In a decision that marks the end of an era in India`s ruling party, L K Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were on Tuesday dropped from the BJP`s Parliamentary Board, its highest decision making body. The other significant omission is former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi. Party has made a Marg Darshak Mandali for it`s senior leaders. |
Former rivals Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, forced to form a secular `grand` alliance along with Congress to take on a resurgent BJP, registered their first major victory by bagging six seats in the Assembly bypolls in Bihar on Monday. |
"There is one thing I have learnt about politics. Whatever happens, one should not resign from their post and I am definitely not going to resign again," said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to his audience at Durga Chowk in Kirari on Sunday evening. |
Pakistan protesters reached the Islamabad parliament building in their bid to force Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign, but did not go inside. |