By Sushil Kutty

By Sushil Kutty If anything, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is relentless in his attacks on the Modi government and he is not afraid of calling a spade a spade, does not matter how many would be waiting to mince his comments to mincemeat. Gandhi makes no excuses and he spreads his net wide. That must […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s Attack On Narendra Modi And BJP In Latest Foreign Tour Has Been Consistent first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Before the year is out there will be more than one troubling contretemp for the Bharatiya Janata Party. For the Supreme Court, and for the Modi government, too. Both are in the middle of a war over the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and his two election commissioners. The Supreme Court […]

The post Supreme Court Order On Composition Of Election Commission Is A Positive Step first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty India has the most number of gangsters-turned-politicians and one of them is Atiq Ahmed of Prayagraj, who is petrified he will go the way of Vikas Dubey, another gangster of the same neck of the woods, who was killed after the police jeep bringing him to Uttar Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh overturned […]

The post The Bizarre Story Of Gangsters In Uttar Pradesh Under Yogi Regime first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty We are in the Ides of March. And like Caesar’s wife, all holders of top positions in India should be above suspicion. Shouldn’t that apply to the Prime Minister of India? It’s a thought. Why should anybody get a free pass, spared the rigmarole that applies to every Indian citizen, just because […]

The post Case For A ‘Legal Coalition’ Of Opposition Parties To Fight Attacks By Modi Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “I’m sorry if I offended you.” That would have been Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia talking to himself after his arrest by the CBI in what’s come to be known as the Delhi liquor policy scam. Actually, Sisodia should practice saying, “I’m sorry I got caught.” True, it’s innocent till proven […]

The post BJP Can Not Tolerate That Delhi, The National Capital Is Ruled By AAP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Only the best for the best. And as far as marquee political interviews go, that would be India-born Canadian Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At No.2 is ANI editor-in-chief Smitha Prakash, whose interview with EAM S. Jaishankar was the talk of the  airwaves for all of last […]

The post The Curious Case Of The News Agency ANI Acting As Second PIB Of Modi Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) who will henceforth remain in sole control of the AIADMK. It is a blow to rival O Panneerselvam (OPS), and a setback to the BJP’s Tamil Nadu ambitions. That said, the top court only upheld an order of the Madras High […]

The post Supreme Court Order In Favour Of EPS Led AIADMK Is A Setback To BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty First thing in the morning Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi should do is to compare notes on what they would be saying on whatever that day demands so as to not end up contradicting each other like they were in two different universes. The latest was the […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Went Overboard In Taking On Trinamool Congress In Meghalaya Rally first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Protection of democracy and protection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s standing have become the No.1 priority of India’s growth story, and not necessarily in that order. From the Vice President of India to the External Affairs Minister of India, everyone of any standing has been put on the job. Of course, sycophancy […]

The post Prime Minister Has Put All His Cronies On The Job To Protect His Brand Image first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The party name ‘Shiv Sena’. The party election symbol bow & arrow. Both have gone to the Eknath Shinde Group in this fight to the finish. Now, the ‘Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena’ wants the Election Commission dissolved. And, why not? After all, it was the Election Commission which gave away ‘Shiv […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray Has To Reinvent His Party To Take On Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If putting an end to Narendra Modi’s rule for the “democratic revival” of India is the Opposition’s goal for 2024, then billionaire George Soros should be kept at a couple of oceans’ length. Soros might come with a certain reputation, but laying India on the mat is a different ballgame, Narendra Modi […]

The post Soros Gambit Is A Non-Starter In The Game To Checkmate Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Why is it that when certain things (for want of a better word) are constitutionally set and there cannot be two ways about it – also no ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’- that such matters are taken to court and the courts, as if this was the first time such a matter had come […]

The post Supreme Court Prima Facie Acceptance Of No Voting Rights For Aldermen Is A Slap To Centre first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine’s Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at multiple locations. Recall that the Modi […]

The post Income Tax Searches Into BBC Offices In India Is A Panicky Reaction By Centre first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Is Adani-Modi and the so-called Hindenburg revelations that brought the alleged murky ties between a prime minister and a stinking rich moneybag an issue in the Tripura assembly elections, the first of nine state assembly elections scheduled for 2023? The answer is, there is so far nothing to indicate ‘yes’ or ‘no’. […]

The post Opposition Parties Have To Force The Prime Minister To Agree To JPC Into Adani Affairs first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The human body is 80 percent water. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s is 80 percent hubris, the remaining 20 percent hot air for ballast, also called ‘bombast’! Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma and qualities to inspire are garnished with enough narcissism to sink INS Vikrant! And his breadth of vision matched only by […]

The post Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Suffering From ‘I, Me, Myself’ Syndrome first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Hindu-versus-Hindutva’, and the ‘casteism’ that plagues Hindu society are the issues for the 2023 9-states’ assembly elections, as well as for the 2024 general elections. Ask people from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and they will agree. Especially after the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. It does not need rocket science, […]

