By Arun Srivastava

By Arun Srivastava During the last one month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited poll-bound Karnataka three times, notwithstanding the top leadership’s consistent reiteration that the state leaders would design and spearhead the campaign. Union home minister Amit Shah is also not far behind PM Modi. Shah has visited Karnataka for no fewer than half […]

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By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the  rightwing  RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces and ideological streams should come together […]

The post CPI(ML) Liberation Calls For Broadest Unity Of Democratic Forces To Fight RSS-BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava While the 140 crores Indians, even those spread across the world, were impatiently awaiting a resilient rebuttal from their prime minister Narendra Modi to the allegations levelled by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi against him of patronising and promoting corporate giant Gautam Adani, who allegedly indulged  in financial irregularities and fraud, Modi, […]

The post Narendra Modi Beats His Own Drum In Lok Sabha Speech Without Touching Adani first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It is for the first time in the history of the RSS, the proponent of politics and philosophy of Hindutva, that it has come out in the favour of a capitalist. The reason is simple: to protect the interest of its political front, the BJP, and its public face, Narendra Modi. The […]

The post India’s Crony Capitalism Thriving With Tacit Support Of State Power first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Within a week of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s vow that he “would prefer to die instead of having an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again”, rumour of prime minister Narendra Modi offering a very senior position in his cabinet to Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, probably next to […]

The post Nitish Kumar Is A Victim Of Trust Deficit Amongst His Coalition Leaders first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava In one stroke the empire of the world’s third richest till the other day, Gautam Adani, which he had built on the edifice of dishonesty and crony capital has been crashed. The assault has come from the US-based Hindenburg Research which charged the Adanis of being “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation […]

The post Hindenburg Exposure Underlines Patronage Of Ruling Govt To Adani Group Companies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The delirious, deranged joy of taking a dig at Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen is so addictive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government that his protégé, the Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Professor Bidyut Chakraborty, has gone to the extreme of slandering Sen, insinuating that he’s not a real […]

The post Humiliating Amartya Sen Aimed At Silencing The Global Intellectual first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The alacrity with which the Modi government used the law that cites ‘emergency’ provisions to stop Indians from watching the BBC Documentary “India: The Modi Question” — a narrative of the Gujarat pogrom that was carried out in 2002 by Hindutva bigots and the role of the then chef minister of the […]

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By Arun Srivastava In the first ever manifestation of tactical retreat, the Union Law Minister, Kiren Rijiju refrained from suggesting that charges of sedition should be slapped against the Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud. During its nine years in power, the Narendra Modi government has used recklessly the draconian provision, a pitiful colonial […]

The post Modi Government Must Not Escalate Tensions With The Supreme Court first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The compulsion to protect the image and personal interest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is so domineering that his ministerial colleagues can go to the extent of retreating from their avowed ideological line and embrace their sworn enemies.  The Law minister Kiren Rijiju who till a couple of days back left no […]

The post Law Minister Rijiju Is Fighting RSS Battle Against Independent Judiciary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Winning the battle of Bengal will open the wide vista for the RSS to have its political hegemony on the entire eastern and north eastern states. Though the RSS has succeeded in having a deep penetration in the north east, by exploiting the internal conflicts amongst the indigenous people of the belt, […]

The post RSS Planning Big Organisational Changes In Bengal To Help BJP Before 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Before the Lok Sabha elections in April/ May 2024, the RSS and Narendra Modi government have launched the most ruthless operation to saffronise the judiciary, turn it subservient to the Modi government and rob its independent identity and authority. The veil of chastity which wrapped the plan unfolded only a few days […]

The post Rijiju’s Letter To CJI Is Part Of RSS Design To Have A Pliant Judiciary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati’s announcement that her Bahujan Samaj Party would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and other assembly elections all alone has not come as surprise. What has been really intriguing is her accusing the Congress and Samajwadi Party of spreading rumours about a “possible tie-up” with the BJP in the […]

The post BSP Supremo Mayawati Has Been Losing The Trust Of Dalits Through Confused Actions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Sharad Yadav was a module of the triumvirate which brought about basic vicissitudes in the Indian politics and transformed it for ever. He designed the thesis of social justice, a key component of the Mandal philosophy. But unfortunately he could not attain the status of an icon for social justice. This has […]

The post Sharad Yadav – The Maverick Lohiaite Missed Rising To The Top Of The Socialist Camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava After a fortnight, the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi would culminate with the national flag hoisting in Srinagar. But this finish would be purely an allegory. The real political Yatra (journey) of Rahul will begin after this stage. The political analyst, scribes,  intellectuals, fellows of RSS and Narendra Modi’s think […]

The post Panicky RSS Taking Up Crash Programmes To Combat Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra Impact first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava With the RSS hastening up the process of fattening its Hindu rank by inducting the tribals, the alarm bell for complete dissipation of their identity has started ringing for the adivasis and they   are ready   to assert their independent distinctiveness   by   confronting   the RSS pracharaks. Discontent prevailing amongst the tribals against the […]

