Amid the speculations that former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Clyde Crasto said that if any corrupt leader joins the BJP they get cleaned in their 'washing machine'.
The first day of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly session on Monday witnessed dramatic events as the MLAs of the BJP and Congress parties engaged in a 'slogan war'.
"She (Shehnaz Ganai) is a big personality in Jammu and Kashmir. And many such big faces will be seen joining the BJP in the next one week," Chugh said, speaking to ANI on Monday. JKNC leader Shahnaz Ganai joined BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi.
Launching a scathing attack over the announcement of conferring Bharat Ratna to former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur (posthumously), former Bihar Deputy CM and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said that the BJP has made Bharat Ratna a deal.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday targeted the BJP and said that even though the BJP calls India a 'Hindu nation', 74 per cent of the country's population and the poor in the general category are not getting anything.
Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal United (JDU) exuded confidence that the party's president will win the trust vote during the crucial floor test scheduled on Monday, two weeks after he ditched its alliance with the RJD and formed a government with the BJP.
Amid the huddles and the anxious wait ahead of the trust vote in Bihar, the ruling Janata Dal (United), which faces its first big test on the floor of the Assembly after its return to the BJP-led NDA, shifted its MLAs to a hotel near the legislature.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Sunday said that the people's trust is one of the key pillars to further strengthen the BJP at the grassroots level and urged the party workers to reach out to the maximum number of people.
Notably, the trust vote of the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar is scheduled for February 12. Nitish Kumar, earlier this month, had dumped the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and the INDIA bloc to form a new government with the support of the BJP in Bihar.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday demanded Bharat Ratna for the founder of Shiv Sena Bal Thackeray and accused the BJP of forgetting the friendship and contribution of Balasaheb Thackeray.
After the Karnataka BJP core committee meeting in Mysuru, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader CT Ravi on Sunday asserted that the BJP would make a 100 per cent effort to win all 28 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.