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Lessons from 2004: Advani trains focus on aam admi

Sunday 3 May '09

Addressing his very first rally in the run-up to the elections in Delhi, the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani held Gujarat’s flag high.
Outsmarted Hema, ‘unwell’ Modi stay off the BJP stage in city

Saturday 2 May '09

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to go to polls without canvassing from two of the saffron party’s star campaigners — Narendra Modi and actor Hema Malini.
Post-Assam polls, Mittal pooling in for ‘friend’ Goel’s campaign

Thursday 30 April '09

Weeks after his appointment as the party in-charge of Assam elections had kicked up a storm in the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership, Sudhanshu Mittal is busy with Delhi elections — more specifically the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat.
Bidhuri’s day with voters: meetings, marriages, a date with astrologer

Sunday 26 April '09

At 9.30 am, BJP candidate from South Delhi, Ramesh Bidhuri, has already completed two rounds of meetings, one, a usual morning walk at Saket city forest and the second, a meeting with workers.
In S Delhi, Ramesh Kumar takes baby steps into canvassing with big brother Sajjan

Thursday 23 April '09

Congress candidate Ramesh Kumar’s election campaign kicked off on Wednesday in the long shadow of his elder brother Sajjan — sidelined this term by the ghosts of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Congress’s own ticket to Muslim dilemma

Wednesday 22 April '09

Jai Prakash Aggarwal, the Congress’s Delhi chief, may have started a hectic campaign in Northeast Delhi but the party is expected to have a hard time attracting Muslims votes.
South Delhi’s rural belts go local to vote national: regular water supply a pipe dream, fuels all debate

Wednesday 22 April '09

Months after BSP’s Kanwar Singh Tanwar tried to win his way into the Assembly by supplying free water to a parched Chhatarpur, water remains arguably the biggest issue in much of his new constituency for the general elections: South Delhi.
BJP ‘compensates’ Parvesh, a general secretary now

Thursday 16 April '09

Less than a month after his supporters gheraoed BJP leader L K Advani’s house after his name did not figure in the Lok Sabha candidates list, Parvesh Verma has been promoted.
Amid campaign bustle, Mayor Mehra gets ready to step down

Wednesday 15 April '09

Amid the bustle for the Lok Sabha elections, Delhi’s Mayor Arti Mehra will quietly make her exit next week. Mehra has been the Mayor for two consecutive terms.
Jaitley keeps up attack on PM, calls him second choice nominee

Tuesday 14 April '09

Asserting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was suffering from “inferiority complex”, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley on Monday stepped in...
BJP’s Sharma hits drawing rooms to draw out the voters

Sunday 12 April '09

On Saturday, B L Sharma ‘Prem’, the BJP candidate from Northeast Delhi seat, was the first among the Congress and BJP nominees to file his nomination.
Tytler, Sajjan out of race — cornered Congress boosts BJP confidence

Friday 10 April '09

With both Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tyler out, the Congress might be in a tight spot. For the BJP, however, it is good news.
The day after, Sikhs courier shoes to Sonia

Thursday 9 April '09

Inspired by journalist Jarnail Singh’s method of protest, more people from the Sikh community are now couriering shoes to 10 Janpath...
Leaders recall Jan Sangh birth at school

Tuesday 7 April '09

Around 10 am on October 21, 1951, nearly 200 people, most of whom were affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Arya Samaj, meet at the Raghu Mal Arya Girl's Senior Secondary School to lay the foundations of the Jan Sangh party.
‘Some Cong vices have crept into BJP’

Saturday 4 April '09

In 1967, when he was elected as the Chief Executive Councillor at the age of 35, Vijay Kumar Malhotra was widely considered ‘too young’ for the post.
Advani@Campus down with exam fever

Wednesday 1 April '09

Exam fever has hit the BJP’s initiative of taking their prime ministerial candidate L K Advani’s ideas to colleges and universities across India.....
Govt locks horns with arts panel

Sunday 29 March '09

The Delhi Government has decided to take the Delhi Urban Art Commission head on by reviving both the East-West corridor and the ITO flyover projects.
‘I will hire a jeep and a typewriter and visit houses to connect with youths’

Tuesday 24 March '09

At 80, he still believes in an Akhand Bharat (unified India with Pakistan and Bangladesh on its two wings) and having ‘retired’ from politics 12 years ago he rejoined the BJP a day before the party announced its seven Lok Sabha candidates from Delhi.
From airport to hotel: CCTVs, scanners, sensors

Tuesday 24 March '09

In the by-lanes of Gaffar Market, 55-year-old P L Arora presides over his cluttered stall. Two years ago, he was sewing sports shoes in a factory....
After list, knives out in BJP

Saturday 21 March '09

Fissures within the Bharatiya Janata Party came out on the Capital’s streets on Friday, less than 24 hours after the party announced its seven Lok Sabha candidates for Delhi.
Balanced BJP list covers all bases

Friday 20 March '09

After over two months of internal bickering, the Bharatiya Janta Party announced the names of its candidates for the seven Parliamentary seats in Delhi.
No takers for Chandni Chowk

Tuesday 17 March '09

After more than three weeks of serious discussions, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit hasn’t reached a consensus on the tickets for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi — the New Delhi seat is the main bone of contention.
Tentwallah in charge of NE takes Jaitley objections in his stride

Saturday 14 March '09

Sudhanshu Mittal — businessman politician, proud to be called a tentwallah — is creating a few ripples after his re-emergence on the political scene.
Computers with Games security plan stolen from police

Tuesday 10 March '09

In a major embarrassment for the police department, computers containing security plans for next year’s Commonwealth Games have been stolen from the office of Delhi Police’s Joint Commissioner for the Games, J K Sharma.
Homeless: No room for Capital’s cops

Monday 9 March '09

The Delhi Police motto may be “With you, for you, always”, but many in the force have to conduct their day-to-day work without even the most basic requirement — a police station.
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