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Gadkari confident BJP will capture power in Delhi, Maharashtra

Mumbai, Dec 26 (IANS) Newly-appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Saturday expressed confidence that the saffron alliance will sweep to power at the centre and in Maharashtra in the next elections.

Addressing party workers here Saturday evening, Gadkari said that the party had won in both the places earlier and ’shall win in the [...]

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Gadkari to meet Bal Thackeray Saturday

Mumbai, Dec 25 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari will meet Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Saturday on his first visit to Mumbai after taking over his new charge, a party official said Friday.

He will call on Thackeray at the latter’s residence, the official said.

Soon after his arrival here, Gadkari will garland [...]

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Munde appointed Lok Sabha deputy leader of opposition

New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde was Monday appointed Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

Munde’s name has been approved by L.K. Advani, who last week took charge as chairman of the BJP parliamentary party, said a party leader.

‘Ramesh Bais has been appointed chief whip of [...]

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India asks Pakistan to dismantle terror network operating from its soil

New Delhi, Nov 25(ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday reiterated the demand that Pakistan should dismantle the terror network operating from its soil.

Tharoor was reacting to Indian army chief Deepak Kapoor’s remarks that Pakistan wanted to push as many terrorists as possible from across [...]

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Farmers lay siege to Delhi to protest sugarcane prices

New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Shouting slogans and paralysing key roads as they marched in protest, thousands of farmers from Uttar Pradesh gathered in the capital Thursday to force the government to rethink the new pricing policy for sugarcane.

Traffic on all roads leading to Jantar Mantar, the 17th century observatory in the heart of the [...]

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Poonam Mahajan to contest from Ghatkopar West in Maharashtra polls

Mumbai, Sep.19 (ANI): Issuing its first list of candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday gave ticket to Poonam Mahajan, the daughter of the deceased BJP leader, Pramod Mahajan from Ghatkopar West area.

In its first list of candidates for the Assembly [...]

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Sangli unrest: BJP leader Munde challenges authorities to arrest him

Mumbai/Lonavla, Sep.8 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde said on Tuesday that he is ready to court arrest and has challenged the local authorities to try and stop him from heading to curfew-imposed Sangli.

Munde has been slapped with a prohibitory notice by the Sangli Collector to stay away from the area [...]

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Maharashtra Govt trying to rewrite history : Munde

Pune, Sep 8 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary Gopinath Munde charged the Maharashtra Government with attempting to change history by negating the glorious role of Chhatrapati Shivaji.

Commenting on the communal tension prevailing in the state’s Sangli District Munde blamed the State Government [...]

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BJP leader Munde detained at Mumbai airport

Mumbai, Sep.7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Gopinath Munde was detained at Mumbai airport by state police on Monday before he could go to violence-hit Sangli district to address a meeting there.

Officials said he was detained as his address could aggravate the tense situation in the district.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Brijesh [...]

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