Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj thanked the Speaker and assured "smooth functioning of the house".
"BJP has decided very firmly and there will be no compromise, " senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj was quoted by NDTV channel as saying.
Yet older leaders, and the likes of Ms Swaraj, who appeal to poorer voters beyond cities, have no wish to weaken the party's strong Hindu identity.
Nobody knows if the urbane Mr Jaitley, who leads the party in Parliament's upper house, or the pugnacious Sushma Swaraj, in the lower house, is really in charge.
Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said that FDI was "anti-farmer".
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On her party's suggestion that land should be leased and not acquired--as that won't change the ownership--the government has agreed to let individual states to decide, Ms. Swaraj said.
"There is a broad consensus on the land bill, " Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj said after an all-party meeting called by the government to discuss the bill's provisions.
Ms. Swaraj, who is the leader of opposition in the lower house of Parliament, said the government has accepted most of the changes her party has suggested in the bill.
In an 11th-hour rescue attempt, Mr Vajpayee sacked the city's chief minister and replaced him with India's redoubtable information minister, Sushma Swaraj, who began checking up on absentee police supervisors in a series of well-publicised late-night inspections.
Mr Hollande is expected to hold talks with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and will call on Sonia Gandhi, chief of the governing Congress party, as well as Sushma Swaraj, leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
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