Jaitley named opposition leader in Rajya Sabha

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Saturday evening announced its list of candidates for the oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. The candidate selection was done at a meeting of the party's Central Election Committee chaired by BJP president Rajnath Singh.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Saturday evening announced its list of candidates for the oct 13 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. In Maharashtra, where the party is going to contest 119 of the 288 total seats, with ally Shiv Sena contesting the rest, it announced a first list of 66 candidates.

August 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, has joined other party colleagues at the residence of Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani to reportedly discuss a viable succession plan.

August 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior BJP leader L.K.Advani has arrived at the RSS's Delhi headquarters - Keshavkunj - for a meeting with its chief Mohan Bhagwat. The meeting is taking place amid reports that the RSS has readied a succession plan for the BJP, a plan that could facilitate an end to the internal crisis ravaging the party's rank and file.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amidst protest from opposition benches the UPA Government deferred introduction of the Judges (Declaration of Assets and Liabilities) Bill, 2009 in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The Bill seeks to exempt the contents of the assets declarations made by judges of the superior courts from disclosure.

July 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the Indo - Pak joint statement issued at Sharam - el - Sheikh in Egypt was disappointing and a reversal of India's long standing policy. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Jaitley said the joint statement stating "action on terrorism should not be linked to the composite duologue process and these should not be bracketed" has come as a surprise and also disappointment.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Another Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader joined the growing list of those voicing discontent with the party's functioning. Arun Shourie has reportedly written to party president Rajnath Singh demanding a debate on the poor election results and the way the party is being run.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley has quit as the party's general secretary, days after being named leader of opposition in the upper house of parliament Rajya Sabha. Jaitley, the BJP's chief campaign manager for the Lok Sabha elections, had stepped down in keeping with the party's tradition of one-man one-post, BJP's media cell convenor Nalin Kohli told reporters here.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid turmoil in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its poll debacle, Arun Jaitley has resigned as its general secretary, though the party maintained Tuesday he was only following the one-man-one-post tradition. But speculation was rife that the party had made his resignation public now in a bid to pre-empt trouble at the meeting of the national executive, slated for June 20-21, with several party seniors insisting that responsibility be fixed for the poll defeat.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley on Tuesday resigned from the post of General Secretary. Party President Rajnath Singh confirmed the news.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley has resigned as general secretary of the party in keeping with the tradition of "one man, one post". Jaitley had been appointed leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha.

June 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday described President Pratibha Patil's address to the parliament unveiling the Congress-led government's agenda as a "bundle of promises". "Hope the manifesto for the next five years released by the president does not remain on paper.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday went for a generational change as party leader L.K. Advani named 57-year-old Sushma Swaraj as his deputy in the Lok Sabha and key strategist Arun Jaitley, 56, as opposition leader in the upper house.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday appointed senior leader Arun Jaitley as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Sushma Swaraj Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. S S Ahluwalia has been appointed as deputy to Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Thursday named senior party leader N. Janardana Reddy as its candidate for a by-election to the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh.