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With the EC as B team of BJP who cares about facts? | Faraz Ahmad

Saturday 20 September 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alone has the material resources and paraphernalia to manipulate, if need be the course of elections in India.

After the BJP faced a shock defeat in the 2004 general elections leading upto the Prime Ministership going to Dr Manmohan Singh, instead of L.K. Advani as he had presumed, even though the difference of seats won by the Congress which emerged as the single largest party in the 15th Lok Sabha and the outgoing ruling party the BJP was very narrow