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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.

India gets its 1st tribal woman President as Droupadi Murmu beats Yashwant Sinha

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Murmu, the NDA candidate, got 2824 votes, compared to opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha's 1877. She will be sworn in on 25 July, a day after President Ram Nath Kovind's term ends.

‘So much went wrong’: Losses in MP civic polls spur BJP introspection

Shanker Arnimesh -
BJP loses 7 out of 16 mayoral posts, including strongholds of Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and state party chief V.D. Sharma. Congress wins 5 in best performance since 1999.

Shiv Sena implosion shows things go easy when you drum up hate. Moderation is a nowhere road

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
Bal Thackeray built Shiv Sena as a party of grievances. His politics of division worked, and now Modi-Shah-BJP is taking it forward.

Savarkar broke monopoly of Nehru-Gandhi history books. Now there’s new appetite, wishlist

+TFP Zoya Bhatti -
Hemchandra Vikramaditya, Maharana Pratap and Khudiram Bose are some of the new biographies in English and Hindi that reflect the changed political mood in India.

Summoning Sonia Gandhi to ED will raise public sympathy. BJP knows it, wants it

+TFP Zainab Sikander -
Modi’s BJP would much rather have Congress as the main opponent than fight regional leaders who are more street-smart and politically nimble.

KCR claiming there’s foreign hand behind Telangana cloudburst hides poor preparedness

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Not a rubber stamp—In Droupadi Murmu’s backyard, the hunger for development has just shot up

Sheela Bhatt -
Many people from Murmu’s village have neither heard of Raisina Hill, nor are they aware of the limitations of constitutional powers of the President of India.

BJP wins in MP municipal polls but loses 4 crucial mayoral seats. Congress wrests 3 & AAP 1

Shanker Arnimesh -
BJP leaders say this should be a wake up call for the party ahead of next year’s assembly elections, cite ‘infighting’ and ‘lack of management’ in handling of polls.

Why Dhankhar and Murmu are perfect fit in Modi’s Mission 2024

+TFP D.K. Singh -
Modi knows he can bank on Dhankhar when opposition members in the Rajya Sabha start reading the rule book.

Our take on Sri Lanka crisis,Uma Bharti ‘tweetography’ and Elon Musk—in 50 words

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.
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Arvind Subramanian on India having missed its chance to rationalise GST rates — ‘moment has passed’

Yuthika Bhargava -
Speaking at an event, the former CEA says he no longer thinks fuel & electricity should be included in GST and added that India has only now, 7 yrs later, reached pre-GST revenue levels.

Defence

Record 16.7% growth in defence production in a year — PSUs contribute 79.2% & private sector 20.8%

Smruti Deshpande -
Ministry of Defence claims 60 percent rise in indigenous defence production in past 5 yrs, attributing it to policy reforms and soaring defence exports.

National Interest

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Shekhar Gupta -
Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.

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