The Rise of the Bjp

Auteur

Bhupender Yadav (Author)
Bhupender Yadav is a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and member of Parliament representing the state of Rajasthan since 2012. Currently serving as the Union Minister of Labour and Employment and Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, he started as a student union leader and in 2000, was appointed General Secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad, a lawyers' organization, and remained in the position till 2009. A practising Supreme Court lawyer, he was appointed as the BJP's National Secretary in 2010 and took charge as National General Secretary in 2014. Previously the chairman/member of twenty-five Parliamentary Committees, Bhupender Yadav is also the co-author of the book Supreme Court on Forest Conservation and regularly expresses his views on issues of importance in newspapers and on news websites. Ila Patnaik (Author)
Ila Patnaik is an economist and professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. She has previously served as the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India in 2014-15 and holds a PhD from the University of Surrey, UK. Born and brought up in Delhi, she studied at Hindu College and Jawaharlal Nehru University and has numerous academic papers in reputed journals for economics to her name. She has also been engaged in policy processes and committees and is a popular columnist in the media.