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By Prabhat Patnaik All regimes based on class antagonism require a discourse to legitimise class oppression and this discourse in turn requires a vocabulary of its own. The neoliberal regime too has developed its own discourse and vocabulary and a key concept in this vocabulary is “populism”. This concept is given great currency by the […]

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At a time when various political parties are looking at ways to form a Congress-free alliance and are attempting to spread their influence, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) has surpassed the grand old party in terms of annual income during 2021-22 to be at the second position after the BJP, Election Commission data shows. […]

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Barely 12 hours after the assembly election was announced in Tripura, former arch rivals CPI(M) and Congress gathered to finalise a seat-sharing formula as their poll strategy. “We needed to come together for the people of the state. There is literally no democracy in the state. We appeal to all democratic fronts to join us […]

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By Binoy Viswam Stating that there are nearly 400 days left for the 2024 elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi masked himself by exhorting the BJP cadres to keep aside electoral aims and work for all sections of people. He was addressing the recently concluded national executive meeting of the BJP. It is one example of […]

The post Two-Day BJP National Executive Discussed Only Elections, No Urgent Economic Issues first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The problem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that he thinks and dreams elections, only elections. Winning elections. And setting electoral records! Not that setting a record in elections has helped the people who voted the BJP, or helped those who did not vote the BJP. Like the Muslims of India, both […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Outreach To Muslims And Dalits Has Many Faultlines first appeared on IPA Newspack.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee held her first campaign rally in Meghalaya on a day when elections were declared in three northeastern states. The state, along with Nagaland, will go to polls on February 27 while Tripura will vote on February 16. The chief minister and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday […]

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Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday urged the party leadership to field only candidates with corruption-free image in the coming Assembly elections in Karnataka to help project an “alternative” to the BJP in the State. The former Chief Minister claimed that his party’s prospects in the polls are “very bright” and alleged that […]

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By K Raveendran Finance minister’s ‘confession’ that she understands the pressures of the middle class as she herself belongs to that class of people and that she would continue to work for their welfare leaves hints to the direction in the Modi government’s last full-fledged budget before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The finance minister […]

The post Another Middle-Class Focussed Budget Would Mean Raw Deal To Vulnerable Sections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

BJP president J P Nadda’s term was extended till June next year at the party’s national executive meeting on Tuesday, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserting that it will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with a bigger mandate than 2019. The widely expected development underlines the party’s preference for continuity as it gears […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday accused the BJP and the RSS of capturing institutions and putting pressure on the Election Commission and the judiciary, and also declared that he will not visit an RSS office even if someone slits his throat. Answering a question, at a press conference here, on the possibility of reaching out to […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Decades ago, the first DMK chief minister C.N. Annadurai compared the post of a governor to a  redundant goat’s beard. It was after Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dismissed the E M S Namboodiripad government on the recommendations of the then Kerala Governor on July 31, 1959. Once again, today, the role of […]

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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kilometre-long roadshow in the heart of the national capital with PM Modi hanging out of the black SUV’s front-door! If anybody missed Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, fret not. He was at the BJP national executive discussing the health of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election-preparedness along with the […]

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By Arun Srivastava Before the Lok Sabha elections in April/ May 2024, the RSS and Narendra Modi government have launched the most ruthless operation to saffronise the judiciary, turn it subservient to the Modi government and rob its independent identity and authority. The veil of chastity which wrapped the plan unfolded only a few days […]

The post Rijiju’s Letter To CJI Is Part Of RSS Design To Have A Pliant Judiciary first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By K R Sudhaman As is the practice, there is a demand galore before the 2023-24 budget for tax sops, whether justified or not. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a difficult task cut out for her as she may have to address some of the genuine demands this time as it will be the last […]

The post Sitharaman Must Balance Pre-Poll Compulsions With Fiscal Challenge first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao is holding the first rally by Bharat Rashtra Samithi, KCR’s national party on January 8. Around two lakh people are expected to attend and the Telangana CM has invited his counterparts from other states — Arvind Kejriwal from Delhi, Bhagwant Mann from Punjab, and Pinarayi Vijayan from Kerala. He […]

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Matters surrounding legal, administrative aspects and logistical challenges for remote voting were discussed even as many Opposition parties on Monday questioned the need to deploy remote voting machines (RVMs). The Election Commission on Monday extended the date of submission of written views by political parties on various issues with respect to RVMs to February 28. […]

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By Sushil Kutty Defending Rahul Gandhi’s ability to become Prime Minister of India, just like his great-grandfather, his grandmother and his father, is getting difficult and difficulter as the Bharat Jodo Yatra gets closer and closer to Srinagar’s famed Lal Chowk, the yatra’s final destination. The Hollywood movie of the same name was built on […]

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By Arun Srivastava BSP chief Mayawati’s announcement that her Bahujan Samaj Party would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and other assembly elections all alone has not come as surprise. What has been really intriguing is her accusing the Congress and Samajwadi Party of spreading rumours about a “possible tie-up” with the BJP in the […]

The post BSP Supremo Mayawati Has Been Losing The Trust Of Dalits Through Confused Actions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday ruled out an alliance with any party for the assembly polls in various states and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Key states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana would go for polls this year, besides states from the North-East. Speaking to reporters here on her 67th birthday, the […]

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By Harihar Swarup Governor is neither a decorative emblem nor a glorified cipher. His powers are limited but he has an important constitutional role to play in the governance of the state and strengthening federalism. He is head of the state and all chief ministers, including the Tamil Nadu chief minister, must remember it. All […]

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By Arun Srivastava Sharad Yadav was a module of the triumvirate which brought about basic vicissitudes in the Indian politics and transformed it for ever. He designed the thesis of social justice, a key component of the Mandal philosophy. But unfortunately he could not attain the status of an icon for social justice. This has […]

The post Sharad Yadav – The Maverick Lohiaite Missed Rising To The Top Of The Socialist Camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra “If they answer not your call, walk alone, walk alone” one of Rabindranath Tagore’s great poems, set to music used to be one of the favourite songs of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the most famous Congressman to don khadi. If the charismatic prophet of  non-violence sang it in many a trying times, another […]

The post Congress Should Not Have Excluded Any Non-BJP Party From January 30 Programme first appeared on IPA Newspack.