BJP workers decorating Ballari city with part flags on Friday ahead of party’s Scheduled Tribes conference to be held on Sunday. | Photo Credit: SRIDHAR KAVALI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost deposits in 31 constituencies — 13.8% of the seats the party contested — in the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly elections. Notably, the party … Read more
West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu photo library A two-day brainstorming session of the BJP began on Friday evening with the state leadership discussing the party’s strategy for the upcoming panchayat polls. The West Bengal BJP, which has been licking its wounds after the assembly poll defeat in 2021, … Read more
Assam Police stop vehicles moving in to Shillong and Meghalaya fearing backlash, following border firing incident near Assam-Meghalaya border. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A day after violence at the Assam-Meghalaya border, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on November 23 alleged that the BJP’s North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) has failed the Northeast and called on Home … Read more
Ahead of the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is working on a multi-pronged approach, with a specific focus on wooing the many communities of the State. BJP strategists describe this as “social engineering” combined with the “promise of development”. They know that retaining power is not easy. In the political … Read more
The first ‘Gaurav Yatra’ was taken out by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, after the communal riots and before the 2002 state assembly elections The first ‘Gaurav Yatra’ was taken out by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, after the communal riots and before the 2002 state assembly elections The … Read more
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its manifesto for Bihar election 2020, seeking to reach out to the people in the state with a promise of a free coronavirus vaccine and an assurance of 19 lakh jobs over the next five years, if the party is elected to power. Carrying the tagline ‘BJP hai to … Read more
Narottam Mishra has taken a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his recent comments on Modi government’s handling of the border situation and said “how does he manage to get such highs and where does he get his weed from”. Madhya Pradesh minister Narottam Mishra took a dig at Rahul Gandhi over his claims … Read more
Clashes broke out between BJP workers and the West Bengal Police in Kolkata on Thursday as the party workers tried to break through barricades during their march towards Bengal secretariat ‘Nabanna’. Thousands of BJP workers from Kolkata and Howrah began marching towards Nabanna to protest the “worsening” law and order in the state on Thursday … Read more