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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.

Social engineering, eye on 2024 — why BJP picked Yadav CM, Dalit & Brahmin deputies in MP

Neelam Pandey -
BJP leaders say by choosing Yadav as CM, party is also looking to gain in states like Bihar & UP where Yadavs are an influential group, especially amid Opposition demand for a caste census.

Son of a tea-bhajiya seller, ex-ABVP activist, BJP minister — meet Mohan Yadav, the next chief minister of MP

Neelam Pandey -
Yadav, 58, served as higher education minister in Chouhan cabinet since 2020. His brush with politics began in 1984 when he joined ABVP before contesting from Ujjain Dakshin in 2013.

BJP’s social engineering in Chhattisgarh: Tribal CM with OBC & Brahmin deputies

Shanker Arnimesh -
BJP state chief and OBC leader Arun Sao & MLA Vijay Sharma, a Brahmin, will be the 2 deputy CMs. Additionally, BJP brass likely to go with ex-CM Raman Singh as speaker.

‘Culmination of integration’ — SC upholds abrogation of Article 370 that gave J&K special status

Bhadra Sinha -
A 5-judge bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud has asked Election Commission to conduct elections in J&K by September 2024, saying they can't be put on hold until statehood is restored.

Vishnu Deo Sai is new Chhattisgarh CM. What’s behind Modi-Shah’s push for fresh faces in states

+TFP D.K. Singh -
If Shivraj Singh Chouhan is also replaced, it will mark the formal denouncement of Vajpayee and Advani’s era in the BJP with nobody from that period in the saddle in any state.

Tribal leader, farmer’s son, sports enthusiast — meet Chhattisgarh’s 1st tribal CM Vishnu Deo Sai

Shanker Arnimesh -
As BJP wrested Chhattisgarh from Congress, what played decisive role was its wins in tribal belt. It's decision to choose 'soft-spoken' leader is also aimed at Lok Sabha polls.

Why Senthilkumar, DMK MP who made ‘gaumutra states’ remark, is ‘repeat offender’ in eyes of BJP

Akshaya Nath -
Tamil Nadu BJP calls Senthilkumar ‘repeat offender’, demands apology from MK Stalin over DMK MP referring to Hindi heartland as ‘gaumutra states’ during debate in Parliament.

Amit Shah’s attack on Nehru over Kashmir was ‘unjust & hypocritical’, says Urdu press

Heena Fatima -
ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

2024 isn’t about north vs south. See BJP’s limitations & do the maths

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s political geographies display BJP’s strengths & vulnerabilities. Nobody understands this better than BJP and it is because of this hard-headed realism that it keeps winning.

Rajnath in Rajasthan, Khattar in MP, Munda in Chhattisgarh: How BJP chose observers for CM selection

Shanker Arnimesh -
Top brass considered leaders' seniority & social fabric of states. Rajasthan poses toughest challenge, where ex-CM Vasundhara Raje & Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat in race for top post.
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National Interest

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

Shekhar Gupta -
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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