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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.

UP to Punjab — ‘experts’ have had their say on election results. Here’s why they are wrong

Yashwant Deshmukh -
Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, regional parties and dynasty politics are just some of the things that the 'experts' are wrong about. Here's the truth about BJP.

Accept 4 truths to counter BJP hegemony. They offer a formula to reclaim republic in 2024

+TFP Yogendra Yadav -
The BJP may enjoy ideological dominance today, but counter-hegemonic politics has deeper cultural resources. If we are determined and intelligent, we shall win.

Why Akhilesh Yadav could not defeat Yogi despite signs of anti-incumbency

Arvind Kumar -
BJP is an election machine. And Akhilesh Yadav started his campaigning too late to make a significant dent.

Head-start for Modi 2024 push & thumbs up for Yogi — what 2nd straight win in UP means for BJP

Neelam Pandey -
The BJP stormed to a second consecutive term in Uttar Pradesh in the 2022 assembly polls, also securing back-to-back wins in Manipur and Uttarakhand.

Five takeaways from UP—Modi’s better than Vajpayee and Congress wasted trump card Priyanka

Dilip Mandal -
Muslim vote can make the Samajwadi Party principal opposition force in UP. But to win, it has to build better rapport with the other backward castes and SCs.

BJP turncoats fail to make a mark in UP; 5 including OBC leader SP Maurya lose, 1 trailing

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Of a dozen BJP MLAs including three ex-ministers, five, including two ministers, have lost, while one is trailing. Only two MLAs are leading, according to ECI trends at 9 pm.

Equal credit to Yogi for UP but other wins are all about Modi’s popularity. BJP’s in a sweet spot

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Big loss for NPP as BJP’s ex-IAS officer candidate wrests Uripok from Deputy CM Joykumar Singh

Angana Chakrabarti -
The national party — helmed by Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma — contested 38 of the 60 assembly seats in Manipur this time with hope of increasing its influence in the region.

Jat anger not enough to cause BJP defeat in West UP, but helped RLD, SP gain ground

Shanker Arnimesh -
While the BJP was leading in 35 of 66 seats in West UP, the SP was leading in 31 & RLD in seven. In 2017, BJP had won 51 seats here, SP 15 & BSP 1.

Haider Ali Khan, NDA’s only Muslim candidate in UP, facing defeat to Azam Khan’s son in Suar

Unnati Sharma -
Haider Ali Khan, contesting for Apna Dal (Sonelal), is the son of Congress’s Kazim Ali Khan, titular nawab of Rampur, who is also trailing well behind Azam Khan in the Rampur seat.
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If the reason why PSU privatisation is politically challenging is that the people are swayed by emotional arguments, then it is incumbent on the government to work on its communication

BJP is caught in its own Maharashtra trap. It has little to gain in Assembly polls

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Economy

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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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