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By Sushil Kutty The AK Antony panel constituted by Sonia Gandhi to look into the 2014 Congress debacle blamed BJP’s Hindu communalism for the Congress defeat and concluded that Hindu votes mattered to win elections. Regardless, the Congress lost in 2019. Now, after eight and a half years, AK Antony has come out of semi-retirement […]

The post Even After Eight Years, Congress Brand Of Secularism Has No Definite Shape first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Why should it surprise anybody if Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu wants his son Nara Lokesh to replace him at the head of the TDP table? CBN is doing nothing that is unusual. Besides, it is classic Congress. Nara Lokesh will also undertake a ‘padayatra’, just like Gandhi family scion Rahul […]

The post Chandrababu Naidu Finally Passes On His Baton To His Son Nara Lokesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty As 2022 rolls over for 2023 the Opposition has to declare a PM-face. There is no other option for the opposition parties but to fight Narendra Modi unitedly. Consider it a fait accompli, something that has been decided, and all that remains is to make it public. Fait accompli forecloses any opposition. […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Is Emerging As PM Face Against Narendra Modi, Will Opposition Accept Him? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party, the election winning machine, is closing the year a little rough for the wear, despite the resounding win in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home-state Gujarat, where fellow Gujarati, Home Minister Amit Shah, contributed his two bit with a threat and a promise, both rolled into one, reminding the […]

The post Will BJP’s Election Juggernaut Get A Hit By Bearded Rahul Gandhi In 2023? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Reports have been doing the rounds that Rahul Gandhi was planning a short break from the Bharat Jodo Yatra to mark Christmas. BJP spokespersons have been asking with sly grins what if Rahul Gandhi took a Christmas break and went to Bangkok? This, even as the ruling party was getting perturbed as […]

The post Why Union Health Minister Issuing Ultimatum To Rahul Gandhi To Suspend Yatra? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Congress Member of Parliament Manish Tewari wants a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the ‘border situation’ with China, the Line of Actual Control, which is a euphemism for not having a recognized border. Tewari, who has established himself as a military affairs expert over the years, has given an adjournment motion […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt Is Avoiding Discussion On Tawang In Parliament first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Finally, megastar Amitabh Bachchan has spoken truth to power! And in the city where he spent a part of his youth…Kolkata! Then, early in his tinsel-town career, after moving to ‘Bombay’, when his screen roles demanded, he was the “angry young man”, who in real-life was known to dodge issues of civil […]

The post Amitabh Bachchan’s Remarks At Kolkata Film Festival Have Big Significance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The morning of December 14 ex-RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan hitched his wagon to Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. The timing made sense. One, the Bharat Jodo Yatra was traversing through Congress-ruled Rajasthan. Two, the Congress had just a couple of days ago defeated the BJP in Himachal Pradesh. Three, of the three […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Led Bharat Jodo Yatra Will Be 100 Days Old On December 16 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Usually things start with a display of offensive banners and end with a flag meeting. Tempers cool followed by the rival “20-year-olds” going back to each their neck of the woods either side of the LAC. This time, it was at Tawang far to the east of Galwan and happened on December […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt’s China Policy Has Always Been Ad Hoc Since 2014 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The AAP strategy is to make lots of noise and hope that it registers with the voters. It worked in Gujarat where it got 13 percent of the vote share to technically become a national party though in terms of impact it remains “regional” with the distinction of being in the company […]

The post AAP Can Not Fight Both BJP And The Congress In 2024 Lok Sabha Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Gujarat for Bharatiya Janata Party. Himachal Pradesh went to Congress. Does that spell equal=equal, overall, neither party won, neither party lost? Delhi’s ‘Big Boss’ Aam Aadmi Party failed at both places. And that will rankle. One day right on top of the world, the other day, down in the dumps! Just like […]

The post BJP Has Got Big Victory In Gujarat But That’s All Due To Congress Lapses first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is now to wait for the counting of votes. In between, there are the exit polls and people will get a glimpse of what’s in store. A couple of opinion polls have been generous to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, giving the BJP 130-plus seats in Gujarat. Winning Gujarat is crucial for […]

The post Gujarat Elections Have Emerged Stiffer For Narendra Modi Despite Bravado first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Actor Paresh Rawal might be mistaken for a pomfret. Rawal’s wisecrack about ‘Fish & Bengali’ has landed him in shark-infested waters. He should have stuck to ‘Fish & Chips’. And, if Rawal ever strays into the Bengali hemisphere, (Bangladesh included), he had better look out for Hilsa; it will not bite him! […]

The post Paresh Rawal Should Know There Is More In The World Other Than Gujarat And Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The uncharitable will say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy should have given way to the ambulance much earlier, not wait for a turn in the road, and that the ambulance, on a medical emergency, must have been held up on the straight behind Modi’s poll-festooned saffron-garlanded SUV for kilometres. The nasty fellow […]

The post Prime Minister’s 50 Km Motorcade Show In Gujarat Campaign Is A Big Boost first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Too much has been spoken and written about how the Adani Group juggled shares and equity, whatever they might mean to the common layman, to snatch ownership of NDTV and run away with it such that it became the hottest story among a bevy.  ‘O! No.’ said an anti-Modi aficionado of the […]

