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BJP sends a message to Vasundhara Raje, gives 3 ex-CMs a role in Delhi

Ex-chief ministers Vasundhara Raje, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Raman Singh have been have been appointed national vice president of the BJP, the party has announced.

10% quota for poorer sections cleared, likely to reach Lok Sabha today

The BJP is believed to have come across resentment among the upper castes during the recent state elections also in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

‘Historic’: PM Narendra Modi on 10% reservation for economically weak in general category

The BJP is believed to have come across resentment among the upper castes during the recent state elections also in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Centre clears 10 per cent quota for economically weak in general category

The Narendra Modi government is ready with a bill to introduce 10 per cent reservation for economically backward sections. The constitution amendment bill will be introduced in parliament tomorrow, the last day of the Winter Session.

At quiet Delhi meet, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati work on Lok Sabha seat math

After the meeting that lasted for over two hours, Akhilesh drove to the residence of SP Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav, where BSP leader Satish Mishra, also a Rajya Sabha member, joined them for further discussions.

BJP chalks out campaign to win over first-time voters in 2019 polls

Every year about 20 million people turn 18 – and thus become eligible to vote – in India. About 30 million Indians were aged 10 in 2011 and will be eligible to register as voters in the 2019 elections.

‘Women going to space, why not temple’: BJP ally Paswan on Sabarimala row

Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, an ally of the BJP from Bihar, joined the chorus over women’s entry in Sabarimala temple and said if women could go into space, there was no reason why they couldn’t enter a temple.

BJP deputes observers to decide leadership in 3 key states

The BJP lost Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to Congress in the assembly elections. The BJP ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh for the last 15 years, while it stormed Rajasthan with a two-third majority in 2013.

BJP looks beyond ex-CM to pick LoP in Chhattisgarh

First, BJP strategists believe that a shift of backward communities towards the Congress led to its crushing defeat in Chhattisgarh.

PM Modi’s former Gujarat rival Goardhan Zadafia to power BJP’s mission 2019 in UP

The new job handed to Zadafia, 64, reflects the trust that Prime Minister Modi and Shah have in the politician, a Leuva Patidar from Saurashtra who worked behind the scenes in the last year’s assembly elections in Gujarat. The BJP found itself in a difficult situation in Gujarat after an emotive campaign by the Patidar community for government job and university seat quotas, but managed to retain the state with a reduced majority.

Ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2019, PM Modi weighs four plans to offer farm relief

The two-hour-long discussions between the PM and his top ministerial colleagues, in presence of the BJP chief, set off, on Thursday, a series of inter-departmental meetings on possible farm solutions.

Shiv Sena eyes hard bargain as talks with BJP begin

The Sena-BJP alliance fell apart in the assembly elections held later in 2014, after the BJP refused to accept the Shiv Sena as the senior partner in the state.

‘I was in training for first 2 years, 2019 is year of delivery’, says Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar

“It is wrong to say we suffered a big setback in MP and it is leading to several questions. Same is the case with Rajasthan, where the vote share difference was just 0.5 percentage point. People were predicting 30-35 seats for us in Rajasthan and we got 73. A large number of independents and others won. The Congress did not win that election by a big margin,” says Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

Paswan-BJP deal sparks buzz around Bollywood set designer aka ‘Son of Mallah’

Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan have, sources said, agreed that their Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) will contest only five of the 40 members that Bihar sends to the Lok Sabha, and one in Uttar Pradesh or Jharkhand.

Paswan crisis over, BJP clinches deal on Bihar seats. Announcement tomorrow

The BJP is reported to have agreed to throw in a seventh seat, a Rajya Sabha seat for the senior Paswan, who is Union minister for food distribution.

After flexing muscle, now the negotiations at Paswan meet with BJP

The Paswans, who head the Lok Janshakti Party, are attempting to ensure that they do not get a raw deal as the BJP and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United split the Bihar seats in an equal number.

UPA seals Bihar alliance, NDA reaches out to ally

At two-hour ‘cordial’ meet, Amit Shah reaches out to Ram Vilas Paswan, son

A day after NDA constituent Lok Janashakti Party served an ultimatum to the BJP to finalise seat sharing agreement in Bihar by December 31, top leaders of the two parties held a meeting to iron out differences that triggered speculation about the fate of NDA in the heartland state.

Paswan’s brother sets Dec 31 deadline for BJP to seal seat-sharing pact

Bihar animal husbandry minister and Lok Janashakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan’s brother Pashupati Kumar Paras said Amit Shah should immediately call a meeting of NDA partners and hold joint discussions on the seat-sharing issue.

BJP youth wing plans drive for ‘NaMo 2019’

The BJP’s youth wing will launch a two-month campaign to mobilise support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election in 2019, two leaders familiar with the matter said.

SC refuses to order a probe into Rafale deal, stokes slugfest

The Supreme Court ruling came as a shot in the arm to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA on the heels of reverses suffered by the ruling party in the latest round of state elections, in which it lost control of the key heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Chhattisgarh election results 2018: ‘Janta’ puts Ajit Jogi’s kingmaker hopes on hold

Jogi started Janta Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) after quitting the Congress in June 2016. He tried to make the contest in the electorally bi-polar Chhattisgarh triangular and got into a pre-poll alliance with former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).

BJP’s longest-serving CM Raman Singh goes but dream run not over

Raman Singh, who completed 5,000 days in August, is the only BJP CM after Modi to have won three assembly elections in a row.

State jolts may force BJP to rethink national plan

BJP pays price for agrarian distress, employment crisis

The party’s disappointment stems from the fact that it has lost three chief ministerial chairs to rival Congress.

Chhattisgarh assembly election results: Three-time chief minister Raman Singh’s dream run ends

Raman Singh became chief minister on December 7, 15 years ago, and no other BJP CM has served for so long.

Betrayed, says Upendra Kushwaha; resigns as minister, walks out of NDA

Upendra Kushwaha had been dropping hints about dumping the NDA for months, particularly after Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) negotiated a seat-sharing pact for the 2019 general elections with BJP boss Amit Shah that they declared, would reduce seats for their two other alliance partners.

Amit Shah hits out at Mamata Banerjee as rally fails to take off

Modifying an order by a single bench that put all three BJP yatras on hold until January 9, a division bench of the court said the three state officials should meet with, at the most, three leaders from the party and reach a decision by December 14.

Upendra Kushwaha, Sharad Yadav may merge parties ahead of 2019 elections

Kushwaha, who set a November 30 deadline for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to finalise its seat-sharing formula between the National Democratic Alliance partners in Bihar, did not receive any response from the party, the first leader added.

Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Perception battle big challenge for Vasundhara Raje, BJP

Rajasthan assembly elections 2018: Across Rajasthan, chief minister Vasundhara Raje suffers from a problem of perception that is proving the biggest challenge for her managers and her party in the run-up to the assembly elections in the state on December 7.