BJP defends decision to elevate Modi

Holding his first election-related meeting after being appointed as chairman of the BJP's campaign committee, Narendra Modi delivered one unambiguous message to his party: "be aggressive". The meeting, which was jointly chaired by Modi and BJP ...

Chairing his first meeting as head of BJP's election campaign committee here today, Narendra Modi met the party's national general secretaries and discussed the poll strategy for coming assembly and Lok Sabha elections. In the two-hour meeting, Modi discussed ...

"It is our right to decide who should preside, who should be the chairman of the campaign committee. If anyone asks me who should be the JD(U) president, I can't say," he said. On Kumar's remark that the Advani era in the BJP was over and the veteran leader ...

The JD (U), which is upset over Modi being elevated as the chairman of BJP's campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, has 118 MLAs in 243-member Bihar assembly.

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has once again landed in a controversy by describing BJP election campaign committee chief Narendra Modi as a challenge for the Congress. His candid admission was seen as amounting to praise for the Gujarat CM, who is ...

With the rift in the NDA over the elevation of Narendra Modi as BJP's election campaign committee chief, BJP leaders are meeting here today, as three of six Independent MLAs said they were yet to decide on supporting JD(U) in the event of a split. A meeting ...

Celebrations over the elevation of Gujarat chief minister as BJP campaign committee chairman was short-lived in the state party unit on Monday, as news trickled in of party patriarch L K Advani's resignation. A shell-shocked former chief minister Jagadish ...

The Urdu press has called it the saddest day in L K Advani's life when Narendra Modi was elected the BJP's campaign committee chairman. Besides calling it a great betrayal for Advani by the party he nurtured so assiduously, Urdu dailies also expressed fear ...

Amid talks of BJP preparing to make Narendra Modi as campaign committee chief for 2014 general elections, NDA coalition partner JD(U) today said it was an internal matter of that party but made it clear that it does not need his service for its candidates.