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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.

Modi govt 3.0 has 10 Dalit ministers, 5 from religious minorities but no Muslims

Shanker Arnimesh -
The new Council of Ministers has 2 Sikhs, 2 Buddhists and 1 Christian. The share of ministers from 'upper' castes has dropped, while Dalit and OBC representation is largely consistent.

Bid for non-Jat votes in Haryana polls? Khattar, Rao Inderjit, Krishan Pal Gurjar made Union ministers

Sushil Manav -
3 of 5 BJP MPs from poll-bound state made it to Modi 3.0. BJP MP from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Dharambir Singh, lone Jat MP from Haryana, has not found a place in council of ministers.

BJP appoints Rajnath Singh, Bhupendra Yadav to pick Odisha CM after winning majority in state

PTI -
According to Vijay Pal Singh Tomar, BJP's Odisha in-charge, a legislature party meeting will be held Tuesday and the new government will take oath on 12 June.

Three-time MoS, poet who provides comic relief, and NDA’s Dalit face — who is Ramdas Athawale

Manasi Phadke -
Athawale's Republican Party of India (RPI) did not contest a single seat this election, has no directly-elected public representative, but still enjoys a certain clout within the NDA.

‘Highways’ man Nitin Gadkari sworn in as minister in Modi Cabinet for 3rd time

Manasi Phadke -
Ex-BJP chief Gadkari was stripped of MSME portfolio in 2021 & dropped from parliamentary board in 2022. But with drubbing in Maharashtra this LS election, his stock may rise.

DTC to BEST—public transport a financial burden on states. New Modi govt must bring reforms

Kushan Mitra -
The Delhi Transport Corporation suffered a loss of Rs 2,666 crore in 2023-2024. It is a similar story across the country.

‘Pandian not my successor, people of Odisha will decide,’ says BJD chief Naveen Patnaik

ANI -
Odisha’s outgoing CM Naveen Patnaik says it was unfortunate that aide Pandian received ‘criticism’ despite his commendable work as IAS officer and now BJD leader.

Muslims made their vote count. This time Hindus built a coalition with them

Shekhar Gupta -
Muslim vote is BJP’s biggest worry. Knives are already out and probing its most critical fault line. Without recovering UP, BJP’s decline threatens to become chronic, and progressive.

Down from 3 to 0, what led to BJP’s whitewash in Jharkhand’s tribal seats in LS polls

Niraj Sinha -
Such is tribal mandate against BJP that four of total five segments had winners with margins of 1 lakh-plus votes.

Why BJP could do with an unbreakable vow or two & the UP gangsta Yogi never saw coming

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Opinion

PM’s 100-day agenda may have to jettison core issues for coalition partners

Seshadri Chari -
Matters of defence and foreign policy are important, but the new government must address widespread discontent in the country. This begins with investing in the rural sector.

Mamata vs Abhishek—A spar in the making, it would decide the fate of future Bengal politics

What prompted India’s balancing act in Switzerland? Ukraine peace summit’s wrong messaging

Economy

PM’s economic advisor asks if India needs a new poverty line, says multidimensional index not enough

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Bibek Debroy, chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, also suggested that analysing inequality at the state level might provide a clearer picture of inequality, as a national estimate could be misleading.

Defence

China does a Galwan in South China Sea, Coast Guard carries spears and knives

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Pictures had emerged of Chinese soldiers carrying rifles and iron rods with machete-like heads in the vicinity of India’s forward locations on the southern bank of Pangong Tso in 2020.

National Interest

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Shekhar Gupta -
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.

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