Harihar Swarup

By Harihar Swarup From a popular anti-corruption star, a populist leader to battling corruption charges himself, the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate in the liquor policy case marks another dramatic episode in the large arc of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief. Kejriwal shot to fame a decade ago as […]

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By Harihar Swarup Among the most unexpected entrants in the BJP’s first list of Lok Sabha nominees is Bansuri Swaraj, the 40-year-old daughter of the BJP’s Sushma Swaraj, for whom the late BJP leader was known to leave meetings at times, to rush to be at the bus-stop when Bansuri returned from school. The choice […]

The post Bansuri Sounds Odd In Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi Lok Sabha Candidates List first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The Rajya Sabha elections have stirred a political commotion, not only because of cross-voting, as has often taken place in the past, but also because the BJP is out to get every seat it can and the defeat of the official Congress candidate in Himachal Pradesh and a Samajwadi Party (SP) nominee […]

The post Commotion And Confusion As 2024 General Elections Nears first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As Bangladesh prepares for its 12th parliamentary polls on January 7, speculation abounds on the impact of the election outcome on Dhaka’s relationship with Delhi. From historic landmarks such as the 2015 land boundary agreement to lows during 2001-2006, when a coalition led by the current Opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party […]

The post India Needs To Impart Dynamism To Its Bilateral Ties With Bangladesh first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The INDIA alliance meeting in Delhi is broadly an effort at political resuscitation. For three months, the opposition formation had virtually suspended such strategic level dialogue, as the Congress prioritised the assembly elections. Talk of crucial loss of momentum. INDIA’s leading partner Congress stands devastated after losing in three states to the […]

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By Harihar Swarup BJP’s top leadership seems to act in unconventional ways. That relates to its unexpected choice of chief ministers in three states, Vishnu Deo Sai in Chattisgarh, Mohan Yadav in Madhya Pradesh and Bhajan Lal Sharma in Rajasthan. To the public at large, and often the know-it-all media, these names could have been […]

The post BJP High Command Opted For A Long Term Planning In Deciding On New Chief Ministers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Finally, somebody has politically owned him—Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the 7th Prime Minister of India. Though he changed the course of Indian politics, and unleashed forces leading irreversibly to the rise and rise of OBCs, a process that is likely to influence the 2024 elections, the Mandal messiah, as “VP” was popularly called, […]

The post Former Prime Minister V P Singh Who Mandalised Politics, Has Become Relevant Again first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The results of the assembly elections to the five states announced on December 3 and 4 led to many winners and losers for the time being. All of them will be getting another chance to prove their mettle in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Narendra Modi: Modi was the face of BJP’s […]

The post Assembly Elections To The Five States Have A Set Of Winners And Losers first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As the polls for five Assemblies elections are over— and Rajasthan and Telangana have become unexpectedly exciting, with the Congress putting up a fight—it’s time to capture some broad trends. What is striking are the areas where consensus is now developing across parties, and one of them is the need to provide […]

The post State Assembly Polls Showed Congress And BJP Competing On Granting More Freebies first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As Telangana goes to polls, on November 30, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi took inspiration from Team India’s performance at the just concluded the ODI World Cup. Hoping to emulate the cricket team, the party launched a campaign asserting that, just as India will lift its third trophy, the party will also […]

The post Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Has A Formidable Team For Assembly Poll first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup A few months ago, the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi called a meeting to bring a truce between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin pilot. At the meeting, Gehlot is learnt to have remarked that he had seen the 46-year-old Pilot grow up. […]

The post Sachin Pilot Is Confident Of Big Victory For Congress In Rajasthan Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup In a time marked by political discontent in Jammu and Kashmir, triggered by the loss of statehood and abrogation of Article 370, the BJP is trying to reshape people’s perception of the party. Leading that charge mechanism is a group of highly educated Muslims in —Farida Khan, Darakhan Andrabi, Hina Bhat, Parvaz […]

The post Some Highly Educated Muslim Girls Of BJP Are Doing Excellent Development Work In J&K first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Nawaz Sharif’s celebratory return to Pakistan after several years in exile will turn into a political triumph only if the country’s military establishment, which had banished him from politics six years ago and now facilitated his recent insurrection, fundamentally changed its behaviour. So far, it seems that the establishment sees Sharif as […]

The post Pakistan Army Wants Former PM Nawaz Sharif To Contest And Win Elections first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup “Is not he a man”? Sonia Gandhi was said to have exclaimed at a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) earlier last week. There was a deathly silence in the room. “Aren’t there corruption charges against him? Sonia, according to the reports, was referring to Shanti Dhariwal, whose name came […]

The post Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Has A Commanding Influence In Poll Campaign In Rajasthan first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup As the conflict between Israel and Hamas intensifies and the horrifying scale of the October 7 attack on civilians emerges, there is a growing disquiet in a section of the Congress about the working committee resolution that did not mention Hamas or condemn the terror attack . In fact, the first step […]

