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Topic: BJP

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.

Still Mandal, still mandir

Shekhar Gupta -
Mandir and Mandal are the last big ideas to alter our national power equations. Since then, nobody has been able to catch India’s imagination.

BJP, the lonely

Shekhar Gupta -
UPA is sinking, but the BJP is adrift, having failed to reconfigure itself to a changing urban India.

They just didn’t get it

Shekhar Gupta -
India has changed. It will vote for those who understand, respect and embrace this change with humility, not hubris.

Smirks that speak and a doctor with no prescription

Shekhar Gupta -
Congress has a Very Angry Young Man, BJP has too many angry old men.

Blunder Janata Party

Shekhar Gupta -
In its UP campaign, BJP has displayed all the weaknesses usually chronic to Congress: lack of a clear CM candidate, infighting, absence of a grassroots organisation & agenda.

Self-opposition party

Shekhar Gupta -
The BJP’s entire politics today seems predicated upon the inevitability of the Congress party’s self-destruction.

Jan Lok Sabha

Shekhar Gupta -
Before the next Parliamentary session, it is important to analyse the scandals, cover-ups and popular anger around the Lokpal Bill that threatened to collapse the system.

Minus the Left

Shekhar Gupta -
If the elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry go the way they are headed right now, they could potentially alter our national political equations, and set a much more interesting stage for 2014.

Lok Sabha, 2014

Shekhar Gupta -
A party will win or lose the next election depending on whether it can dump some of its awful, outdated and politically suicidal basic instinct or not.

Thank god for politics

SGIN -
While the charmed circle mourns the end of the idea of India because of political corruption, incompetence & cynicism, it is exactly our politics that is transforming India in a most remarkable manner now.
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Opinion

India has 2 women CMs now. Atishi and Mamata Banerjee are both victims of bad PR

Shailaja Bajpai -
Women look up to women in power as role models. But so far, Atishi’s public image is that of a woman-in-waiting rather than a woman-in-charge.

Normalising India-China relations is an economic need. Modi is right to seek peace

Should India trust US? Answer that with strategic realism, not Cold War conspiracy theories

Economy

Tamil Nadu govt & Ford go way back. How carmaker’s return is new chapter in story that began in 1995

Prabhakar Tamilarasu -
High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.

Defence

A fitness & fighter aircraft enthusiast, who is Air Marshal AP Singh, the next Chief of Air Force

Smruti Deshpande -
Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as chief on 30 September. During his service of nearly 40 yrs, he has served in variety of command, staff, instructional & foreign appointments.

National Interest

Lesson from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan: if you have no patience, you don’t deserve democracy

Shekhar Gupta -
Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.

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