Tag: Amit Shah

Amit Shah meets party leaders, no breakthrough on Goa leadership

"Our party President is seized of the matter, but no decision has been made on the leadership issue yet," a BJP leader said on the condition of anonymity.

September 19, 2018

Amit Shah to meet Goa BJP leaders today as Congress demands floor test

With CM Manohar Parrikar admitted at the AIIMS in Delhi, the opposition Congress has said it is going to seek dismissal of the BJP-led government.

September 19, 2018

Divide persists

It would be an over-simplification to reduce if to mere physical geography, just as it would be an exaggeration to deem it a case of intellectuals versus the “plebs”. Yet the sharp contrast in the results thrown up in the elections to the students unions of the two premier universities in the Capital has its …

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September 18, 2018

KCR imposed early elections in Telangana because he feared he will lose: Amit Shah

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah attacked Telangana Chief Minister K Chadrashekhar Rao for bringing the elections in the state ahead of schedule.

September 15, 2018

Owaisi challenges Amit Shah to contest from Hyderabad

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi challenged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah to contest from Hyderabad and see how Telangana “defeats” his strategy.

September 15, 2018

BJP president Amit Shah to sound poll bugle in Telangana

Congress, TRS, TDP and the Communists have helped AIMIM grow by joining hands with it in the past and "people need to be alert", he said.

September 14, 2018

Amit Shah meets CMs, state unit chiefs to discuss Assembly poll preparedness

Shah took stock of the poll preparedness of BJP units in a meeting held on Saturday evening on the sidelines of the party's two-day National Executive meeting.

September 9, 2018

Opposition has no leader or policy; only agenda to stop PM Modi: BJP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to deliver the valedictory speech to conclude the two-day national executive meeting in New Delhi today.

September 9, 2018

BJP president Amit Shah calls Mahagathbandhan an ‘eyewash’

Amit Shah was addressing a gathering of BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the first day of the two-day National Executive of the party in New Delhi on Saturday.

September 8, 2018

Amit Shah to remain BJP chief till 2019 Lok Sabha elections

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday decided to defer its organisational elections to pave the way for Amit Shah to continue as President until the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

September 8, 2018

BJP’s two-day national executive meet to begin today

The upcoming Assembly elections in four states that will set the trend for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls are likely to figure prominently in the meet.

September 8, 2018

KCR acting like puppet of PM, dissolving assembly undemocratic: Congress

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said K. Chandrashekhar Rao is a stooge of the BJP and is acting as the puppet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah.

September 6, 2018

Friendless in TN

The hopes of the BJP forging a pre-election alliance in Tamil Nadu with a major Dravidian party came crumbling down when MK Stalin, unanimously elected president of the DMK on 28 August, said in his maiden speech that his top priority would be to throw out the government of Narendra Modi at the Centre which …

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September 1, 2018

BJP to hold events in memory of Atal Bihari Vajpayee

"Vajpayee's poems will be recited at 4,000 places across the country. Kavi Sammelans will also be organised," he said.

August 30, 2018

Sidhu wins friends… in Pakistan

The knives are out for Navjot Singh Sidhu in India for hugging Pakistan’s army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa. But in Pakistan, he is a hero. The day after the controversial hug, Pakistani newspapers splashed the photograph of the duo on their front pages with rah-rah write-ups. “Pakistan loves Sidhu’s jadoo ki jappi,” swooned one …

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August 29, 2018

PM Modi, Amit Shah to hold meeting with BJP CMs today

BJP has 15 chief ministers and seven deputy chief ministers including two in UP and one each in Gujarat, Bihar, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura.

August 28, 2018

Asiad 2018: Sachin Tendulkar, Amit Shah congratulate Saina Nehwal for badminton bronze

Saina's bronze is the first individual badminton medal at the Asiad for India in 36 years.

August 27, 2018