Bjp Yatra

BJP Can't Take Out Yatras In West Bengal For Now, Court To Review Order

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Friday December 21, 2018

BJP Rath Yatra Bengal: In a setback to the BJP in West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court today said the party must defer the three "Save Democracy yatras" it means to take out in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year.

BJP Yatras To Immerse Atal Bihari Vajpayee's Ashes In Rivers Across India

India News | Reported by Akhilesh Sharma, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday August 22, 2018

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's ashes will be immersed in rivers across the country, with top leaders participating in a ritual that has been dubbed "Atal Kalash Yatra" by the ruling BJP.

Amit Shah Skips Kerala In Abrupt Sked Change, Meets PM Modi, Arun Jaitley In Delhi

India News | Reported by Akhilesh Sharma, Sunetra Coudhury and Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Friday October 6, 2017

BJP chief Amit Shah today skipped a visit to Kerala, opting out of a walk through Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's village as part of the party's 15-day yatra in the state. He flew instead to Delhi from Mangalore this morning for a key meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Yogi Adityanath, In Kerala For BJP Yatra, Raises 'Love Jihad': 10 Facts

Kerala News | Reported by Sneha Mary Koshy, Uma Sudhir, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday October 5, 2017

Yogi Adityanath, surrounded by a sea of supporters, today joined the BJP's 15-day relay walk or padyatra launched in Kerala by party chief Amit Shah. Mr Shah launched the Jan Raksha (protect people) yatra yesterday in Kannur, the home base of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, to highlight what the BJP says is the ruling CPM's "murder politics". Yogi...

Amit Shah's Build-Up Drive For BJP's Weakest States Starts In Bengal

India News | Written by Rahul Shrivastava | Tuesday April 25, 2017

Borrowing a page from the party patriarch LK Advanis book, BJP chief Amit Shah will start a 15-day pravas (tour) for an expansion drive today.

BJP Launches Yatra To 'Expose' Congress' Corruption In Uttarakhand

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday August 17, 2016

Alleging "unprecedented rise in corruption" under the Harish Rawat dispensation, Opposition BJP today began a state-wide yatra "to unmask Congress and its corruption in several cases".

BJP to hold campaigns in Rajasthan to select candidates for Lok Sabha polls

Elections News | Press Trust of India | Monday January 13, 2014

BJP will conduct yatras in every constituency in Rajasthan to select its candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Rajasthan: More BJP leaders offer to resign with Raje; BJP plays down crisis

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday May 6, 2012

In a dramatic development which could further aggravate the crisis in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Rajasthan, more leaders from the party have threatened to resign along with former chief minister Vasundhara Raje over the rift with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS)-backed member Gulab Chand Kataria's proposed yatra.

Sushma Swaraj gets Twitter savvy during 'Ekta Yatra'

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Wednesday January 26, 2011

She joined the Twitter brigade much after many other politicos. And she does not yet have followers in the hundred thousands like they do. But this is probably the most effective use of micro-blogging in Indian politics ever, given that Shashi Tharoor's did not quite go his way. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj tweeted almost every step across a one-km bri...

Chidambaram's statement on BJP's Ekta Yatra

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday January 25, 2011

A day after BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj were forcibly escorted out of Jammu and sent to Madhopur in Punjab, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has issued a press statement.In the statement, the Home Minister said, "Yesterday, I spoke to Shri Arun Jaitley and Shri Omar Abdullah. I told Shri Jaitley that he and his colleagues had made t...

BJP's 'Ekta Yatra' heads to Jammu, govt tightens security

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Monday January 24, 2011

BJP's controversial Ekta Yatra is on its way to Jammu. The aim of the yatra, led by BJP's youth leaders, is to unfurl the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day.The party's top national leaders have decided to join the party youth wing's tiranga yatra. Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar are flying to Jammu...

Ekta Yatra: Train with BJP activists halted, sent back

India News | Maya Sharma | Monday January 24, 2011

In what appears as the Government's attempt to crackdown on BJP's Ekta Yatra, late on Saturday night, a train filled with 2000 BJP activists bound for Jammu was sent back to Karnataka from Ahmadnagar on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border.At 2.15 on Sunday morning, the railway officials changed the engine of the train while most passengers were...

Flag yatra: Prime Minister appeals, BJP rejects

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday January 23, 2011

The BJP plans to hoist the national flag at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, and the government is doing all it can to maintain peace in the city. At Lal Chowk, security has been stepped up after BJP workers tried to put up posters on Saturday night. Police arrested six BJP activists and a crackdown has also been launched against the separatists for their pro...

Omar warns BJP against 'Ekta Yatra'

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Friday January 21, 2011

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has decided to stop BJP's Ekta Yatra, flagged off earlier this month by party chief Nitin Gadkari. The BJP will now not be allowed to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Republic Day.Speaking to NDTV, the Chief Minister said the flag hoisting yatra is an additional headache for the stat...

Advani to undertake countrywide tour

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday June 21, 2009

Senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Sunday said he has decided to tour the entire country in the next few months in an attempt to rejuvenate the party.