Chandra Shekhar, Ballia MP for eight terms, is still remembered fondly here, but lagging development and anti-incumbency towards BJP pose a challenge for his son Neeraj.
In ‘Chandra Shekhar’, Roderick Matthews writes about how the former PM had threatened to shoot anyone who touched ‘that mosque’, and even if 500 sadhus died, they would go to heaven.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
COMMENTS