Can I read BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World’s Largest Political Party (BJP) on EtoBox?

BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World’s Largest Political Party (BJP) by SHANTANU. GUPTA is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World’s Largest Political Party (BJP) about?

On 29th March, 2015, at BJPs old Office at 11, Ashoka road, a digital counter was ticking. Party workers, Office Bearers and even Staff, all were staring at the digital screen. The screen was showing the total number of party members enrolled through the Partys new sadasyata Abhiyan (membership drive). the Partys National President Amit Shah was in Office that day. With a childlike eagerness in his eyes, he too was looking at the digital counter. As soon as the counter hit the target, the whole Office erupted in euphoria. It reached 8.8 crore members, surpassing the Communist party of China. The ambitious membership drive was Shah's idea. Next day every leading newspaper reported it bold and clearbjp becomes the largest political party in the world. How did this happen? Was it merely a numerical exercise which boosted Bharatiya Janata Partys fortunes or was it the case of an idea whose time had come? From a mere two seats in the Lok Sabha in 1984 to now having decimated the opposition, can this juggernaut be attributed to only the modi-shah duo or the reasons run deep into the complexity of the highly misunderstood Hindutva movement? To answer these questions, Shantanu Gupta travel

Who reads BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY: Past, Present and Future: Story of the World’s Largest Political Party (BJP)?

Author

SHANTANU. GUPTA

Publisher

Rupa Publications India

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9789353337827

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Government & Politics, Social_sciences