Narendra Singh Tomar made BJP's Madhya Pradesh election management committee convenorTomar has held various positions in the party, including that of its Madhya Pradesh president, and is considered a low-key profile leader w...
15 Jul, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
A Congress-plus opposition spaceBe it the Delhi Ordinance or boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building, the noise around regional parties forming a united...
26 May, 2023, 12.13 AM IST
Rajasthan shows BJP and its regional satraps will have to co-existThe case of Raje in Rajasthan, BS Yeddyurappa in Karnataka and Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh are recent examples where the BJP hi...
12 Aug, 2020, 10.05 PM IST
Jharkhand loss may prompt BJP to be more receptive to regional satrapsThe Jharkhand experience has highlighted the need to be more receptive to the voices from local units, especially in states where the party...
24 Dec, 2019, 05.16 PM IST
Wake up call for BJP, return of regional satraps: Quick takeaways from Maharashtra, Haryana pollsThe election results in Haryana and Maharashtra have come as a morale booster for a moribund Congress.
25 Oct, 2019, 11.51 AM IST
Regional satraps likely to divide non-BJP votes in HaryanaThe regional satraps are likely to play a crucial role in the parliamentary seats of Hisar, Sirsa and Faridabad where they have fielded the...
09 May, 2019, 07.58 AM IST
Birender Singh ‘Quits’ to support BJP’s fightThe saffron party was keen to field Birender Singh, a regional satrap, in the Lok Sabha polls in Haryana.
15 Apr, 2019, 06.58 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh poll results to decide fate of regional satrapsThe elections will decide the fate of Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party which had failed to open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
10 Mar, 2017, 03.42 PM IST
In Assam, BJP and Congress’s fortunes depend on regional satraps like AIUDF and BPFEven more worrying is Congress CM Tarun Gogoi's reluctance to forge an alliance with AIUDF despite Congress' central leadership showing no ...
06 Mar, 2016, 11.17 AM IST
Sonia Gandhi's iftar outreach in peril; Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mamata Banerjee opt outThe routine event thrown by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has become a source of embarrassment amid indications that top "secular" satraps ma...
12 Jul, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
Does BJP lack leaders in poll states of Haryana, Maharshtra and Jharkhand?BJP seems to be taking a leaf out of Indira Gandhi’s book of managing dissent, curtailing leadership and reducing the regional leaders to D...
01 Sep, 2014, 03.42 AM IST
Fears of stronger BJP in their backyard behind Jayalalithaa, Mamata and Mulayam's anger towards Modi?Recent opinion poll figures show Modi-led BJP is gaining in the strongholds of all these satraps and in some cases it is doing unexpectedly...
18 Apr, 2014, 08.41 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Why Narendra Modi is attacking satraps nowBuoyed by reports of BJP swell even in states where it has been also ran , Narendra Modi has launched sharp attacks against regional satrap...
12 Apr, 2014, 01.10 PM IST
Cong should check flight of leaders and workers, empower regional satraps nowA message is emanating from the 2013 polls, the people prefer the BJP—or another entity that emerges as an alternative like the AAP—to the ...
09 Dec, 2013, 10.03 AM IST
Rajasthan polls: BJP banks on Vasundhara Raje, Narendra Modi charisma against Congress regional satrapsCongress and BJP are banking upon two starkly different styles of electioneering to romp home in Assembly elections scheduled for December ...
24 Nov, 2013, 10.41 AM IST
Regional satraps like J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee shaping country's foreign policyTamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa kept up the pressure by saying Sri Lankan cricketers and officials are not welcome to participate in IPL .
27 Mar, 2013, 04.01 AM IST
- Leader Projection Helps
The party did well in states where was clarity on the leadership issue.
09 Dec, 2008, 04.09 PM IST