The post Can BJP Afford To Depend On Hindutva Campaign For Assembly Elections? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The courts of the land should watch their words. The Supreme Court, especially. The top court cannot utter words that put a question mark on its integrity and its motives. More than any entity, the topmost court must be responsible. Observations such as “there is no room for hate crimes based on […]

The post Hate Crimes Have No Place In Any Country, Secular Or Religious first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty After the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government was forced out by the breakaway Eknath Shinde Shiv Sena in June 2022, revenge has been exacted. The BJP has been defeated in the Nagpur legislative elections. But while some are calling it a “major electoral setback for the BJP”, others are surprised that […]

The post BJP’s Reverses In Legislative Council Elections In Nagpur Is A Bad Omen For Ruling Alliance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Behind the back lots of things happen. The Enforcement Directorate, for example, on February 4, questioned a very close aide of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a money laundering case involving a jailed Trinamool Congress spokesperson. And it is the kind of roundabout thing that makes a person wonder “What’s Rahul Gandhi’s […]

The post Modi Baiter Trinamool Spokesperson Saket Gokhale Is In ED Net first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Calling it “The Curious Case of ED Under Modi” will give the Bharatiya Janata Party a hole to duck into. There is nothing “curious” about the Modi government using the Enforcement Directorate to target non-BJP state governments and circle the wagons to protect the interests of the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is […]

The post Enforcement Directorate Is An Ally Of Modi Govt Against Opposition Parties first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The day after, and Budget 23-24 stands out in stark relief, warts and all. February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was the picture of animated tranquillity when she read out Budget 2023-24 dressed in red, both the minister as well as the country’s ‘bahi-khata’. She did not miss a trick in […]

The post MGNREGA Outlay Cut In 2023-24 Budget Brings Bad Days For Rural Poor first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty What does the 2023-24 budget mean for the BJP in fighting the coming polls, including the nine in 2023, and the one in 2024? A simple question, with a simple answer: Budget 2023-24 has been drafted as a saviour! The BJP wants to win as many of the nine assembly elections as […]

The post Last Full Budget Before 2024 Polls Has Potential To Help BJP In Its Campaign first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It’s over. Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, after 3750 km on the trot, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir in 134 days. News agency Reuters headlined it ‘India’s Gandhi ends 135-day march to revive Congress party in snowy Kashmir’. So, did Gandhi revive the Congress party? Opinion is divided. By the way, there isn’t […]

The post Bharat Jodo Yatra Is Over, Now The Real Battle For Challenging BJP Has Begun first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Flood ravaged, economically bankrupt and politically panned. Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has found a scapegoat. God Almighty! Dar cut to the chase, saying that because Allah created Pakistan, Allah will have to get Pakistan out of the hole, make it prosper and help it develop. That is a common belief across […]

The post Pakistan’s Economic Collapse Is A Culmination Of Long Neglect first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The results of yet another ‘Mood of the Nation’ survey is out and the summary is, if elections were held today, the Bharatiya Janata Party will rule again. That is standard gravy for those on the BJP gravy-train. Doesn’t matter that the hostage media no matter what the truth will jump to […]

The post ‘Mood Of The Nation’ Survey Is All For The Third Term Of Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty For the Congress, ever since Rahul Gandhi set out on his 3,750 km long Bharat Jodo Yatra, it has been one step forward and two steps backward thanks to some very controversial remarks made by Congress leaders including by Rahul Gandhi himself. Remarks that confuse and confound and which make the average […]

The post Congress Is A Wide Platform With Differing Views Of Party Members first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty At 72, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks Muslims have a better opinion of him in 2023 than in 2014, and in 2019. With that in his political calculation, Modi believes the BJP will win 2024 Lok Sabha polls with 400-plus seats with communal-engineering. This is sheer pipedream. At 64, Modi won 2014 […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Muslim Outreach To Get More Seats Is A Pipe Dream first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty How is it that the United States President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DoJ) can search Biden’s private residence and confiscate classified documents, and start an investigation? Ditto for the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who gets hauled up by a British ‘Bobby’ for not wearing seat-belt and is fined for […]

The post Damning BBC Documentary Brings Back PM Modi’s Airbrushed Past first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Modi government wants a stranglehold on the media. Period. Be it regular media outlets or citizen journalism on social media. The government does not want bad press. It does not tolerate criticism of “government policies, programmes, initiatives and achievements”. It will do anything to avoid taking hits on the chin. It […]

The post Granting PIB Sole Right To Fact Check Is Aimed To Make News Only Promotional first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Don’t India’s opposition parties have feelings for the electorate? Watching them behave the way they do does not betray any people-friendly vibes. It would not be wrong to label them cynics. In fact, they should be “gently poked in the arm and told to stop being such misanthropes.” That is one view. […]

The post Opposition Parties Giving Conflicting Signals On Uniting Against BJP In 2024 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.