With under a month left for long-awaited election for the Congress president, chorus is growing louder in the party for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to the top post with over half a dozen state units pushing for it amid uncertainty and suspense persisted over whether he would take on the mantle. After Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat […]
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Aiming for reforms and transparency in donations received by political parties, the Election Commission has proposed reducing anonymous political donations from Rs 20,000 to Rs 2,000. The poll panel has written a letter to the Union Law Ministry recommending various amendments in the Representation of the People Act. Recently, the Commission delisted 284 non-compliant registered unrecognised political […]
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Monday acknowledged the “usefulness” of the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi for the Congress leader and his party. He also hinted that he was not against the inclusion of Congress if the Opposition unity takes shape for the 2024 elections. Speaking to reporters in Solapur district of Maharashtra, […]
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BJP’s Maharashtra unit president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday claimed 259 candidates supported by his party and 40 nominees backed by the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena have been elected as sarpanches in the just-held elections to gram panchayats in the state. Voting for elections to 547 gram panchayats spread across 16 districts of the […]
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By Ashis Biswas Recent revelations of massive corruption in West Bengal Government’s Education department, along with shocking accounts of major criminal activity in Birbhum and neighbouring districts, have shattered the state’s administrative morale. The situation has deteriorated to a point where the Government stands publicly accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about Gujarat-based private sector companies! […]
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By Guido Liguori Italy’s general election promises victory for the right-wing alliance — thanks in part to an electoral system that everyone criticizes but no one has sought to change. The current law gives a huge advantage to parties who run in coalitions, who can win a large majority of seats even on well under […]
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In the backdrop of persistent allegations against its MLAs and with an eye on the 2024 elections, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held the first national meeting of its elected representatives and supporters from across the country at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in the national capital on Sunday. Approximately 1,500 people from 20 states gathered, […]
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Eight MLAs who ditched the Congress party to join the ruling BJP in Goa are all set to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today. Six of the MLAs arrived in Delhi by flight early this morning accompanied by CM Pramod Sawant and BJP state unit president Sadanand Tanavade. MLAs Michael Lobo and Digambar […]
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By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on September 17 and the country celebrated how fast an African Cheetah can run in the Indian wild? Not faster than its destiny, right? Talking of which, Modi is not ‘Destiny’s Child’, he is just another man-sized Gujarati with the ability to turn into child’s play […]
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By Harihar Swarup Take a look at three significant events in recent weeks. These political initiative will be a crucial in the general election scheduled for 2024. Earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met all opposition leaders for several hours in New Delhi. He met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and had dinner with Delhi CM. […]
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The Rajasthan unit of Congress on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution for making Rahul Gandhi the party’s national president. The development comes ahead of the start of filing of nominations for the election of the Congress president, which starts on September 24. Rajasthan Food Minister Pratap Singh Khachariya said the resolution was proposed by Chief […]
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The Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi entered its 11th day from Kerala’s Haripad with hundreds of party workers and leaders accompanying joining in. The yatra that is scheduled to reach neighbouring Karnataka later this month has already stirred a row in the state that is going to polls soon. KPCC president DK […]
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James M Dorsey The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist’s fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court. The court has extended its original August 1 deadline until October 3 for the administration to advise Judge John Bates on […]
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Arvind Kejriwal derided Rahul Gandhi, slammed the BJP and said he is skilled in “building schools and hospitals rather than political alliances” in a wide-ranging interview this evening. At a special NDTV townhall, Kejriwal responded to the Congress charge that his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) “claims to fight the BJP” but ends up weakening the […]
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Barely two months after the Congress seemed to have staved off a defection bid, eight of its 11 MLAs led by top leaders Digambar Kamat and Michael Lobo will join the ruling BJP later today, sources said. They met the Vidhan Sabha Speaker, besides Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. If eight MLAs break away as a […]
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The opposition Congress this week released a “rate card” of the BJP government in Karnataka, alleging bribes and large-scale corruption at every level. An embarrassed BJP dismissed the charges, calling the Congress corrupt instead. The ruling party’s response, however, was not aggressive and many senior leaders and MLAs kept quiet, not taking on the Congress. […]
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By Tirthankar Mitra Given Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal of becoming the ruling dispensation in West Bengal, the saffron camp has put its best foot forward in the state even when it is in a twilight zone. The areas of darkness are formed by successive electoral defeats and desertions while some passages in its path are […]
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Ghulam Nabi Azad, who held a series of public meetings in Jammu and Kashmir before the launch of his party today, made an appeal to terrorists asking them to give up arms as it only brings destruction and miseries to people. A terrorist propaganda arm has issued death threat against Azad and termed him a […]
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Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Thursday demanded the copy of the Election Commission’s opinion in connection with the office of profit case against him. He wrote to governor Ramesh Bais saying the political scenario in the state was “confusing and misleading”, and making the recommendation of the poll panel public would clear the air. […]
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By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Rahul Gandhi might not feel perturbed at 8 of his legislators in Goa switching their loyalty to the BJP but at the same time he cannot ignore the fact that this is a red alert for him and his party. It is an open secret that no leader worth name, […]
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and poll strategist Prashant Kishor, his former deputy, have been exchanging sharp digs at each other for weeks. Last evening, the two met for 45 minutes, triggering speculation of a collaboration in the 2024 national election. Pawan Verma, a former leader of Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United, reportedly arranged the […]
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The defection by the Congress MLAs in Goa couldn’t have come at a worse time for Rahul Gandhi and the party. On February 4, just a few days before the Goa polls, in the presence of Rahul Gandhi, Congress leaders had taken an oath that after the election, they would not defect to any other […]
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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Is Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ yatra losing focus during its Kerala leg? The answer to that question, unfortunately, has to be in the affirmative. The Congress had started the yatra with the express objective of countering the BJP-led Union Government’s ‘divisive and anti-federal agenda. A laudable aim indeed. But, unfortunately, the […]
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