Bharatiya Janata Party

INDIA ELECTION EYE-Gujarat’s Modi to strengthen BJP-poll

1 April 2009

The following is a snapshot of recent developments in India’s general election campaign. (Items are from own sources unless stated.) * Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat state, will strengthen the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) influence in the region and is also a favourite among 79 percent of the people for development work, according to [...]

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Modi, Advani kick off BJP’s nationwide poll campaign from Maninagar

28 March 2009

Putting his best foot forward, PM-in-waiting LK Advani chose to fall back on one of BJP’s safest bastions, Maninagar, to launch an election campaign. Even as BJP leadership trained guns on UPA, all leaders took time to laud Gujarat government and Chief Minister Narendra Modi. “I am starting my campaign on the New Year Day [...]

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Narendra Modi tops campaign chart

23 March 2009

  L. K. Advani may be BJP’s prime ministerial candidate but it is Narendra Modi that the party wants for its poll rallies. Modi is in greater demand than Advani. More and more BJP leaders want the Hindutva poster boy, who mixes ideology and the development plank, to be in their states to pull in [...]

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Modi not my heir apparent, declares Advani

14 March 2009

Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani has said that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not his “heir apparent” although he may be party’s most popular leader right now. Asked by the Outlook magazine in an interview whether Modi was “standing above the other leaders of the second generation in the BJP” [...]

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Narendra Modi [Gujarat CM] Complete Profile

29 April 2008

Narendra Modi was born on 17th September 1950 in a small town of Vadnagar in Mehsana district in North Gujarat in India. Narendra Modi completed his schooling in Vadnagar and did his masters degree in Political Science from Gujarat University. Even as a boy he was interested in social services. During the Indo-Pak war in [...]

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