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Khimi Ram is the BJP State Chief
Former Himachal Pradesh deputy speaker Khimi Ram is now BJP's State Party Chief. read more »
JD-U and BJP finalize seat sharing
BJP and Janata Dal United (JD-U) have made the agreement to fight the elections in Bihar together. The seat sharing formula has been decided - 25 for JD-U and 15 for BJP. JD-U leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP leader LK Advani met at the latter's residence to get this together.
NRIs back BJP - want party nomination
Gujarat BJP chief Purshottam Rupala has a problem of plenty. There are more contenders for the 26 constituencies. Now, 3 NRIs have also expressed interest in joining the fray!
Chilesh Patel from London, Kirit Patel from New York and Gauran Patel from Chicago - have sent emails to be considered as party nominees for the LS polls. Many NRIs are also backing C K Patel, a prominent Gujarat businessman settled in US who recently joined BJP - to be fielded from Sabarkantha constituency. Patel had lost in the assembly elections. read more »
Infighting and Allies discord for BJP
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.
Survey Shows a Hung Parliament
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%)!
BJP's traditional allies may not come through this time
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 to take oath as Chhgarh CM for second term
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.
Blame game and stock taking on at BJP
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.
EC to register case against Raman Singh
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.
BJP releases IInd List of Rajasthan Poll candidates
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.
