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By Sushil Kutty Police stopped Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Manipur and without being asked “what next for Manipur?” the disqualified Congress Member of Parliament said, “Manipur needs healing” – the panacea the violence-hit Manipuris have been yearning for months. Distraught people everywhere, across time zones and over the years who have lived through violence […]

The post Centre Has No Clue On How To Bring To An End The Continuing Violence In Manipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, two states ruled by the Congress are scheduled to go polls before the year is out. Also, both with a leadership problem at the state level! Those were the similarities till a couple of days ago when the Congress high command, after years of ignoring the infighting in Chhattisgarh, […]

The post Congress Leadership Truce At Chhattisgarh Bodes Well For Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If cars and sports utility vehicles can win general elections, then Bharat Rashtra Samithi President K Chandrasekhar Rao is already the Prime Minister! KCR, as he is called, led a convoy of 600 cars & SUVs into Maharashtra on Monday and made jittery a clutch of top Maharashtra politicians. Why, even Prime […]

The post Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Now Fighting Opposition More Than BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh is in a different ballpark from the other states. The bifurcation left it curtailed, territory-wise, and crimped, politically, vis a vis the relatively flamboyant Telangana, which for its share of area got the city of Hyderabad, which is for the time being the capital of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. […]

The post Andhra Pradesh Is Set To Witness Three Cornered Contest In Coming Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Summarily dismissing the Aam Aadmi Party’s appeal that the opposition parties start their campaign with a show of unity on the issue of the Delhi ordinance is not good for the Opposition. More so because Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a massive hit on how democracy has fared under his watch during […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gala Performance At Press Meet In Washington first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The assumption is general elections 2024 will see people voting with their feet and it will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swansong whether he likes it or not. The plethora of opposition parties are sure Modi was on his last legs when he addressed the US Congress on June 23. For them, […]

The post Opposition Charting Out Its Roadmap To Oust Narendra Modi From Power first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty This column has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi all possible names including those bordering on the ‘libel’. So far, Alhamdulilah, Modi hasn’t let the wolves on the column. But it is a fact that wringing Modi in the Press Freedom grinder wouldn’t make a difference to Press freedom in nine years of […]

The post Just Not Narendra Modi, Indian Media Barons And Some Journalists Have To Share The Blame For Curbs On Press Freedom first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty On June 23 when the opposition parties gather in Patna to discuss 2024 and the end of the Modi regime, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will still be in the United States in the eye of the global media glare. The opposition parties should take care events involving Prime Minister Modi in the […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Will Steal Media Limelight From USA On June 23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One view is that one Indian is having all the fun! Like “excitement and euphoria have gripped many Indian Americans ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the US”. Such a view should not be allowed to gather moss. It is humiliating to the country, and to the country’s rulers. But, […]

The post Finally Prime Minister’s US Visit Seems To Be A Mega Show Of Emergent India first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The politics in the Ramayana is over after a few turns of the pages. Machinations of the ‘second wife’ which conspired to send Lord Rama into exile with wife Sita and brother Lakshmana in tow; thereby setting the stage for the most celebrated kidnap-cum-rescue dramas of all-time; a stunning piece of screenplay. […]

The post Just Released Film ‘Adipurush’ Is Undoubtedly A Saffron Friendly Project Gone Wrong first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi being kept in the dark on the Manipur killings? As it is, his countrymen have no idea of whether he reads newspapers. If he had, he would have squared off with at least one press conference in the nine barren years of mishandling power. The ‘godi media’ […]

The post Manipur Crisis Intensifies Despite All The Meetings Of The Home Minister first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty After Telugu Desam Party Chief Chandrababu Naidu met Bharatiya Janata Party top-brass in Delhi a little over a week ago, there’s movement. The BJP appears to have thrown its weight behind the TDP and the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) helmed by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy isn’t complaining. The decision set free […]

The post TDP May Finally Align With BJP In Both Andhra Pradesh And Telangana first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One thing is getting certain and certain as we get closer and closer to the general elections 2024. That is, the BJP will go to any extent to win elections. Who can forget the 2019 elections on the heels of the Balakote airstrikes; which had at its source, a bloody militant attack […]

The post Latest Killings In Manipur Signal Total Failure Of Amit Shah’s Efforts first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this a sign of a “raging feud” […]

The post Shinde-Fadnavis Battle Over Chief Ministership Has Come Out In The Open first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Unity on not allowing the thorny “who will be PM face” to play spoilsport with the Patna Conclave has made it relatively easy for cobbling unity among opposition parties. Ambitious opposition leaders are happy they didn’t have to stake claim for the “PM face”. Octogenarian NCP supremo Sharad Pawar took the decision […]

The post United Opposition Going To 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Without A ’PM Face’ Makes Sense first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal returned to Ramlila Ground after 12 years and this time to sound the bugle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has unleashed “Hitlerism” on India. The one-time anti-corruption mascot, who has never signed a Delhi government document, is livid that he has been deprived the right to […]

The post Arvind Kejriwal Is Emerging As A Staunch Ally Of Opposition Against BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If after 9 years of BJP domination, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is looking his most vulnerable and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is being called out for “railing against citizens he calls Aurangzeb ki Aulad”, then Fadnavis must have a reason and the people gunning for Fadnavis either aren’t on the […]

The post Political Situation Turns Dicey For BJP Leadership In Maharashtra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post BJP Leadership Wooing The Break Away NDA Allies Desperately Before 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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 […]

The post Questions Galore About BRS Decision Not To Join Crucial Opposition Conclave first appeared on IPA Newspack.

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.