NDA ally Shiv Sena has done its own post-mortem of the Karnataka debacle - it says the BJP should have projected Narendra Modi as an outright Hindutva leader instead of trying to project a secular image. ...
03:55 PM, May 12, 2013
One of the truly enigmatic personalities on the contemporary Indian political canvas, Narendra Damodardas Modi is difficult to ignore. From his humble beginnings as a RSS pracharak to his rise in the Hindutva ranks, and from being Bharatiya Janata Party' master planner to one of the its most popular and controversial state chief ministers, Modi's mantra of change and development is gradually finding many takers. Though he evokes vastly different...
07:21 PM, Apr 15, 2013
BJP leader Uma Bharti, who was appointed party vice president on Sunday, said the best way to find a solution to the Ayodhya dispute was through talks. ...
06:12 AM, Apr 01, 2013
Author and Professor of Political Science, University of Hyderabad Jyotirmaya Sharma joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on his book 'Cosmic Love and Human Apathy'. ...
06:05 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Is the Afzal Guru hanging a mark of UPA's desperation? BJP's National Executive member Sheshadri Chari joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
04:50 PM, Feb 09, 2013
In line of fire over his alleged hate speech, VHP leader Praveen Togadia on Saturday said he was ready to go to jail for the sake of Hindutva. "I am ready to go to jail...I am ready to do anything for Hindutva," Togadia, who is at the Kumbh Mela, told PTI over phone. "It is no crime to speak in the interest of the country," he said. ...
02:12 PM, Feb 09, 2013
India has long been a victim of jehadi terror but most of it has been sponsored from across the border. But the Samjhauta Express blast, the Hyderabad blasts, hate speeches by the likes of Togadia and disruption of art shows in the name of hurting religious sensibilities bring us to confront a bigger question? Has right wing terror come to stay in India? Analyst Praveen Swami shared his perspective in...
06:30 PM, Feb 08, 2013
After leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to yet another win in Gujarat Assembly elections, Narendra Modi, a development-oriented and clean leader for his supporters and a despicable politician for his opponents, is clearly eyeing a bigger role in national politics. ...
08:22 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's hold over the Hindu vote bank in the state has made organisations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad irrelevant in the battle for Gujarat. He may have tried Sadbhavna Yatra to connect with the Muslims and for national political acceptance, but in the Gujarat elections it is not always about that same spirit. ...
08:47 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Two decades is almost a third of the journey that independent India has covered since 1947. It's been a long journey, chequered with events that ...
12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Mangalore: From an outsiders point of view, Mangalore with its booming economy looks like any other cosmopolitan city in the making. However, behind this facade is a deep divide within the society which is leading to frequent frictions that some call attack on individuals freedom; while others describe it as an attempt to protect Hindu culture. Not everyone here condemns the July 28 raid on Morning Mist homestay, although they...
11:44 AM, Aug 14, 2012
New Delhi: In an apparent attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his "prime minister should have secular credentials" remark, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has batted for Narendra Modi, saying such comments are being made for vote-bank politics and minority appeasement. Soon after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's comments last week that a Hindutva face can become the PM, the Sangh's mouthpiece 'Panchajanya' sought to know why there is...
11:55 AM, Jun 24, 2012
Bhagwat comes out in open support of Modi as a potential PM candidate, even as Nitish escalates his war within the NDA. ...
11:10 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Lucknow: Twelve days to go for the first round of polling in Uttar Pradesh and it is pouring sops. The BJP and the Congress released their manifesto on Friday. While the BJP rode the Hindutva plank, the Congress focussed on reservations and unemployment. The Congress wants to increase the sub quota for backward Muslims to 9 per cent while the BJP threatens to do away with the 4.5 per cent...
07:29 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Patna: Congress' decision of carving out a sub-quota for minorities withing the OBCs' 27 per cent quota will "bolster" Hindutva forces and break the social cohesion between OBCs and minorities, the JD(U) claimed on Friday. National spokesman of JD(U), a key NDA ally, Shivanand Tiwari on Friday termed the Congress' proposed move as "unfortunate". He was reacting to the Centre's decision to carve out a sub-quota of 4.5 per cent...
02:52 PM, Dec 23, 2011
New Delhi: Not getting the kind of public support it had expected on issues like corruption and law and order, BJP is all set to revive the Hindutva and Ram temple agenda in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the party planning to wrap up its Jan Swabhiman Yatra at Ayodhya on November 17. In a bid to enthuse the party cadre and reach out to the electorate of UP, BJP had...
02:36 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: Not getting the kind of public support it had expected on issues like corruption and law and order, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to revive the Hindutva and Ram temple agenda in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the party planning to wrap up its Jan Swabhiman Yatra at Ayodhya on November 17. In a bid to enthuse the party cadre and reach out to the electorate...
07:06 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: Not getting the kind of public support it had expected on issues like corruption and law and order, the BJP is all set to revive the Hindutva and Ram temple agenda in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the party planning to wrap up its Jan Swabhiman Yatra at Ayodhya on November 17. In a bid to enthuse the party cadre and reach out to the electorate of UP, the...
07:01 PM, Nov 08, 2011
Panaji: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Friday said though he believes in Hindutva, he does not go to temples, or even perform a puja. "I don't go the temples. I don't perform puja," Gadkari said during an interaction at 'Goa Think Fest 2011'. The BJP president, however, defended his party's politics of Hindutva. "Hinduism is a way of life. It is not about a religion," he said, adding, "Political Hindutva...
08:48 AM, Nov 05, 2011
Varanasi: Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, whose bombing and shooting spree in Oslo left atleast 76 people dead, has a remote Indian connection. The combat badges of the 32-year-old's militant outfit were supplied by a weaver in Varanasi. Breivik, a self-proclaimed anti-Muslim fundamentalist, placed an order for preparing an embroidered insignia for his militant outfit 'Justiciar Knight' through the internet with a weaver in the narrow bylanes of Pathani...
11:31 AM, Jul 27, 2011
