The BJP can only form a government if the PDP splits.
'Amit Shah's trajectory seems unstoppable; no wonder some say the day is not far off when he could be pitching for the top job, and that this is only the first step,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat -- arguably, the third most powerful person in the ruling dispensation -- on Monday, December 20, met the Dalai Lama at Gaden Phodrang, his home in Mcleodganj, Himachal Pradesh.
For months, there has been talk that Narendra Damodardas Modi and Ajay Mohan Bisht, aka Yogi Adityanath, don't get along.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the home ministry's protection largesse.
'Three successive failures can tarnish the image of invincibility.' 'Once this happens, Chanakya can fall prey to his adversaries outside and inside the party,' notes Amulya Ganguli.
Both Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have refused to meet Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha.
For the first 90 days of 2021, from January 5 onwards, one Union minister will visit one district in Tamil Nadu every week till the assembly election.
If Nitish is as shrewd a practitioner of realpolitik as he is billed to be, we'd like to see if he can do the unthinkable -- break up the BJP legislature party in Bihar.
'The frequency of 'vikas' being used in speeches and slogans has reduced noticeably. Why is the 'BJP's Chanakya' so aggressive and combative?' asks Utkarsh Mishra.
'In a democracy, how can you be scared of Amit Shah?'
'Definitely, crowd management will be a challenge, but we will ensure we have enough forces at hand to take care of any situation.'
Uttam Ghosh offer his take on the Pragya Thakur controversy.
The Janata Dal-United-Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress government will face a confidence vote in the Bihar assembly on Wednesday, August 24, next, and it is quite likely that the BJP will do all it can to defeat the trust vote.
All top ten candidates belong to the BJP.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat was laid to rest with a 17-gun salute and full military honours on Friday.
Droupadi Murmu, India's 15th President, will be the youngest (she is only 64) and India's first President to be born after Independence.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan felicitates Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi.
It was not a one-way ride up though for the man who now could potentially become the BJP's national president over time.
What we find interesting are the crowds Akhilesh Yadav has been attracting on his Samajwadi Vijay Rath Yatra in the state.
Monday, November 8, 2021, Lal Kishenchand Advani -- the politician who took the Bharatiya Janata Party from its parliamentary nadir in 1984, when it won just two Lok Sabha seats, to establishing the edifice for its present dominance in Indian politics -- will turn 94.
Arvind Kejriwal is poised to return to power with a simple majority. Even if the BJP wins 20 to 25 seats, it will be seen as a victory, says R Rajagopalan.
Some of Dada's fans used the opportunity to urge him not to enter politics.
For the 2019 polls, the BJP chief deployed over 7,000 leaders to oversee the work of polling committees on the over 400 seats the BJP contested. These committees were asked to focus on 120 seats the party had lost in 2014, but believed it could win in 2019.
Anushka-Virat? Sonam-Anand? Alia-Ranbir? Deepika-Ranvir? Priyanka-Nick? Varun-Natasha? Take your pick!
'The central BJP has worked out an arrangement -- Yogi manages the state while Modi manages the Centre.'
Thursday was the day results from the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections and by-elections in Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh were out, so what were some of our leaders up to?
'I just want to keep on working till they have to shoot me down.'
What some of our leaders were up to on Tuesday, November 15.
'It is a fight for principles for him, where he shall be presenting his protest to the wrongdoings.'
Insiders say President Kovind has been told he will not be re-nominated, reveals R Rajagopalan.
'Reports of the JD-U joining hands with the BJP again is baseless.'
8 ministers in Modi Sarkar.2 are undergraduates.
Chalo Jeete Hain is a film based on Narendra Damodardas's childhood.
'My protest was in the interest of the nation.' 'I am just doing my duty as a citizen of this country.'
Modi and Shah addressed rallies away from the four major urban centres of Gujarat: Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat and Rajkot.
In 2018, the BJP's rare successes in north-east India aside, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong for the party.
Glimpses from all the action from the campaign trail.
Nearly 137 public meetings in UP...
'In 2021, assembly elections are going to be held in Assam. The BJP, sitting in Delhi, is thinking everything is hunky-dory in Assam. But that is not the case.' 'People of Assam are no longer with the BJP.'
