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UTTAR PRADESH: THE ELECTORAL BATTLEGROUND

October 6, 2021

The poll bugle for Uttar Pradesh has been sounded from Lakhimpur Kheri after the violent face-off between farmers and the BJP government. The allegation is that three SUVs including one Mahindra Thar driven by a Central Minister’s son ploughed down protesting farmers from behind as they were peacefully marching on...

WITH RAHUL’S ‘RISE’, CONGRESS TAKES A SHARP LEFT TURN

September 29, 2021

The Congress, especially under Sonia Gandhi, has been moving steadily towards the left of centre. But it still managed to keep the centre in its sights. During the UPA years, while Sonia Gandhi’s National Advisory Council gave the government a socialist turn, the Manmohan Singh cabinet became the face of...

THE HIGH COMMAND STRIKES BACK

September 22, 2021

We are seeing the rise of a very centralised High Command both in the Congress and the BJP. Of course, with the BJP this has been firmly in place for the last seven years, ever since Narendra Modi took office as Prime Minister. Hence the shuffling of Chief Ministers, from...

FREEDOM FIGHTERS DON’T DESERVE TO BE KEPT MERELY LANGUISHING IN HISTORY BOOKS

September 15, 2021

On September 14th Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a trip to Aligarh to lay the foundation stone of a university named after Raja Mahendra Pratap, a Jat icon and yet another freedom fighter who did not get his due during earlier regimes. Whether it was the quest for the 17...

IS CONGRESS MIRED DEEP IN A STRATEGY CRISIS?

September 8, 2021

Five states are set to go to the polls at the beginning of the next year, and these include Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Punjab. The Opposition is being very careful not to label the coming Uttar Pradesh elections as a semi-final because they are not very sure if...

UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS WILL SHAPE NATIONAL POLITICS

August 25, 2021

With elections in the ‘cowbelt’ state barely six months away, the focus has shifted to heartland politics. The BJP is currently in power and with the green signal been given for the Ram Janambhoomi temple reconstruction, it certainly won’t like to be out of power when the construction begins. Hence...

CONGRESS, A PARTY IN EXIT MODE

August 18, 2021

Sushmita Dev’s exit from the Congress is the third high-profile exit from the party in a little over a year. What she has in common with Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jitin Prasada is that she too was part of Rahul Gandhi’s ‘camelot’, a key player in Team Rahul, and also a...

CONGRESS, GANDHI FAMILY AND POLITICS OF DINNER DIPLOMACY

August 12, 2021

Kapil Sibal’s dinner diplomacy has thrown up a lot of interesting observations about the state of the Congress. The first one being that this was a gathering of the Opposition without the Gandhis. Not only was the Congress party’s ‘First Family’ absent but it also came under the scanner with...

PM MODI’S PENCHANT FOR SELF-ADVERTISING IS UNPARALLELED

August 4, 2021

All politicians like to promote themselves; it’s part of the branding and some would say a necessity of public life, for what is the use of doing good if the public that votes for you doesn’t get to know about it. I recall an old adage about advertising: Doing business...

RADIA, PEGASUS AND BEYOND

July 28, 2021

Why has the Pegasus snooping scandal not created the same amount of buzz as the Radia tapes? Well, the obvious reason is that the Radia tapes actually had transcripts of alleged conversations (later, some were found to have been manipulated by FBI forensic experts). The Pegasus list so far is...

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