New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideological push centred on Hindutva has run into rough weather in Northeast India, with at least three allies — National People’s Party (NPP) in …
The fear in many quarters that equitable, non-discriminatory democracy was being slowly strangled has eased. A large cross section of Indian voters used the ballot box to reject the divisive, …
“Modi’s popularity has emerged as the biggest theme, despite issues like unemployment and inflation,” said Yashwant Deshmukh, an independent political commentator and founder of research firm C-Voter. “People expect Modi …
But political observers say a sizeable chunk of India’s population is “completely put off by the narrative of communal polarisation” that the BJP promotes – with Congress and the 28 …
“Earlier, MPs used Hindutva as an excuse not to do any work. There is a limit to its utility,” says a senior BJP leader from Mangaluru, a coastal city about …
New Delhi/Bengaluru: Former Union minister and six-time MP Anantkumar Hegde is the latest among ‘firebrand’ leaders missing from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) list of 407 candidates for the Lok Sabha …
New Delhi: To accelerate its ‘ghar wapsi’ (anti-conversion) programmes, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) has identified 1,000 odd “sensitive” blocks across the country where it will run an “awareness” campaign against …
New Delhi: With the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) stating that “there existed a Hindu temple prior to the construction of the existing structure” at the Gyanvapi site, Vishva Hindu …
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated a temple to the Hindu god Ram at the site of a razed mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya, an event …
“They’re bringing the political project into the cultural realm,” Purohit said, adding that H-pop “stripped off of a lot of the sharp edges political rhetoric carries”. Indian singer Kavi Singh. …