https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-scaled.jpgOpinionA by-election for an Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh is emerging as the first example of the efficacy—even though in a limited manner—of the ideological coming-together of parties that claim to be part of the India coalition. The by-election to Gho...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionRahul Gandhi celebrated his 53rd birthday quietly without any fanfare. Congress workers are not seen outside the resident of Sonia Gandhi where Rahul stays now after his eviction from official Tughlak Lane residence. This year, Rahul got surprise ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe issue of a caste census, raised so vociferously by JD (U) and RJD some months ago, has now been acquired by the Congress as its major campaign plank for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election. In UP, the Samajwadi party too has been raising this i...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionFrom being a party that formed the government in Uttar Pradesh for the maximum terms and gave world-class leaders from this state, the Congress finds itself in an unprecedented abyss in the state. There were decades when the party used its heft fr...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionA renewed aggression on the part of the BJP in some states is leading to new tensions, as has come to light in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and indications from the BJP are that this could continue in other states too, where erstwhile allies may be...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionComing close on the heels of BJP’s election preparation meetings for UP in which CM Yogi Adityanath and other leaders participated, the Samajwadi Party recently held a highly-publicised meeting in Naimisharanya, a small but highly revered Hindu pi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionIs Sunil Kanugolu, the new kid on the block in the political strategist universe, following in the footsteps of his senior, Prashant Kishore? Kishore prepared the communication strategy for the victory of the BJP and many other parties, and after ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionPolitical scenario in Rajasthan is hyper-excited with reports that estranged Congress leader Sachin Pilot is just about to announce his next course of action. As the party high command – president Mallikarjun Kharge waiting for ex-MP Rahul Gandhi’...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe exercise to forge unity among parties opposed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been continuing for more than a year now, and as the next Lok Sabha election is just about 10 months away, these moves have gained an urgency that is underst...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, or SBSP, is a comparatively recent political outfit in UP, claiming a wide support base among most backward castes, Dalits, and Muslims, especially in central and eastern UP. It had allied with the BJP in 2017, ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionWith Congress leader Rahul Gandhi having opened a front against the Modi government and BJP during his visit to the US, Opposition unity efforts are yet to take shape. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal continued with his mobilisation efforts, h...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe decision by Kunwar Danish Ali, a Bahujan Samaj Party member of Lok Sabha from Amroha in UP, to stay away from the inauguration of the new Parliament building may force party supremo Mayawati to think whether her party’s apparent siding with th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe swearing-in of the Karnataka Chief Minister and his Deputy, the inauguration of the new Parliament building, and the NITI Ayog meeting in New Delhi have emerged as three recent indicators of the proposed opposition front against the BJP and it...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe BJP, realising that Uttar Pradesh offers the best chances of securing maximum seats from any state in the next general election, has set in motion an exercise to win most of the 80 Lok Sabha seats. To begin with, the party’s national gen...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe possibility of a grand alliance among non-BJP parties, which was anticipated in the coming weeks or months, has faced another setback. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that the Congress’ victory in ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe Uttarakhand government, headed by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, has decided to initiate further action on a uniform civil code in the state after the draught code proposal is received before June 30. CM Dhami has been keen on Uttarakhand...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe buzz in Bangaluru is as much around the election strategist Sunil Kanogolu as around the contenders for the CM’s post. As media reports talk about his background and work, it emerges that he has joined the Congress, unlike the other well-known...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionAs Karnataka waits for the announcement of Assembly election results today (May 13), both the BJP and Congress are hoping for the magic number to be theirs since the self-proclaimed “kingmaker” JD (S) has come out with a list of precon...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionFor the second time in less than two months, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has steered clear of giving any commitment to join the proposed all-India anti-BJP front promoted by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. Patnaik had avoided any discussion on the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe continuing investigations into the Atiq Ahmad saga are revealing many layers, causing a huge scare among officials and businessmen across the globe. The identification of properties and business links of Atiq has exposed his network in Uttar P...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionSamajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati have reached Karnataka to campaign in the state Assembly election there, leaving electioneering mid-way for the urban local bodies’ election in UP. Both parties are conte...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionChallenges are emerging for the BJP in Chhattisgarh, one of the three states facing Assembly elections this year. Just as the party was giving shape to its campaign against the present government headed by CM Bhupesh Baghel, the defection of senio...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe sentencing of Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal to jail is certain to hit the equations in eastern UP for the upcoming urban local bodies’ election, since the duo had considerable influence in at least a dozen districts, including Ghazipur,...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe unprecedented ups and downs even before the actual voting in the UP urban local bodies’ election may make the Samajwadi Party have a serious re-look at its strategy for the next Lok Sabha election. On the one hand the party is not finding cand...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionA war of words is likely to erupt between BSP leader Mayawati and her erstwhile minister and confidant Naseemuddin Siddiqi, now in Congress, over the sanction given for the prosecution of an ex-official of the NPCC in the Taj corridor case. The al...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe inclusion of the Aam Aadmi Party in a proposed anti-BJP front may face more roadblocks, despite AAP leader and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal cozying up to the Congress. AAP has found it difficult to react to Union Home Minister Amit Shah heaping pr...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionA list purportedly prepared by the UP Police containing the names of criminals who might face action in the coming days as part of the crackdown on organised crime gangs is causing severe unease among politicians. The names are from different cast...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionThe BJP has had a tough time selecting candidates for 14684 seats in 17 Nagar Nigam, 199 Nagar Palika, and 544 Nagar Panchayats as hordes of leaders past and present came forward with the names of their family members for the party ticket. Office ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionAs the AAP supremo is embroiled in CBI questioning, the party campaign for politicians to show their educational degrees is finding few takers. Launched after the Gujarat High Court fined Kejriwal for seeking directions for PM Narendra Modi to sho...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionVoluntary retirement of five IAS officers in the last year and other trust issues have created an unusual situation in UP when one senior officer has been handling charge of Agriculture Production Commissioner (APC) and Infrastructure and Industri...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionPreparation of the pitch for the next Lok Sabha and Assembly election in Maharashtra, scheduled for 2024, has started with Shiv Sena Chief Minister EknathShinde emphasising his strong Hindutva image during his recent visit to Ayodhya. He was accom...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/ghosi-by-election-is-a-test-for-akhileshs-status-in-i-n-d-i-a/August 30, 2023, 8:10 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PIC_Opinion-1-1-300x209.jpgOpinionUnease grows among bureaucrats in Chhattisgarh after the Supreme Court and other courts refused to provide relief to former bureaucrats Aman Singh and GP Singh. Aman Singh, an ex-IRS officer who served as principal secretary to ex-CM Raman Singh, ...