Modi's new BJP at 44

As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: A party with a difference

It was going to be a party with a difference, Lal Krishna Advani (now Bharat Ratna awardee) promised, as the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, subsumed in the doomed Janata Party experiment of 1977, was reborn as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on April 6, 1980. It was Easter Sunday; convent-educated Advani would say with delight that his party was resurrected on the same day as Jesus Christ.
 

Forty-four years later, almost to date, as the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it is fascinating to debate how true it looks to that original proposition: A party with