Tag: Indian politics

The silly season is on in full swing. From bawdy to banal, political parties are taking potshots in all directions.Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems set for an unprecedented third term. The undoubtedly startling speed of arrests by notoriously tardy government agencies in recent months did galvanise the Opposition INDIA ...

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi likening him to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, calling the Congress leader as the "best finisher" in Indian politics. Singh also said that Congress shares an 'unbreakable' association with corruption, drawing a comparison to ...

In Kolkata, looking for a writer called Sunil Gangopadhyay, I got lost in a maze of long tree-spiked avenues. They were lined with blocks of flats; this was a residential area for the upper middle class, who seemed not to believe in street names. By now the morning mist ...

Like the sequel of a hit movie struggling to match its success, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra was progressing without capturing much public attention when it had life breathed into it during its tortuous passage through Assam.Embroiling the event in controversy by barring its passage into ...

THE Enforcement Directorate’s arrest of Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has sparked off a fresh slugfest, amidst the rising heat of the coming elections. On Thursday, Singh will be produced in a local Delhi court, where the ED is likely to seek his custodial interrogation.In her ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should “learn from his ancestors” before “criticising Indian politics abroad”.Shah, who was addressing a public gathering at Siddhpur in Patan district to mark nine years of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, urged the people of Gujarat ...

AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, with Congress leaders Siddaramaiah, D K Shivakumar, Randeep Singh Surjewala, and K. C. Venugopal, during a press conference after the Karnataka assembly elections 2023 results, in Bengaluru on May 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Karnataka Congress Legislature Party meeting set for SundayFormer ...

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on September 18 asserted that non-BJP parties that believe Opposition unity without the grand old party as the fulcrum is possible are living in a "fool's paradise". Without naming any outfit, he said many regional parties have back-stabbed the grand old party in the ...

New Delhi: A few days after the Congress government lost power in Rajasthan in December 2013, a top-rated social activist met party leader Rahul Gandhi with a note on why the Ashok Gehlot government got defeated despite making positive interventions in the social sector. Gandhi kept the note aside ...

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Saturday expressed concern over the "dangerous game" of polarisation "being played" in the country and claimed that even his party is being looked at with suspicion despite thousands of its workers sacrificing their lives in Jammu and Kashmir. ...