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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.

Miss India runner-up, former MPs — UP panchayat polls grab eyeballs with bigshot candidates

Prashant Srivastava -
Candidates for this week’s UP panchayat polls include former MPs Ram Sagar Rawat and Seema Upadhyay, and model Diksha Singh, a runner-up of 2015 Miss India pageant.

The ‘two lines’ lesson Rahul Gandhi can learn from Congress’ Assam campaign

D.K. Singh -
On 2 May, the Congress party’s poll strategy in Assam may or may not pay electoral dividends but it’s a template Rahul Gandhi may like to explore.

BJP pulls Sengar’s wife out of polls after criticism, but villagers say ex-MLA’s a ‘good man’

Jyoti Yadav -
BJP had nominated rape convict Kuldeep Sengar's wife Sangeeta for the upcoming UP panchayat polls, but withdrew her name after a week.

Why ex-Congress leader ‘Maharaj’ Pradyot Debbarma could now hold key to 2023 Tripura polls

Karishma Hasnat -
Pradyot Manikya’s TIPRA Motha & its ally INPT won 18 seats in tribal areas’ district council polls, while BJP won 9 and its partner IPFT drew a blank.

British Empire’s sun hasn’t set on Indian officers’ clubs — centre of civil-military tussle

Sanjaya Baru -
In ‘India’s Power Elite’, Sanjaya Baru writes that BJP’s greater political prominence to military heroes has not always raised their profile within the power elite.

Yediyurappa can’t be without BJP, BJP can’t be without Yediyurappa, says son Vijayendra

Rohini Swamy -
B.Y. Vijayendra, the Karnataka BJP vice-president, says Yediyurappa and BJP are synonymous; CM will complete term, deliver what he promised to people.

Another 71 CAPF companies sent to West Bengal amid poll-related violence

PTI -
Till now, a total of 1,000 companies were earmarked for the conduct of elections in the state that has 294 assembly seats.

‘Making Muslims scapegoat for Mamata’s failure’: Owaisi hits out at Kishor ‘appeasement’ clip

Neelam Pandey -
Owaisi was referring to audio clips released by BJP where Prashant Kishor is purportedly heard addressing journalists during an interaction on invite-only chat app Club House.

How Gurugram is divided over ‘unfair & unjust’ no-meat Tuesdays

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

BJP latches on to Kishor’s ‘admission’ of defeat in chat, he says release full conversation

Neelam Pandey -
The BJP has released purported audio clips of comments by Mamata Banerjee’s poll strategist Prashant Kishor to claim that he has admitted defeat in assembly polls.
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You can’t ‘wish away’ China, India must balance economic & security considerations, says Sanjeev Sanyal

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Sanyal, an economist & member of the Economic Advisory Council to PM, also suggests that if India is to import parts from China, why not allow Chinese companies to manufacture in India.

Defence

Compete, coexist, confront & contest: Army chief General Dwivedi says on dealing with China

Smruti Deshpande -
Referring to current situation, General Upendra Dwivedi says it is stable but not normal; instead, sensitive. He adds the diplomatic side can only come up with certain options.

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

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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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