Lk Advani

Five reasons why Modi's BJP should not take 2024 election victory as foregone

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are not going to be between the BJP and the Opposition. The only opponent which can leash the democratic world's most potent political force is the BJP’s own smugness or slackness, in case either or both creep in

Allahabad high court dismisses plea challenging acquittal of LK Advani and others in Babri Demolition

The court said these two appellants had challenged the judgement of the special CBI court, Lucknow, which on September 30, 2020, had acquitted LK Advani, Kalyan Singh and the remaining accused in the case

Padyatra decoded: Why politicians opt for public perambulations to regain relevance

Many leaders who find themselves at the intersection of foundering and stupefaction — have fallen back on this tactic invented and iconised by Mahatma Gandhi against the British

Nitin Gadkari slams ‘fabricated’ campaign: Why fiery, outspoken Union minister hit headlines yet again

From saying the Centre is ‘not taking decisions on time’ and attributing the party’s rise to power under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the efforts of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani, Nitin Gadkari has recently made some eyebrow-raising remarks about the BJP

Interview | How Narendra Modi takes tough, at times unpopular decisions and still masses stand by him

Narendra Modi can do so because he knows the pulse of the masses, says veteran journalist Ajay Singh, whose new book on the Prime Minister has just hit the shelves

The first sightings of an organiser: How Modi surprised Advani with his organisational skills

The overwhelming response to the Gujarat leg of the yatra was a surprise for LK Advani. Pramod Mahajan, who had to lead the yatra’s next leg through his own state, told Advani: ‘Don’t expect this kind of response in Maharashtra’

Interview | We are secular because India is a Hindu-majority nation: Bhupender Yadav

Union Minister Bhupender Yadav and economist Ila Patnaik talk about their new book that traces the BJP’s evolution, its historic win in Uttar Pradesh, and of course the party’s Hindutva connection

Assembly elections 2022: Nothing new in Akhilesh Yadav's EVM fraud claim; a look back at the use of EVMs and the many tampering allegations

The veracity of Electronic Voting Machines, first used as an experiment in 1982 in India, has been questioned several times in the past — from LK Advani in 2009 to the Opposition in 2017 during the Assembly elections

Lalu Prasad Yadav: Lingering autumn of the patriarch who straddled the '90s with bluff and bluster

Today, elections come and go, controversial issues crop up and die down and there is not a squeak out of Lalu Prasad Yadav. His continuing entanglement with the law and resultant irrelevance is a cautionary tale

BJP leaders to sit on fast for Telangana ‎in Delhi today

Seeking to mount pressure on the ruling Congress, BJP would hold a three-day agitation in Delhi from today in support of separate Telangana state.