Political Journey & Milestones
A government's cabinet says a lot about how it plans to govern. Modi's first cabinet in 2014 was notably lean by Indian standards. His later ones,…
Modi's national political career formally began with a specific committee appointment, not a general election win. On June 9, 2013, the BJP named him chairman of…
Before Modi led the BJP, two other men did: L.K. Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the party's dominant leadership duo through the 1990s and into the…
Since 2014, Narendra Modi has represented one Lok Sabha seat continuously: Varanasi, one of Hinduism's holiest cities and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the…
After ten years of governing with an outright majority, Modi's government faced a different arithmetic in 2024. This article covers how that shift happened, what it…
Winning an outright majority once, as BJP did in 2014, was already historic. Doing it again five years later, with a bigger number, was rarer still.…
In the 2014 general election, Narendra Modi's name appeared on two separate ballots in two separate states, and he won both. This article explains how that's…
For 30 years, no single party had managed to win an outright majority in an Indian general election on its own. In May 2014, that changed,…
Between building the BJP in his home state and becoming a Chief Minister, Modi spent several years doing a job most voters never see: rebuilding a…