Ignoring perceived opposition from veteran L K Advani and some other senior leaders, BJP anointed Narendra Modi as its Election Campaign Committee Chairman for the 2014 polls, just short of making him the prime ministerial candidate. Modi, considered a polarising figure after the post-Godhra riots in 2002, was handed over the responsibility of the party's election campaign at the two-day meeting of the National Executive from which Advani kept away citing ill health as did some other leaders including Jaswant Singh, Uma Bharati and Shatrughan Sinha. "I want to give you a significant information. ...I have announced (at the National Executive) that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as Chairman of the BJP Election Campaign Committee, keeping in mind the challenge of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and to achieve victory in the polls," party President Rajnath Singh told the media at the conclusion of the deliberations.
But BJP plunged into a crisis with patriarch L K Advani resigning from all the party posts in protest against the elevation of Narendra Modi as campaign committee chief, a development that stunned the party and left its allies in the NDA in discomfort. 85-year-old Advani, a founder member of the BJP and the tallest leader after Atal Bihari Vajpayee, resigned from all main fora of the party--Parliamentary Board, National Executive and Election Committee, a day after Modi was anointed BJP's campaign chief for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. In a strongly-worded resignation letter to party President Rajnath Singh, who announced the appointment of Modi as Chairman of the election campaign committee yesterday in the BJP National Executive, Advani rued that the BJP was no longer the "same idealistic party" created by Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, Deendayal Upadhyaya, Nanaji Deshmukh and Vajpayee.
Denting the NDA ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections, JD(U) dumped BJP in Bihar in protest against the elevation of Narendra Modi, bringing to an end a 17-year-old alliance that had held firm through thick and thin in national politics. Heading the eight-year-old coalition in the state, JD (U), which does not need BJP support to run the government, removed 11 saffron ministers from the state Cabinet and decided to seek a vote of confidence on June 19 in view of the "new situation". Today's development is a major jolt to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which is now left with only three constituents -- BJP, Shiv Sena and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Before the 2009 general elections, BJD had dumped BJP in Odisha opposing the saffron forces hand in communal violence in the state. Download the Times Now India's Election HQ app and get all the election info at one go. Click here: [ Ссылка ] Social Media Links :-
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