The post RSS Moving Fast To Establish Its Domination Of Tribals Before 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Sons of the illustrious fathers are often evaluated into the backdrop of the long-drawn-out shadows of their dads. This is the common perception. The people expect same nature and dimension of performance as what their fathers have achieved. While indulging in this nature of appraisal they tend to conveniently forget that two […]

The post Akhilesh Yadav Still Lacks That Political Skill Which Was Hallmark Of His Father first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava None can deny that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the storeroom of the best imaginative and fertile brains. Earlier the CBI sleuths had come out with the revelation that Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav owned the Gurugram mall constructed from the illegal money received from the job seekers. Their […]

The post Modi-Shah Duo Is Using CBI To Break Mahagathbandhan Govt Under Nitish In Bihar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava It is indeed a tough proposition to decode the political moves of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and to put in public domain. Even his close friends vouch that it is his political acumen not to allow his left hand to know what his right hand was doing has been the primary […]

The post Bihar Will Witness Modi-Nitish Battle Of Nerves In 2023 With Lok Sabha Polls In View first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The day Union Home Ministry took away the investigation in the Bhima Koregaon case from the Maharashtra police and handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA,) it became explicit that the home minister has some ominous designs. This was not simply an endeavour to unearth the so called plan behind the […]

The post Supreme Court Must See To It That Bhima Koregaon Case Accused Are Released first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava In India, the political graph, image and charisma of a politician shoots up only when he continues to win elections. Electoral victory is the precondition for being a charismatic and popular leader. Winnability quotient defines the stature of the political leader. In contemporary Indian politics, the two figures who are credited as […]

The post Congress Has Finally Got A Real Ideologue In Rahul Gandhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava If the tone and tenor of Narendra Modi’s speech at the high level meeting held on Thursday to discuss the strategy to fight covid is any indicator, it is obvious that Rahul Gandhi would have to terminate his Bharat Jodo Yatra even before reaching Delhi, not to speak of Kashmir. Emphasising “Covid […]

The post Rajasthan BJP Going Ahead With Jan Akhrosh Yatra Despite PM Asking Rahul To Stop first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Having failed in its design to malign and create hurdles in the path of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, Narendra Modi has finally resorted to the strategy of hitting below the belt. As an obedient colleague, the Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya conveyed the directives of Modi to Gandhi to suspend his Yatra […]

The post BJP Is Worried At Likely Impact Of Rahul’s Yatra In Haryana, Kashmir first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s visit last week to Northeast region in public perception is meant to give a major thrust to the development projects in the region, but the main axiom behind this move has been to make nationalism the primary election agenda in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Modi’s resolve to begin the […]

The post Prime Minister’s Visit To North East Has Given A Big Boost To BJP Prospects first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi is silently, and certainly irreversibly, moving towards his goal, to transmute the basic identity and character of Indian judicial system. There are many aces on his chess board, but the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is a rare exception to perform the task more diligently. In his exuberance […]

The post Rijiju Planning To Bring A New Law To Empower The Govt To Appoint Judges first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sent an unambiguous and loud message to the intellectuals, academics, social activists and leaders of the political parties of the country to fall in line or get ready to face the music. Though his government at the directive of the RSS has long back initiated the process […]

The post Centre’s Operation Uproot Of Naxalites Will Be Helping BJP Politically first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Exploiting the death of the poor in an accident has been most awful pastime rendezvous of the politicians. This apparently got manifest in the death of nearly 50 people in the Chapra hooch tragedy of Bihar. The BJP which has been prime mover of the idea to impose  ban on the manufacturing […]

The post BJP’s Doublespeak In Attacking Nitish Kumar For Prohibition And Hooch Deaths first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava More than keeping his promise made to the RJD leaders and other alliance partners, it is the importance of Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar’s caste oriented politics that led Nitish Kumar to announce Tejashvi, his deputy in the alliance government, as his successor. The Bihar Mahagathbandhan will go to the 2025 assembly elections […]

The post Way Cleared For Tejashwi Yadav To Lead Mahagathbandhan In 2025 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Impervious of the defeat of his JD(U) candidate by the BJP contender in Kurhani assembly by-election, the leader of the seven party Mahagathbandhan, Nitish Kumar in a clarion call to his opposition friends underscored the need for coming together to successfully counter the BJP. After the defeat while the BJP leaders were […]

The post BJP Using Kurhani Defeat Of JD(U) To Malign Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Six weeks are certainly not the sensible time frame to judge a new prime minister’s performance, that is too in the case of United Kingdom, which has been suffering economic malaise that has turned endemic during the decade with Conservatives in the power. But still Rishi Sunak, the first Prime Minister of […]

The post Rishi Sunak Has Taken Few Positive Steps In Stopping Economic Downslide first appeared on IPA Newspack.