On Operation Mahadev, BJP MP Manan Kumar Mishra said, "The whole world knows how active our army is. The questions that the opposition was raising on the intelligence—how active it is, that the ...

Modi, the populist leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has tightened his grip on India’s democratic institutions in way not seen since 1970s, when Indira Gandhi ruled ...

BJP and RSS leaders are going to great lengths to send out the message that the RSS is a cultural organization and uninvolved in the BJP’s political activity.

It is not that the BJP’s popularity has fallen across the board. Its overall share of the national vote declined only fractionally, from 37.3% to 36.5% (see chart 1). In the south, in the past a ...

Election win gives Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP another term to raise India’s global stature – and to manage contentious relationships with China and Pakistan.