Nitish-Naidu no threat until 2028 but Agniparikshas await Modi before he...
In the coming months, Modi must prove the sceptics wrong about his popularity. Nobody prays to the setting sun—least of all politicians.
View ArticleWhy Amit Shah, more than PM Modi, needs to worry about RSS chief Bhagwat’s...
If Bhagwat’s Dussehra speech was about praising the Modi-led government and slamming ‘foreign powers’, cultural Marxists and wokes, his Monday’s address was an attempt to hold up a mirror to Modi-Shah.
View ArticleHaryana results can be a template for Rahul Gandhi to build New Congress
Deepender, Manish, Gaurav, Geniben, and Varsha and Vishal—the emergence of doughty fighters in the 2024 polls has created an opportunity for Rahul Gandhi to start afresh and rebuild the Congress by...
View ArticleFree will, dissent, defiance – signs of democracy returning to BJP
Those pushed aside during the Modi-Shah regime are beginning to find their feet and voice. And these are early days yet. The BJP must welcome these developments.
View ArticleBJP is caught in its own Maharashtra trap. It has little to gain in Assembly...
The BJP can’t afford to be seen as undermining Eknath Shinde, a Maratha leader. He is a bigger challenge to the party than Uddhav Thackeray ever was.
View ArticleBJP goes ‘headless’ – Why Modi-Shah can’t decide Nadda’s successor
JP Nadda recently appointed in-charges and co-in-charges in 23 states. The problem is that he made these appointments five days after his term as party president was supposedly over.
View ArticleHow BJP leaders, voters and cadres are all sending SOS messages in their own...
The BJP leadership would have us believe that the 2024 Lok Sabha election outcome has given them no reason to change their ways and all is well. But results of 13 Assembly bypolls spread over seven...
View ArticleWhy is BJP doubling down on Hindutva? Modi-Shah have a different reading of...
Over a hundred thousand new jobs—1,09,589, to be precise—were created every day in 2023-24, the Reserve Bank of India said in its latest report on employment. Citing this report about the creation of...
View ArticleMamata Banerjee losing the plot in Kolkata rape-murder case. BJP is the least...
There are many, many questions Banerjee needs to find answers to. Because it’s not just the Opposition and the general public, many of her party colleagues are also suspicious.
View ArticleWhy Modi-Shah can’t do to Yogi in 2024 what Vajpayee did to Kalyan Singh in 1999
The RSS loved both poster boys of Hindutva—Kalyan Singh & Yogi Adityanath. Singh faced rebellion from within the BJP after 1999 polls. Yogi is also under siege from within after 2024 polls.
View ArticleModi government’s U-turns expose a well-known secret—BJP is facing a crisis...
Article 370, Ram Mandir and UCC formed the core of the BJP’s politics. Now that these issues are no longer electorally productive, the BJP is struggling.
View ArticleWhy PM Modi has staked claim for a fourth term so early in his third
As long as people are voting for Modi, there is no question of him stepping away—not in 2029, or 2034, or any time during his Amrit Kaal.
View ArticleWhat Rahul Gandhi can learn from Tory leader’s tips for Rishi Sunak’s successor
With a coalition government in place and the gap between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and Rahul Gandhi’s popularity ratings shrinking, the Congress must listen to William Hague about not making rash...
View ArticleWhy PM Modi & Amit Shah should, in national interest, defer plans for a BJP...
Kashmiris are in for disappointment no matter who wins or loses assembly polls on 8 October.
View ArticleWhy Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way...
BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last 10 years fail to inspire confidence.
View ArticleHaryana celebrations over—Modi-Shah must worry about side effects now
Expect a big organisational shake-up now that RSS is back in the saddle. Mohan Bhagwat is unambiguous about his preference for a 75-year upper age ceiling for holding 'any chair'.
View ArticleLord Ram did not let PM Modi down, BJP did
Modi invoking Lord Jagannath was in order, given the BJP’s spectacular show in Odisha. But ‘Jai Shri Ram’ was missing from his speech to both the BJP and NDA.
View ArticleTwo months into Modi 3.0, NDA’s ‘Fevicol bond’ shows signs of stress
The NDA constituents remained curious onlookers in Parliament whenever BJP MPs got into heated exchanges with the INDIA bloc. While the INDIA bloc reacted in unison, the BJP remained isolated.
View ArticleIndian politics is going back to the pre-2014 era. What this means to Brand...
BJP may even end up winning Maharashtra and Jharkhand but going back to pre-2014 politics will hurt Brand Modi.
View ArticleBJP set to best Chinese Communist Party again. What it takes to become...
The CPC’s membership is likely to reach 10 crore by the end of this year, making it incumbent for the BJP to focus more on the missed calls if it wants to retain the tag of the world’s largest party.
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