The post Congress Stand On Hamas-Israel War Reflecting Conflicting Views On Hamas first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup On August 7, 1990, Prime Minister V P Singh, driven by his own set of political difficulties, announced in Parliament that the Mandal Commission’s recommendations for reservation of Other Backward Classes would be implemented. It was a turning point for Indian Political system, marking the advent of what came to be known […]

The post Strong Political Sentiments Blowing In The Country Favouring Caste Census first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Hardworking, simple and down to earth. That is how former Union Minister and NCP founder, Sharad Pawar, describes industrialist Gautam Adani in his 2015 autobiography, Lok Majhe Sangati (People, My Companions). The Maratha strongman has never shied away from supporting Adani, even when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack following […]

The post Sharad Pawar Shrugs Off Raised Eyebrows Over His Adani Friendship first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The Women’s Reservation bill is a pivotal instrument for achieving political empowerment. When it comes to matters concerning women, government, as on occasions, refrains from doing politics. This is a matter of unwavering commitment for the Prime Minister, and as such, government have taken resolute actions whether it’s regarding Article 370, Triple […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt Focusing On Women Empowerment Through A Number Of Schemes first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup With the success of the G20 summit in Delhi, is Narendra Modi, making a mark globally as Jawaharlal Nehru did on the world stage after Independence? India’s first Prime Minister had carved out a niche for the country as the leader of the non-aligned movement even though it was at that time […]

The post Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Emerged As A Global Leader first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The debate on “one nation, one election” seems to revolve around two related themes — technical feasibility and political motives. The supporters of this motive evoke several technical issues—the ever increasing cost of elections, administrative technicalities and possibilities of corruption, the negative impact of frequent elections on governance and the election-centric focus […]

The post ‘One Nation, One Election’ Proposal Needs Extensive Debate And Discussion first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed credit on the eve of G20 summit for converting a heads of government meeting into “a people’s festival”. The government did well to popularize the Indian G20 agenda among people across the country and the world, even if this was something done a la Bollywood style. […]

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By Harihar Swarup The most significant political development this year is not the formation of the Indian Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), a congregation of forces opposed to the BJP. It isn’t the tentative alliance that BJP is seeking to build with its older and newer partners. And it it’s the G20 summit, which is much […]

The post High Inflationary Pressure On Economy Has Emerged As Major Issue For 2024 Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup India successfully crossed a decisive milestone by accomplishing the demanding task of soft landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon. Chandrayan-3’s Vikram lander is now firmly sitting on the South polar region of the lunar surface and getting ready to collect valuable data about the moon, its interior as well as the […]

The post Chandrayaan 3’s Success Vindicates India’s Indigenous Technical Capability first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Days speech seems to have disappointed two very different kinds of political observers. For Modi admirers, the speech does not offer any new mantra. Except for the slogan, “demography, democracy and diversity”. Modi did not make any extraordinary or unexpected claim that could be highlighted as master […]

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By Harihar Swarup Over the last year, Rahul Gandhi has been attempting political resurrection. First, via the five-month walkathon of Bharat Jodo Yatra that saw him play the role of a doughty fighter. Second, a subsequent five month spent outside of Parliament which allowed Gandhi to assume the role of a martyr. The martyrdom parade […]

The post Congress Has A Big Dilemma For 2024 Polls: How Far It Can Go To Restore Its Space? first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup   India is on the move, on the fast lane. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on boosting infrastructure as an engine of growth, the country added more than 50,000 lane kilometers (length of each new lane built) to its highway system in the past nine years. New expressways are being built […]

The post Nitin Gadkari Is The Best Performing Minister In Narendra Modi Cabinet first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

  By Harihar Swarup Uttar Pradesh’s political waters are calm, for now. Or, perhaps, that is just how it seems, as no grand  alliances have been formed, no active partnerships sought, and there has been no getting together of likeminded parties. The 2024 elections are still months away. That is too long a time in […]

The post Opposition Alliance Against BJP Is Facing Many Hurdles In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup To understand the BJP’s rapid political moves across India, think back to 1996. That year sagging under the weight of a raft of corruption, scandals and internal defections, the incumbent Congress went to polls weakened. This allowed the BJP to vault into pole position, becoming for the first time the single-largest party […]

The post BJP Leadership Has Taken Up The Opposition Challenge In 2024 Polls With All Seriousness first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup The air in Patna was thick with pre-monsoon moisture and a buzz about a meeting that could heavily impact next year’s Lok Sabha elections. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who played host at his 1 Anne Marg residence, had posters of several opposition party leaders put up throughout the city. The party units […]

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By Harihar Swarup May 15 was the 25th anniversary of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was formed in 1998. On May 26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminded his party that no alliance other than NDA has remained intact for a quarter century. And he was correct. While it’s right that the NDA in its current […]

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