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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.

BJP ‘fact-finding’ team blames ‘state-sponsored extortion’ for Birbhum arson, Mamata cries foul

Sreyashi Dey -
The BJP team, comprising 5 members, submitted a report on its findings to national party president J.P. Nadda in New Delhi Wednesday. The team visited the site of violence on 24 March.

Couldn’t win Punjab, BJP now wants to murder Arvind Kejriwal, says his deputy

ThePrint Team -
Earlier in the day, protesting BJP workers clashed with the police in front of Kejriwal’s home.

Why BJP & AAP are locking horns again, this time over change in Chandigarh admin service rules

Abhishek Dey -
Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that employees of Chandigarh administration will now function under Central Civil Services Rules. Punjab’s AAP government is crying foul.

Shark-remora bond defines BJP’s ties with allies. Bihar’s ‘Son of Mallah’ learns the hard way

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From NPP in Manipur to BPF in Assam and now VIP in Bihar, BJP has maintained a track record of losing allies. And it is not bothered.

Mukesh Sahani, Bollywood set designer and BJP ally who set his political career on fire

Dipak Mishra -
Sahani once used to make sets for big Bollywood films. Then he rose in Bihar politics to become a minister. Now, his career is on the line after ally BJP didn’t take to his attacks kindly.

How ‘wanderers’ of BJP are surviving outside PM Modi’s Union Cabinet, & what they are doing now

+TFP Unnati Sharma -
67 ministers have left the Modi govt since 2014, most of them dropped for non-performance. Some resigned to get bigger assignments, some got organisational duties. Others are still waiting.

BJP is no longer just a Brahmin-Bania-Zamindar party. UP’s ‘labarthis’ show why

Dilip Mandal -
Modi government posing as a benevolent giver is an image that any poor will cherish because their everyday interactions with State machinery isn’t so pleasant.

Prominent faces of Yogi 2.0 — a different Brahmin deputy CM, a Modi aide, many OBC leaders

Shanker Arnimesh -
Once BSP’s Brahmin face, Brajesh Pathak has replaced Dinesh Sharma as deputy CM, while OBC leader KP Maurya has been retained as Yogi’s other deputy despite poll defeat.

Dhami starts work on Uttarakhand’s own Uniform Civil Code, experts say ‘state well within right’

Bhadra Sinha -
At the first state cabinet committee meeting headed by CM Pushkar Singh Dhami Thursday, a decision was taken to set up a panel to draft a UCC for Uttarakhand. 

55 BJP MLAs reach Birbhum village rocked by violence, demand justice for ‘mass murder’

Sreyashi Dey -
While Mamata has pointed finger at BJP-ruled states, TMC govt has been attacked by other parties too for alleged murders & arson. CPI(M) called it 'genocide', Congress wrote to President Kovind.
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BJP goes ‘headless’ – Why Modi-Shah can’t decide Nadda’s successor

+TFP D.K. Singh -
JP Nadda recently appointed in-charges and co-in-charges in 23 states. The problem is that he made these appointments five days after his term as party president was supposedly over.

NIRF parameters ill-designed & lead to absurd university ratings. Govt must order a review

Kargil War 25th anniversary is the time to finish an incomplete task–overhaul defence ministry

Economy

Jobs, rural India likely to be focus of new Modi government’s first budget, says Goldman Sachs

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The budget proposal for the financial year ending March 2025 will be presented on 23 July, the government said over the weekend.

Defence

Four Army soldiers killed, several injured in terrorist ambush on convoy in ‘peaceful’ Kathua

Snehesh Alex Philip -
It is learnt the last time this particular area saw such terrorist activity was in 2001. The area is Hindu-dominated, and closer to Himachal Pradesh than Jammu.

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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