New Delhi: BJP veteran L K Advani yesterday denied reports that he was being nominated by his party for the Rajya Sabha. Talking to reporters at his residence yesterday, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said that contesting the next Lok Sabha elections is on his mind.
“I have not said anything (about going to the Rajya Sabha) and if somebody offers me this suggestion, I will think about it. But it is natural, I think, that if I had to consider it I would have done it earlier,” Advani said in response to a question.
Asked if he will fight the Lok Sabha elections, he said: “That is what is on my mind.”
Reports on Saturday suggested Advani and some other senior party leaders may be nominated for the Rajya Sabha.
Advani, who represents Gujarat’s Gandhinagar in the Lok Sabha, had resigned from all party posts when Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was nominated the chief of the party’s campaign panel for Lok Sabha polls. He withdrew his resignation later after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh intervened.
Modi was later named the party’s prime ministerial candidate.
Advani, in the recently concluded national council meet of BJP, was all praise for Modi, and the decision to field him for the top post.
Tata Motors MD dies after fall
NEW DELHI: India’s Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym died yesterday after apparently falling at a hotel in Bangkok where he was attending a board meeting, a company spokeswoman and reports said. “Tata Motors deeply regrets to announce the untimely and tragic demise of its Managing Director, Karl Slym, in Bangkok earlier today,” the company said in a statement.
“Karl Slym was in Bangkok to attend a meeting of the Board of Directors of Tata Motors Thailand Ltd.”
Slym, 51, died in a fall, Tata spokeswoman Minari Shah said, but declined to give further details, saying a post mortem examination was likely to be conducted today.
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