Topic: BJP

A sociological analysis of parameters like literacy and sex ratio reveals that Gujarat model is a myth.

If we cut through the marketing hype, Gujarat is not the trailblazer state it is made out to be.

Gujarat BJP has been posting videos of religious and spiritual gurus praising PM Narendra Modi, and asking their followers to 'strengthen his hands'.

Informed opinion might see demonetization as a reckless disaster, but in Indian politics, this consensus does not matter. 

A year since demonetisation, we analyse how has India benefited from the decision or whether it has lost out?

We have to understand demonetisation in the right perspective. The reason why the Honourable Prime Minister took this call was deep-rooted corruption, the complete anonymity about black money wherein nobody knew who is hoarding cash.

Nitish Kumar finds himself in a fix as he ditched the backward class constituency in jumping onto the BJP bandwagon. As an astute politician, he realised that all his rhetoric would not work with people. Therefore, he has come out with this trick of demanding a 50 per cent reservation in private sector.

On 8 November, 2016 the Prime Minister announced on television that 86 per cent of the money in circulation in the Indian economy stood demonetised. There are still unanswered questions about the legality of the entire exercise and even the process followed to arrive at the decision.

Demonetisation was the first major formal recognition by the Government of India that the issue of black money needs to be tackled decisively. What has India gained and lost from demonetization and what are the lessons learnt?

Amit Shah analysed the report card of all 120 Gujarat MLAs and apparently found public anger against many non-performing legislators.