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The Congress Karnataka Model

May 2, 2023

The Congress may or may not win Karnataka but the leadership model on ground is worth taking a note of. For one, Rahul Gandhi is not the chief campaigner or the face of the campaign. The local leadership is fronting the campaign with both Siddaramaiah and DK Shivkumar holding dual...

Can Nitish unite the Opposition?

April 26, 2023

The Bihar Chief Minister has been very busy during the last few days, travelling to Lucknow, Delhi and Kolkata meeting various Opposition leaders. Nitish Kumar has realised that in order to give the BJP some sort of a credible fight in the 2024 elections, the Opposition needs to get its...

Battle Ground Karnataka: A Curtain Raiser

April 19, 2023

The Karnataka elections are slated for next month and this promises to be a high profile face off between the BJP and the Congress, with the JD (U) playing a supporting role. Ticket distribution has been more or less finalised and this is usually when inner party rivalries and turf...

Should RaGa rule himself out as PM face?

April 11, 2023

Should Rahul Gandhi announce that he will not be a PM candidate from the Opposition? While it is politically suicidal for any politician to rule himself out from the highest (political) office, Rahul is already on record stating that for him, power is poison. And since then, none of his...

Is the BJP propping up Rahul Gandhi?

April 4, 2023

No one in the country takes Rahul Gandhi seriously, I don’t know why the BJP is taking him so seriously, said Harsimrat Kaur Badal at the NewsX We Women Want Conclave yesterday. The former cabinet minister and Akali Dal leader is making an interesting political point. If the BJP had...

AN ISSUE LARGER THAN RAHUL GANDHI?

March 28, 2023

If nothing else then Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification has served one purpose and that is to bring the opposition parties together on one plank. Of course there is still a year to go before the General Elections and a lot can happen till then but in the short term, parties that...

Auditioning for 2024 Begins

March 22, 2023

Once again, Parliament is besieged by disruptions rather than legislative work. The opposition wants a JPC on the Adani issue, while the treasury Benches have upped the ante by targeting Rahul Gandhi and his comments in Cambridge during his recent visit there. One could say that the latter was a...

NEEDED A SUTRADHAR TO UNITE THE OPPOSITION

March 8, 2023

The next Lok Sabha elections are not too far away and positioning has already begun within the Opposition camp. While the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has stated that the opposition should put up a united fight against the “divisive forces”, he was also quick to add that this was not...

CONG PLANS ROAD AHEAD BUT PLANS TO BYPASS CWC POLLS

February 22, 2023

The Congress is all set to hold its plenary session this week. The key question however is: will they hold elections to the Congress Working Committee? On the face of it, the CWC polls should have been an organic result of the Congress Presidential polls held in October last year....

WHAT NEXT AFTER THE BHARAT JODO YATRA?

February 1, 2023

Rahul Gandhi’s marathon Bharat Jodo Yatra ended with a grand finale in Srinagar after the Congress leader hoisted the national flag at Lal Chowk. There is no denying the immediate impact of the yatra on the former Congress President’s image. The message that he carried, one of unity, also found...

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