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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.

The Ordinance Factory

Shekhar Gupta - 31 December, 2005

The ordinance-mania is back in fashion. The recourse to amending the law or writing fresh legislation is a tempting escape for politicians from constitutional checks and balances.

And the pot told the kettle

SGIN - 14 May, 2005

There has been a continuing slide into politics of inquiries, where governance is in the back-seat, political debate forgotten & acquisition of power reduced to trying to fix your rivals.

One year on, BJP and Congress still can’t figure out the election result

Shekhar Gupta - 8 May, 2005

Opposition is out of Parliament almost permanently, as was the case in the last months of Rajiv Gandhi's government. The two leading parties are not even on talking terms any more.

We need a UPA-NDA bus?

SGIN - 9 April, 2005

If the BJP's scandalously peevish staying away from VAT was bad, so was the Congress party's disinclination to expand the scope of the launch of the Kashmir bus.

A plane tale from the past

SGIN - 12 March, 2005

Rao took an incredibly bold decision which the BJP, locked in a bitter electoral battle with him, was suspicious of, but did not make an issue of, in the national interest.

A Bharatiya Janata Pity

SGIN - 14 August, 2004

Perhaps such is the bitterness at losing power, so powerful the need to live in denial, that BJP has begun to lose its balance at all levels, and, obviously in case of the Naqvi/Naidu types.

Best bakery vs upper crust

SGIN - 29 May, 2004

Discourse on 2004 election has been about how the poor have spoken, created political space for poverty, & how the verdict is against policies inspired by World Bank, IMF and WTO.

When unleaded turns leaded

SGIN - 10 August, 2002

When ‘polarisation’ is the buzzword in our politics, it will be even more dangerous than communal divide because it will undermine the faith in our system of governance, democracy.

Doing the ‘Right’ thing

SGIN - 25 May, 2002

A government’s internal stability or strength does not always determine its ability to deal with the world, particularly on issues where there is broader consensus.

The Hindutva rate of growth

SGIN - 20 April, 2002

We now face the prospect of our politics receding into the 1989/90 phase of bankruptcy and stagnation when we kept on fighting over mandir and Mandal.

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