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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 […]

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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 […]

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Even though an election slugfest between the Congress and BJP is over in Karnataka, but a power tussle is still on over the implementation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s ambitious project ‘Anna Bhagya’. Under this scheme, 10 kg of food grains will be given to every member of a Below Poverty Line (BPL) household and Antyodaya […]

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that the BJP “conceding” most of its Lok Sabha seats in UP being in the “red zone” was an effect of the power of “red” – a colour his party identifies with. The SP chief made the remark in a tweet that apparently referred to recent claims […]

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V Senthil Balaji, the minister of electricity and prohibition and excise in Tamil Nadu, has often been known as controversy’s child. His dramatic arrest by the Enforcement Directorate comes as part of an ongoing investigation into a job racket dating back to his time as transport minister between 2011 and 2016. This move is also […]

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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 Dr. Gyan Pathak In the first eight years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India witnessed more than double the number of bank frauds. The first half of the ninth year, number of frauds rose even more sharply compared to the corresponding months of the eighth year. Now in the tenth year, when Lok Sabha […]

The post After Doubling Of Bank Frauds, Swindlers To Get Second Chance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: June 12 proved to be a day of two major calamities for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mr. Shivraj Singh Chouhan. One calamity was the huge fire which caused havoc in many floors of Satpura Bhawan. Satpura Bhawan is a multi story building which houses offices of several key state government […]

The post Priyanka Gandhi Visit Gives A Big Boost To Madhya Pradesh Congress Workers first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Even as the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIADMK) district secretaries passed a resolution against K Annamalai for “tarnishing the reputation of revolutionary leader and Idhaya Deivam (goddess in the heart, as Jayalalithaa is fondly called by her followers) in a planned manner”, the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief said “this is […]

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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 Tirthankar Mitra Fissures have appeared in Congress-Left Front alliance less than a month before panchayat elections are scheduled in West Bengal. CPI(M) has unilaterally declared candidates in Murshidabad, of all places, an area known to be the stronghold of state Congress chief, Adhir Ranjan Choudhury. As of now, out of 78 Zilla Parishad (ZP) […]

The post Rift In Congress-Left Alliance Before Rural Polls In West Bengal 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 […]

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Is all not well between the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance in Maharashtra? There’s one more reason why the speculation is buzzing the state’s political circles. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Tuesday placed a full-page advertisement in several leading newspapers in Maharashtra titled ‘Modi for India, Shinde for Maharashtra’. The […]

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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 Dr. Gyan Pathak A decade of dominance of majoritarian Hindutva politics in India with critically fragmented secular democratic politics has lately been emanating signs of change. The majority of political parties in opposition having differing regional and national aspirations and contradictions have finally agreed to participate in Opposition Meet on June 23 called by […]

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  By Debabrata Biswas from Boston Former US president Donald Trump faces 37 counts in connection with keeping hundreds of classified documents, many of which are marked top secret, in his possession even after leaving the White House, according to a 49-page federal indictment unsealed on June 9.  “It is an extraordinary event that will […]

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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s high command in a recent meeting with Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde expressed its displeasure over the working styles and performances of a few Shiv Sena ministers, sources told News18 on Monday. This, they added, has increased tensions in Shinde’s camp and also the distance between the allies. BJP state president […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding the hype being built around Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s forthcoming official state visit to the United States, it would be wrong to expect any major economic benefit to India as a result of the trip. On top of the agenda are the strategic issues which concern both the US and India. […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Political wind is blowing in favour of Congress in Rajasthan, despite rebellious Sachin Pilot. Central Congress Leadership has been successful so far in bringing a truce between Sachin and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Though the truce seems to be temporary and an uneasy one, Gehlot is heading to shatter the BJP […]

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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 […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Declaration of the schedule of 2023 panchayat election has come during the Jan Jowar Yatra of Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee which apparently gives TMC a leg up in West Bengal rural polls scheduled to be held on 8 July. The polling date can be rescheduled to July 14 if Calcutta High […]

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