MCD Elections : BJP launches hunt for potential candidates
With just five months to the municipal elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun identifying candidates who could turn the tide in their favour. Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta said the party would judge potential candidates on four parameters — dynamism, performance, capability to win and delivery strength — before releasing the final [...]
BJP demands Sheila Dikshit’s resignation over 2010 CWG scam
After boycotting the launch of the Chandni Chowk makeover project, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) hit the streets demanding Sheila Dikshit’s ouster on Friday. Marching from Civic Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, MCD councillors sought a CBI probe to probe the CM’s role in the CWG scandal.
Dressed in black, MCD councillors shouted slogans against [...]
BJP to go alone in UP assembly polls
The BJP will have no alliance with the BSP, Samjwadi Party (SP) or Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), neither before nor after the 2012 UP assembly election. BJP national president Nitin Gadkari announced this in his inaugural speech at the party’s two-day national executive meet which began on Friday.
The BJP chief’s announcement was [...]
BSP leaders join BJP
Three BSP leaders, who had contested the last assembly elections in Delhi, today joined the BJP alongwith their supporters.Ved Prakash Maan, Lal Pradhan and O P Malhotra, who had contested the 2009 assembly polls on BSP tickets, joined the BJP in the presence of state party chief Vijender Gupta.
BJP sets up a election reforms committee
BJP chief Nitin Gadkari announced the formation of a election reforms committee of the party, which will focus on issues like EVMs, criminalisation of politics and other concerns.
Party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will be the convenor of the committee. “This committee will look into all issues regarding electoral reforms. These will be conveyed to [...]
Congress councillors accused BJP at MCD budget session
At the ongoing MCD budget session, Congress councillors accused BJP for not carrying out enough development work in the city in the past four years of its tenure. Congress councillor Anita Babbar read out a long list of projects announced by the BJP-led civic body in the last few years which are yet to [...]
BJP attacks Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
BJP attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for comparing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), saying only the mentally imblanced could make such comments.
‘This shows affected mentality. Only people who have lost their mental balance can make such a comparison,’ BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
‘SIMI is a [...]