and
expelled Bharatiya Janata Party MP Jawant Singh raised demands for Harit Pradesh and Gorkhaland respectively.
Ajit Singh said here that his party would start an agitation if the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The government had no option but to make a public statement on the Telangana issue even though parliament was in session because it was necessary to restore normalcy in Andhra Pradesh, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Thursday.
‘When Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) raised the issue in the house yesterday (Wednesday), the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Questioning the credibility of the Liberhan Commission report, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday termed it ‘a national joke’.
Participating in the debate on the Liberhan Commission report in the Rajya Sabha, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said his party wanted ‘justice for all’ and rejected the Congress charge that it was [...]
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) As the government prepared to table a bill to check communal violence in parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slammed some of the legislation’s provisions while the Left parties said they would wait to see if their suggestions had been incorporated in the proposed law.
‘We have not seen the contents [...]
Mumbai, Dec 4 (IANS) Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar is done with films on grim social issues for the time being and says his next directorial venture will be a laugh riot.
‘Yes, I’m starting a comedy, though not slapstick like ‘De Dana Dan’. It would be more like the comedies of Hrishikesh Mukherjee,’ Bhandarkar, who is [...]
Ranchi, Dec 4 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hit the campaign trail in Jharkhand Friday.
Rajnath Singh arrived here Thursday night. He is to campaign at four places that go to polls in the third phase of assembly elections Dec 8. A [...]
New Delhi, Dec.3 (ANI): Activists of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a protest on Thursday here against the hike in the tariff of piped water supply in the city.
After hiking the fares of bus and metro, the Delhi government raised the water tariff upto two-and-a-half-times.
The [...]
Nashik (Maharashtra), Nov 27 (IANS) Pravin Mahajan, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his brother, the late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, was Friday released on parole for 14 days on medical grounds, a family member said.
‘He has been released a short while ago on some purely personal medical reasons,’ the family member [...]
New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) On the first anniversary of 26/11 Thursday, Rajya Sabha MP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader S.S. Ahluwalia said the terror attacks were being talked about because they happened at the elite Taj hotel in Mumbai.
‘The media is very aggressive about the 26/11 incident. Only one year has lapsed. Such [...]
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Attacking the government over ‘leakage’ of the Liberhan Commission report, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded that responsibility should be fixed for the ‘lapse’ and a joint parliamentary panel should probe into it.
Party president Rajnath Singh, speaking to reporters outside parliament, said: ‘The home minister should take moral responsibility [...]
New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): The United Progressive Alliance government finally tabled the much-awaited Librehan Commission Report on the Babri mosque demolition after the Opposition staged an uproar over its leakage to the media before its tabling in Parliament.
Union Home Minister P .Chidambaram presented the Librehan Report along with [...]
New Delhi, Nov.24 (ANI): The United Progressive Alliance government finally presented the much-awaited Librehan Commission report over the Babri mosque demolition after the Opposition stage uproar on Monday over the leakage of repot to media before tabling it in Parliament as per the propriety.
Union Home Minister presented the Librehan report along with the [...]
