An impression is sought to be created that the JD (U) was opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempts at making Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial nominee for the next Parliamentary poll. 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

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

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

Veteran politician and BJP stalwart LK Advani took everyone by surprise when he seemed to state in his blog what many people perceive to be the truth—that in the next Lok Sabha election, the Congress and the BJP may not have adequate numbers and therefore the Prime Minister maybe from one of the regional outfits. Read more

The crisis within the Bharatiya Janata Party has reached alarming proportions, badly impacting the image of the Saffron outfit. Read more

While I knew all along that the Congress would lose all the seven assembly seats in the by-elections in Andhra Pradesh, what has come as a surprise in political circles is the defeat of the BJP in the Chikmaglur Lok Sabha seat, which was vacated by the Karanatka chief minister Sadanand Gowda. Read more

Absence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign for the ongoing assembly polls has led to all kinds of speculation on why he has kept away and whether it was his way of getting back at the RSS leadership for inducting his main detractor Sanjay Joshi in the Saffron Brigade’s battle to regain Uttar Pradesh in particular. Read more