The post Take Over Of NDTV Channel By Adanis Is A Sad Day For Liberal Secular Camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the opportunity of his lifetime to make a global difference to India’s status on the world stage when India assumes the G20 presidency on December 1 for a period of one year. The Prime Minister himself has called it a “huge opportunity” for India in his November […]

The post G20 Presidency Has Given A Golden Opportunity To India To Emerge As A Leader first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Gaslighting’ is associated with ‘disorientation’. It is also closely related to “fake news”, and conspiracy theories. It is “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone or a group of people for one’s own advantage.” Like filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, who stands accused of gaslighting Indians into believing that there was a Kashmir […]

The post The Kashmir Files Film Might Be A Sort Of Propaganda But The Issue Is Real first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It couldn’t have been slip of tongue. Was it a boast, or a dare? Perhaps, a warning, a straightforward reminder, to vote-bank to stay put because you don’t do that, and communal rioting will follow. Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statements spelled out that Gujarat 2002 was the watershed that separated the […]

The post Home Minister Amit Shah Finally Admitted BJP Role In Gujarat Riots In 2002 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has a lot of explaining to do after his “explosive” interview in which he called arch rival Sachin Pilot “traitor” six times and would have made it a dozen if the interviewer hadn’t cut short the interview. “What’s happened to you Mr. Gehlot” was not a question […]

The post Congress Is Congress, It Never Changes – Ashok Gehlot Proves It Once Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The good news is, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has gone so ’low’ that from hereon he can only go ‘high’. Sarma comparing Rahul Gandhi to Saddam Hussein is straight out of the book of the absurd. For one, Saddam was married with sons. Two, Saddam had no dog to answer […]

The post Assam Chief Minister’s Anti-Rahul Tirade Has Reached Its Lowest Ebb first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It’s confirmed. Elections, combined with the politics swirling around them, brings the worst out of politicians, and political parties. Witness what has been happening in Gujarat, and in Delhi with the MCD elections, which has a 15 year anti-incumbency pulling back on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chances of making it fourth time […]

The post Winning Delhi MCD Is Important Going Forward For Both AAP And The BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The main protagonist in the open and shut ‘Fridge Murder’ case, a la the ‘tandoor murder’ saga, Aftab Poonawala, is in safe hands. This, after a Delhi court warned the Delhi Police from using the third degree on Poonawala in their zeal to nail the self-confessed murderer of Shraddha Walkar, his live-in […]

The post Shraddha Murder Case: So Many Loose Ends To Be Tied Up By Police first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty After weeks of weaving through narrow roads and broad avenues, through how many states one had stopped counting, Congress leader and party rejuvenator Rahul Gandhi and his Bharat Jodo Yatra are in volatile territory; the peace of the southern vistas replaced by the cacophony of opposing narratives, sometimes quiet, oftentimes bold, and […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Could Have Avoided Savarkar Issue During Yatra In Maharashtra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

  By Sushil Kutty Soon, Indians will be watching the gypsy nation drowning in sorrow when it dawns on them that Indians have beaten them for being gypsies! Yup, Indians are global nomads, the multi-flavours of the planet, present under every stone, from the Arctic to the Antarctica—Vasudeva Kutumbakam! The world is one family, but […]

The post India-Indians Everywhere-Football Crazy Desi Fans Swamp World Cup Venue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is a small world, and sound travels far. Otherwise how could America’s  former President Donald Trump echo Prime Minister Narendra Modi?  Announcing his 2024 bid for the White House, Trump said, “This is not my campaign, this will be our campaign”. And television host Sean Hannity gushed, “Great line, if he […]

The post In The Gujarat Assembly Polls, It Is Narendra Modi All The Way, Not BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping met on Monday in  the Indonesian island of Bali, the first substantive meeting between them since Joe Biden became President, and Xi Jinping secured an unprecedented third term. The other side of the road, other leaders of Group of 20 paused till Xi-and-Biden worked out […]

The post Biden-Xi Talks At G20 Meet Send Mature Signals Amidst The Period Of Tensions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Let us agree not to disagree with the Congress that the Supreme Court should not have released the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case; that this was “totally unacceptable and completely erroneous.” The ruling has made the top court a laughing stock to some, and it comes in the wake […]

The post Congress Has Every Right To Object To Release Of Rajiv Assassins By Supreme Court first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Chandrachud have two years facing each across the aisle. The rightwing Prime Minister, and the left-liberal CJI described as progressive and ’woke’. Head to head, the two are as different as chalk and cheese, and the stuff on Chandrachud’s plate could taste […]

The post CJI Chandrachud And Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Why would those who converted from Hinduism to Islam and Christianity want to be classified as ‘Dalit’, when it was the Scheduled Caste status in the Hindu religious and social order what made them to convert in the first place? In fact, the strongest argument to convert from Hinduism to any religion […]

The post Many Questions Remain Unanswered Relating To Inclusion Of Converted Into Dalits first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Do we get the sneaking feeling that the G-20 has been roped in to be part of the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’; an opportunity to electorally cash in on the universal appeal of the lotus, which also happens to be India’s national flower? The Opposition is bristling, and does not like it one […]

The post Narendra Modi Seeks To Convert The Nation As A BJP Ground In Global Arena first appeared on IPA Newspack.