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The OPPOSITION FIGHTS BACK

May 15, 2024

The Lok Sabha elections seem to have reached an interesting turning point with the Opposition daring to dream of an unexpected setback for the BJP. While one could argue that the gap between the BJP and the Congress is way too wide for such optimism there are some factors to...

One hopes the means will honour the ends

May 8, 2024

The Lok Sabha polls are poised very interestingly at the halfway mark, with three of the seven phases completed by 7th May - and one month into the poll campaign. While there is no one issue that is dominating, a couple of narratives have held sway. The Opposition has been...

WILL RAHUL GANDHI CONTEST FROM UTTAR PRADESH?

May 1, 2024

At the time of writing the Congress Party had not yet announced its candidates for Amethi and Rae Bareli. The two constituencies are in the news, since they are considered the Gandhi family bastions, though currently it is BJP’s Smriti Irani who is the sitting MP from Amethi. She has...

An Election without a Wave?

April 24, 2024

Is this an election without a wave ? In fact the only wave in this election seems to be the heat wave rather than an overwhelming surge in favour of any one candidate or party. The dominant figure in the elections continues to be Prime Minister, Narendra Modi; the entire...

BJP’s Leadership Stakes

April 17, 2024

Last week saw the launch of my book, The Contenders, Who will Rule India Tomorrow. The book looks at Gen Next leaders cutting across party lines (below the age of 55) and also takes a look at the leadership paradigms in the Modi era. For if there was no Modi...

The Message from the Opposition

April 10, 2024

The Congress has come out with its manifesto for the coming Lok Sabha polls. Called Nyay Patra, it lays out the Congress party’s guarantees for the coming elections. The focus will be economic which is good for that means real issues of jobs and employment will come into play and...

IMPACT OF KEJRIWAL’s ARREST

April 3, 2024

Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest has been dominating the headlines in a way that perhaps the BJP may not want it to. But given the Aam Admi Party’s penchant for publicity and the flamboyance of his politics this was a given. What the Modi government has done - inadvertently or on purpose...

BJP’S list of CANDIDATEs

March 27, 2024

As we write the BJP has come out with its almost 401 of the 543 candidates for the coming Lok Sabha and the messaging is slowly coming through. First the number of union ministers who came through the Rajya Sabha route that are now being fielded from the Lok Sabha...

One Way to Bury the Headlines

March 20, 2024

The 2024 Lok Sabha election dates have been announced and it won’t be long before the campaigning takes off in full earnest. Tickets are still being finalised but the narrative building has begun. The Supreme Court’s decision on the electoral bonds came as a welcome reprieve for the Opposition because...

It’s the Messaging!

March 13, 2024

With the Modi Government implementing the Citizen Amendment Act right on the eve of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the messaging is very clear. It’s a two tier message, the primary one being that this is a government that has delivered on all its poll promises. The second, is the...

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