Liz Mathew

BJP keen to see him nominated to RS, but doesn't want to upset JD(U).

The ministers are expected to launch their electioneering work during the outreach exercise to mark eight years of the Narendra Modi government, sources said.

As the community's influence wanes, Brahmin leaders fear BJP too diluting its upper caste focus

In the document, the party, referring to the Ramjanmabhoomi issue, took the stance that courts cannot settle disputes related to temples and mosques. Now, at the helm of the country, its position has changed.

Madhav said technology has more intelligence than the humans but it doesn't have the heart, and the intervention of humans is necessary.

Madhav, while addressing the concluding session of the three-day India Ideas Conclave, said that the topic of the conference — Meta 2.0 — was chosen to change the discourse from religious topics so that India does not miss out on another era of technology like in the past.

Moni was addressing a session titled ‘India@2047’ at the India Ideas Conclave, organised by India Foundation, a think-tank working closely with BJP and RSS.

While diplomacy and diaspora, which Scindia said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had reinvented to India’s advantage, will be the seventh pillar and India’s global standing will be the eighth one.

The minister said that with 60 million going to a petrol pump every day, and with a daily consumption of 5 million barrels a day, it’s the steps taken by the Indian government that will ensure energy security.

"Technology can be the icing on the cake," he said, addressing the inaugural session of the 7th India Ideas Conclave on ‘India-2.0 Rebooting to Meta Era’, organised by India Foundation, a think tank backed by the RSS.

Addressing the inaugural session of India Ideas Conclave, organised in Bengaluru by the RSS-backed India Foundation, Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran also says ‘technology can be the icing on the cake’.

According to sources, the BJP wants to ensure that its Dalit support base in key states should be expanded ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Senior BJP leaders, including some office-bearers, told The Indian Express that “new developments” have triggered fresh debate within that could also include a relook at the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991.

Envoys of US, Australia, Canada, Israel, Denmark, Bhutan, Fiji, Indonesia, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Suriname and Dominican Republic attended the event hosted by the BJP's Overseas Cell.

Now that the BJP's rule covers almost 50 per cent of the country's population, how relevant is the “Congress mukt” slogan for the party? Will it have the same game-changing effect on the electoral scene, as some BJP leaders said it did in 2014?

One crisis too many for old-time Sangh hand who was close to top BJP leaders

Manik Saha was elected leader of the legislature party — and thereby the new CM — at a meeting held in the official residence of the Chief Minister.

Party workers have been asked to dedicate 75 hours over 10 days to convey to the people the welfare schemes initiated by the BJP government in the past eight years.

‘People are getting confused with removal of illegal constructions. The sound of bulldozers is not new to Delhi – right from 1977 Turkman Gate to Sanjay Gandhi's efforts’

Smooth run ahead, but BJP irons out creases; amid tension with JD(U), sends Union minister to Patna

Party looks to Union home minister to put an end to infighting in state unit and boost morale of 'disillusioned cadre'.

The rift-ridden Chhattisgarh unit has not shown any sign of revival, with one faction alleging that the dominant faction led by former chief minister Raman Singh is calling the shots without taking others into confidence.

"Basically, the aim is to strengthen the booths in the constituencies where the BJP has already won to retain them and to make more strongholds, we will be working on 100 more Lok Sabha seats where the party has not won,” said a member of the team.

The near-disappearance of the iftar culture from the political landscape is being seen as a sign of the distance India's politics has travelled over the last few years, a shift that is being attributed to the dominance of the BJP in national politics.