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.

Modi govt needs to intervene, end telecom mess. The economy can’t afford another crisis

ThePrint Team - 14 February, 2020

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A Sachin Tendulkar lesson for Amit Shah that can sharpen his election strategy

D.K. Singh - 12 February, 2020

Arvind Kejriwal capitalised on lack of variation in Amit Shah’s bowling — hyper-nationalism, Hindu-Muslim binary, opposition-bashing and lack of patriotism.

How Kejriwal gamed Modi, Shah’s Hindutva-nationalism-welfarism combination to defeat them

Shekhar Gupta - 11 February, 2020

While nationalism plus religion and socialism is a killer electoral combination, a tiny party like AAP has shown these aren't beyond the reach of BJP's rivals.

Early trends show Kejriwal’s AAP in the lead, BJP ahead in Okhla

Moushumi Das Gupta - 11 February, 2020

At 9.30 am, BJP's Brahm Singh was leading from Okhla — Shaheen Bagh & Jamia Nagar are part of this constituency — against AAP's Amanatullah Khan.

Modi hasn’t done so badly on the economy. But more needs to be done on many fronts

TN Ninan - 8 February, 2020

Modi & his Cabinet need to get over their hostility to criticism, and frontally address the jobs problem as it is central to tackling the growing inequality.

BJP ending old Bodo conflict but lighting new CAA-NRC fires reveals its Northeast hypocrisy

ThePrint Team - 7 February, 2020

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AAP will win Delhi with 54-60 seats, BJP to get 10-14, Times Now-Ipsos poll finds

Neelam Pandey - 3 February, 2020

According to the Times Now-Ipsos opinion poll, 51% of Delhi residents don’t support the Shaheen Bagh stir against CAA.

Filling vacant govt posts, clean drinking water ⁠— BJP releases its Delhi poll manifesto

PTI - 31 January, 2020

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said a BJP govt in Delhi will ensure central govt schemes such as Ayushman Bharat and Kisan Samman Nidhi are implemented in the capital.

BJP MP says Shaheen Bagh protesters will ‘rape, kill’ as party makes it Delhi poll plank

Neelam Pandey - 28 January, 2020

From Amit Shah and Giriraj Singh to Anurag Thakur and now Parvesh Verma, BJP leaders have been using Shaheen Bagh to polarise Delhi elections.

EC imposes 48-hour campaigning ban on Kapil Mishra following his communal tweets

PTI - 25 January, 2020

An FIR was lodged against him under section 125 of the Representation of the People Act dealing with creating enmity among classes.

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