A day after the euphoria, the rift in the BJP erupted into the open with an ignored, snubbed and humiliated saffron patriarch Lal Krishna Advani resigning Monday from all key positions in the party in

Eighty-six-year-old BJP leader L.K. Advani’s repeated moves to position himself as the party’s prime ministerial candidate are likely to be thwarted in the forthcoming BJP national executive in Goa.

Eighty-six-year-old BJP leader L.K. Advani’s repeated moves to position himself as the party’s prime ministerial candidate are likely to be thwarted in the forthcoming BJP national executive in Goa.

BJP’s old warhorse L.K.

BJP warhorse L.K.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s rising young star, Varun Gandhi, and party chief Rajnath Singh kicked off a mutual admiration society at Devchara in Bareilly, UP, on Wednesday, with Mr Gandhi hinting Rajnath Singh was the ideal PM candidate for the party while Mr Singh saying Mr Gandhi could be the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in the next UP Assembly polls.

An internal survey by the BJP has shown the party will get mileage from the Narendra Modi factor coupled with a strong “anti-incumbency wave” against the Congress-led UPA that can help it cross the 19

A day after it questioned JD(U) leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar over his earlier silence on 2002 Gujarat riots and continuing as the railway minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee-led gover

A known Advani loyalist and contender for the top post in the party, Ms Sushma Swaraj, however, was in no mood to speak her mind at this juncture on the issue of the prime ministerial candidate.

A day after the JD(U) put the BJP on notice on the issue of the NDA’s prime ministerial candidate, differences surfaced within the lotus brigade.