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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
TopicL.K. Advani

Topic: L.K. Advani

BJP faces ‘age-old’ poll quandary — whether or not to field veterans Advani, Joshi

Party chief Amit Shah meets with Advani, Joshi and outgoing speaker Sumitra Mahajan but sources say it has left it to the veterans to decide. 

Unlike Vajpayee & Advani, gen next BJP leaders groomed by Modi-Shah don’t look promising

Vajpayee and Advani proved themselves great leaders who spotted talent, honed future leaders. The leaders Modi and Shah are grooming fail to inspire confidence.

2000 days of Amit Shah in Delhi and how he’s more powerful than Advani ever was

The BJP president is now seen as the alter ego of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

To see Modi-Shah ousted, liberals have forgiven some of the original Hindutva-wadis

As Modi-Advani's recent meeting shows, liberals were clutching at straws in exonerating Advani/

Sorry Shashi Tharoor, you can’t give a clean chit to L.K. Advani in Ayodhya violence

If Advani was contrite after 1992, he should have worked towards resolving the temple issue, especially as the NDA-I strongman.

Madan Lal Khurana: BJP’s Punjabi face who opposed ‘pseudo-Hindutva’

Khurana was the bedrock of two crucial political aspects of the BJP -- its growth in Delhi as well as its alliance with the Akalis in Punjab.

For today’s TV anchors, Advani & Vajpayee won’t be ‘good Hindus’ either: Shashi Tharoor

Anything you say on Ram Janmabhoomi, triple talaq, Sabarimala, or Pakistan can and will be used against you by BJP to polarize the electorate on communal lines.

Babri Masjid case judge moves Supreme Court to unblock his promotion

The Supreme Court, in April 2017, had ordered that the judge would not be transferred till the trial is concluded in 2019.

Supreme Court seeks report from trial judge in Babri Masjid demolition case

Supreme Court seeks report from trial judge on how he will complete Babri Masjid demolition case.

Why out-of-power Indian politicians are writing more and more books

As Kapil Sibal joins the list of writer-politicians, leaders such as Shashi Tharoor and Pavan Varma explain what it entails in a country like India.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.