The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has completed its pilot project to prepare and approve layout plans of the unauthorised colonies on its own expenditure. The SDMC approved the layout plan for the fourth unauthorised colony under its jurisdiction on Tuesday. However, none of the resident welfare associations (RWA) has deposited the fee for the lay out plan.

BJP’s election campaign committee chief and Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has lashed out at the Congress-led UPA government and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over corruption and fall in the value of rupee.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed the Opposition for stating expenditure on food security bill as “wastage” of financial resources.

Though her father and scion of erstwhile Jaipur’s royal family late Bhawani Singh contested unsuccessfully for Lok Sabha elections from Jaipur in 1989, but Diya Kumari was formally inducted in to the BJP on Tuesday.
“I made a conscious decision to join the BJP,” she said.

The RSS on Tuesday contended that Gujarat CM Narendra Modi enjoys “the support and respect of people” who want a “particular change.”

Ruling BJP has been galvanised by the massive public support to chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Jan Ashirvad Yatra and the party is confident of winning the 2013 Assembly election for the third time in a row in Madhya Pradesh, said state BJP president Narendra Singh Tomar at a press conference at the end of a marathon session of BJP workers here on Tuesday evening.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s announcement that the JD(U)’s alliance plans could be decided after October on Tuesday heightened the BJP’s anxieties about a Congress-JD(U) alliance being formed and spurred the saffron party to mount a renewed attack on Kumar on the issue of special state status.

The long-running cold war between Bihar’s ruling JD(U) and the Opposition BJP over saffron icon Narendra Modi’s proposed rally in Patna in October has flared up after the BJP was denied permission to use the entire area of the spacious Gandhi Maidan in the state capital for the rally.

A major split in Congress marked the fresh beginning of the Trinamul Congress in Tripura with a promise to oust the Left Front from their last bastion in 2018 when the state will hold its next Assembly election and the immediate goal to emerge as the second political force in the state in 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Tuesday said that Rahul Gandhi should be projected as the prime ministerial candidate of the party to counter the BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.