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By Sushil Kutty Even King Soloman wouldn’t succeed in breaking this stalemate. There is one baby, Chandigarh, and two states claiming to be mothers, Punjab and Haryana, both unwilling to sacrifice the baby or hand it over to the other. By right, Punjab is the “mother” and should get the ‘baby’. Everyone, from Indira Gandhi […]

The post Punjab Government Has Every Right To Claim Inclusion Of Chandigarh In The State first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So there have been questions raised about the “actions and inactions of the CBI, regarding its credibility in some cases.” But even the Supreme Court of India cannot do much on its own on this serious institution required to run the country. All that CJI NV Ramana can do is recommend, ask […]

The post CJI N V Ramana Has Questioned Again The Credibility Of CBI And Other Agencies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The last time Union Home Minister Amit Shah stood up in the Lok Sabha to discuss the affairs of a state, that state was bifurcated and broken into two union territories. This time around, Shah has done the opposite—merged three municipal corporations into a single block with ramifications still not clear, except […]

The post Modi Government Is Using All Means To Curb The Powers Of State Govts first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is the rope in the game of tug of war slipping through Mamata Banerjee’s hands? At least Mamata gives this impression as she once again asks every political party opposed to “BJP’s oppressive rule” to unite. The problem is the only fly in the ointment of opposition unity is Mamata herself! The […]

The post Mamata Will Have A Hard Time In Getting Response To Her Call For Opposition Unity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Akhilesh Yadav needs no introduction. But in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, he is a newcomer, just like Yogi Adityanath was in 2017. Yogi remained a non-member of the assembly the entire five years he was CM the first time, just like Akhilesh Yadav when he was Chief Minister from 2012-2017. The […]

The post Akhilesh Yadav As The Opposition Leader In Assembly Has A Tough Task Ahead first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It’s been a month since Russia invaded Ukraine. So long in the battlefield and even Changez Khan’s hordes would have ended their campaign and returned home to the Manchurian steppe. But Putin’s army is not returning home even as we are being told that the Russian troops do not have their hearts […]

The post President Putin Is Still In His Own Created Mess In Ukraine After One Month Of War first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Modi Government will not topple Maha Vikas Aghadi. Not when it’s plagued with indecisiveness, and Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut cannot with his utterances dissuade the Modi Government from targeting MVA ministers and legislators, members of the extended Thackeray family. Not as long as there are central enforcement agencies […]

The post Central Agencies In League With BJP To Create Rift In MVA Coalition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty We’ve heard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 56” chest, and we’ve heard of how Modi can stand on one leg and give Baba Ramdev a run for his Yoga. Modi’s superhuman exploits would fill a tome the size of a NYT bestseller, and if people never tire of ‘Modi hai toh mumkin […]

The post Narendra Modi, The Superhuman Who Only Works And Rarely Sleeps first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress without the Gandhi family would not net a single MP seat in Kerala. A few MLA seats, perhaps, but not one of the 20 Lok Sabha seats. That is for sure. The Congress party’s Malayali vote-bank does not recognize Ghulam Nabi Azad or Kapil Sibal, forget Anand Sharma and Manish […]

The post South India Needs A Nehru-Gandhi At The Helm Of Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty AAP’s Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann chose to launch himself from Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s maternal village Khatkar Kalan, 80 km from Chandigarh. Does that make Mann a revolutionary? Mann is a comedian-turned-CM, but Mann is serious about preempting people from cracking jokes on his comedian status. That said, Bhagat Singh is the […]

The post Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Has To Function As A Serious Politician first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Karnataka hijab row now goes to the Supreme Court after the Karnataka High Court ruled that the hijab is not essential religious practice in Islam, and there’s clear and present danger that the row will escalate to the “national stage”, which was what the high court had feared would happen when […]

