| Newsmaker: Nitin Gadkari | 20-NOV-09 |
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| He is not known for a sophisticated world view but Nitin Gadkari, the front-runner for the party’s national president, is likely to be just what the RSS ordered. |
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| No leadership change in Karnataka, says Rajnath | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh today held a meeting with senior party leaders here to resolve the ongoing crisis in Karnataka but ruled out a change of leadership in the state after dissident leader Janardhana Reddy refused to meet Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa. |
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| Rajnath meets senior leaders on K'taka crisis | 05-NOV-09 |
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| After Karnataka dissident leader Janardhana Reddy refused to meet Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, BJP President Rajnath Singh held a meeting with senior party leaders in the national capital to resolve the crisis in the southern state. |
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| BJP, JD-U to contest jointly in J'khand | 05-NOV-09 |
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| After some initial differences over seat-sharing for Assembly elections in Jharkhand, the BJP and JD(U) today reached an understanding on contesting the polls together with JD(U) likely to contest 14 of the 81 seats. |
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| Yeddyurappa hopes crisis will end soon | 05-NOV-09 |
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| Ahead of his meeting with BJP central leadership, which has summoned him in the face of a revolt against him, Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today expressed hope that the impasse would end soon. |
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| Aditi Phadnis: Sushma's swaraj | 31-OCT-09 |
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| The BJP is to have a new president by the end of the year. The RSS has already said that it proposes to take the BJP in hand by seconding more lieutenants to the organisation and by ensuring that the BJP has a president whose overall handlers are the RSS. Accordingly, any one of the three Marathi speakers in the BJP leadership could become the party’s next president — Maharshtra BJP President Nitin Gadkari, Goa leader Manohar Parrikar and BJP Vice-President Bal Apte. |
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| Gadkari is BJP chief? | 23-OCT-09 |
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| Nitin Gadkari, the president of the Maharashtra BJP, is likely to be the next BJP President once Rajnath Singh’s term comes to an end in January. Gadkari is an old RSS hand, has a clean image, is a fairly good orator in Hindi and Marathi and, above all, is ideologically committed to the Hindutva philosophy. Besides, at 52, this lawyer-turned-politician fulfils the party’s quest for a generational change. As PWD Minister in the Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra, Gadkari had commissioned a number of flyovers in Mumbai and also commissioned the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Though his relations with Gopinath Munde, the tribal face of the party in Maharashtra, have been rather uneasy, the consensus among senior Sangh Parivar leaders is that he fits the bill for the top job in the BJP. |
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| Poll defeats set BJP thinking about the road ahead | 22-OCT-09 |
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| The defeat of BJP today, especially in Maharashtra and Haryana where it had been part of coalition governments earlier, has come as a severe blow to the party that is already reeling under the Lok Sabha debacle and serious internal discord. |
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| China reaches out to BJP | 17-OCT-09 |
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| China today said it wanted cordial relations with India. Its Ambassador Zhang Yan met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh in an effort to reach out to the main opposition party amid a war of words between the two countries. |
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| Sushma's deputy? | 05-OCT-09 |
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| LK Advani will resign as the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha by December or early next year. As of now, he is set to quit when the term of the BJP President Rajnath Singh ends in January. Advani will be accommodated in a ceremonial role as the chairman of the National Democratic Alliance. |
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| Dark horses | 11-SEP-09 |
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| It appears that Arun Jaitley may not succeed Rajnath Singh as the next BJP party president. Among the names being tossed around are former union minister Ananthkumar and party vice-president Bal Apte. Both are from the RSS stream and Ananthkumar is an old Advani protégé. |
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| Quick guys, c'mon | 09-SEP-09 |
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| BJP President Rajnath Singh has been looking for a Type VIII (the highest category) bungalow in the capital for some time, and finally located one on Kushak Road, to be vacated by party colleague Satyanarayan Jatiya, a former minister in the Vajpayee Government. Jatiya lost the parliamentary election and was hoping to be sent to the Rajya Sabha, but when it became clear he wasn’t getting a seat, he vacated the house. The problem is, the CPWD says it will take at least a couple of months to carry out essential repairs, paint jobs and so on. By which time, if Singh is no longer party president, he may no longer get a higher category house. So, there is a furious search for a suitable bungalow that can be occupied quickly. |
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| Raje ready to serve party without post | 29-AUG-09 |
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| After a long standoff with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership, Vasundhra Raje today gave clear indications that she might step down as leader of the Opposition in Rajasthan as directed by party President Rajnath Singh, saying she was committed to serve the party “with a post or without it”. |
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