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By Sushil Kutty Who is ‘Panauti’ for which political party will be known on December 3 when votes are counted and the results of the assembly elections are out. And if the 2024 general election favours the INDI-Alliance, the Election Commission, which has issued a show cause notice to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Should Be Careful In Calling Prime Minister Names During Poll Campaign first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Headlines like ‘People ready to defeat BRS’ do not reveal the whole truth. There is a media narrative against Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and the man is media-meat. If the media pronouncements are taken at face value, the BRS has been scalped and laid out to dry. Everybody of note, […]

The post In Telangana Poll Campaign, Congress Has Advanced But Yet To Catch On With BRS first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Mohammad All Jinnah got his wish and Pakistan was created at the expense of India, which lost territory. Jinnah won Pakistan on the back of the two-nation theory. But the trifurcation of India did not put an end to the two-nations within India. The point is, India remains two nations even 76 […]

The post Yogi Govt’s Ban On Halal Certification Is Aimed At Attracting Hindu Votes first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in San Francisco and President Xi told President Biden that Planet Earth was big enough for “both the countries”, the first time a Chinese big shot has referred to China as a country big enough to rival “superpower United States”. If Xi’s […]

The post Xi-Biden Summit Was A Bid To Make Our Planet ’Accommodate Two Super Powers’ first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It takes a lot to upset the equanimity of Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha. Especially when he’s still the fresh hubby with a pretty life partner. Yet, Chadha is lacking the spring in his steps. The much touted unity in the INDI-Alliance is what bothers the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP, the […]

The post AAP Rajya Sabha Member Raghav Chadha Is Right In Retaining The Unity Of India Bloc At All Costs first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is hard at campaigning for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where the last legs of electioneering are at their peak. Listening to Rahul Gandhi makes it clear that he does not like it that Prime Minister Narendra Modi refuses to speak on the caste census, […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Caught Narendra Modi On Back Foot On Caste Census Issue During Poll Campaign first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There appears to be no end to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s self-doubts as far as Madhya Pradesh is concerned. It is not just anti-incumbency of over 18 years. This is more like being paranoid. First and foremost, the complete overdependence on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking the party to victory. Two, […]

The post By Giving Tickets To Older People In Madhya Pradesh, BJP Has Exposed Its Mistrust In Young first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The way the lay of the land lies, courts have the last word and among the courts, the Supreme Court. So, it’s a “big victory” for the AAP government and a lesson for the Punjab Governor who had withheld consent to four bills passed by the Punjab assembly while also ruling an […]

The post Supreme Court Reads The Riot Act To The Governor Of AAP Led Punjab first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party despairs that the opposition INDI-Alliance is dividing Hindus into caste to rob the BJP a chance at victory in the five states’ assembly elections. The moral high-ground the saffron party took by championing a casteless Hindu society, however, does not fetch votes in enough numbers to win elections. […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The OBC Card In Telangana Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal is bound for prison. The Delhi Chief Minister is reconciled to his fate. The enforcement directorate will question him, arrest him and put him behind bars, period. There are no two ways about it. Kejriwal has convinced himself and he has also convinced his flock of […]

The post Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Is Reconciled To His Term In Tihar Jail first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Last heard, the NDA had taken a massive lead in the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat elections with the BJP, the NCP Ajit Pawar faction and the Shinde Shiv Sena going great guns while the Congress, Shiv  Sena (UBT) and NCP Sharad Pawar were way behind, underlying the reality that the INDI-Alliance has a […]

The post Expanded NDA’s Lead In Maharashtra Panchayat Polls Is A Bad Signal For India first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The regularity with which the Enforcement Directorate discovers alleged wrongdoings of opposition parties on the eve of elections should be a matter of investigation. But that calls for a regime change; the Narendra Modi government should be divested of power for discovering a nexus, if any. The ED, sometimes working in tandem […]

The post ED Raid Aimed To Involve Chief Minister Baghel Before Polls Is Ominous first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There was Pegasus, now it’s Apple and if Pegasus was a winged horse, the nearly half-eaten Apple is a mobile phone by another name. The one similarity is that both come under “Snoopgate”, in other words surveillance without the target’s knowledge. And the target remains India’s Opposition, today identified as the INDIA […]

The post Apple Alerts Opposition Leaders, Journalists Of ‘State-Sponsored’ Attacks first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Off and on, like a dormant volcano, the Maharashtra political scene is rocked by tumultuous stirs, most often triggered by farmers but also by demands for a reservation quota for the politically significant Maratha clan. The Maratha quota stir never actually died throughout its life so far, though it has failed to […]

The post Maratha Quota Stir Has Shinde-Fadnavis Government In A Bind first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Modi establishment, which takes pride in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular foreign policy”, recently took Canada to task and bent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Modi’s will. Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has the challenging task of bringing home eight retired Indian Navy officers sentenced to death in Qatar, the […]

The post Prime Minister Has A Challenging Task In Ensuring Safe Return Of Navy Officers From Qatar first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty How the Bharatiya Janata Party has transformed the upcoming assembly polls into Modi Vs. Congress by sidelining state-level leaders is the flavour of this election season running up to and right into general elections 2024. The fact of the matter is there’s no doubt that it is Congress Vs. BJP in Madhya […]

