What businessmen would like is for Team Modi to return in 2024, but as a minority, and therefore in need of coalition partners who might put the brakes on any high-handed action.
The 5-time Madhya Pradesh CM’s Ladli Behna Yojana is believed to have helped buck anti-incumbency in state. But Shivraj attributes victory to PM Modi and 'double-engine' governance.
The PM was addressing 1st meeting of BJP parliamentary party since BJP's victory in assembly elections in MP, Rajasthan & Chhattisgarh. Modi said party chosen because of it development model.
A survey in June painted a dismal picture of voter fatigue, anti-incumbency for BJP. But party’s organisational structure, combined with CM’s Ladli Behna Yojana, helped turn the tide.
Besides aspirational seats, BJP identified 89 assembly seats where it doubled-down on efforts to spread awareness about govt schemes & get more voters to show up on polling day.
Former CM is in Delhi to meet party leadership after Congress tally was reduced from 114 to 66 in 230-member assembly. Earlier, he had raised suspicion on EVMs.
Shivraj, Raje, Raman Singh may be out of race, it is learnt. Union ministers Arjun Meghwal and Gajendra Shekhawat, MPs Diya Kumari, Rajyavardhan Rathore, CP Joshi said to be in running.
BJP based its campaign in Rajasthan, MP & Chhattisgarh on ‘collective leadership’, seen as a euphemism for new leadership. But there’s a ‘rethink’ in MP at least.
JJP contested Rajasthan assembly polls with the claim that it would emerge as kingmaker in Haryana with ‘key (also the election symbol of the JJP) to Vidhan Sabha in its hand’.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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