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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.

Back to future on a postage stamp

Shekhar Gupta - 18 September, 2015

Why RSS/BJP's war against Nehru & heirs is as cussed as it is revealing about their lack of alternative heroes.

Confessions of a Shakhahari

Shekhar Gupta - 14 September, 2015

Raised on a diet of RSS pedagogy at a Shishu Mandir, the writer looks at what it means when Nagpur 'takes the class' of the govt.

Speaking truth to the great orator

Shekhar Gupta - 21 August, 2015

Modi is by far India's most powerful, domineering, instinctive — and very popular — political figure. Why then is his government floundering?

Modi’s next test: The ‘other’ minority issue

Shekhar Gupta - 19 February, 2015

In a democracy, the smallest minority also has a voice and, however much you may detest it, a special right to be heard over the din of the majority.

Waking up to a new ‘usual’

Shekhar Gupta - 12 February, 2015

AAP is evolving like the Congress did in its early days, having the right, left, even libertarians under its umbrella in pursuit of a common idea, not ideology.

Lose the headline, lose the plot

Shekhar Gupta - 25 December, 2014

Modi, well into the honeymoon phase of his politics, is facing his first moment of truth: if he allows further dilution of his political and moral capital, he will risk a real setback soon.

123 and two half girlfriends

Shekhar Gupta - 22 October, 2014

In this season of Internet jokes on politics, let me also make a humble contribution. If Chetan Bhagat were to write a book on...

From May to September

Shekhar Gupta - 18 September, 2014

The lesson Modi & BJP should take away from the 2014 election results is that they are a centre-right govt elected to bring about change within the larger constitutional framework.

There is no plan to look for allies for a pre-poll tie-up’

Shekhar Gupta - 3 September, 2014

The BJP-led NDA will fight elections together and we will have a common minimum programme (CMP). We will sit together and decide what our...

156-inch heart

Shekhar Gupta - 24 May, 2014

By giving himself an opportunity to feature on an international stage, Modi can relaunch himself as a big-hearted moderate, switching from electoral campaign to governance mode.

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