Anshuman Mishra Nitin Gadkari

• Anshuman Mishra apologises to BJP leaders

  Anshuman Mishra, who had levelled certain allegations against BJP leaders after the party backed out of supporting him for Rajya Sabha seat from Jharkhand, today retracted his comments and apologised to the party leaders. The NRI businessman apologised to L K Advani, M M Joshi, Nitin Gadkari, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Jaitley hours after Mr Jaitley s...

• Arun Jaitley sends defamation notice to Anshuman Mishra

  The tiff between NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra and senior BJP leaders is getting murkier. Party leader Arun Jaitley has now sent a defamation notice to Mr Mishra for making "baseless allegations."

• Gadkari hits out at Anshuman Mishra, calls allegations baseless

  BJP President Nitin Gadkari today hit out at NRI business Anshuman Mishra terming his allegations against party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi and some other leaders as "baseless" and an "expression of frustration" over his failure to make it to the Raja Sabha.

• Gadkari faces heat over Anshuman Mishra's Rajya Sabha fiasco

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have rejected NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra's claims that he was offered a Rajya Sabha nomination by party president Nitin Gadkari, but serious differences within the party seem to be surfacing. There is discontentment among senior party leaders on the way Mr Gadkari handled the issue.

• Anshuman Mishra obliges BJP, pulls out of Rajya Sabha election

  Nitin Gadkari stood completely isolated on Wednesday with leaders from the BJP and its parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), expressing fierce criticism of a major decision he made. As the president of the BJP, Mr Gadkari had decided that the party would back Anshuman Mishra, an independent MLA from Jharkhand, for the Rajya Sabha elec...

• BJP will not support Anshuman Mishra as Rajya Sabha candidate

  In a clumsy attempt at course-correction, the BJP has now said it will not support Anshuman Mishra, a businessman and an Independent candidate for the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand. The reversal comes after senior party leaders made clear that support to Mr Mishra was not acceptable to them.

• 'Don't put power on sale': BJP leaders upset with Rajya Sabha candidates

  It's Nitin Gadkari versus the rest of the BJP leadership. A crisis over the party president's alleged choice of candidates for the Rajya Sabha has led to BJP veteran LK Advani asking for an emergency meeting of BJP leaders.