German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Bangalore

<div class="media-container dcx_media_imagegroups" data-dcx_media_type="imagegroups" data-dcx_media_config="{&quot;content&quot;:{&quot;params&quot;:&quot;align=left&amp;dcx_mg_attributes_slot_value=image_primary&quot;}}">MediaSlot: ImageContainer #image_primary</div><p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning, is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the evening, people aware of the development said.</p><p>There was no word on what transpired at Jyotiraditya Scindia’s meeting with Amit Shah and PM Modi.</p><p>A central election committee meeting of the BJP had been scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the names for the candidates for the upcoming March 26 Rajya Sabha elections.</p><p>“So far it seems likely that he will formally join the BJP and his name could be proposed as a candidate from the BJP’s side in Madhya Pradesh,” said a BJP functionary.</p><p>Elections will be held to fill three seats falling vacant from the state; while the BJP and the Congress were both eyeing one seat each, both parties were readying for a contest on the third.</p><p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning, is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the evening, people aware of the development said.</p><p>There was no word on what transpired at Jyotiraditya Scindia’s meeting with Amit Shah and PM Modi.</p><p>A central election committee meeting of the BJP had been scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the names for the candidates for the upcoming March 26 Rajya Sabha elections.</p><p>“So far it seems likely that he will formally join the BJP and his name could be proposed as a candidate from the BJP’s side in Madhya Pradesh,” said a BJP functionary.</p><p>Elections will be held to fill three seats falling vacant from the state; while the BJP and the Congress were both eyeing one seat each, both parties were readying for a contest on the third.</p><p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning, is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the evening, people aware of the development said.</p><p>There was no word on what transpired at Jyotiraditya Scindia’s meeting with Amit Shah and PM Modi.</p><p>A central election committee meeting of the BJP had been scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the names for the candidates for the upcoming March 26 Rajya Sabha elections.</p><p>“So far it seems likely that he will formally join the BJP and his name could be proposed as a candidate from the BJP’s side in Madhya Pradesh,” said a BJP functionary.</p><p>Elections will be held to fill three seats falling vacant from the state; while the BJP and the Congress were both eyeing one seat each, both parties were readying for a contest on the third.</p>

<div class="media-container dcx_media_imagegroups" data-dcx_media_type="imagegroups" data-dcx_media_config="{&quot;content&quot;:{&quot;params&quot;:&quot;align=left&amp;dcx_mg_attributes_slot_value=image_primary&quot;}}">MediaSlot: ImageContainer #image_primary</div> <p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning, is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the evening, people aware of the development said.</p> <p>There was no word on what transpired at Jyotiraditya Scindia’s meeting with Amit Shah and PM Modi.</p> <p>A central election committee meeting of the BJP had been scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the names for the candidates for the upcoming March 26 Rajya Sabha elections.</p> <p>“So far it seems likely that he will formally join the BJP and his name could be proposed as a candidate from the BJP’s side in Madhya Pradesh,” said a BJP functionary.</p> <p>Elections will be held to fill three seats falling vacant from the state; while the BJP and the Congress were both eyeing one seat each, both parties were readying for a contest on the third.</p> <p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning, is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the evening, people aware of the development said.</p> <p>There was no word on what transpired at Jyotiraditya Scindia’s meeting with Amit Shah and PM Modi.</p> <p>A central election committee meeting of the BJP had been scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the names for the candidates for the upcoming March 26 Rajya Sabha elections.</p> <p>“So far it seems likely that he will formally join the BJP and his name could be proposed as a candidate from the BJP’s side in Madhya Pradesh,” said a BJP functionary.</p> <p>Elections will be held to fill three seats falling vacant from the state; while the BJP and the Congress were both eyeing one seat each, both parties were readying for a contest on the third.</p> <p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning, is all set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party later in the evening, people aware of the development said.</p> <p>There was no word on what transpired at Jyotiraditya Scindia’s meeting with Amit Shah and PM Modi.</p> <p>A central election committee meeting of the BJP had been scheduled to meet on Tuesday evening to finalise the names for the candidates for the upcoming March 26 Rajya Sabha elections.</p> <p>“So far it seems likely that he will formally join the BJP and his name could be proposed as a candidate from the BJP’s side in Madhya Pradesh,” said a BJP functionary.</p> <p>Elections will be held to fill three seats falling vacant from the state; while the BJP and the Congress were both eyeing one seat each, both parties were readying for a contest on the third.</p>

<p>epa04965341 (L-R) Bosch Vocational centre (BVC) student Sneha B, Steffen Berns, President of Bosch Group India and Managing Director Bosch Limited, Peter Tyroller, Member Board of Management, Robert Bosch GmbH, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Soumitra Bhattacharya, Joint Managing Director Bosch Ltd, pose for a group photo during a visit to the German company Bosch's facility in Bangalore, India, 06 October 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was in the city during her three-day visit to India during which Merkel and Modi are leading the third inter-governmental consultations. EPA/JAGADEESH NV +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++</p>