Priya Sahgal

Countdown to 2024

August 2, 2023

The Opposition is finally getting its optics right by coming together on a common platform. They have even found a very catchy name for it I.N.D.I.A. Apart from coming together for the headlines, a delegation went to Manipur recently and took an on-ground survey of the situation. This itself sent...

Finally, Manipur gets Delhi’s attention

July 26, 2023

The Opposition has set the tone for a stormy Monsoon session. The rapes and sexual harassment of women and the ethnic violence that has been engulfing Manipur for the last few months, have finally found national concern and the Opposition is right in raising this in Parliament. The government seems...

Opposition Unity Vs NDA Growth

July 19, 2023

The optics for Opposition unity are proceeding rather nicely specially with the Congress agreeing to support the Aam Admi Party on the controversial amendment moved by the Centre against the Delhi government. On the eve of the Monsoon Session, such coordination harbours well for the Opposition. And this is despite...

Pawar Play: Is he the Maratha strongman or wronged man?

July 5, 2023

There is an old joke about Sharad Pawar—apparently, he was asked once by Narasimha Rao what does two plus two equal to, and pat came the reply: it depends, are you buying or selling. That sums up Sharad Pawar, because with him there are no straight answers. One never knows...

The BJP vs Barack Hussein Obam

June 27, 2023

Does criticising former US President Barack Obama help India’s case? Given that the Prime Minister has just returned from a rather successful US trip where he was feted by President Joe Biden, why is the BJP so rattled by a former President’s comments? The reference here is to Obama’s interview...

STATE LESSONS FOR BOTH BJP & CONGRESS

June 21, 2023

At a time when the BJP is going global, the Congress seems to be going local. With the Central leadership still to get its act together, the focus is clearly on the state leadership that is winning elections and keeping up the party’s morale. It is fast becoming a party...

Can Kamal Nath win back Madhya Pradesh?

June 14, 2023

The Congress launched its Madhya Pradesh campaign with a high-profile tour by Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. She began her tour with a Narmada aarti, surrounded by priests to give the right optics; and also addressed a public meeting where she made the following five promises, should the Congress...

Why the BJP loves to keep Rahul Gandhi in the news

June 7, 2023

Rahul Gandhi’s trip to the United States, coming as it does on the eve of the PM’s own trip to the United States, has stirred a hornet’s nest in the capital, more so because Rahul Gandhi has not been very complimentary about the Modi government during his foreign sojourn. The...

New Beginnings Overshadowed with Old Politics

May 23, 2023

Should the Opposition boycott the opening of the new Parliament Building on 28 May (which coincides with the birth anniversary of the controversial rightwing leader Veer Savarkar)? The Congress has issued a strongly worded statement questioning the PM’s right to inaugurate a building that it feels should be inaugurated by...

The Congress and the Bajrang Dal Ban

May 9, 2023

The jury is out as to why the Congress decided to bring in the Bajrang Dal ban in its Karnataka manifesto, but on the surface, it does seem as if the Congress has scored a self-goal. Until the manifesto release, the Congress was running a fine campaign, raising issues of...

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