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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.

Senior Goa Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro could move to TMC as Mamata seeks expansion

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Faleiro is a seven-term Congress MLA from Navelim constituency in south Goa. He could become the Trinamool face in Goa ahead of assembly polls next year.

BJP ‘changed’ caste of ruler Mihir Bhoj, tampered historical facts for votes: Akhilesh Yadav

PTI -
The remarks come days after Yogi Adityanath unveiled a statue of the ruler, stoking controversy that saw sections of Gurjar & Rajput communities stake claim over the king's legacy.

BJP could bench 40-50% of its 57 Uttarakhand MLAs, who are seen as ‘unsafe poll bets’

Prithviraj Singh -
25-30 names have been identified in the first round of a two-part BJP assessment in Uttarakhand. Final list to be decided after 2nd round ends in the next fortnight.

Yogi expands his Cabinet, but still keeps SC/STs away from real power

Arvind Kumar -
During my fieldwork in UP, I interacted with people from the SC community. BJP’s claims of Dalit outreach appear empty when we look at the latter’s power share.

Mamata Banerjee calls BJP as ‘jumla party’, claims will defeat it across India

PTI -
Addressing a public meeting, Banerjee, criticised Centre for not allowing her to attend global peace meet in Rome and claimed that such attempts by BJP will not succeed in stopping her.

Yogi ministry expansion an exercise in social engineering, Jitin Prasada gets cabinet rank

Prashant Srivastava -
With an aim to balance castes ahead of next year’s assembly polls, Yogi Adityanath inducts one Brahmin cabinet minister. MoS rank for one ST, two SCs and three OBCs.

Trinamool going national, vote for Mamata in Bhabanipur for change in Delhi: Nephew Abhishek

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee made the remarks at a public meeting in Bhabanipur, where CM Mamata is seeking election in a bypoll on 30 September.

As Modi govt ministers lead BJP campaign on Mamata’s turf Bhabanipur, CPM wages ‘lonely’ battle

Praveen Jain -
Mamata Banerjee, who represented Bhabanipur in 2011 and 2016, is up against BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal and the CPI(M)'s Shrijeeb Biswas in the 30 September bypoll.

Sat Sri Akal, Inshallah, Joy Durga — how Mamata’s speeches change with locality in Bhabanipur

Moushumi Das Gupta -
In campaign for Bhabanipur bypoll on 30 Sept, Mamata Banerjee has been adapting her speeches according to the dominant community in every locality. BJP calls it 'divisive'.

Only 3 parties & BJP’s Birender Singh attend OP Chautala rally for non-BJP, non-Congress front

Revathi Krishnan -
INLD invited regional leaders like Mulayam, Mamata and Nitish to mark birth anniversary of ex-deputy PM Devi Lal, but only P.S. Badal, Farooq Abdullah and K.C. Tyagi attended.
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+TFP Praveen Swami -
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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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