Lucknow | 6 days ago
Man threatens Varun Gandhi on phone, held
Lucknow, Aug 24 - A man who made threatening calls to Bharatiya Janata Party - MP Varun Gandhi has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district, police said Tuesday.Javed, 45, was arrested late Monday from the Jahanabad area of Pilibhit. Gandhi represents the Pilibhit parliamentary constituency. 'Javed was making threatening calls on Varun's mobile phone for the last few days. On the complai ... read more

Patna | 9 days ago
Shatrughan favours Modi, Varun campaigning in Bihar
Patna, Aug 21 - Bharatiya Janata Party MP Shatrughan Sinha Saturday urged his party's central leadership to invite Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and firebrand youth leader Varun Gandhi for campaigning in the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar.'I personally want Modi and Varun to come to Bihar for campaigning in the upcoming assembly polls. But it is for the party central leadership to inv ... read more

10 days ago
A village faces a nine-year-long power failure!
Pipria Singipur -, Aug 20 - Can you imagine a power outage for nine long years? That's exactly what this village in Pilibhit district has had to endure after its main transformer developed a snag in 2001. Pilibhit is the parliamentary constituency of Bharatiya Janata Party MP Varun Gandhi.While an engineer in the power corporation says he is aware of the problem, the district administration claims ... read more

Lucknow | 19 days ago
Don't run after votes, win people's confidence: Varun Gandhi
Lucknow, Aug 11 - Bharatiya Janata Party - national secretary Varun Gandhi Wednesday called upon the party workers to set a target of winning over the confidence of people rather than making attempts to solicit their votes.'We should not run after the votes... we should make serious effort to win over the confidence of the public. It should be set as a target in politics,' Gandhi told reporters at ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
High court notice to Varun Gandhi in defamation case
New Delhi, July 28 - The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to Bharatiya Janata Party - MP Varun Gandhi in a defamation case filed by his uncle V.M. Singh.Gandhi was asked by Justice Aruna Sureesh to file his reply by July 30. Gandhi and Singh were pitted against each other in the 2009 general elections in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh. Singh, who was among the wealthiest candidates in the electi ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Gadkari names in-charges of states
New Delhi, July 23 - Bharatiya Janata Party - president Nitin Gadkari Friday announced distribution of work to the party's office-bearers, with general secretary Vasundhra Raje taking charge of Haryana and senior leader M. Venkiah Naidu of Delhi and Maharashtra.The work distribution, done almost four months after Gadkari announced his new team, saw party leaders Najma Heptulla, Hema Malini and Var ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Gadkari names in-charges for states
New Delhi, July 23 - Bharatiya Janata Party - president Nitin Gadkari Friday announced distribution of work to the party's office-bearers, with general secretary Vasundhra Raje taking charge of Haryana and senior leader M. Venkiah Naidu of Delhi and Maharashtra.The work distribution, done almost four months after Gadkari announced his new team, saw party leaders Najma Heptullah and Hema Malini bei ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Bihar Congress keen to use Nitish-Modi pic in poll campaign
New Delhi, July 21 - Keen to capitalise on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's discomfiture over a photograph showing him holding hands with the controversial Narendra Modi, Congress workers in the state are pushing for it to be part of their campaign for the upcoming assembly polls.Party leader Shakeel Ahmed, who is former Bihar Congress president, said the publicity committee of the party should ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Modi, Varun to campaign in Bihar
New Delhi, July 2 - The Bharatiya Janata Party - Friday gave clear indications that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha member Varun Gandhi will campaign in the coming Bihar elections.BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar said in Ahmedabad that the party wanted Modi to campaign. 'I will come down to Ahmedabad to request Narendra Modi to campaign in Bihar,' he said. Ananth Kumar's rema ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
BJP will decide if Modi, Varun will campaign: Gadkari
New Delhi, July 2 - Bharatiya Janata Party - president Nitin Gadkari Friday said his party will take its own decision whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha member Varun Gandhi will participate in the campaign for the coming Bihar assembly polls.'We have the right to decide which all leaders of the BJP should campaign in Bihar. We will decide it at the appropriate time and impl ... read more