Negotiations With Bjp

Negotiation over the post of Lok Sabha Speaker - a prized position allowing the party in the hot-seat to control House proceedings - will resume at 5 pm with a meeting of union ministers and the BJP's allies at Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's home.

JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy has played down talk his party has allied with the BJP ahead of next year's Lok Sabha election, explaining that negotiations are still in an "initial phase" and "a lot of discussions are yet to happen".

The Congress government in Rajasthan is on the brink with deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot rushing to Delhi with MLAs loyal to him after his hostilities with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot peaked in the last two days. Sources say Sachin Pilot, who also heads the Congress in Rajasthan, has been in talks with the BJP, which snatched power from the par...

The Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh is teetering on the edge and sulking party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia is at the core of the crisis. Sources say 17 Congress MLAs loyal to the former MP -- including six ministers -- were flown by a chartered plane to Bengaluru in BJP-ruled Karnataka. Jyotiraditya Scindia, once close to the G...

Despite the declaration of President's Rule in Maharashtra earlier on Tuesday, the Shiv Sena is still in negotiations with the Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP to work out a political coalition capable of governing the state.

Before the dust settles in Maharashtra where the BJP's longtime ally Shiv Sena didn't agree to form government with it, the BJP in Jharkhand is also facing pressure from its allies AJSU and LJP on agreeing to a seat-sharing formula for the assembly election to be held in five phases from November 30.

After years of negotiations, India on Monday decided not to join China-backed mega Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP over unresolved "core concerns", with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the proposed deal would have adverse impact on the lives and livelihoods of all Indians.

Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut met veteran politician Sharad Pawar, the chief of National Congress Party this afternoon amid an impasse in the party's power share negotiations with the BJP. Mr Raut, however, described it as a courtesy call on the occasion of Diwali. Earlier this week, the party had met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari as well, s...

The BJP and ally Shiv Sena are yet to come to an agreement about power-sharing in Maharashtra. Sources say back-channel negotiators have come up with a plan where Devendra Fadnavis will remain Chief Minister for five years with two deputies - one from the Shiv Sena and the other from the BJP.

Veteran Congress leader Margaret Alva on Thursday refuted a news report that she was negotiating with the BJP and warned of legal action against the newspaper "to help restore my reputation".

The BJP has walked away with the lion's share in seat-sharing negotiations with the Shiv Sena for the upcoming Maharashtra elections. While the party will field candidates from 164 seats along with smaller allies, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party has been granted 124.

The BJP's Pramod Sawant, 45, was sworn in as Goa Chief Minister at 2 am on Monday night as the nation mourned his predecessor Manohar Parrikar. The swift chain of events that ended with a hasty, post-midnight ceremony, started soon after Manohar Parrikar died on Sunday evening. The tough negotiations with BJP allies, which continued overnight, were...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has decided to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections in Odisha in alliance with the Congress, news agency PTI reported today. Seat-sharing negotiations will be completed in four days, it added.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's entry to active politics in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, may hold some possibility for realignment in the opposition alliance against the BJP, senior Congress leaders have hinted. Party leaders told NDTV that they are in touch with the Samajwadi party leadership and Priyanka Gandhi is likely to take forward the propos...

The BJP today amped up its twitter blitz on the Congress with a list of what it said were "lies peddled" by party chief Rahul Gandhi. All concerned Rafale, which occupied headlines yesterday after a report by The Hindu cited an internal note of the defence ministry that expressed strong reservations about the "parallel negotiations" conducted by of...

Negotiation over the post of Lok Sabha Speaker - a prized position allowing the party in the hot-seat to control House proceedings - will resume at 5 pm with a meeting of union ministers and the BJP's allies at Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's home.

JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy has played down talk his party has allied with the BJP ahead of next year's Lok Sabha election, explaining that negotiations are still in an "initial phase" and "a lot of discussions are yet to happen".

The Congress government in Rajasthan is on the brink with deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot rushing to Delhi with MLAs loyal to him after his hostilities with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot peaked in the last two days. Sources say Sachin Pilot, who also heads the Congress in Rajasthan, has been in talks with the BJP, which snatched power from the par...

The Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh is teetering on the edge and sulking party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia is at the core of the crisis. Sources say 17 Congress MLAs loyal to the former MP -- including six ministers -- were flown by a chartered plane to Bengaluru in BJP-ruled Karnataka. Jyotiraditya Scindia, once close to the G...

Despite the declaration of President's Rule in Maharashtra earlier on Tuesday, the Shiv Sena is still in negotiations with the Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP to work out a political coalition capable of governing the state.

Before the dust settles in Maharashtra where the BJP's longtime ally Shiv Sena didn't agree to form government with it, the BJP in Jharkhand is also facing pressure from its allies AJSU and LJP on agreeing to a seat-sharing formula for the assembly election to be held in five phases from November 30.

After years of negotiations, India on Monday decided not to join China-backed mega Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP over unresolved "core concerns", with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the proposed deal would have adverse impact on the lives and livelihoods of all Indians.

Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut met veteran politician Sharad Pawar, the chief of National Congress Party this afternoon amid an impasse in the party's power share negotiations with the BJP. Mr Raut, however, described it as a courtesy call on the occasion of Diwali. Earlier this week, the party had met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari as well, s...

The BJP and ally Shiv Sena are yet to come to an agreement about power-sharing in Maharashtra. Sources say back-channel negotiators have come up with a plan where Devendra Fadnavis will remain Chief Minister for five years with two deputies - one from the Shiv Sena and the other from the BJP.

Veteran Congress leader Margaret Alva on Thursday refuted a news report that she was negotiating with the BJP and warned of legal action against the newspaper "to help restore my reputation".

The BJP has walked away with the lion's share in seat-sharing negotiations with the Shiv Sena for the upcoming Maharashtra elections. While the party will field candidates from 164 seats along with smaller allies, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party has been granted 124.

The BJP's Pramod Sawant, 45, was sworn in as Goa Chief Minister at 2 am on Monday night as the nation mourned his predecessor Manohar Parrikar. The swift chain of events that ended with a hasty, post-midnight ceremony, started soon after Manohar Parrikar died on Sunday evening. The tough negotiations with BJP allies, which continued overnight, were...

The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has decided to fight the upcoming Lok Sabha and state assembly elections in Odisha in alliance with the Congress, news agency PTI reported today. Seat-sharing negotiations will be completed in four days, it added.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's entry to active politics in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, may hold some possibility for realignment in the opposition alliance against the BJP, senior Congress leaders have hinted. Party leaders told NDTV that they are in touch with the Samajwadi party leadership and Priyanka Gandhi is likely to take forward the propos...

The BJP today amped up its twitter blitz on the Congress with a list of what it said were "lies peddled" by party chief Rahul Gandhi. All concerned Rafale, which occupied headlines yesterday after a report by The Hindu cited an internal note of the defence ministry that expressed strong reservations about the "parallel negotiations" conducted by of...