Lucknow : BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Lalji Tandon were among a number of activists arrested on Monday while they were taking out a procession in support of the nation-wide bandh called by the party to protest fuel price hike.
Police baton-charged protestors when they tried to march towards main Hazratganj crossing this [...]
New Delhi : Senior BJP leader Mr. L.K. Advani today said that other opossition parties across the country will also join the Bharat Bandh tomorrow to protest against the price rise of essential commodities and petroleum products.
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Accompanied by other NDA allies including JD(U), Mr. Advani appealed to all [...]
New Delhi : BJP today alleged that UPA government is lacking the political will to fight the menace of both terrorism and naxalism in the country.
Briefing reporters in New Delhi, party spokesman, Mr. Prakash Javadekar said that government should adopt tough approach to counter such activities.
Criticizing the Home Minister’s recent statement that the security forces [...]
Madhya Pradesh: The two-day meet of state BJP executive began in Ratlam today. Party’s national general secretary Anant Kumar put central government in dock over Naxalism, terrorism and price rise in his inaugural address.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, national general secretaries Narendra Singh Tomar and Thawarchand Gehlot and about 250 members are participating in the [...]
Opposition parties yesterday hit the streets in many states enforcing strikes in Kerala, Orissa and West Bengal in protest against the government’s decision to hike fuel prices and warned of more agitation unless there is a rollback.
In the national capital, Left parties and BJP staged demonstrations to protest against the hike. While BJP organised ‘chakka [...]
Several states witnessed protests against the oil price hike in the country.
The BJP held demonstrations in various parts of the National capital to protest against the government’s decision to deregulate prices of petrol and hike in the prices of Diesel and LPG. Hundreds of Party activists blocked various roads . AIR correspondent reports demonstrations were [...]
Former Minister and senior politician Jaswant Singh today rejoined BJP after ten months.
He was expelled from the party following controversy over his comments on Mohd Ali Jinnah in his book. His formal re-entry in the party was announced at the party headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, party [...]
Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh is returning to the party. Party sources told AIR that a decision to this effect has been taken by the party high command and his formal re-entry in the party will be announced in the presence of senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, party President, Nitin Gadkari and other senior leaders [...]
The BJP has sent mixed signals to its ally JDU on continuing the alliance but rules out keeping Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Varun Gandhi away from the election campaign in Bihar.
Party sources said that the reason behind Nitish Kumar returning five crore rupees of flood relief fund to Gujarat is still unknown to [...]
BJP urged for granting capital punishment to Afzal Guru, the convict in the Parliament attack case.
Talking to reporters in New Delhi, party leader Venkiah Naidu said that the Home Ministry seems to have finally sent its recommendation to reject the mercy petition of Afzal Guru and now the Supreme Court order must be implemented without [...]