Bharatiya Jana Sangh

Two arrested for waving black flags at Narendra Modi's convoy in Kolkata, including Congress student wing president

Two persons were on Sunday arrested here for waiving black flags at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's convoy, police sources confirmed

Narendra Modi announces renaming of Kolkata Port Trust after Syama Prasad Mookerjee; Mamata Banerjee skips event

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, speaking at the inauguration of the 150th anniversary celebrations of Kolkata Port Trust, announced that it will be renamed as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port.

All BJP ministers in Jammu and Kashmir cabinet to resign but PDP-BJP coalition intact, say reports

Top sources in the BJP said that the decision was taken at a core group meeting, chaired by party vice president Avinash Rai Khanna, at the party headquarters in Jammu.

Syama Prasad Mookerjee death anniversary: Narendra Modi, Amit Shah pay tribute to Jana Sangh founder on 66th 'Balidan Diwas'

Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda and many BJP leaders paid homage to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Bharatiya Jan Sangh founder, on his 66th death anniversary.

Decades of ground work by RSS helped BJP wrest 18 seats in Mamata's fortress, says poll strategist Sunil Deodhar

According to Sunil Deodhar, BJP's poll strategist for West Bengal, the saffron party didn't have to do much as the groundwork has been going on in Bengal for decades by RSS and its affiliates

BJP rhetoric over West Bengal rath yatra ban hypocritical; party muscles out Opposition wherever it is in power

The Trinamool Congress may not be an exemplar of democratic functioning, but the rath yatra ban does not prove that.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls: Narendra Modi's 1998 experiments in social engineering might save day for BJP

Modi encouraged a new breed of leadership and goaded the organisaton into expanding its arc of influence to the scheduled castes and tribals whom he regarded as low-hanging fruits. His efforts met with strong resistance from within the BJP’s state leadership.

Narendra Modi and RSS, Part 2: Rise of a backward caste as PM is highpoint of Sangh's Hindutva project

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s emergence as the tallest Hindutva leader coming from backward class is not a freak accident. It is consistent with the history of the RSS and its efforts to forge a Hindutva force subsuming all castes

Narendra Modi and the RSS: Why Mohan Bhagwat remarks are contemporaneous and yet consistent with history

The RSS leadership has faced more criticism from within for pursuing a course of reform that runs contrary to traditionalists beholden to dogmas.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's most profound creative disruptions in Indian politics: A three-hour lunch with the Advanis

Those who recall Atal Bihari Vajpayee only for his statesmanship, geniality and wit are missing the wood for the trees