The post Hijab Row Gets National Dimension After Ruling By Karnataka High Court first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty My roadshow versus your roadshow. The last time AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal took on Narendra Modi the ‘azaan’ sounded and Kejriwal paused. Then, Varanasi voted Modi to make him Prime Minister. Kejriwal didn’t have a prayer to stop him. In 2019, nobody had a prayer. Today, another nearly five years later, AAP […]

The post Two Roadshows Tell Evolving Political Fortune Of BJP And AAP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo ‘Behen’ Mayawati feels betrayed by the ‘bahujan samaj’. The BSP’s Muslim vote-bank dumped the elephant for the cycle and, watching this migration, the party’s upper caste and non-Jatav vote-banks also left fearing the return of the “jungle raj” of the Samajwadi Party if they didn’t join the bandwagon […]

The post Mayawati Has Lost In Uttar Pradesh Poll But She Can Not Be Written Off first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There is “gehri manthan” going on as to what led to the Samajwadi Party loss even after all the signs on the ground pointed to a Bharatiya Janata Party debacle? More important, why did an entire tribe of political analysts fail in their “reading” of the situation unfolding? There is genuine consternation. […]

The post Samajwadi Party Has Done Quite Well Compared To 2017 And 2019 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty A trait common to all politicians, even the bright young ones, is a penchant for sycophancy. So, when AAP swept its one-state wonder tag out the Delhi window and took Punjab by the “vacuum cleaner”, Delhi AAP leader Raghav Chadha, who ran AAP’s Punjab poll campaign, couldn’t stop himself from blurting out, […]

The post AAP Victory In Punjab Means People Are Tired With National Parties first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “I will leave Delhi after April and return to live in Thiruvananthapuram,” Congress “stalwart” AK Antony told a newspaper and people suddenly realized that this man was still around, ruminating in the greens of Lutyen’s Delhi. Nobody will miss Antony after he leaves, like nobody missed him in the eight years since […]

The post Former Defence Minister A K Antony Is Finally Leaving Electoral Politics first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty March 8, and it was another International Women’s Day (IWD). Men worldwide were expected to throw their misogyny out the window and praise women sky high, applauding them for their many victories including succeeding in teaching men how to behave with women in general, and with the particular women in their lives. […]

The post International Women’s Day: It Is A Long Wait For Gender Parity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Mumbai, Maharashtra after a roadshow in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, where he hopes all the assembly constituencies will vote BJP. The seventh and last phase of the assembly elections in UP happened March 7 and the phenomenon of ‘aware pashu (stray cattle)’ mustn’t have escaped Modi’s […]

The post Maharashtra Governor B S Koshiyari Is A Tool Of State BJP And RSS first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty In this age of Social Media, there are dime-a- dozen political analysts. From age 20 to age 60 and beyond. Many of these pundits base their political predictions on caste arithmetic. There is also the analyst who argues using the communal factor. Stacked against these two is a third kind, the one […]

The post ‘Labarthi’ Is The Most Talked Issue During Poll Campaign In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The NCP’s Nawab Malik continues to remain Maharashtra’s Minority Affairs Minister just like the BJP’s Minority Affairs Minister at the Centre Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. The difference is Nawab is in the custody of a central government enforcement agency, while the Naqvi can move about freely, reinforcing the belief that the only good […]

The post The Bizarre Developments Concerning Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is Vladimir Putin’s war and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot do zilch to make it come to an end though for some unfathomable reason the Ukrainian ambassador in New Delhi believes Modi can sway Putin from his decades-long resolve to reassemble the dismantled USSR and leave Ukraine alone. The kind […]

The post It Is Vladimir Putin’s War In Ukraine, Narendra Modi Can Have Little Role first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan must be wishing he hadn’t told Russia’s RT television network that he wanted a TV debate with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. What must be striking to Imran Khan and his countrymen and countrywomen is that cricketer Khan’s wish elicited a reply not from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, […]

The post Will Shashi Tharoor Take Up Imran Khan’s TV Debate Challenge With Modi? first appeared on IPA Newspack.