Ever since the DMK withdrew its support from the UPA government at the Centre, there has been speculation regarding early elections to Lok Sabha. This was so because after both DMK and earlier the Trinamool had parted ways with the ruling alliance the coalition was reduced to a minority government. Read more

The expulsion of noted lawyer and Rajya Sabha MP, Ram Jethmalani from the Bharatiya Janata Party for six years on grounds of indiscipline is being interpreted in political circles differently. Read more

The Karnataka assembly election outcome for the Bharatiya Janata Party would not have been so dismal had its leadership drawn a leaf from Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political acumen and persisted with its old war horses. Read more

Political developments are taking place at an extremely fast pace within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While on one hand Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi continues to address gatherings in different cities fueling speculation of his Prime ministerial ambitions, on the other supporters of veteran politician LK Advani are making feeble attempts at pushing his case one last time. Read more

There is a lot of speculation on whether this year’s union budget to be presented by the finance minister in Parliament on Thursday would be an exercise which factors in an early Lok Sabha election. Read more

Three times Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi continues to be a controversial figure and for the right or wrong reasons he has been consistently hitting the headlines. His visit to the Delhi University’s Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) is being seen as his first attempt at launching himself on the National stage from the capital. Read more

Rajnath Singh’s second tenure as the BJP president will determine whether the Saffron Party will once again re-assert itself in the Parliamentary poll or go the same way it did after 2009 when he was also incharge. Read more

The suspense over the second term of Nitin Gadkari ended earlier this week when the Maharashtra leader decided to withdraw himself from the race after it was certain that he could not be the unanimous choice for the top post. Read more

There has been a lot of speculation in the media on whether Nitin Gadkari will get a second term as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party. While some of the major newspapers have indicated that the possibility looked very strong given that the Sangh Parivar has not been able to find any alternative name, nothing can be said with certainty as yet. Read more

Has the recent statement by Sushma Swaraj, BJP stalwart and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha been wrongly interpreted in some circles as an endorsement of Narendra Modi for the top job in the country? In order to reach any conclusion, one has to first see the context in which she praised the Gujarat Chief Minister as also the timing and venue of her observation. Read more