Ram Madhav

TOI exclusive: Will President Obama walk that extra mile?

Ram Madhav, January 19, 2015

NEW DELHI: India is looking forward to US President Barack Obama’s visit to Delhi as the guest of honour at this year’s Republic Day parade on January 26. Neither the fact that he is the outgoing president nor that it is his second visit as president dampens the enthusiasm in the Indian establishment. Coming a […]

Shri. Ram Madhav’s address to a delegation from Harvard Business School

Ram Madhav, January 19, 2015

Shri. Ram Madhav’s address to a delegation from Harvard Business School Friends, It is an honour to address the delegation of the prestigious Harvard Business School. I represent the ruling political party in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party. Under Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s leadership the economic climate in the country is changing fast and […]

Shri Ram Madhav’s speech to a premier US Think Tank on India-China relations

Ram Madhav, January 12, 2015

Thank you Chair. Friends, I am here to share my views on Indo-China relations not as an intellectual but as a politician, in specific I wish to share my understanding of the ‘new neighbour’ in the last 5-6 decades. However the views expressed here need not necessarily be understood as the views which shape the […]

The city of activism and hope

Ram Madhav, January 7, 2015

Delhi has grown exponentially in the last couple of decades as a result of universal factors like migration, industrialisation, urbanisation. Delhi has always been a city of migrants. In the wake of Independence, it witnessed the influx of massive numbers of refugees who came from the newly born state of Pakistan. Post Independence, the city […]

Minds that (should) matter

Ram Madhav, January 3, 2015

Thinkers who best explain a rapidly-changing India to the world (and the world to India) Forbes India wanted me to list India-based intellectuals who are well regarded outside India. This isn’t that. Instead, this is a list of smart thinkers and doers who I—and a few others whose judgement I trust—think ought to be closely […]

We have become a very powerful force in Jammu and Kashmir

Ram Madhav, December 24, 2014

‘We are certainly disappointed by our inability to win a single seat in the valley… We will analyse what led to this kind of dismal — in terms of seats — non-performance by the BJP.’ ‘I certainly don’t want to attribute any religious or so-called communal reasons for it; for the simple reason, that even […]

BJP will field candidates in all polls to come: Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav, December 15, 2014

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to field its candidates in all the elections going to be held in Andhra Pradesh hereafter, according to party General Secretary V. Ram Madhav. “Be it the election to the local bodies or Parliament, the BJP candidates are going to be in the fray from all the seats […]

‘I am trying to learn the art and craft of politics’ − Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav, December 8, 2014

Former national spokesperson of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Ram Madhav, recently inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a general secretary, is considered to be a confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah. Excerpts from a telephone interview with Bharti Mishra Nath, a former Public Policy Scholar at The […]

Pakistan desperate to spread violence in J&K: Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav, December 8, 2014

SRINAGAR – Claiming that Pakistan was desperate to spread violence in Jammu and Kashmir, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary – Ram Madhav – Sunday said that the international community should be aware about the ‘tactics’ of Pakistan and should realize that the people of the State have rejected the violence and have ‘preferred’ […]

Gujjars are symbols of nationalism: Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav, December 8, 2014

Asserting that the Gujjars have always been ignored by the successive governments in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Friday said that the Gujjars constituting a significant and sizeable proportion of the total population of the state, are the symbols of patriotism and nationalism. Addressing an election meeting in the Chouadhi […]