Nagpur: BJP national president Nitin Gadkari and party Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde on Sunday assured to support separate Vidarbha issue in Parliament when ever the UPA government brings the Telangana state bill.

"Now the time has come when BJP will not allow UPA to move bill for creating Telangana alone but will ensure that UPA includes separate Vidarbha also in the Parliament", Gadkari and Munde told a public rally here at Yeshwant Stadium, citing their party's unconditional support to Women's Reservation Bill brought by the Congress-led UPA government early last week.

NAGPUR: Vidarbha Rajya Sangram Samiti, the umbrella body of all pro-statehood organisations, would resort to a jail bharo agitation in all villages, towns and cities of Vidarbha on March 23 to press the demand for separate state, said former Lok Sabha member Jambuwantrao Dhote.

He was speaking to mediamen after attending the meeting of the VRSS office-bearers which was attended by former MPCC President Ranjit Deshmukh, Prakash Ambedkar, Jogendra Kawade and others.

Nagpur : After the march by leaders of the Vidarbha Rajya Sangram Parishad (VRSP), the all-party front demanding statehood for Vidarbha, the BJP, part of the VRSP, has embarked on an independent “youth awareness march” (Yuwa Jagar Yatra). The drive, led by MLAs Sudhir Mungantiwar and Devendra Fadnavis began simultaneously from Chandrapur and Shegaon (Akola district) respectively and would converge at Nagpur on March 14 where a rally would be addressed, among others, by BJP’s national president Nitin Gadkari.

The state BJP will launch 'Yuva Jagar Yatra', simultaneously from two places in the region tomorrow, to create awareness among the youths about separate Vidarbha.

Nagpur-South-West BJP MLA Davendra Phadanvis will start Yatra from Shegaon, a temple town in Buldhana district while Sudhir Mungattiwar, Ballarpur BJP MLA will launch it from Chandrapur tomorrow, party sources said.

It’s a riddle as old as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Dalit agenda. How to play a Dalit card from a pack called Hindutva? BJP president Nitin Gadkari played one recently in Mau, the birthplace of B.R. Ambedkar. He garlanded Dr. Ambedkar’s statue and lunched at a Dalit household, fuelling comparisons with Rahul Gandhi.

However, politically, the BJP has a different set of considerations underlying its token gestures to the Dalits.

Gadkari comes into his own at party conclave

Indore: "Zindagi, kaisi yeh paheli hai, kabhi yeh hasaye, kabhi yeh rulaye (Life is a puzzle: just as it gives you reason to smile, it also makes you weep." There possibly could not have been a better song for Nitin Gadkari to choose. He was the performer and the audience was 5,000 delegates of a party that he has been asked to lead.

Indore, Feb 18 (PTI) Nitin Gadkari took several jibes at the "dynastic politics" of the Congress today to drive home the point that an ordinary worker can become the chief only in a party like BJP.

"BJP is not a party controlled by a family or a dynasty and this is what distinguishes it from most political parties in India, where the highest office is being treated as birth right of members of a particular dynasty," he told the National Council of the party, which ratified his election.

With an obscure Nitin Gadkari, the RSS wants to inject oxygen into a gasping BJP
Prabhat Sharan Mumbai

Put him in a halwai shop cash counter, his countenance would blend harmoniously with the surroundings. In other uncanny circumstances too, he can fit in effortlessly. And it is through this man as BJP chief - Nitin Gadkari - the RSS wants to inject oxygen into its gasping-for-breath political front, the BJP.

Pune: Angry over his remarks regreting non-inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the IPL, a group of Shiv Sainiks today burnt an effigy of actor Shah Rukh Khan and posters of his film My Name Is Khan at Akurdi near here, police said.

The Sena activists gathered at a square and shouted anti-Khan slogans condemning his comments advocating inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in IPL.

Later, police arrived on the scene and rounded up some of the protesters.

Pune: Angry over his remarks regreting non-inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the IPL, a group of Shiv Sainiks today burnt an effigy of actor Shah Rukh Khan and posters of his film My Name Is Khan at Akurdi near here, police said.

The Sena activists gathered at a square and shouted anti-Khan slogans condemning his comments advocating inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in IPL.

Later, police arrived on the scene and rounded up some of the protesters.