Yashwant Sinha to remain in party

September 9th, 2009 RANCHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may bring a privilege motion against Home Minister P. Chidmabaram during the winter session for "misleading parliament" over holding assembly elections in Jharkhand, party leader Yashwant Sinha said Wednesday.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh Monday convened a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament, defying the party's call that he should quit as its chairman. None of the BJP MPs attended.

July 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday declined to comment on its leader Yashwant Sinha's latest criticism of the party leadership. "I don't want to react on this issue," BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told IANS in reply to a question about Sinha's remarks during an interview to news channel NDTV in which he expressed dissatisfaction with the party leadership for not seriously analysing the reasons for its defeat in the April-May Lok Sabha elections.

July 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former finance minister Yashwant Sinha Saturday described the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as a "bottomless pit" for looting money. "It is neither creating assets, nor generating jobs.

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 15th, 2009 RANCHI - Two days after he resigned from all party posts, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha Monday sought a probe into how the contents of the resignation letter were leaked to the media. "It would be in the interest of the party to investigate how the letter was leaked to the media," Sinha, former external affairs minister, told reporters in Hazaribagh, his parliamentary constituency.

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI/RANCHI - Amid a blame game over the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral debacle, its national vice president and veteran leader Yashwant Sinha Saturday resigned from all party positions. BJP president Rajnath Singh accepted his resignation.

June 13th, 2009 RANCHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha Saturday quit as national vice president of the party. Sinha faxed his resignation letter to party president Rajnath Singh, party sources said.

April 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Another Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has come out in support of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as future prime minister. Senior party leader Yashwant Sinha Monday said Modi has all the qualities to fit the top job.

April 27th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Another Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has come out in support of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as future prime minister. Senior party leader Yashwant Sinha Monday said Modi has all the qualities to fit the top job.

April 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday said that it did not favour creation of a separate state (Eelam) for Tamils in Sri Lanka and demanded that India impose sanctions on Colombo if civilian deaths continue. The BJP also did not have any sympathy for Velupillai Prabhakharan, chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), senior party leader Yashwant Sinha told reporters here.

April 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Stung by the multi-pronged Congress attack on the 1999 Kandahar hijack episode, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha Friday admitted that releasing terrorists during the hostage crisis was 'a painful and difficult decision'. 'There was free and fair discussion in the cabinet over the issue.

February 16th, 2009 RANCHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the baton charge on party members Feb 12 when leaders like former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha were injured while holding a protest near the governor's house here. 'We demand a judicial probe into the baton charge on party leaders.

February 12th, 2009 RANCHI - The statewide shutdown called by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) to protest police baton charge on party leaders, including former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha, badly affected normal life Jharkhand Friday. BJP workers took out protest rallies in many parts of the state.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha is among the 18 candidates the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared Monday for the Lok Sabha elections. The names were finalised at the central election committee's meeting at the BJP headquarters here, party general secretary Ananth Kumar told reporters.