On 24 March 1977, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed a rally at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi following the Janata Party's victory in the Lok Sabha elections, which unseated Congress from power for the first time.
Beef panic reached Hindu kitchens in 1983. The upholders of purity, Jains, were accused of selling animal fat in 'shudh' ghee. Lok Sabha rocked. VP Singh was on the defensive.
While founders never had majority & had to keep a diverse coalition intact, today's BJP doesn’t need allies. Credit goes to Modi-Shah but they should thank founders, especially Vajpayee.
Archival documents on the Emergency show the incredible ease with which national capitals across the world pivoted to the new realities of India’s constitutional autocracy.
In ‘Capturing Institutional Change’, Himanshu Jha writes about the Official Secrets Act and the Janata government promising ‘openness’ after Emergency.
Under Indira Gandhi, JNU turned a deep shade of red because of curricula and faculty chosen by Education Minister Syed Nurul Hasan from a pool of pro-CPI teachers.
It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's desire to turn Bihar into UP should not be ignored.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Print should stop inviting such biaused individual RSS hater . How janta experiment failed all know it failed because of power hunger of the so called socialist and one man eagar for PM post . JS pesons in janta govt were not at all intrested in all these things . despite having largest chuck of MPs in Janta party they agreed for unimportant minstries which all chunk of good ministries went to old rottan congress persons
Blaming someone else for ones failure is the easiest thing to do. It takes years to build a grass roots movement. It requires patience and a dedicated cadre. JP, for all his greatness did not create either. Much like AAP today. History has shown that revolutions fail to achieve their objectives.
Print should stop inviting such biaused individual RSS hater . How janta experiment failed all know it failed because of power hunger of the so called socialist and one man eagar for PM post . JS pesons in janta govt were not at all intrested in all these things . despite having largest chuck of MPs in Janta party they agreed for unimportant minstries which all chunk of good ministries went to old rottan congress persons
Blaming someone else for ones failure is the easiest thing to do. It takes years to build a grass roots movement. It requires patience and a dedicated cadre. JP, for all his greatness did not create either. Much like AAP today. History has shown that revolutions fail to achieve their objectives.