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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India and the United States will witness national elections to choose the top executives next year. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will seek a third term in the government. President Joe Biden is seeking reelection in the USA, while reports suggest that Michelle Obama, the former […]

The post Both Modi And Biden Had Their Eyes On 2024 Polls During The Indian PM’s Visit first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By James M Dorsey Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four-day red carpet visit to the United States constitutes a microcosm of what a 21st-world order century will likely look like. The visit spotlights the adjustments the United States faces in transitioning from a US-dominated unipolar world to a multipolar world populated by three major powers – […]

The post Modi’s U.S. Visit Spotlights America’s Policy Choices first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Liza Featherstone Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a state visit to the White House this week, is one of the most significant far-right leaders in the world. His persecution of religious minorities has troubled even the US State Department, which has taken note of the problem in its annual Religious Freedom […]

The post Why Did Official Democrats Embrace The Far-Right Narendra Modi? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ben Chacko The relentless right-wing attack on the left within the Britain’s Labour Party continues unabated. Recent weeks have seen the elected mayor of the North of Tyne region barred from being considered as the party’s candidate for the next election and two further members of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs deselected. In […]

The post British Labour Leadership Under Keir Starmer Is Isolating The Left Members first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The opposition parties’ meet at Patna did not decide on fielding a common prime ministerial candidate but have resolved to consolidate all democratic forces to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Friday. All the parties that attended the meet were very clear that […]

The post Stalin moots common minimum programme to fight BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Merely an hour before the big opposition meeting in Patna – hosted by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and attended by 30 leaders from 15 parties – the AAP accused the Congress of making a compromise with the ruling BJP for presidency. The party’s Delhi spokesperson, Priyanka Kakkar, said the Congress needed to clear its […]

The post AAP, Cong in war of words over Delhi ordinance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The India of Mahatma Gandhi cannot be allowed to become of a country of his assassin Nathuram Godse, PDP leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said after a meeting of some opposition parties here on Friday. Another former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Omar Abdullah of the National Conference, said these […]

The post Gandhi’s India can’t be allowed to become Godse’s: Mehbooba first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Opposition parties in the State upping the ante and the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government launching a counter-offensive, the state is set for a protracted political slug-fest. Political mercury soared when the Government announced a crime branch probe against Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President, K. Sudhakaran, who […]

The post Congress-Led UDF In A Confrontation Mood With Govt In Kerala first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam Even in the early months of 2023, many political analysts were sceptical about the possibility of a broad opposition unity. The BJP was almost sure that this exercise would end up as a non-starter. Some of its leaders went to the extent of ridiculing the very idea of such a unity. Even […]

The post Opposition Parties Meet In Patna On June 23 Is A Perfect Example Of Unity In Diversity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dipankar Bhattacharya Governance in India today is driven by a relentless aggression of the executive which has reduced the legislature to a loyal instrument of law making. Any corrective measure coming from the judiciary is being disdainfully discarded through executive ordinances. The media, the fabled fourth pillar of democracy, has effectively been refashioned as […]

The post June 23 Meeting Of Non-BJP Opposition Parties Is The First Step For A Credible Alternative first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi was shunned by the U.S. in 2005. But he is no more a pariah. The same US, but now under the presidency of Joe Biden, is rolling out the red carpet for Modi, who will become just the third world leader (after France’s Emmanuel Macron and South Korea’s Yoon Suk […]

The post US Offer Of High Tech Defence To Indian PM During His Visit Is Linked To Geo-Political Strategy first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty On June 19 evening West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee conveyed something politically significant in her tweet congratulating the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his 54th birthday. Her tweet said ‘Best wishes on your birthday, Rahulji. Wishing you good health. May you have a terrific period next year’. […]

The post Opposition Parties Optimistic About Success Of Patna Conclave On June 23 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava At the end of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, the Frankenstein’s monster had finished in the same place where it started. Its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein, died wishing that he could destroy the alien he created. What was most unfortunate was that he did not learn from his mistakes. Within twenty days […]

The post Can Anxious RSS Rein In Its Own Creation Prime Minister Narendra Modi? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The West Bengal BJP leadership on Monday took a section of the party’s panchayat polls candidates to Raj Bhavan and narrated their harrowing experiences during nomination filing to Governor C V Ananda Bose. They also urged him to ensure safety and security on the day of elections on July 8. The ruling Trinamool Congress dubbed […]

The post Bengal BJP civic poll candidates complain to governor first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nantoo Banerjee It may be to the credit of the Indian National Congress and of Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, who served as the country’s ninth prime minister from 1991 to 1996, for taking the initiative to pass the Constitution Amendment (73rd and 74th) Acts. The 73rd Amendment empowered state governments to take steps that […]

The post India’s Grass-Root Democracy Is Under Threat From State Political Leadership first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava History repeats. And this time it has repeated itself in Manipur. India’s northeastern state is ablaze, and only four days back the house of Union minister R K Ranjan Singh was burnt to ashes in full view of the security forces and state police. More than 150 Kukis and Meitei have been […]

The post Myopic Modi Eyes US Trip For ‘Peace In Ukraine’ As Manipur Burns first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Sunday condemned the ongoing violence in Manipur and appealed to the government, including local administration, police, security forces and central agencies to take every possible step to restore peace immediately. In a statement, RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale also urged them to ensure a seamless supply of relief materials […]

The post RSS concerned at Manipur violence, appeals for peace 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 Dr. Gyan Pathak With issuance of notification by the Central Law Commission of India on June 14, 2023 soliciting views from the public and recognized religious organisations on Uniform Civil Code, the divisive politics of BJP-RSS clan has risen its head again, as usual, ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024. Since the issue has […]

The post Divisive Politics On Uniform Civil Code Has Risen Its Head Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

As Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey made some sensational allegations against the Indian government, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday refuted the claims and said that foreign forces get active to “vitiate the democratic process and build tension” in the country as elections approach. The BJP leader’s reaction came after Dorsey claimed that […]

The post Anurag Thakur links ex-Twitter boss disclosures to elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav South Africa may not host the BRICS summit this year, and it is reportedly willing to pass the opportunity to China. As a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), South Africa would be legally obligated to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he visited the country. In March 2023, the […]

The post South Africa May Not Host BRICS Summit Scheduled For August This Year first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty At long last, there is some ray of light in the politics of Spain as the fifteen political parties belonging to all shades including green and the extreme Left entered into a historic agreement to jointly fight the right wing parties including the far right VoX in the crucial national elections on […]

The post Spanish Left Parties Finally Agree To Form A Front To Fight July 23 National Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.