BJP

BJP old guard, former CMs get party jobs ahead of state and LS elections

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has given important organisational responsibilities to former chief ministers and former union ministers, who were dropped from their posts over the past year

Middle-Class India

Virendra Kapoor

The ugly side of the English-speaking urban elite

Going Alone

Jayanta Ghosal

Mamata Banerjee is said to have already informed Congress that they will not have an alliance against the BJP

Lining Up for 2024

Rajeev Deshpande

Nitish Kumar’s decision to reunite with RJD is a major realignment forced by his sense of political vulnerability

Big changes in BJP top panel, Gadkari, Shivraj make way for Sonowal, BSY

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Changes signal social and regional inclusion as Sikh, Dalit and OBC leaders become part of the BJP parliamentary Board

Nitish-BJP split triggers decisive battle for the most backward vote

Rajeev Deshpande

BJP banks on PM Narendra Modi turning Lok Sabha elections into presidential contests

The Trojan Horse of Bihar

Rajeev Deshpande

The sudden fall of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra would have worked to convince Nitish Kumar that RCP Singh might well be the Trojan horse of Bihar

In the Shadow of Terror

Rajeev Deshpande

The murder of a BJP youth leader in coastal Karnataka, the birthplace of Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal, poses a challenge for the state government