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• Yogi's big challenge: banishing encephalitis

  Broadcast On August 20, 2017

  ... addressed his own BJP government and, in particular, Health Minister J. P. Nadda. But deaths from Japanese encephalitis continued. Thus, between 2004 and 2017, there was a total of 15,315, 54 per cent ...

• Yechury's Rajya Sabha exit a godsend for NDA

  Broadcast On August 6, 2017

  ...  Now, when the BJP has more Rajya Sabha MPs than Congress and when the NDA and its friends are no longer heavily outnumbered by the combined opposition, Yechury will be missing. This is particularly dismaying. ...

• Words, words, words

  Broadcast On May 7, 2010

  ... and clichéd epithet and I can’t see why the BJP is offended. It’s certainly not Mani at his best. Borrowing from the Cambridge Union, here are a few things Mani could have said: ...

• With politicians like these …..

  Broadcast On June 26, 2008

  ... of the BJP is only marginally better. The thin difference is the fact its not in power and cannot directly influence developments. But the party’s hypocrisy and its determination to place its ...

• Will Mr. Modi let the BJP trip him up?

  Broadcast On August 31, 2014

  Has the BJP taken leave of its senses? And, of course, that’s a rhetorical and also provocative question but then, as you will soon discover, its both justified and grounded in a disturbing, actually distressing, ...

• Why two wrongs cannot make a right

  Broadcast On July 8, 2018

  ... BJP without simultaneously striking at Rahul Gandhi and Congress. You can discuss the sins of today without recalling those of the past. There are even times when balance is distorting and we need to ...

• WHY LK ADVANI IS A TRULY SPECIAL POLITICIAN FOR ME

  Broadcast On February 11, 2024

  I have no doubt the BJP politician I have got to know best – and through him his family – is Lal Krishna Advani. There was a time when I had clearly won his confidence and, on odd occasions, he would even ...

• WHY CHANGING NAMES OF PLACES IS ERRONEOUS

  Broadcast On May 8, 2022

  ... East India Company. Najafgarh is where Najaf Khan built a fort to protect Delhi against the British. In BJP terminology that makes him  a freedom fighter!   Let me, however, make a wider, albeit rhetorical, ...

• Whose nose is longer?

  Broadcast On October 20, 2005

  ... its ferocious attack on Laloo Yadav and its prolonged boycott of Parliament over the issue of tainted ministers, the answer is the BJP (44.4 per cent). But, in fact, none of the parties emerges clean. ...

• Who are the sons and daughters of India?

  Broadcast On January 19, 2020

  ... all Indians, including muslims, were one people. Is Amit Shah refuting or turning his back on the Mahatma’s belief?   In 2015 Ram Madhav, a general secretary of the BJP, told Al Jazeera he believes ...

• Which would you say is the better one?

  Broadcast On December 23, 1998

  ... to have been “Is this government damaged beyond repair or is it in fact about to resurrect itself?”. Its an issue on everyone’s lips yet to ensure that the BJP was fairly handled we decided to break with ...

• Where are you ‘guv’?

  Broadcast On March 10, 2005

  ... manage simple arithmetic or is very gullible.  But what I write of Congress-appointed governors is equally true of those chosen by the BJP.  Vinod Pande was one of theirs. Jagmohan, who they roundly ...

• WHEN KANDHAMAL CAST A SHADOW OVER BJD-BJP TIES

  Broadcast On March 24, 2024

  ... and failed to forge a new alliance with the BJP, I want to recall what Naveen Patnaik said fifteen years ago. Then I’ll leave you to come to your own conclusion.   I interviewed him after the horrific ...

• What ‘Zeeks’ could have taught Mr. Modi

  Broadcast On November 10, 2013

  “When the BJP said Modi would make history, did you realize he would literally make it up?” Pertie was laughing but it was a telling point. “If only someone like Zeeks had taught him he wouldn’t have made ...

• What they didn’t say

  Broadcast On July 28, 2013

  The recent angry exchanges between Congress and BJP hide more than they reveal. Whilst it’s true politicians often don’t speak the truth and rarely the full truth, on this occasion what they glossed over ...

• What should we make of Narendra Modi?

  Broadcast On June 8, 2014

  ... frequently asked and because I don’t have a definitive answer I’m encouraged to search for one. Let’s start with Mr. Modi’s personal style. On the day he was elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party ...

• What political parties must not do for votes

  Broadcast On November 1, 2020

  ... the unstated part is if you don’t vote for the BJP your life could be at risk. Metaphorically speaking, that feels like a gun to the head.   What makes it worse is this promise has been made by a party ...

• WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A MUSLIM IN INDIA?

  Broadcast On December 24, 2023

  ... Karnataka, boasted the BJP doesn’t need Muslim votes.   What makes the situation worse is what’s said of Muslims by ruling party leaders and their close supporters. They’re called Babar ki aulad, taunted ...

• WHAT INDIA COULD DO TO STOP BJP JUGGERNAUT

  Broadcast On January 21, 2024

  The point I wish to make today is simple and straight forward. The chances of the 28 party INDIA alliance realizing its dream of ‘defeating’ Narendra Modi and the BJP in the forthcoming elections hinges ...

• WHAT IF TN SESHAN WERE LEADING THE EC TODAY?

  Broadcast On May 19, 2024

  ... it decided not to issue a notice directly to Modi. Instead, it wrote to BJP President J. P. Nadda on the flimsy grounds Modi is the Party’s star campaigner. The notice did not mention the PM by name or ...