Modi asks party MPs to ensure positive news about the party in media; remark assumes significance in the wake of pulling down of Lenin statue in Tripura.
BJP and its ally IPFT won 8 of the nine seats in Tripura where Yogi had campaigned; UP CM is said to have a close link with the Mangaluru-based Jogi Math.
How should we comprehend the results of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya? Merely a routine exercise of electoral upheaval, or something more fundamental?
Defeat in Tripura is payback for refusal to adapt to changing times, low introspection, petty internal rifts & inability to retain old base or capture new.
The BJP as a political party in India today is what the Left in Bengal and Tripura were, a party without opposition, capturing all spaces,leaders, issues.
The Romans’ version of stoicism is rapidly picking popularity on Instagram — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca are some names that get thrown at you when you fire up your screen.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
I thought BJP overstepped a long time back.