UPA's Vice-Presidential candidate Hamid Ansari filed his nomination papers here on Wednesday for the August 7 poll in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi

At a high-level meeting here, the National Democrative Alliance led by BJP has decided to field its senior leader Jaswant Singh to take on Congress nominee and incumbent Hamid Ansari in the vice-presidential elections.

Nominated as the NDA candidate for the vice president election, BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Monday said he would reach out to the non-NDA parties including UPA partner Trinamool Congress for their support.

Keen to dispel the notion of a chasm between his party and BJP, JD(U), which has backed UPA's presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee, on Monday supported BJP's bid for contest in the vice-presidential election.

As speculation about candidates for Presidential poll intensified after Election Commission announcing July 19 as the poll date, NDA convener Sharad Yadav on Wednesday said the Opposition alliance

Jaswant Singh on Tuesday met Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav amid speculation that the BJP leader could be lobbying for the Vice President's post.

When Yadav was meeting yoga guru Ramdev

"Do not start consuming sleeping pills," this was the advice of former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh to the present incumbent in the Finance Ministry on the issue fiscal deficit.

Making a brief rem

Senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Tuesday accused the government of handling the sensitive issue of Army Chief Gen V.K. Singh's age in an 'insensitive' manner saying the Prime Minister or the Defence

With the CBI deciding to examine Jaswant Singh in 2G case, the senior BJP leader, who was the finance minister in NDA government, today said that no irregularities were committed during his tenure.

DMK MPs Kanimozhi and A. Raja as well as others accused in the 2G spectrum scam should be given bail, says senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh.