The BJP’s chief minister in waiting, B.S. Yediyurappa, greets the newly elected MLA from Yeshwanthpur, Shobha Karandlaje, at his residence in Bangalore on Monday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: …
It’s not often that the long arm of the law manages to shake hands with India’s powerful godmen and women. But on Sunday, 25 May 2008, as the political vacuum …
Journalist turned BJP strategist Swapan Dasgupta, who had an inside track on the BJP campaign in Karnataka, writes about how the BJP learnt from and implemented the findings of an …
G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, the psephologist behind Development and Research Services (DRS), who had offered ‘Six reasons why Congress will lose in Karnataka‘, now offers seven tips for the Congress to …
Sujan Dutta in The Telegraph, Calcutta, salutes Arun Jaitley, the commander of the BJP’s victorious army in Karnataka, and compares him to German “Desert Fox”, Erwin Rommel: “Arun Jaitley has …
Since 2004, the Congress has won assembly elections in Goa, Haryana, Assam, Maharashtra, Manipur and Pondicherry. It has lost in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Bengal, Tripura, …
Now that the Bharatiya Janata Party has firmly set foot in the southern peninsula by exploding all the usual myths associated with it of being a party of just one …