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BJP national president Nitin Kadkari was given a rousing at the Chennai
Posted by ganesh in Airways, Chennai, Departments, Information, Other, Political, government on April 10th, 2010
BJP national president Nitin Kadkari was given a rousing welcome today at the Chennai airport during his maiden visit to the city after taking over the party top post.
Kadkari was received at the airport by State BJP president Pon Radhakrishnan, former chief L Ganesan and top office-bearers including Tamizhisai Soundararajan and H Raja.
Speaking to reporters, he expressed happiness over visiting Chennai and pointed out that he would be holding discussions with top office-bearers of State wing of the party. Kadkari would take part in a public meeting at Mangollai in Mylapore Saturday evening.
On Sunday, Gadkari would visit the party office Kamalalayam at T Nagar and hold talks with district office-bearers of State BJP. He was expected to meet the media persons at the party office at noon. Later on at 3.30 pm, he would go to Anna Nagar to deliver a speech at a meeting convened for office-bearers of various affiliated units of the party.
100 Volunteers of DMK,Congress,BJP and MDMK parties were arrested
More than 100 volunteers of the ruling DMK, its ally Congress and the opposition BJP and MDMK parties were arrested when they took out a rally demanding that all trains running between Thiruvananthapuram, Nagercoil and Kanniakumari must stop at Kuzhithurai railway station.
The volunteers led by Town Panchayat head Pon Asaithambi and former MLA Kumaradas, also wanted to hold a protest demonstration on the railway track. However, police prevented them from staging the demo.
They took out the rally from Marthandam bus stand to Kuzhithurai railway station.
Seven trains pass through Thiruvanthapuram-Nagarcoil-Kanyakumari route everyday. But only three trains stop at Kuzhithurai, they pointed out to highlight their demand.
BJP today unanimously elected Pon Radhakrishnan as new State president
The Executive Committee of the Tamilnadu unit of the BJP today unanimously elected Pon Radhakrishnan as the new State president of the party. BJP National secretary Balbir Punj formally announced the election of Radhakrishnan at the party’s State council meeting at Chrompet.
Radhakrishnan was greeted by the party’s former State president L Ganesan, who later handed over the responsibilities to him. Hindu Munani organiser Ramagopalan, senior BJP leaders H Raja, C P Radhakrishnan, Lalitha Kumaramangalam, M S Ramalingam, K Narayanan and K N Lakhshmanan greeted Radhakrishnan.
The executive committee comprising 275 members would also elect three vice presidents and four general secretaries of the party.
Meanwhile, the BJP State council has come out with several resolutions including a demand to scrap Marine Fisheries (Regulation) Act, urging the government to take steps to improve law and order situation, implement uniform education, control the rise in the price of yarn and reject the recommendations of Justice Ranganath Mishra committee. The party also urged the Union government to make voting compulsory as in Gujarat.
Earlier, the party’s former president L Ganesan refuted a statement made by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on according the classical language status to Tamil. He said his party (BJP) had first tried to announce Tamil as a classical language during the primeministership of A B Vajpayee.
No decision taken by party to replace Rajnath Singh: Naidu
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Politics, government on November 14th, 2009
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader M Venkaiah Naidu today dismissed as ‘media creation’ that the party proposed to replace party President Rajnath Singh with Mr Nitin Gadkari, Maharashtra BJP unit Chief.
Talking to newspersons at the Airport here, Mr Naidu said the party, neither at the high level nor at executive level had taken any decision on change of leadership.
”We have not taken any decision. A section of the print and electronic media is indulging in false propoganda,” he said.
On former party leader Su Thirunavukarasar’s remarks that the BJP was under the influence of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and had no future, Mr Naidu said it was usual dialogue made by leaders after quiting the party.
Stating that he would not reply to the remarks made by Mr Thirunavukarasar, who quit BJP and joined the Congress, Mr Naidu said one could not rule out the BJP, just because it had lost the Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress too was defeated in elections, but the party is now in power, he said adding the BJP would come back to power at the Centre in 2014.
On the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Mr Naidu said it was sad that even after the end of war, the Tamils are still being kept in camps, without any basic facilities.
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who had gone to Colombo, should take up the issue with Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and prevail upon him to release the Tamils from the camps and allow them to resettle in their original habitations, he said.
He said people of Tamil Nadu were very much agitated over the plights of Lankan Tamils in the camps. Before they come to streets and stage agitations, the Centre and State Governments should prevail upon the Lankan government and resettle the Tamils.
The BJP would raise the issue in Parliament, during the coming Winter session, he said adding, the BJP would also raise the Spectrum scam, involving Union IT Minister A Raja.
I will work to strengthen Congress in Tamil Nadu: Thirunavukkarasar
Former Union Minsiter Su Thirunavukkarasar, who quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress last week, was given a rousing reception when he visited ‘Sathyamurthy Bhavan’, the Headquarters of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) here this afternoon.
On arriving from New Delhi after joining the Congress in the presence of senior leaders P Chidambaram and Gulam Nabi Azad, Mr Thirunavukkarasar drove to the TNCC Headquarters, amid bursting of crackers.
TNCC President K V Thangkabalu and senior Congress leaders, including party MP J M Haroon, TNCC General Secretary Damodaran, Boovaragavan and A S Ponnammal welcomed him by presenting shawls.
After a brief interaction with party functionaries, he told newspersons that he would dedicate himself for betterment of the Congress party in the state.
He said after former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee retired from active politics, BJP became communal and lost the support of the people.
On the otherhand, people in all parts of the country started pledging their support to the Congress, he said, adding as he always wanted to be with the people and serve them, he had decided to join the Congress.
He said all his supporters would join the Congress at a conference to be held in Tiruchirapalli next month. The Tiruchy conference would be a show of his strength.
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