WHO would dare to judge that India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has already reached its electoral tidemark? Its big victory in May, taking 282 of 543 seats in Parliament's lower house, surprised almost everyone. It was a tribute to a blistering campaign by Narendra Modi, now prim...
As well as being an elected representative in the state assembly, Sengar is also a member of the BJP, the party of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The case prompted large demonstrations when details of the case emerged in April. Protests had already broken out across Indiaafter the rape ...
KOLKATA,India (Reuters) - The incumbent chief minister's party in India's West Bengal state has defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in a state election held as the coronavirus pandemic surged to crisis levels. Modi has been criticised for focusing on the elections instead of ma...
India's ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has secured a majority of the seats in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of Parliament), winning the 2024 I...
The encouraging results of the BJP, the main ruling party in India since 2014, is seen as an outcome of Modi's pro-poor "public welfare schemes," especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when the federal government distributed free food to the economically weaker sections of the society. Besi...
NEW DELHI, March 30 (Xinhua) -- President of India's main ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Amit Shah filed his nomination papers on Saturday from the Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency in India's western state of Gujarat. The constituency is presently represented by BJP's founding member ...
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) - India's ruling party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, a senior leader said, a proposal that would almost certainly heighten tensions in the restive region. ...
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