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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is a Delhi NCR-based author and journalist with a career spanning more than four decades. He is an expert on the politics of Hindu organisations and has extensively covered the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid conflict. Mukhopadhyay is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times. He is a regular columnist and contributor to leading newspapers and websites, and appears regularly on Indian television news and video channels as a commentator and host.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is a Delhi NCR-based author and journalist with a career spanning more than four decades. He is an expert on the politics of Hindu organisations and has extensively covered the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid conflict. Mukhopadhyay is the author of the critically-acclaimed book Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times. He is a regular columnist and contributor to leading newspapers and websites, and appears regularly on Indian television news and video channels as a commentator and host.
The Sangh's leadership has boxed itself into a tight situation. It now needs to wait and see if Modi can deliver in the Lok Sabha polls
While attempting to provide an alternative to the political system, the Aam Aadmi Party risks becoming a clone of one of the existing parties
Reviving the 2002 discourse suggests Narendra Modi is unsure if the Gujarat Model will work at the all-India level
His action after the Godhra train violence doesn't support the picture of an effective and no-nonsense deliverer of good governance
Their differences underscore a major transition point in the political evolution of the saffron party
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