Things within BJP are going astray. There is in-fighting within the party and with the main allies.

Bal Thackeray has snubbed LK Advani. And LK Advani had snubbed Jaswant Singh.

Surprisingly, Bal Thackeray refused to meet LK Advani when he was in Mumbai. Some are saying that Shiv Sena wants to tie up with Sharad Pawar's NCP to ensure a Maratha leader be the Prime Minister.

In a recent opinion poll, it seems that this time it will be a hung parliament... where Congress led UPA will get 215 to 235 seats while BJP led NDA alliance will get between 165 to 185 seats. The poll was conducted by CSDS for CNN-IBN. Interestingly, it is predicted that the gains for Congress would come from the Hindu Upper Castes (8%), dominant peasant castes (7%) and the lower OBCs and Adivasis (5%)!

Advani is exhorting his cadres to work hard and win on BJP's own strengths instead of the Allies. In fact he says that Allies come when BJP is strong. They would not come on their own.

"No, we have to fight on our own strength. Allies don't come for nothing, alliances happen on the basis of our own strength... The stronger we get, the more allies we fetch,"

Raman Singh,winner of the Bhartiya Janta Party in Chattishgarh assembly polls, would take the oath as Chief Minister for the second term on Friday and continue with his extended ministry.

Singh's swearing in will take place at the police parade ground in Raipur on the morning of December 12.

The party's newly elected MLAs would meet here today morning in the presence of central observers and election in-charge Ravishanker Prasad and party in-charge Dharemendra Pradhan,the BJP sources said.

As the BJP had a bad result in Rajasthan and Delhi, it seems that a blame game has started within BJP now. At the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting on Monday, Veteran party leader Murli Manohar Joshi criticised the campaign and the lack of coordination .

Some think that it is an attack from Joshi on the PM candidate, LK Advani.

Also, meanwhile Vasundhara Raje is seen losing her grip on Rajasthan BJP as more dissident voices come up. Although she was projected as the CM candidate, but it does not seem likely that she will be the Opposition leader from BJP's side. Rajasthan BJP secretary Prakash Chandra had a meeting with other leaders like Ghanshyam Tiwari and Narpat Singh Rajvi to make the selection of the Opposition Leader.

The EC(Election Commission) will lodge a case against Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh for campaigning for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) even after campaigning hours had ended.

The Commission asked officials to file a case in the police station on a complaint from independent candidate Virendra Pandey that Singh spoke on two local FM radio channels.

Pandey quit the BJP early this month. He is contesting against Industries Minister Rajesh Munat from Raipur City West seat.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its second list of 43 candidates for the forthcoming assembly polls in Rajasthan,scheduled to be held on December 4.

The BJP has dropped the names of 12 sitting legislators and repeated 24 members. The rest of the candidates are new faces.

The dropped legislators include two ministers, Babulal Verma and Bhawani Joshi. The party has given tickets to 20 new young faces, and the list includes nine women.

Today the state governor ,Balram Jakhar, was urged by MP congress for the dismissal of BJP ministers Tukojirao Pawar and Kamal Patel.

K.K.Mishra ,the State Congress spokesman in a letter to Jakhar wrote that Pawar should be dismissed as he was sent to Lockup today following a police case against him for allegedly obstructing official work of returning officer of Sonkatch constituency.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) late Sunday evening released first list of 95 candidates for the Rajasthan assembly polls.

In its first list of candidates for the Rajasthan polls, the BJP has dropped the names of 12 sitting legislators and repeated 24 members. The rest of the candidates are new faces.

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje would be contesting from her old constituency Jhalrapatan from which she won in the last elections.

"The candidates include 15 women, 10 candidates from Scheduled Tribes and 19 from the Scheduled Castes,"said party general secretary Ananth Kumar.

BJP is deciding to have a alliance with Indian National Lok Dal of Om Prakash Chautala. BJP President, Rajnath Singh, has asked the Haryana workers of his party to align and work along with the INLD party in the state. Unfortunately, for BJP, their team in the state is divided with one team backing the INLD and the other going for Kuldeep Bishnoi (Bhajan Lal's son) of Haryana Janhit Congress (BL).

This alliance is to secure the 10 seats that Haryana offers. The alliance will include some give and take in the Assembly polls that are coming up as well.

The long drama of Tata Nano may be getting over. Tata Nano will move to Gujarat.

Narender Modi and Tata officials have signed the agreement and they were shown exchanging documents. Fortunately for both, the farmers in Gujarat are in more than a welcoming mood for Tata to come to their hinterland.

Farmer-turned-industrialist Ravubha Vaghela was a very happy man on Monday after selling his entire 30 acres of land at Khoda and Naranpura villages to Gujarat government.

Despite the fact that he had earmarked it for expanding his own company Raviraj Foils Ltd, he gave it off to the State Government at less than half the going price!!

While BJP and Communists came together to rile against the Indo-US nuclear deal, now Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has come out with utmost praise for Dr. Manmohan Singh on the deal.

He described the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal as "historic" and in "national interest" and did not believe the BJP rhetoric that UPA government has compromised the country's sovereignty.

"I don't think there is any truth in this political criticism. The voluntary moratorium on not conducting further nuclear tests was imposed by our government," Thackeray said in an editorial in his party mouthpiece Saamna.

It is quite obvious that the two allies are not on the same page on this one.

The old Shiv Sena supremo believes that this deal will give a lot of advantages for India as it will provide energy security, trade advantages and also help India procure reactors and nuclear technology.

He did however differentiate between the Congress party and Dr. Manmohan Singh.

"He has already clarified issues related to 123 agreement and the Hyde Act. Even though the Congress can't be trusted, the same yardstick cannot be applied to the Prime Minister," he added.

Seen as the face of hardline Hindutva, senior BJP leader and NDA prime minsterial candidate L K Advani on Monday said he was "very much a secular man" and his party stood for peaceful co-existence of all religious groups.