Ground Reality

The Narendra Modi skippered Central government, during its first two years, received bouquets aplenty but weathered many storms too, on its arduous journey on the track of economic and  social  agenda .  It was fraught  with multi-faceted challenges: two straight droughts, slowdown in the global economy, emergence of zealots, Jat reservation movement in Haryana, a mixed bag of poll verdicts in some state assemblies etc. Sometimes, social tensions loomed large on the development plank but deft  handling of the situation thwarted designs to foment caste and communal tensions. Home Ministry reports said that the new regime has seen less number of riots and communal troubles as compared to the rule of the previous dispensation. Fresh from Assam polls victory, Prime Minister said the verdict had proved that people had accepted and endorsed development policies and ideologies of the ruling party at the Centre. The victory of BJP-led allia...

The Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India is bracing up for party’s President Election next month as the term of the incumbent Chief Amit Shah expires by the end this month. Though speculations are rife that the Party’s  frontal Organization Rashtriya  Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) is understood to have accessed the entire situation,and there is every likelihood that Mr Shah may continue. No official information is leaked so far about the party’s strategy for the most crucial slot. Shah’s replacement had gained currency ever since the party’s rout in Bihar, after major drubbing in the Delhi Assembly polls and latest  case is the BJP’s dismal performance in civic polls in the home state of both Mr Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shah’s supporters say that it was only due master strokes , the BJP had won Maharashtra, Goa, Harayana, Jharkahnd ,and Bihar poll was lost due to Social forces alliance in the Bihar where NDA had failed to stitch such a...