Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses BJP supporters at the party headquarters to celebrate the party's victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by BJP President Amit Shah and Union Minister Rajnath Singh and other party leaders after their victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated by Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari during a 'thanksgiving' meeting with the Union council of ministers at BJP headqua...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated during a dinner meeting with top National Democratic Alliance leaders, in New Delhi, two days ahead of Lok Sabha polls results.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated by Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari during a thanksgiving meeting with the Union council of ministers at BJP headquart...
Union Minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh is garlanded by party workers during an election rally ahead of the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls, in Kullu district.
Family members of businessman Dhruv Tyagi businessman who was allegedly stabbed to death for protesting his daughter’s harassment, meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in New D...
Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh with BJP candidate from Patna Sahib Ravi Shankar Prasad during an election rally for Lok Sabha polls, at Bakhtiyarpura in Patna.
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh offers prayers at Vindhyavasini temple following an election rally for the last phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Mirzapur.
Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh addresses a press conference at the party hedquarters in New Delhi.
Home Minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh during an election campaign in support of party candidate Rahul Sinha (R) for Kolkata North constituency seat in Kolkata.
Home Minister Rajnath campaigns for BJP candidate from Bhajanpura, Ramesh Bidhuri, in New Delhi.
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Lucknow, Rajnath Singh,is garlanded by party workers during an election campaign rally, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in Pratapgarh.
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Lucknow, Rajnath Singh, and his wife Savitri Singh show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote at a polling station during ...
Union minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh waves at supporters during an election campaign rally in support of the party candidate Gautam Gambhir for the Lok Sabha polls, i...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a group photograph with BJP National President Amit Shah, Shiromani Akali Dal President Parkash Singh Badal, Bihar CM and JDU President Nitish Kumar...
Union minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh addresses an election campaign rally in support of a BJP-Shiv Sena candidate, at Nallasopara in Mumbai.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP candidate Rakesh Singh seek blessings of Sant Acharya Vidyasagar Ji Maharaj, at a Jain temple in Jabalpur
Union Home Minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh being garlanded by party leaders at 'Vijaya Sankalp Sabha', an election campaign for Lok Sabha polls, in Cuttack
Union minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh addresses an election campaign rally for the Lok Sabha polls, in Moradabad.
Apropos the spat between Arun Jaitley and the tentwallah, frankly, I as usual don't have a clue. Gossip, buzz and conspiracy theories are par for the course in the Byzantine world of Delhi, but today's Hindustan Times editorial has got the grapevine going a bit more than the usual:
So, in a way, Rajnath Singh as well as Mr Advani may well represent the stage in this projected trajectory that needs to be jettisoned before the BJP reaches for the proverbial stars again. And what better catalyst for this cleansing process than an electoral rout goaded by infighting? That Narendra Modi has long-term prime ministerial aspirations is no secret. It isn’t that he and his supporters within the party — Mr Jaitley being one of them — find leapfrogging over the current crop of top BJP leaders repugnant. It’s just that doing that now would be contaminating themselves with a losing touch. For this faction of the BJP, not being associated with Mr Singh et al is a canny decision.
Full editorial: How to detoxify your party
