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By Nitya Chakraborty Just eighteen months are now left for the holding of the next Lok Sabha elections in March/April of 2024. BJP has been talking of a “Congress-mukt Bharat”, while the Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao called for “BJP-mukt India” in Patna on Wednesday in the presence of the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish […]

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By Krishna Jha When in 2016, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) was targeted by the new regime, the students and teachers refused to submit. Classes continued under the open skies since authorities had locked the class rooms. Teachers kept their promise. Students debated the concepts that were posed as challenges to them. The undeterred steps showed […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no doubt about it. Excise Minister and CPI(M) Central Committee member MV Govindan, who has been selected as the new secretary of the CPI(M) in Kerala , is the best man for the job. Govindan, whose credentials for the top party post are impeccable, will replace Kodiyeri Balakrishnan who […]

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By Hugo Guzman No-one dares to say with any certainty what will be the result of the plebiscite on September 4 to approve or reject the new constitution of Chile. Despite the fact that in last year’s consultation, 79 per cent of Chileans voted in favour of a new constitutional text that would leave behind […]

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By C.J. Atkins BERLIN: “It’s going to be a choice many of us will have to face when winter comes: freeze or starve.” So says Günter Pohl, a glassworker from the the town of Sprockhövel in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region. “The sanctions are supposedly targeting Russia, but they’re hitting us a lot more than they […]

The post Sanctioning Russia Leaves Germans A Bitter Choice This Winter first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is exploring the possibility of running for the post of Congress president though he is yet to take a final call on it, sources said. They said he has not made up his mind but could take a call on it soon. While Tharoor declined to comment on whether he […]

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By Arun Srivastava Next month September will bring about a major turnaround in Indian polity with   Chief   Minister Nitish Kumar determined to launch the colossal task of bringing together the opposition parties on one common platform amidst the scenario of perverse failure of Modi-Shah design to keep him confined  to  Bihar. Coming month will watch […]

The post Nitish Kumar Embarks On His Mission To Unite Opposition Beginning September first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Amid the political crisis in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday called a third meeting of the state’s ruling coalition members at his residence in Ranchi at 11 am. According to sources close to the ruling UPA, strategies were being chalked out at the meeting to ensure that there was no threat to the […]

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The national parties have collected more than Rs 15,077.97 crore from unknown sources between 2004-05 and 2020-21, an analysis by the poll rights body — Association for Democratic Reforms, showed. The total income of national and regional parties from unknown sources for 2020-21 stands at Rs 690.67 crore. ADR considered eight national parties and 27 […]

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A face off between the ruling JD(U)-RJD alliance and Opposition BJP seems to be on the cards in the Bihar Assembly with a no-trust motion against Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, a senior BJP leader. The Nitish Kumar-led ‘Mahagathbandhan’ government will also face a floor test to prove its majority in the Assembly on the opening day […]

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TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday accused the NDA government at the Centre of not deciding on the State’s share of Krishna river water and also of taking up several anti-people measures, even as he talked of working with the Left parties in future. Rao, also known as KCR, made […]

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An unpremeditated comment by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee indirectly appealing to Trinamool Congress activists to hit the streets in case the central agency sleuths reach her doorsteps have sparked major debates in the political and legal circles in the state. Late Sunday evening at a public rally in south Kolkata, the chief Minister […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty   In 1984 Lok Sabha elections held during the national wave in favour of the Congress following the murder of Indira Gandhi, the ruling party got the maximum number of seats – 414. The BJP was decimated electorally with only two seats. The 40-year-old Rajiv Gandhi started his tenure with widespread goodwill. […]

The post Decoding My Seventy Two Years In Independent India: Part Three first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By S. Sethuraman   Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned his eagerly awaited address on the 75th Independence anniversary, more an electoral plank for 2024 while throwing up a 25-year agenda for the nation to be rid of all ills plaguing it at present. He put Corruption and Nepotism as major challenges while arguing for support […]

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By P. Sreekumaran   THIRUVANTHAPURAM:  For once, the central investigating agency Enforcement Directorate(ED) finds itself at the receiving end. The ED suffered a legal setback when the Kerala High Court adjourned to August 17  the hearing on a writ petition filed by former Kerala finance minister Thomas Isaac challenging the summons asking him to appear […]

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By D Raja   As the country is celebrating the 75th anniversary of independence, it’s an irony of history that the RSS, which remained loyal to the British, is now trying to appropriate the legacy of our secular and inclusive struggle for independence. Seventy-five years ago, our country reached an important milestone, when people of […]

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By Prakash Karat   Till recently, when commemorating the significant anniversaries of independence, we could cite the parliamentary democratic system as one of the major achievements of independent India. The adoption of a republican constitution in 1950 provided the scope for people’s participation and a voice in politics which reflected the aspirations of the Indian […]

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  By Binoy Viswam   Indian politics takes a new turn with the fall of the BJP-led government in Bihar. The BJP-led NDA crumbled down there when the JD(U) bid farewell to BJP.  Even though for several months, the conflict between BJP and JD(U) was brewing, nobody expected that it would pull down their government […]

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  By Kalyani Shankar   Indian democracy presently suffers from its lack of a strong Opposition. Some feel that the secret weapon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success is the divided Opposition.   Even Supreme Court Chief Justice NV Ramana recently lamented, “There used to be mutual respect between the government and Opposition. Unfortunately, the […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik   The post-colonial state in India had two primary tasks before it: one was to overcome the hegemony of metropolitan capital, so that a development strategy in relative autonomy from imperialism could be pursued; the second was to attack landlordism both to free the agrarian population from its clutches, and to increase […]

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By Amulya Ganguli   It might not be churlish to say that the celebration of the 75th year of Indian independence is more an official event associated with the BJP than a national occasion.   The fact that the BJP was ousted from Bihar while facing an angry opponent in Telangana showed that the festivities […]

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By Arun Srivastava   In the fierce battle for buttressing political supremacy between the two Chanakyas, Amit Shah was made to bite dust by Nitish Kumar by aborting  his mission Operation Lotus, an endeavour to remove Chief Minister  Nitish from power and  also restructure his task to finish yet another regional party, this time JD(U) […]

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By Dipankar Bhattacharya   A week ahead of the 75th anniversary of Independence, India commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Quit India movement on 9 August 2022. The Congress leadership had been arrested immediately after giving the Quit India call from the All-India Congress Committee session in Mumbai, but the call triggered a popular upsurge […]

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