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

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

The week has seen a fresh round of charges being made against the BJP president, Nitin Gadkari and the Himachal Pradesh Congress president and former CM, Virbhadra Singh. While both have denied the “unsubstantiated allegations”, political grapevine suggests that the material against the two leaders has been given to rivals and opponents by their own respective partymen. Read more

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

LK Advani will go down in the history of Indian politics as the most traveled politician. His sixth Yatra from Sitabdiara, the birthplace of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan started on the total revolutionary’s birthday, October 11th. Though Advani has claimed that JP had inspired him, it was surprisingly his first visit to his village, which continues to be one of the most underdeveloped and ignored areas of Bihar. Read more

Ever since the US think tank expressed the view that Narendra Modi, the controversial Gujarat chief minister could be the BJP’s choice for Prime Ministership in the next Parliamentary elections, all newspapers and TV channels have been speculating whether it will be Modi Vs Rahul in 2014 (or earlier). Read more

The recent judgement by the apex court directing the Special Investigation Team, which investigated the Gulbarg massacre to place its report before the designated magistrate, has once again put the spotlight on chief minister Narendra Modi and his alleged involvement in the riots that shook the state in 2002. Read more

Realising that it made a grave error in agreeing to an understanding with the ruling dispensation over the debate on price rise in Parliament last week, the BJP seems to have suddenly become wiser. Read more