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TopicBharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Topic: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

The Bharatiya Janta Party or the BJP is India’s biggest national party and currently rules the country. It was formed in 1980, though its origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951. The BJP has been in power since 2014, with Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister – the longest-serving non-Congress PM.

The BJP is known to be right-wing in its political and economic ideologies. Its ideological fount is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or the RSS, and many of its top leaders were youth leaders in the RSS. The BJP, as of March 2024, is in power alone or in alliance in more than 18 of the 28 states in the country.

Fighting trolls, social norms & hostile farmers, Mahie Gill plays role of a lifetime in Punjab

Revathi Krishnan -
Gill, the award-winning star of films like ‘Dev.D’ & ‘Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster’, is campaigning for the BJP in Punjab, braving protests and appealing to women voters.

Kirti Azad posts video claiming to show BJP leader chased in UP, but it’s from 2021 Bengal polls

Samyak Pandey -
The video, posted on Twitter with reference to BJP’s aim to cross 300 seats in UP, shows villagers chasing a politician with sticks & attacking his vehicle.

Uttarakhand CM Dhami pledges uniform civil code post polls as chorus grows in BJP amid hijab row

Shanker Arnimesh -
With BJP leaders framing hijab controversy in Karnataka as ‘conspiracy’ against India, the idea of the uniform civil code (UCC) has come up again as ‘need of the hour’.

The politics behind Karnataka’s hijab row: Sliding Congress, rising SDPI, combative BJP

Anusha Ravi Sood -
There's more to the Karnataka hijab row — centred on students' battle to wear religious headscarves to educational institutions — than meets the eye.

Former UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya, 5 MLAs join Samajwadi Party ahead of assembly polls

PTI -
The five BJP MLAs who have joined Samajwadi Party are Bhagwati Sagar, Roshanlal Verma, Vinay Shakya, Brijesh Prajapati and Mukesh Verma.

10 UP MLAs, ministers quitting raises questions about BJP ‘import’ policy at cost of loyalists

Neelam Pandey -
All UP ministers and MLAs who quit this week came from other parties, with no ideological grooming in RSS or BJP. There have been similar exits in Bengal and other states too.

Withdrawing farm laws right move, BJP’s anti-minority image a myth: Minister Bhupender Yadav

ThePrint Team -
Speaking to ThePrint's Editor-In Chief Shekhar Gupta on ‘Off the Cuff’, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav and economist Ila Patnaik discussed why they've penned a new book on rise of BJP.

Why BJP minister & OBC leader Maurya’s switch to SP could have an impact on UP polls

Neelam Pandey -
Three more BJP MLAs resigned hours after Swami Prasad Maurya, an influential leader who is expected to make a major impact in boosting the SP’s standing among non-Yadav OBCs.

Human chains, doorstep campaigns, yajnas: How BJP is targeting Congress over PM ‘security lapse’

Neelam Pandey -
Experts say BJP is building narrative that there was a design behind what home ministry called 'major security lapse', when PM's convoy was stranded on flyover in Punjab Wednesday.

Mamata should not divide Oppn, her attempts to go solo may help BJP, DMK’s TR Baalu says

PTI -
Ballu says Opposition leaders should meet often to discuss issues related to national politics to fight & defeat 'common enemy' BJP.
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