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By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, the ruling BJP continues to be hit by factionalism and organisational problems, despite efforts made by senior Delhi-based leaders to improve discipline. As things stand, with parties gearing up for the 2023 Assembly polls ,senior BJP leader Mahesh Singh, who played a major role in crafting the party’s electoral victory […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There are no signs of any let-up in the confrontation between the Left Democratic Front(LDF) Government and Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan. If anything, both sides have toughened their stance with the Governor reiterating that the appointment of 11 Vice-Chancellors was “irregular, illegal and void ab initio”. The Supreme Court order […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Narendra Modi government has been misusing the sedition laws under section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code for quite some time. No amount of criticism from civil society could stop the BJP led governments at the centre and states from launching prosecutions against those who happened to oppose their arrogance […]

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By Olavo Passos De Souza On Sunday, October 30, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved a historic victory over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest race since the restoration of Brazilian democracy in the 1980s, Bolsonaro became the first incumbent to ever lose reelection. The election divided Brazil between the defense […]

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Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Sunday alleged that just the way goats are purchased for Eid celebrations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is buying MLAs to topple elected governments in states. He said the BJP had pulled down governments using money power in Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, […]

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By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state. Also, the laboratory where the Gujarat […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati is busy these days to enlarge the support base of her party to face civic polls and later on Lok Sabha polls in 2024. After worst ever performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held in March this year, Mayawati is working very hard to […]

The post Mayawati Making Serious Efforts To Win Over Muslim Support In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Binoy Viswam The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India will be marked as the Congress of confidence and rejuvenated spirit. The Party Congress held in the historic city of Vijayawada gave new impetus to the Party to march forward. Each moment of the Congress from October 14 to 18 was full of […]

The post 24th Party Congress Of CPI Has Charted A New Path To Fight RSS-BJP Agenda first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP’s core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which is on a backfoot in the […]

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By Harihar Swarup It was a tweet that shouldn’t have surprised anyone who has followed the feud between Kerala   Governor Arif Mohammad Khan and the CPI(M)-led Left Democrat Front (LDF) Government. “The CM and council of Ministers have every right to advice the Governor. But the statements of individual ministers that lower the dignity of […]

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  Elections in two states within this year, challenges to the two remaining Congress governments next year, and then the 2024 fight to stop another Modi sweep — Mallikarjun Kharge got more than just a certificate from the party as he formally became Congress president today. “Today I remember all the past party chiefs as […]

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By Ashis Biswas Certain official decisions announcing better pay/allowances for their employees in the neighbouring states have caused major embarrassment to the West Bengal Government. As it is, the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) has for some years been facing the charge of being unsympathetic to state Government employees, because of its stubborn refusal to pay their […]

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By James M Dorsey The final run-up to the 2022 World Cup and the tournament’s management is make-it-or-break-it time for Qatar. Both will determine Qatar’s ultimate soft power benefit from the World Cup. How Qatar manages the tournament, and potential flare and hick-ups will shape how the 2022 World Cup is perceived and remembered. The […]

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The latest feud between the AIADMK’s Edappadi Palaniswami (EPS) and O Panneerselvam (OPS) is now a familiar affair in Tamil Nadu’s political sphere. It all started with this week’s brief assembly session, which sparked a political firestorm. Palaniswami and the MLAs who supported him boycotted the session on October 18 after Speaker M Appavu refused […]

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In a setback to the BJP in Telangana ahead of the Munugode Assembly bypoll, party leaders K Swamy Goud and Sravan Dasoju returned to the TRS on Friday. Goud and Dasoju joined TRS in the presence of its working president and State Minister K T Rama Rao. It was a ‘ghar vapsi’ (returning home) for […]

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By Sushil Kutty Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants it changed. Kharge knows this and […]

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By Sushil Kutty Most times we forget there is also Himachal Pradesh in the Union. Tucked between Punjab and the high Himalayas, largely Hindu–dominated with a burgeoning Muslim-led demographic change. This is a state nestling in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, a paradise on earth largely gone unnoticed because the pure-driven snow hasn’t so […]

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By Manish Rai For decades the Pakistani establishment has termed the Baloch insurgency as a low-intensity conflict confined mostly to Balochistan, the country’s largest province by territory. But that seems to have changed, as a spate of attacks that have taken place this year clearly demonstrate that insurgency has entered into a crucial new phase. […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party could not be in a worse place than in Nagpur in the state ruled by the BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance. The saffron party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be stewing in their juices when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra makes […]

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Less than 12 hours after the Congress released its first list, the BJP on Wednesday released its first list of 62 candidates for the November 12 assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh after late-night deliberations. The party has kept on hold names for the remaining six seats. To ward off any anti-incumbency, the party has denied […]

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