By Sushil Kutty

By Sushil Kutty Back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mind, in the recesses, will be the depleted National Democratic Alliance, the shadow of it. Along with the other, the main worry – will he get another shot at being prime minister or will he be third time unlucky? The RSS is worried. A survey carried […]

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By Sushil Kutty Whether or not the Janata Dal (S) joins the Opposition’s joint efforts to forge unity for the 2024 general elections does not count for zilch because the Gowda family’s party has lost relevance even in Karnataka forget any place else in the country. The drubbing the JD(S) received in the Karnataka assembly […]

The post JD(S) Looking For Ways To Remain Relevant After Debacle In Karnataka Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So it is India is democratic versus India is undemocratic. Are we stuck with the binary? Both Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are fighting each other overseas in preparation for the ‘Big Fight 2024’ at home. Rahul Gandhi’s observation that “NRIs” got India her freedom from the British […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has Finally Given A Jolt To Narendra Modi In Indian Diaspora first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty In the mid-1990s and about the time when the Bharatiya Janata Party was still building its formidable cadre, the Telugu Desam Party’s N. Chandrababu Naidu used to be the busiest political body in Delhi and everybody knew if something political was cooking it would be in Naidu’s kitchen. Current Congress leader Rajiv […]

The post Cornered In South After Karnataka Debacle, BJP Woos TDP For Telangana, Andhra Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Sulking is common to non-BJP Chief Ministers. And opposition unity suffers. Right now the tribe of non-BJP Chief Ministers sees opportunity in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s problems. The Modi government’s ordinance upturning the Supreme Court’s verdict that gave Delhi’s AAP government control over “services” is the magnet for opposition unity and […]

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By Sushil Kutty The June 12 Patna conclave of opposition parties is keenly awaited. Finally, opposition unity looks a possibility. Rahul Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge are giving it a miss, but somebody from the Congress will be deputed. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is in the United States taking pot-shots at Prime Minister […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s Alternative Vision Can Be A Good Basis For June 12 Discussion first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Nine Muslims grace the treasury benches in the 224-member Karnataka assembly, all of them Congress MLAs. En bloc Muslim voting in the just-concluded 2023 Karnataka assembly elections was one of the reasons why the Congress returned to power. Muslims comprise nearly 13% of the Karnataka electorate and this percentage is bound to […]

The post Bigger Muslim Support To The Congress In Karnataka Poll Is A Positive Signal For 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The latest Sachin Pilot-Ashok Gehlot patch-up will last till June 8 when disqualified Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi returns from his trip to the United States where the Congress scion will be raising yet another front against Prime Minister Narendra Modi like he had from London the last time he had […]

The post No Real Truce Is Ready At Ending Gehlot-Pilot Infighting In Rajasthan Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi bounced back from the brink and the opposition parties are together and singly to blame for the comeback. The Karnataka assembly election loss should have been the final nail as far as Modi was concerned, his Waterloo! But not three weeks later, Modi was larger than life, both […]

The post Opposition Parties Could Not Meet Properly PM Challenge On New Parliament Building first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There was the Planning Commission, and there’s the NITI Aayog, supposedly a good enough name-swap. The Planning Commission became NITI Aayog in 2015, a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi did his first flat-out ‘shastang pranam’ in Parliament, the old one. Today, nine years and a second ‘shastang pranam’ later, this one […]

The post NITI Aayog Is Steadily Losing Its Relevance As An Useful Think Tank For Planning first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Twenty opposition parties will boycott the new Parliament building unveiling. They don’t want the honourable Prime Minister act the ‘Inauguration Minister’, which is a boringly familiar sight ever since 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modiji’s appetite for cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones is inelegantly voracious. It does not upset the Prime Minister’s […]

The post Why Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi Adamant On Inaugurating New Parliament Building? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So, our Pradhan Sewak is the Australian Prime Minister’s ‘Boss’, just like Bruce Springsteen, who was ‘Born in America’. Narendra Damodardas Modi was born in Gujarat and Gujarat is no less full of business magnates as America is. But the question currently roiling minds is why is it that Prime Minister Narendra […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Winning Laurels In His Current Foreign Visits first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Nobody can put a knife to the Congress party’s throat and compel it to stand with the Aam Aadmi Party against the Modi government’s ordinance which returned control of “services” – postings and transfers – to the Lt. Governor after a couple of days of celebrations over the Supreme Court verdict that […]

The post Congress Has To Join Opposition Wholeheartedly To Oppose Ordinance On Delhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty How many of us were aware of the President of the Wrestling Federation of India before the name resounded in ugly resonance from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi? Hardly any beyond maybe 10 lakhs, 20-30-40-50 lakhs, perhaps one-two crores – the sort of people who vote for candidates in assembly and parliamentary […]

The post It Is Strange, Even After One Month Of Dharna, WFI President Is Moving Free first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is so blatantly brazen you can stick it to the wall and it will hang firm. Is it a violation of the law? It definitely is a ‘middle finger’ to the Supreme Court. The top court has been told “thus far, no further”. And it has left Delhi’s AAP government up […]

