Outside of the local political dynamics of Agartala, Kohima, and Shillong, the results of the latest assembly elections indicate that the processes that drove this wider reframing of the regional political chessboard over the last eight years by Modi’s new BJP have deepened and taken greater root
Browsing: The New BJP
Nalin Mehta’s latest book The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party is now out. A revisionist history of the BJP, this is a non-partisan study of the party’s political growth, already being acclaimed as a ‘classic’. It has been published by Westland (Amazon) in South Asia, after a fiercely-contested auction featuring the top six publishers in India. Translations in Indian regional languages are also on the way.
Soon after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a whopping 66 per cent hike in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) to Rs 79,590 crore in the…
This interview of Nalin Mehta by Aditi Phadnis appeared in Business Standard on 15 January 2023. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat’s comments this week…
This interview of Nalin Mehta for Hindustan Times by Manjula Narayan appeared in Smartcast on 13 January 2022. Listen to the full podcast here “If the ground…
It started with a municipal election that nobody thought mattered. It was 1987. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the leading light of the BJP and one day…
‘Aa Gujarat Main Banavyu Che [I have made this Gujarat],’ PM Modi had declared in his first campaign rally in Gujarat, at Nana Pondha village in Valsad district. Over the…
In this triangular fight that upends the state’s two-party polity, the BJP is banking on Brand Modi, Congress on grassroots workers and the AAP on a…
Home minister Amit Shah’s recent comments in Guwahati that the “real Bharat jodo” was begun in 2014 by PM Modi in the Northeast have refocussed attention…
This little-known and extraordinary public battle between Nehru and his own party leadership was the culmination of a larger fight for control between Nehru and the…
With the Karnataka High Court allowing Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at the Idgahground in Hubli, a Hindu organisation, which has been awarded the contract by theHuballi Dharwad…
