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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged BJP, Congress, Gujarat, Ishrat Jahan, Narendra Modi, Naxalites, Terrorists
Contrary to the impression that Rajnath Singh is trying to give, the internal war within the BJP is not winding down. It is just beginning. And contrary to the sentiments that have been put down in letters, the war is not about ideology. It is about: who runs the BJP. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged L.K. Advani, Lok Sabha, Narendra Modi, Rajnath Singh, Rajya Sabha
As the BJP begins post-mortems of its defeat in the General Election and tries to institute a generational change in its leadership, many suggestions have been put forward about how it can recast itself.
The first suggestion — made by Arun Jaitley in an article in the Indian Express — is that the party must abandon shrillness because voters prefer moderation. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Arun Jaitley, General Election, hindustan times, Indian Express, L.K. Advani, Narendra Modi, Ottavio Quattrocchi, Pramod Mahajan, Sadhvi Rithambara, Uma Bharati
When it comes to the Gujarat election, nothing is as simple as it seems. Take the BJP, for instance. It is a party in disarray, confounded by the virtual withdrawal of AB Vajpayee from public life, demolished in Uttar Pradesh, at war with itself and desperately in search of a coherent ideology. You would expect that because Gujarat offers the BJP its single best hope of a morale-boosting victory, the party would do everything possible to win the election.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged AB Vajpayee, BJP, BJP leadership’s, Gujarat Election, Hindu-Muslim, Hindutva, Hindutva Hero, Narendra Modi, RSS’s, Uttar Pradesh
