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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.

Why ‘Santhosh man’ Arun Kumar was removed from Karnataka in BJP shake-up ahead of polls

Shanker Arnimesh -
Arun Kumar repatriated to RSS, allegedly after complaints that he remained under the shadow of B.L. Santhosh. Reshuffle sees new appointments for other poll-bound states too.

Sack of the Hindu caravan, and future of Indian secularism

Shekhar Gupta -
For too long was the burden of protecting India’s secularism outsourced to its 14% Muslims. Why it's time it shifted to the Hindus.

TMC abstaining from vice-presidential polls does what BJP wants—create fissure in Opposition

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues.

‘They fear AAP’s good work’, says Kejriwal as L-G orders CBI probe into Delhi excise policy

Abhishek Dey -
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal offers '3 reasons' why BJP-led central govt 'has been after AAP' since it won in Punjab assembly polls.

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.
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Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

+TFP D.K. Singh -
BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.

Arikamedu is an ancient Indo-Roman trading port. There’s a reason you’ve never heard of it

Beijing is concerned about anti-China sentiment in India. New Delhi is focused on border

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Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Swenja Surminski -
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

‘Nightmare at Chennai Marina’: 4 dead, 96 hospitalised after pandemonium at packed IAF air show

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
Lakhs of people were stranded at beach in heat as crowd control measures apparently failed. At least 14 lakh people were in attendance though police had expected around 10 lakh.

National Interest

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

Shekhar Gupta -
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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