New Delhi, Oct 9 : The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday termed US President George W Bush''s comments after signing into law the Indo-US nuclear deal legislation as mere "personal assurances" with "no legal standing." and that history would prove the agreement was a "defeat" for the country.

While reacting to the US leader''s assent to the legislation, BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, "The last minute faces saving comments by the US President are nearly personal assurances and have no legal standing or any statutory back up."

New Delhi, Oct 5 : BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, Vijay Kumar Malhotra has said that unlike the Congress, his party would not indulge in media blitzkrieg by giving large advertisements in newspapers and TV channels in the run up to the November Assembly polls in the state, because it had learnt a lesson from the “India Shining” campaign it had unleashed before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP’s central leadership had launched the “Indian Shining” campaign that supposedly ran into hundreds of crores of rupees, but fell flat after the Congress emerged victorious, though with a slender margin of seven MPs, and went ahead to form the UPA Government.

Agartala, Oct 4 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Saturday claimed that Bangladeshi Muslim fundamentalist (HuJI-B) supported by ISI are involved in recent serial blast in Agartala.

He was on a days’ visit to the State during which he visited the injured of the blasts at G. B. Panth hospital. He also went to some of the blast sites to take note from the eyewitnesses.

New Delhi, Oct 4 : Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader L. K. Advani on Saturday said that his party was committed to re-enact Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and make the country terror free.

He was addressing a seminar on ''War on Terrorism'' in New Delhi today.

Advani claimed that the main difference between the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and BJP was that while the former was only playing vote bank politics, the latter was actually concerned about the interest of the country.

He also called the present government a “non-Government” as it had completely failed to curb terrorism.

New Delhi, Sept 26 : Senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vijay Kumar Malhotra will be the party''s chief ministerial candidate in the upcoming elections for Delhi.

The party announced this in New Delhi today after hours long meeting.

“The election of Delhi state Assembly is round the corner. After consulting the party workers and the leadership it has been decided to field Doctor Vijay Kumar Malhotra as the chief ministerial candidate and he will lead the party in the elections,” told senior party leader Arun Jaitley, in a news conference.

New Delhi, Sept 25 : BJP leader Gopinath Munde said on Thursday that Poonam Mahajan, daughter of late Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pramod Mahajan, is likely to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.

While ruling out Rahul Mahajan’s entry into politics, Munde said: “Rahul Mahajan will not enter politics. He is busy with his reality show. However, Poonam Mahajan is likely to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from South Mumbai constituency against Milind Deora of Congress.”