The Bharatiya Janata Party remained a house divided as the party went ahead and named Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general polls in the meeting of its parliamentary board on Friday evening.

The BJP’s internal feud appears likely to end soon, with the warring factions of L.K. Advani and Narendra Modi calling for a truce.

In what is being viewed as a step to clear the way for Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to assume a larger role in national politics, the BJP is now looking at the option of denying Lok Sabha tickets to leaders aged 75 and above.

Facing charges of corruption, BJP president Nitin Gadkari got a reprieve when the party’s core group decided to rally behind him and declared it had “full faith in his leadership”. Despite the breather, though, a section of party leaders are against Mr Gadkari getting a second term after his current one ends next month. Senior leader L.K. Advani and Mr Gadkari himself were not present at the core group meeting.

BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, reacting to Mr Ram Jethmalani’s letter to senior leader L.K. Advani, said: “I agree with Jethmalani’s sentiments, but do not agree with his methodology.” Neither Mr Shatrughan Sinha nor Mr Jaswant Singh were available for comment. The Gadkari camp is now contemplating disciplinary action against Mr Jethmalani.

Seething for being ignored in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Jharkhand developments, Mr Advani lashed out, “The results in Uttar Pradesh (Assembly polls), the manner in which the party welcomed BSP Mini

Given clear indications by the RSS and the BJP to give up hopes of leading the party in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, a fuming L.K.

Seething over being ignored in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Jharkhand developments, senior BJP leader L.K.

Given a clear indication by the Sangh and the BJP to give up his ambition to lead the party during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, a fuming L.K. Advani on Thursday targeted his own outfit and said that peop

At a time when the BJP is missing its patriarch and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee whose charisma and mass appeal were considered great votecatchers, BJP chief Nitin Gadkari is hopeful tha