Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

A mirror needs no monument: The irony of India’s lecture on minorities

India’s moral posturing becomes all the more risible when juxtaposed with data from Bangladesh.
25 April 2025, 02:00 AM

Will BJP’s infiltration pitch in Bengal and Assam pay off?

Infiltration from India’s border with Bangladesh has become a key component of Bharatiya Janata Party’s strategy for state assembly elections.
1 November 2024, 05:00 AM

The Indian election’s winners and losers

Just as the BJP’s victory represents a kind of defeat, the resurgent opposition’s defeat looks a lot like victory
9 June 2024, 03:00 AM

An Indian election unlike any other in recent past

High-octane Lok Sabha election has lessons for Bangladesh, too
5 June 2024, 16:14 PM

India’s election opens the door to the past

India witnessed a tumultuous time between May 1996 and October 1999 when coalition governments came and left in quick succession.
5 June 2024, 08:49 AM

Fear and loathing surrounding India’s election

After the first phase of voting, Modi seems to have changed his campaign strategy, focusing more on firing up BJP's Hindu base.
15 May 2024, 04:00 AM

Might Modi Lose?

As India’s general election enters its second month, most conventional expectations have already been upended.
4 May 2024, 14:00 PM

The Modi Decade

Dissent is framed as disloyalty, with criticism of government policies labeled “anti-national.”
13 June 2023, 01:00 AM

Is BJP's policy of exclusion and segregation backfiring?

PM Modi's decision to inaugurate the new parliament building himself has garnered scrutiny.
28 May 2023, 13:00 PM

India’s democracy in detention

What happens to Gandhi has important implications for India’s future.
11 April 2023, 14:00 PM

Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy

The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.
31 March 2023, 14:00 PM

Hypocrisy on Stilts in India

The BJP’s charge against Gandhi is a serious one.
15 March 2023, 13:00 PM

Offensive remark against Prophet: BJP lawmaker arrested, suspended from party

A legislator of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern state of Telangana was arrested and suspended today (August 23, 2022) from the party for reportedly making objectionable remark against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
23 August 2022, 11:39 AM

Indian lawmakers voting to elect 15th president of the country

Indian lawmakers today (July 18, 2022) exercised their franchise to elect the country’s 15th president in an election which may see Droupadi Murmu, a tribal woman, occupying the highest constitutional post for the first time.
18 July 2022, 06:37 AM

India should think beyond the Hindutva agenda

Over the last few years – under the BJP government – India’s religious polarisation has increased in degree and intensity.
23 June 2022, 18:00 PM

The promise and pitfalls of Indian foreign policy

Two episodes in the first week of June starkly illustrate both the promise of Indian foreign policy and the pitfalls it faces as a result of the country’s increasingly toxic domestic political culture.
9 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Rise of hate speech in India

Stern official action needed to prevent hate speech
8 June 2022, 13:16 PM

BJP heads for defeat in Delhi election

India's ruling party is projected to lose a key state election, the vote count showed, in its first electoral test since deadly anti-government protests erupted nearly two months ago.
11 February 2020, 06:31 AM

JP Nadda elected new BJP chief

Seasoned politician Jagat Prakash Nadda is elected unopposed as the President of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is set to be handed over the baton by his powerful predecessor and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah.
20 January 2020, 10:03 AM

Assam NRC puts BJP in quandary

The final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which left out around 19.6 lakh people in Assam, puts India’s and the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a quandary.
1 September 2019, 12:24 PM