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.

‘Do all aircraft disappear when it rains’: Rahul on PM Modi’s Balakot cloud cover remark

PTI - May 14, 2019

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that cloud cover helped the IAF evade Pakistani radars during the Balakot strikes.

‘35% of first-time BJP MPs dropped as party was unhappy with their performance’

Ruhi Tewari - May 14, 2019

According to data analysed by ThePrint, BJP has not given a ticket to 55 of its 158 first-time MPs. Party says many won in 2014 'riding on Modi wave'.

5 years on, Baba Ramdev isn’t smitten by Modi & Patanjali will back any pro-farmer govt

Himani Chandna - May 7, 2019

Yoga guru Ramdev was among Modi's unabashed backers in 2014 but five years on, there are mixed signals from the Patanjali founder.

Election Commission slaps notice on Pragya Thakur for campaigning despite ban

ANI - May 5, 2019

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has been barred from campaigning for her remark on Babri Masjid.

West Bengal to vote for 7 Lok Sabha seats in fifth phase on 6 May

PTI - May 5, 2019

The fate of 83 candidates will be decided in this phase of the elections.

Mamata slams BJP for misusing forces as violence erupts in 4th phase of polls in West Bengal

PTI - April 29, 2019

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said law & order is a state subject and accused BJP of bringing in central forces and using them to garner votes.

‘No other like Modi,’ they say in MP’s Mahakoshal after voting Congress in assembly polls

Ruhi Tewari - April 29, 2019

The Mahakoshal region accounts for six of MP's 29 Lok Sabha seats. Five went to the BJP in 2014, while one elected Kamal Nath for a ninth term.

At AAP manifesto release, Arvind Kejriwal slams Rahul Gandhi for failed Congress alliance talks

PTI - April 25, 2019

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said the party will support any grand alliance to beat BJP, and added they will fight for full statehood for Delhi.

Congress won’t get majority but will do very well, says Kamal Nath

PTI - April 21, 2019

Madhya Pradesh CM added that BJP won't have numbers and to think that they will ever be able to form a government is too far-fetched.

Dantewada’s BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi, 4 others killed in Naxal attack

PTI - April 9, 2019

Naxals used an IED to attack the convoy of BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi and opened fire on the occupants in the vehicles.

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