New Delhi, Mar 2 : The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday announced an alliance with the Ajit Singh led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.

The tie-up was announced at a joint press conference addressed by Singh, BJP''s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Convener Sharad Yadav.

Former Union Minister Ajit Singh''s outfit, built mainly on a Jat support-base, will be allowed to contest in seven Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

These include Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Mathura, Nagina, Amroha, Hathras and Sitapur.

New Delhi, Feb 21 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded a parliament probe in the Satyam Computers Services fraud case.

The BJP president Rajnath Singh claimed that the Congress is afraid to allow the parliament probe.

"The countrymen want to know who all have been involved in the scam. I know the present government would not allow the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the issue as I know many big personalities of the Congress party do not want to get entangled in the investigation process," Rajnath Singh told party functionaries here.

Gandhinagar, Feb 20 : The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate, L. K. Advani, on Friday started his poll campaign from his constituency here.

Advani has won elections four times from this constituency.

He was addressing the media on the sidelines of a function to inaugurate a gymnasium complex built by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation here.

The BJP leader confirmed his decision to campaign from here for the upcoming general elections.

New Delhi, Feb. 18 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday expressed his regret over an incident in Ranchi, Jharkhand, where former Cabinet Minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and others of the party were injured during a demonstration last week.

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