Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan met the BJP national president JP Nadda in New Delhi on Thursday morning. Discussions between the leaders of the two parties that entered into an alliance in Andhra Pradesh, are expected to focus on the opposition to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government’s plans to […]
JP Nadda elected BJP’s chief amid praise from top brass
Jagat Prakash Nadda was on Monday elected unopposed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, taking over from Amit Shah after the latter’s five-and-a-half-year tenure, even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the party will scale new heights under the 59-year-old Nadda’s leadership. A senior BJP leader from Himachal Pradesh, Nadda […]
Non-BJP states object to methodology of NPR
A few states that are not ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday objected to some aspects of the new National Population Register (NPR) at a meet convened by the Union home ministry to discuss the house-listing phase of Census 2021 and NPR. While some states have protested […]
Delhi BJP send Rs 500 cr defamation notice to AAP over Manoj Tiwari video
The Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday filed a defamation suit against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seeking Rs 500 crore in damages after it tweeted a video that showed Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari dancing to the tune of AAP’s campaign song for the February 8 assembly […]
Deputy CM Sisodia says BJP insulted Delhi’s working class people
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday said voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the February 8 Assembly polls will mean voting against free electricity and water and against better education and health. Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia also sought an apology from Union home minister and BJP […]
‘CM rewarded those who burnt the city’: BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday attacked the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for supporting those are who were involved in the violence during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in the national capital. New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi said that Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal rewarded those who incited […]
Delhi Assembly Election 2020: BJP plans campaign to counter AAP
With less than 30 days to go for the assembly elections in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will soon kick off a ‘Dilli ka Swabhiman’ (Delhi’s self respect) campaign in the Capital to counter the Aam Aadmi Party’s account of providing subsidised water and power in Delhi. The party […]
BJP likely to name new chief this month
The national executive meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be held later this month, where the party will formally announce its new president, people familiar with the development said. At present, Union home minister Amit Shah is the party’s national president and former Cabinet Minister JP Nadda is […]
BJP to send out 50 ‘Sankalp Raths’ seeking suggestions for Delhi polls manifesto
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch a campaign, ‘Meri Dilli, Mera Sujhav’, on Thursday, to seek suggestions for its manifesto for Delhi assembly elections. This is on the lines of the party’s Lok Sabha campaign ‘Bharat ke mann ki baat, Modi ke saath’, in which the party took suggestions […]
Delhi Assembly Election 2020: Will fight polls on development works done in 5 yrs, says AAP
An hour after the Election Commission of India announced the date for the Delhi assembly elections Monday, chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal maintained that the ensuing polls will be fought only on development issues. Setting the agenda for the AAP in the upcoming elections, […]
BJP banks on Centre’s work in Delhi, undecided on CM face vs Kejriwal
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is banking on the work done by the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre, just like in the 2015 assembly elections, to return to power in Delhi after a hiatus of 21 years. With elections scheduled for February 8, the party is yet to take […]
Madhya Pradesh BJP leader arrested on rape charge, party alleges victimisation
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was arrested in Madhya Pradesh after a Dalit woman accused him of raping her, the police said on Monday. The leader, Devendra Tamrakar, is media in-charge of the party in Ashok Nagar district, 269 kilometres from state capital Bhopal. Tamrakar was arrested on Sunday […]
Shah says Kejriwal misled people; AAP retorts BJP civic bodies did nothing
Stepping up the party’s campaign for the Delhi Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president and Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asked party workers to go door-to-door and hold “mohalla meetings” or corner meetings to “expose” the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and tell people about Centre’s welfare schemes. […]
BJP effect and the remaking of India
Future historians may well look back at the 2010s as the period that fundamentally altered India, its democracy, and its self-imagination as a nation — powered by a tectonic political shift. And no image defined it more effectively than Narendra Modi taking his oath of office and secrecy as the […]
‘Why not include Muslims?’ BJP leader Chandra Kumar Bose raises questions on CAA
The vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) West Bengal unit, Chandra Kumar Bose, has raised his voice against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) saying India is open to all religions and communities. “If #CAA2019 is not related to any religion why are we stating – Hindu,Sikh,Boudha, Christians, Parsis & Jains […]