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By Sushil Kutty The abrupt removal of Kiren Rijiju from the post of Union Minister of Law is yet another example of Prime Narendra Modi surrendering. In fact Modi’s two tenures are littered with abject surrenders. Almost to suggest that this is a flaw in his character. No reason has been given for Rijiju’s eviction. […]

The post Kiren Rijiju’s Removal From Law Ministry Indicates PM’s Late Bid To Woo Judiciary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The “nagging Congress infighting in Karnataka” is glaringly out in the open. And the headlines are making the Congress look like a bunch of children at a candy store. The party is ridden with the suicidal impulses. One view is that the Congress high command should put its foot down, name its […]

The post Congress High Command Must Act Firm In Dealing With In Fighting In States Before Coming Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Less than 12 months are left for general elections 2024 and those of us asking what’s gonna propel voters to the election booths are being too smart by half. We all know one camp’s strategy has come a cropper, while the other camp has won the derby by a couple of horse’s […]

The post Karnataka Poll Results Show That PM’s Outreach To Muslims Did Not Give Dividends first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi was slated to distribute appointment letters via video conferencing to 71,000 newly-inducted recruits on Tuesday, May 16. Less than a year short of the 2024 general elections, Modi is acutely aware he might not be the 2024 favourite. Modi’s numero uno position is up for grabs and the […]

The post PM Modi’s Rozgar Melas Will Now Be Regular Features In States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘What a wonderful world’ must have been the feeling in the Aam Aadmi Party after it won the Jalandhar bye-election by a devastating margin, which has been the Aam Aadmi Party’s signature calling card election after election. ‘Landslide’ is AAP’s default position. Twice (thrice?) in a row in Delhi, then in Punjab, […]

The post AAP’s Big Victory In Jalandhar Lok Sabha Bypolls Is A Boost For Its National Role first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Yes. The verdict in the Karnataka assembly polls announced on May 13 is emphatic. The Congress has won majority in the 224 member house comfortably.  The Congress winning figure is   around 139 seats as against 62 by the BJP and 20 by JD(S) around afternoon. The final figures may  see a small […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is The Biggest Loser In Karnataka Assembly Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who heads the Biju Janata Dal, can make a salutary contribution to the combined opposition’s goal of ousting Prime Minister Narendra Modi only if his party makes a clean sweep of Odisha’s Lok Sabha seats in 2024. That being said, Naveen Patnaik is smarter than Bihar Chief […]

The post Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Has Genuine Reasons To Remain Unattached first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court Thursday refused to rule Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde out of his job because it was snatched from Uddhav Thackeray who should have faced the floor test and not fled the scene. The top court’s refusal was disappointing because everything else the court said prior to expressing helplessness gave […]

The post No End In Sight Of Political Mess In Maharashtra Over Shiv Sena Split first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There’s this voter who was born in Mangalore and he has lots of BJP “karyakarta” friends. Good fellows who do the booth management for the world’s largest-richest political party. The commitment of such people wins elections. But, this time in Karnataka, the BJP did not have the confidence that booth management alone […]

The post BJP’s Election Juggernaut Was On Full Display In Karnataka Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was the last political stalwart to jump into the Karnataka electoral showdown and predict the Congress will get the Karnataka electorate’s thumbs up in the May 10 assembly elections results of which will be out by May 13 afternoon. Pawar based his projection on hearsay because the NCP […]

The post Opposition Parties Have To Do Lot Of Homework After Karnataka Results first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “Brotherly neighbours” China and Pakistan have been joined by Afghanistan to pin down India on CPEC. Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in Islamabad on the heels of the SCO foreign ministers meeting in Goa. The Pakistan-China-Afghanistan nexus should worry the so-called Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That […]

The post Afghanistan Joining China’s BRI Programme Is A Big Diplomatic Defeat For India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The toughest foreign minister in the hemisphere, India’s EAM S. Jaishankar cannot suffer fellow foreign ministers who pour scorn on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, call him names and think they can make a clean getaway! And, if the erring foreign minister happens to be Pakistan’s, woe betide that gentleman or lady like […]

The post Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar Acted Like A Cop, Not A Diplomat At Goa SCO Meet first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty India in its capacity of rotating head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the Goa SCO on May 4-5, but India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hadn’t decided on a bilateral with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. So much for India’s legendary ‘athithi devo bhava’ and […]

The post By Not Holding Bilateral Talks With Bilawal Bhutto, India Has Lost An Opportunity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu has renewed its vows with the principal opposition party in the state, the AIADMK, with certain concessions from both sides. One, the BJP’s K Annamalai will put his ego on hold and for that, the AIADMK will consider Annamalai an equal partner and not a […]

The post AIADMK-BJP Alliance Has Many Faultlines To Be Dealt Before 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It is dozens of hours since the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to their ‘Mann Ki Baat’, perhaps aware that India’s Prime Minister often slips into his default position of hard of hearing. And PM Modi, for all we know, must not have heard […]

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