BJP will not field Modi during Bihar poll campaign

Patna (Bihar), June 30 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has agreed to the request of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar not to permit Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi to tour Bihar for the election campaign.

“The BJP has conceded to the request of Nitish Kumar, that all the BJP position holders, who have in the past tarnished their profile, by loud mouthing communal poison against the Muslims, must not be allowed to enter Bihar, from now until the polling date,” reports politicsparty.com.

The BJP has also agreed to project Nitish Kumar as the next Chief Minister of Bihar.

“Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has succeeded in forcing the BJP to unconditionally project him as the Chief Minister of the Janata Dal (U)-BJP coalition in the November 2010 Assembly elections,” reports politicsparty.com. (ANI)

Shatrughan favours Modi, Varun campaigning in Bihar

Patna, Aug 21 (IANS) 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 invite them,” Sinha told reporters here Saturday.

Sinha’s support for Modi comes four days after senior BJP leader and state Cooperatives Minister Giriraj Singh, a vocal supporter of Hindutva, announced he would want Narendra Modi to campaign in his constituency if he contests in the upcoming assembly elections.

Sinha said there was high demand for Modi and Varun among party workers and leaders, who will be contesting elections in October.

BJP’s alliance partner Janata Dal (United), which has been consistently making attempts to woo Muslim voters in the state, strongly opposed Modi’s visit to Bihar for the Lok Sabha election campaign in 2009.

Modi has not campaigned for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar in any election after the 2002 Godhra riots.

In June, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar returned Rs.5 crore given by Gujarat for flood-relief in 2008.

Differences between Nitish Kumar and the BJP began June 12 when he expressed displeasure over newspaper advertisements featuring him and Narendra Modi. An angry Nitish Kumar cancelled a dinner for BJP leaders attending its National Executive meeting here.

‘Decision on Modi’s campaigning in Bihar later’

‘Decision on Modi’s campaigning in Bihar later’

Bangalore, Sep 18 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party will decide at an “appropriate time” whether Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in Bihar for assembly polls or not, senior party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu said Saturday.
“That will be known at an appropriate time. We are now selecting candidates,” he told reporters here when asked about Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s opposition to Modi’s campaigning in the state for next month’s assembly polls.

“The party will decide who will campaign, who is there, who is not, will be known,” Naidu, a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka, said.

Nitish Kumar, who heads the JD(U)-BJP alliance government in Bihar, wants Modi kept out of the campaign fearing the Gujarat chief minister may alienate minority voters from his party.

Narendra Modi congratulates Nitish

Gandhinagar, Nov 24 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday congratulated his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar on the sweeping victory of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance.

The Bihar result was “yet another forceful reminder that the politics of development and progress had come to stay in the country”, Modi said.

“It should be aptly clear that the people of the country want development and would support a party that could take the people on the path of progress,” he told reporters.

Modi, however, skirted questions over Nitish Kumar’s opposition to the Gujarat chief minister campaigning in Bihar. He also did not say whether he would attend Nitish Kumar’s swearing-in ceremony Friday.

Congratulating both Nitish Kumar and the BJP Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, the Gujarat chief minister said: “Bihar will progress faster in the coming years.”

BJP doesn’t say if Modi will campaign in Bihar

New Delhi, Sep 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday welcomed the announcement of assembly elections in Bihar but did not say if Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in the state.
“We were waiting for the announcement as the BJP-JD-U (Janata Dal-United) government has done good work. We will win,” BJP spokesman Shanawaz Hussain told IANS.

He said the six-phase balloting would enable proper movement of security forces from one part of the state to another.

Asked if Modi — with who Chief Minister Nitish Kumar does not see eye to eye — will campaign in the state, he said the BJP had not yet decided who will go seeking votes.

“Whoever (leader) is sought by the candidates will be called. Nobody is untouchable,” he said.

Nitish Kumar stoked a row in June during the BJP national executive meet in Patna by objecting to newspapers carrying his photograph with Modi’s in an advertisement.

Some JD-U leaders have openly demanded that Modi and BJP MP Varun Gandhi should not campaign in Bihar.

He said the BJP will contest 103 of the 243 seats in the state and the party’s central leadership will meet to pick the candidates based on the feedback from the state

My remarks on Modi misreported: Sushma

Patna, Oct 28 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj said Thursday that her comments on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi were misreported.

“I have all regards for Modi bhai. There are no problems with him,” Swaraj told reporters here. She said the media had misreported her remarks on the performance of Modi and his absence from campaign in the ongoing Bihar polls.

Media reports had Wednesday quoted Swaraj as saying in Patna: “Modi’s magic has worked well in Gujarat. It does not mean that every magic would work at every place, nor is it necessary.”

“In Bihar the magic of (Chief Minister) Nitish Kumar and (Deputy Chief Minister) Sushil Modi is working well,” she had said.

Reports later said that BJP president Nitin Gadkari had directed Swaraj to clarify her remarks on Narendra Modi.

Narendra Modi not likely to campaign in Bihar

New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is not likely to campaign in Bihar as he does not figure in the list of campaigners submitted to the Election Commission by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), party sources said Friday.

According to the sources, Modi’s name does not figure in the name of 40 campaigners of the party given to the Election Commission.

The list includes senior party leaders L.K. Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh and Ananth Kumar, the sources said.

Senior party leaders from Bihar including Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, party spokespersons Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain and state party chief C. P. Thakur also figure in the list of BJP campaigners.

Though the BJP leaders refused to comment on the issue, Modi’s name has apparently not been included in dereference to the wishes of Chief Minister and Janata Dal-United leader Nitish Kumar.

After Nitish Kumar took strong exception to his photographs with Modi in newspaper advertisements during the BJP’s national executive meeting in Patna in June, several JD-U leaders had demanded that the Gujarat chief minister should not campaign in the state in the assembly polls.

The BJP has officially maintained that it was for the party to chose who among its leaders will campaign in Bihar.

Maharashtra can learn lessons from Narendra Modi: Shiv Sena

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Mumbai, Jan 14 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Friday lauded Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for his state's industrial growth and for attracting massive investments through the Vibrant Gujarat summit. It also urged the Maharashtra government to learn from the turnaround.

In an editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna, the Sena praised Modi for saving his 'doomed' state and catapulting it to the top position among industrialised states in the country.

The Sena said Modi was like a miracle - not only had he saved the sinking Gujarat ship, he had also turned it around to make it high-flying.

But in neighbouring Maharashtra, the situation was very different and only Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan knew what he was up to, the editorial said.

'Gujarat offers a stable administration, a corruption-free bureaucracy with a single power centre, Narendra Modi, lot of water and electricity, but no unionism,' it pointed out.

'In contrast, what does Maharashtra offer? Mumbai is being sold out to builders, politicians and bureaucrats...,' the editorial noted sarcastically in an oblique reference to the Adarsh Society scam.

The scam claimed the job of former chief minister Ashok Chavan after allegations surfaced of collusion between bureaucrats and politicians to corner flats in the 31-storey building in the posh Colaba area of south Mumbai originally meant for Kargil war widows and heroes.

It said that merely constructing huge towers in lands vacated by erstwhile textile mills was not enough and that the Maharashtra government must also learn how to attract big investments.

After all, there were emotional and historical bonds between the two states, and the state could learn a few lessons from Modi, the edit advised.

Narendra Modi had Thursday announced investment promises of Rs.20,83,000 crore ($462 billion) through 7,936 memoranda of understanding (MOUs), expected to generate employment opportunities for 5.2 million people as the fifth Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors summit 2011 ended in Gandhinagar.

Modi had earlier said that his state's gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate was 11 percent, which was more than that of China.