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Panaji, Jun 9: Amid strong differences within the top leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over a role for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, an announcement on Sunday giving him a prominent position remains a possibility. There was no decision regarding the new responsibility for Modi on Saturday. However, it is said he may be made either the convener

Panaji, Jun 8: Perhaps for the first time in the BJP's history, L K Advani on Saturday skipped the party's national executive meeting against the backdrop of his pursued opposition to project Narendra Modi as head of the campaign committee for the next Lok Sabha elections. 85-year-old Advani cited "ill health" as the reason behind not attending the meeting. The national executive meeting is

Panaji (Goa), Jun 8: BJP is preparing to name Gujarat CM Narendra Modi as head of its campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections - a likely precursor to declaring him a PM candidate — despite veteran leader L K Advani's vehement resistance. There is a large consensus over Modi even as Advani's absence from BJP deliberations on Friday sparked a fresh controversy. An announcement on Modi

Panaji, Jun 7: BJP president Rajnath Singh and the party's senior leader Narendra Modi dodged all questions about the latter's possible projection as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, after they arrived here for the party's national executive meeting today. Rajnath Singh who arrived at the national executive meeting venue from Dabolim airport waved at the fleet of journalists stationed at the

New Delhi, Jun 7: Gujarat Chief Narendra Modi's role in the next Lok Sabha election is expected to be the dominant theme of the BJP National Executive in Goa this weekend, amid a strong demand from some sections of the party for declaring him the campaign committee head. Ahead of the two-day conclave, Central office-bearers of the party will meet to discuss the agenda for the National Executive

Patna, Jun 6: Notwithstanding Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's antipathy towards Narendra Modi, the BJP today said that the Gujarat Chief Minister was required by his party and ally JD(U) to improve prospects in the general elections in Bihar and elsewhere in the country. "Modi is required by the JD(U) as much the BJP if the NDA seeks to improve prospects in the general elections," BJP national

Patna, Jun 6: Losing the Maharajganj Lok Sabha by-election was not a JD-U defeat as the RJD had won the seat in 2009 and had now just retained it, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Thursday, a day after the results of Sunday's polling were announced. "It is not at all a defeat of the JD-U (Janata Dal-United) because it was an RJD (Rashtriya Janata Dal) seat and it retained it," Nitish Kumar

New Delhi, Jun 6: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi refused to oblige lensmen to shake hands with his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar at the Internal Security Conference here today. As Modi walked into the plenary hall of Vigyan Bhavan, the venue of the conference, photographers started positioning themselves hoping to click the Gujarat and Bihar Chief Ministers who have been at loggerheads for

Ahmedabad, Jun 5: In a big boost for Gujarat Chief Minister for Narendra Modi, the BJP on Wednesday won the Porbandar, Banaskantha Lok Sabha seats, where by elections were held on Sunday. Meanwhile, the ruling BJP also emerged victorious in the four state Assembly seats after the last phase of counting of votes. BJP candidates had maintained a comfortable lead against their nearest Congress rivals

Jagdalpur, Jun 5: Maoists have come up with an ingenious ploy to snatch arms from the security forces deployed in Chhattisgarh. They are using children to get this task done. The rebels clothe their gun-snatching squads in school uniforms which makes it impossible for the security forces to fire at them as photographs of dead schoolchildren would invite national and international outrage. Speaking