The post Narendra Modi Is In Contest Against The Congress In All Five Assemblies Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress was booted out in 2018 assembly polls.. And now it is harbouring hopes to make a return. The ruling Mizo National Front and the opposition Zoram People’s Movement haven’t given up hope, though. The BJP in Mizoram has to contend with the sordid happenings in neighbouring Manipur. The MNF is […]

The post Mizoram Assembly Poll Set To Test Prime Minister Narendra Modi On The Manipur Scale first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty That Sachin Pilot does not like Ashok Gehlot must not be a difficult answer in Rajasthan. The late Rajesh Pilot’s son is a long time sufferer at the hands of the magician-turned-politician who says “the CM post won’t leave me”. If only Sachin Pilot knew this before he was conceived, he would […]

The post Ashok Gehlot Signals Sachin Pilot Will Not Be Flight Captain After November Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Israel-Hamas war is nearly two weeks old. The highlight was a rocket striking a hospital parking lot which killed 500. The tally was later corrected to 471. US President Joe Biden said he was happy that the “other team” was to blame and not Israel as alleged by Hamas and Iran. […]

The post USA And The Other Western Nations Are Not Bothered About Cessation Of War first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Janata Dal (Secular) stands split in the middle in Karnataka. If not in the body, at least in spirit. C M Ibrahim, a party bigwig, is at the centre of the brouhaha that has put the Gowda clan headed by former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and his son, former Karnataka […]

The post Split In Janata Dal (S) And The BJP Hangs By A Frayed Rope In Karnataka first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Mallikarjun Kharge assumed the office of Congress President on October 26, 2022. He beat Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor in an election that was fixed to elect him. At the time Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was still on his Bharat Jodo Yatra and the entire attention was on the Gandhi scion. […]

The post Mallikarjun Kharge Has Shown His Mettle In Nearly One Year Of His Congress Presidency first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Global Jihad Day’, Friday, October 13, was an imposition on the non-Muslim world. The Muslim world has a grudge and the rest of the world has to pause and pay. It is about who is the aggressor and who is the silent sufferer? It is no longer ‘Hamas’, but the entire Muslim […]

The post Hamas-Israel War Has Been Taking Serious Global Dimension In A Week first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Elections often throw up surprises. Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao isn’t one for unexpected surprises though. He is confident his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi, will keep control of the Telangana assembly at the expense of the Congress and the BJP. Reports say money and liquor are inundating the poll-bound state […]

The post BRS Under K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Still Frontrunner In Telangana Assembly Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Voting for elections to the assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram are to take place from November 7 to 30. Counting of votes will be on December 3 and by evening of the day, the results will be plain to all and sundry and the question whether the Israeli-Hamas […]

The post Israel-Hamas War Is Going To Have Some Impact On The Coming State Polls first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Not mentioning “Hamas” in the Congress Working Committee resolution on the Israel-Hamas confrontation in the Gaza Strip is bothering the Congress as it shapes up for the assembly elections in five states. The election commission has spoken about the election deadlines and both the leading parties in the fray – the Bharatiya […]

The post In The Three Hindi Speaking States, BJP’s Campaign Focus Is On Hindutva first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It’s like the paraglider flying over the concertina wire fence on the Israel-Gaza border. The Bharatiya Janata Party was caught napping and given a devastating electric jolt. Such that Kargil heroes, those alive and who were martyred would cheer. The BJP’s defeat in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council-Kargil elections is a […]

The post NC-Congress Sweep In Ladakh Elections Is A Wake Up Call For BJP first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty When the alleged Delhi liquor policy scam – a ‘whodunit’ if any – is spoken about in roadside tea stalls, it is a Sherlock Holmes narrative, especially the headline, “The Curious Case of AAP, Liquor and the Missing Money Trail” that prevails. It’s a question AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal has been asking […]

The post Delhi Liquor Scam: Curious Case Of The Missing Money Trail first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It did not strike anybody. Neither to the enforcement directorate, nor to the prosecution. And it did not strike the defence team of former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. None of the AAP ministers or the AAP MLAs thought of it. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal completely missed it. But it […]

The post Supreme Court Question On Naming AAP As Accused Rattles ED Officials first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The police of AAP-ruled Punjab arrests an opposition Congress MLA and it’s just the tip of trouble roiling the AAP and the Congress. The big question haunting the two parties is, however, will their spats at the Punjab state level harm the INDI-Alliance of which both are constituents and which so far […]

The post AAP-Congress Row Over MLA’s Arrest In Punjab Should Be Solved Amicably first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Overnight a couple of planks for the 2024 General Elections has been laid – with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar releasing the Bihar Caste Census and Prime Minister Narendra Modi raking up the Kanhaiyalal ‘sar tan se juda’ in pollbound Rajasthan, both the politicians ready to do whatever is needed to get […]

The post Prime Minister’s Cup Of Woes Is Full As India Starts Campaign For National Caste Census first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.