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

The decision of the Janata Dal (United) to field candidates in the forthcoming Gujarat assembly polls is being seen as an indirect attempt by the party to help the BJP chief minister Narendra Modi. The announcement tried to create an impression that the JD(U) which takes pride in projecting its secular credentials was not going to support its NDA ally, BJP in Gujarat and had made up its mind to fight the polls there on its own steam. 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

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

Anna Hazare’s fast at the Ramlila ground has attracted unprecedented crowds. For someone who was born and grew up in Delhi, I have not seen anyone getting this kind of support even if it is from a certain section of our people. 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