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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Idukki district president KS Aji was elated when the party retained eight of the 35 wards in the municipality of Thodupuzha, a small town in the hilly district in Kerala, in the local body elections in December.
Underlying the procedural lapse and its consequences for the finance minister is a far more vexed issue of the fiscal compact between the Centre and states coming under severe strain due to revenue disruption.
In October 2015, RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale told Reuters: “We would want the BJP to win all the state elections because only then can significant social, political and cultural changes take place in this country.
The home ministry has asked the Fifteenth Finance Commission (FFC) to create a National Internal Security Fund (NISF) with an initial corpus of Rs 50,000 crore to meet capital expenditure, a good part of which would likely be on real time surveillance and intelligence gathering technology and gadgets.
Shashwat Gautam, a former national coordinator in the Congress Party’s data analytics department during the Lok Sabha elections, has accused ace political strategist Prashant Kishor of stealing a campaign slogan, logo and data he had created for the Bihar assembly elections expected later this year.
The messaging for Delhi elections, says AAP’s social media head Ankit Lal, is “vote on the work our government has done in Delhi”. But he concedes that AAP’s digital job has become more challenging over the past few days with BJP messaging around Shaheen Bagh emerging as a talking point.
Fifty-six years after the recalibration, much of the Sangh Parivar now accepts Gandhi but there are still many who love to hate the Mahatma.
With the Lok Sabha secure, the Sangh Parivar is hoping to have a bigger say in govt policies.
The Sangh Parivar is grabbing all opportunities to raid into the Left’s and Congress’s Hindu vote base.
Narendra Modi’s face has launched a thousand digital enterprises, most of them on Facebook. They are now at the forefront of his party’s election campaign.
Organisation plans to send out small teams with specific missions; MRM leaders urge BJP to consider fielding 15-20 Muslim candidates in key constituencies
Indira Gandhi’s brute force in Parliament in 1971 encouraged practically the entire opposition to bury its differences and go for broke.
RSS believes it’s at an inflection point and is attempting Hindu consolidation, image makeover and favourable political environment at the same time.
ET sits down with ruling party data crunchers to understand the new strategy.
A close analysis of ‘nationalist’ economic views reveals more cultural nativism than coherent economics.
The party workers are willing and the leaders are trying, but the electoral outcome of Uttar Pradesh hinges on one person — BSP supremo Mayawati.
The Hindu majoritarian project is complete in Gujarat. It means wresting power would now require either deepening the divisions or erasing Hindu diversity.
BJP's electoral success hinges on stitching up an alliance which could provide a third alternative in a state where power has alternated between LDF and UDF.
BJP president Amit Shah says the Goa govt would always function under Manohar Parrikkar’s leadership, no matter where he holds office.
Uttar Pradesh lacks a comprehensive economic vision and political will to break out of the superstructure of crime, corruption and cynical politics
In his speech that day, Mohan Bhagwat said RSS’ mission was to equip individuals “with the aim of taking this sacred Hindu nation to the pinnacle of glory in the world”.
BSM is setting up a foundation that will promote research on Indian themes. The workshop identified 252 ‘research ideas to build Bharat’ in various fields.
Many see national security advisor Ajit Doval’s hand in the strategic shift in India’s diplomatic engagement and military preparedness.
Lalit agreed and asked for time to consult his client upon which the court adjourned the hearing. “It was only tentatively agreed. It was not final,” Lalit told ET.
Govindacharya’s group planning massive memorial for those killed in police firing in a 1966 agitation in Delhi for demanding ban on cow slaughter.
As the Modi government completes two years, the BJP and its ideological parent have settled down to a working relationship.
Almost all appointments and policy moves are initiated from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and then percolated through ministries.
At the national executive he advised partymen to not pay attention to irrelevant issues, remain focused on their "agenda of vikas, vikas, vikas".
A week before the clean-up campaign began Modi launched Make in India, an initiative aimed at attracting foreign capital and luring global industries to set up manufacturing bases in India.
Caste-clashes are on the rise in many districts of Tamil Nadu. In March, a Dalit youth Sankar was chopped to death in broad daylight near the textile hub of Tirupur.
From the vast Brahmaputra river off Guwahati, Lachit Borphukan lunges forward, scimitar drawn and hand pointed in exhortation to his soldiers beside him.
When Mamata takes out a rally men, women and children throng the roads to get a glimpse of her as she walks smiling and waving at the hordes.
Caste is the biggest influencer in Indian politics and caste-based quotas in education and jobs are seen as an economic entitlement bestowed by the state.
Data by DIPP shows that new projects planned in 2014-15 expect to hire less than half the of workers compared to projects conceived a year ago.
