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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.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover no big deal. BJP knows which platform matters, journalists don’t

+TFP Vir Sanghvi - 28 April, 2022

Journalists are a little bit like the Congress when it comes to Twitter. We mistake the fights and the trolling for real politics.

The bulldozer is replacing the lotus as BJP’s election symbol

Abhishek Kumar - 27 April, 2022

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Indian military’s multiculturalism always faced strains. Army iftaar tweet row is a warning

+TFP Praveen Swami - 27 April, 2022

The Army has always prided itself on respecting the religious traditions of its troops. But communal biases are now reaching a dangerous new level.

BJP is obsessing about bulldozers these days, hoping to ride them to power in more states

Bharat Agrawal - 27 April, 2022

Those in the BJP IT Cell reveal that the swagger of 'Bulldozer Baba' is missing from 'Bulldozer Mama' or 'Bulldozer Anna'.

Navneet & Ravi Rana — Maharashtra’s notorious political gymnasts who found love at Ramdev camp

+TFP Manasi Phadke - 27 April, 2022

Ravi Rana is a 3-time MLA. His wife Navneet Kaur Rana, a former model-actor, is an MP. They have been arrested for 'sedition' after saying they would recite Hanuman Chalisa outside Matoshree.

Loudspeakers & ‘Maha Aartis’ — why temple-mosque politics keeps making a comeback in Maharashtra

Manasi Phadke - 26 April, 2022

Temples-mosques are dominating political discourse in Maharashtra. Parties in the state have time and again raised these issues in a bid to underscore their commitment to Hindutva.

Uddhav govt puts ball in Centre’s court on mosque-loudspeaker issue after all-party meet

Purva Chitnis - 25 April, 2022

Meeting comes amid a raging controversy in Maharashtra over the loudspeaker issue. BJP boycotts meeting saying ‘law and order in state is all over the place’.

BJP launches ‘Mission 2024’, identifies over 74,000 booths across India where it is weak

Neelam Pandey - 25 April, 2022

BJP sets 4-member panel called National Task Force is led by national vice-president Baijayant Panda. It is tasked with drawing up strategy to win these booths in next Lok Sabha polls.

Poll-bound Himachal ‘examining bringing uniform civil code’, says CM Jai Ram Thakur

Neelam Pandey - 25 April, 2022

In an interview, CM Jai Ram Thakur says state govt examining what benefit Himachal can get out of Uniform Civil Code. BJP-led Uttarakhand and UP considering implementing code too.

Yogi 2.0 is trying to do what Modi did after Gujarat 2002. But it’s not an easy task

+TFP D.K. Singh - 25 April, 2022

While top BJP leaders are following the ‘Yogi model' (of governance, not development, mind you), the UP CM is focusing on the ‘Modi model’ of Gujarat.

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