By Sushil Kutty We can do without #ModiVsChandrachud, the entire lot of us bifurcated people of India. The fight is not imaginary and is not limited to social media alone. The perception that the CJI is waging an all-out war against the Prime Minister and is weighing in on the side of the […]
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By Sushil Kutty Janata Dal (S) must have compulsions for wanting an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for the 2024 general elections. For the record, the BJP, too, will not look askance at a tie-up with the Janata Dal (S). At this point in time, and right up to general elections 2024, neither […]
The post Janata Dal(S) Seeking Alliance With BJP In Karnataka To Save Its State Outfit first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty There is always a chance that justices may ask to be recused from a case involving a Congress luminary because there is no saying which justices’ father, mother, uncle, grandfather, grandmother wasn’t affiliated with the hoary old party? Just like Justice B R Gavai who offered to recuse himself from […]
The post Uncertainty About Rahul Gandhi Continues As Defamation Case Is Deferred To August 4 first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Even his blind bhakts were getting worried. But, it’s okay. Finally, his laryngitis has spoken. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hasn’t lost his voice. And he hears the noises around him. By now even the EU Parliament must have heard the good news. Aside from the despicable one that Prime Minister Modi […]
The post Prime Minister’s Belated Reaction On Manipur Developments Is Pathetic first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty There are 64 squares on the chessboard and 26 INDIA parties will square up against 38 NDA parties in the 2024 general elections. But how many realized that 38+26 added up to ‘64’? Everybody was talking of how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA paled in front of the singularly “inclusive” INDIA […]
The post The Once Poweful Janata Dal(S) Is Now A Lonely Traveller In Indian Politics first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra politics is strange and is getting weirder by the day. Ask anybody in the streets of Mumbai. Pune or Nagpur. Opinion will not change even in Sambhaji Nagar. Ask political analysts and they’ll say Maharashtra’s politicians are to blame. Take, for instance, the powerful Pawars, Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar, […]
The post Maharashtra Politics Turns Bizarre Before Lok Sabha Elections In 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Arun Srivastava What a coincidence! On July 13, while Justice Amrita Singh of Calcutta High Court was telling the lawyer of the State Election Commission, Kishore Dutta, that the lust for pecuniary gain and a job for five years was at the back of huge amount of electoral violence in the state, on the […]
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By Sushil Kutty Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma speaks in a different tongue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s. On the one hand, Modi goes out of his way to woo Muslims with targeted welfare schemes; on the other, the Assam Chief Minister makes it a daily habit to insult Muslims wherever and whenever he […]
The post Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Blaming Muslims For Rise In Prices Of Veggies Is Bizarre first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Being Eknath Shinde is not tantamount to standing alone. The Maharashtra Chief Minister may appear aloof, even forlorn and shy, but it’s an illusion. Unlike what his name conveys, Eknath is somebody who is adept in winning allies. Let’s not forget how Shiv Sena MLAs deserted Uddhav Thackeray on his one call. […]
The post Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Is Now Having His Moment Of Truth first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Learn to put the fear of the enforcement directorate in politicians from the Modi government. Tuesday, July 11, the Supreme Court cancelled the continuing run of ED director Sanjay Kumar Mishra. But before celebrations broke, Union Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted, reminding those “rejoicing” that it was only a change of guard […]
The post Amit Shah’s Jibe At Opposition On Denial Of Extension To ED Chief Is Ominous first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Nearly five years after the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35 spoken of in the past tense, the Centre is once again hoping to get electoral dividends out of the abrogation. At least that is the feeling one gets. For the majority, the abrogation of Article 370 was a non-event, an […]
The post Supreme Court’s Final Hearing On Abrogation Of Article 370 Has Special Significance For 2024 first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty The Gujarat High Court has said its piece on the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Modi surname defamation case. It does not take genius to deduct that the judge does not hold a candle for the disqualified MP. Just like BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala and recent BJP recruit Anil […]
The post Gujarat High Court Has Made A Mockery Of Justice In Rahul Gandhi Case first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Finally, the Congress is on track to win Rajasthan after the Bharatiya Janata Party poured urine over its prospects in Madhya Pradesh which along with Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are among five states that will go to polls before the 2024 general elections. So, has Sachin Pilot’s truce with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok […]
The post Congress Is Approaching State Assembly Elections With More Unity And Better Prospects first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on July 5. Reddy also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third time in six months. One surmise is word travels fast and the BJP’s “Pawar-play” in Maharashtra has left all parties nervous. Including political […]
The post BJP Cannot Have Any Pawar Play In Andhra Pradesh With Jagan Mohan Standing Tall first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party has changed four state unit presidents in an organizational rejig designed with general elections 2024 in mind. Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab now have new state unit presidents whether BJP cadres in the four states like it or not. The organizational rejig is the doing of Prime […]
The post BJP’s Organisational Rejig Is A Part Of A Well Designed Plan For 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty How should Sharad Pawar be addressed, what is his status in India’s political spectrum, is he still Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief and patriarch of the combined Opposition? The NCP founder has promised to restore the mangled NCP to its pre-split glory in three months flat. Isn’t that acknowledgement that the NCP […]
The post 82 Year Old Sharad Pawar Faces The Toughest Battle In Retaining NCP Under His Fold first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pasmanda outreach marginalised Muslims are on test. Will they rise above identity and embrace an opportunity to enhance socio-economic circumstances which had kept them tied to the lowest rungs of Indian society? Ironically, and quite paradoxically, the Pasmanda, or the “left behind people”, are being seen as […]
The post Uniform Civil Code Can Be A Double Edged Sword For Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.
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 […]
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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.
