On April 10, Rahul Gandhi will be back where the defamation and disqualification storm began: Kolar. And the Karnataka Congress is looking at the visit with mixed feelings. The decision to begin the campaign was taken by Team Rahul with the idea that he would show that by going back to the place where […]
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Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that he was “too generous” to him, and never took any “revenge” despite his comments on several issues including Article 370, CAA among others. In an interview with news agency ANI, Azad said, “I must give credit to Modi. For what I […]
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Amid a row over religious conversions and the growing influence of Pentecostal churches in rural Punjab, a new political outfit of Punjabi Christians was floated on Monday, announcing that it would put up a candidate for next month’s Lok Sabha by-election in the reserved Jalandhar parliamentary constituency. The emergence of the United Punjab Party comes […]
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By Kalyani Shankar All eyes are on the forthcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, for which polling will be held on May 10, and the results will be announced on May 13. The outcome will determine the prospects of the two leading contenders – the ruling BJP and the Congress ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. […]
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By Sushil Kutty The significance of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s ‘social justice federation’ cannot be overstated though only the politically illiterate will think of it as a social justice forum, when in reality, it’s a group of like-minded opposition parties seeking to cement opposition unity to dethrone the BJP from all positions of […]
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By Ben Beckett On Thursday, Donald Trump was indicted in Manhattan. The charges related to the funding of a nondisclosure agreement he signed with the adult performer Stormy Daniels regarding an extramarital affair he had with her. It would be great if the charges derailed Trump, but as the Nation argued convincingly, that is very […]
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By Harihar Swarup As we head into another massive electoral season, starting with Karnataka assembly polls on May 10 and ending with the Lok Sabha 12 months later; two parallel political processes are at work. These processes will play out in the coming months as the main actors figure out which way the voters can […]
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By Arun Srivastava Chanakya of BJP, Amit Shah has come out with the implicit advice to Rahul Gandhi to go to a higher court and challenge the verdict of the Surat court. This unsolicited advice coming from the iron man of the BJP has given rise to numerous conjecture in the political circle. What compelled […]
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Former JD(S) MLA S R Srinivas (Gubbi Srinivas alias Vasu) on Thursday became the third legislator to resign from the post, and join Congress, this month, ahead of May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka. According to the Congress, 37 leaders associated with JD(S) in the 2018 Assembly polls, have joined the party so far, in […]
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By Sushil Kutty The single-phase Karnataka assembly elections takes place on May 10. It is a largely 3-party race, with the BJP, the Congress and H D Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal (S) fighting it out in the full glare of domestic, national and international media. The Karnataka elections are the first big elections being fought after […]
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By K R Sudhaman After M G Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa, AIADMK, which was formed by MGR breaking away from DMK over issue of corruption during the leadership of M K Karunanidhi in 1970s, now has an undisputed leader in former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Edappadi Palaniswami, who became the unanimous party general secretary following the […]
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More than three months since the Aam Aadmi Party declared itself a national party, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday said it was still reviewing the party’s status. Speaking to the media, chief election commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said the poll body will soon come back to this. “The AAP’s national status is under […]
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By Achin Vanaik In India, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation is capturing headlines. The “world’s largest democracy” does not treat defamation as a civil matter, and the Congress Party leader faced justice in a lower court in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. This is for a public speech in […]
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By Sushil Kutty For Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Bharatiya Janata Party is the only pan-India party. The rest are all family-administered outfits. He forgot CPM and CPI which are not family-owned. But that is his won’t, strands of selective amnesia. And to think that he hopes the BJP will rule Kerala one day, for […]
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The Election Commission on Wednesday announced key dates ahead of the Karnataka assembly elections 2023. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar addressed a press conference at 11:30 am during which he made the announcement. The poll panel had issued an invite to announce the election schedule. The term of the 224-member Karnataka Assembly ends on May […]
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By Kalyani Shankar Is Congress leader Rahul Gandhi politically finished after the recent court verdict and his subsequent dismissal from Parliament? Is it an advantage or a setback for him and his party? It is too early to predict as it is an evolving story. But experience says that no politician is finished until he […]
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Former Karnataka CM and veteran BJP leader BS Yediyurappa’s house was attacked in Shikaripura town of Shivamogga district by members of the Banjara community on Monday. Protestors also resorted to stone-pelting, injuring some policemen during a protest against the internal reservation for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) announced by the state government. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 […]
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The visit of President Droupadi Murmu to West Bengal has also sparked a political face-off between the Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. On Monday, the state’s TMC government organised a grand reception for India’s first tribal woman President, but the BJP was absent. The saffron party alleged that its MPs and MLAs were not […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty There has been a sudden change in the political mood of the country, especially among the non-BJP opposition parties after the conviction of the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by the Surat Court and consequent disqualification of Rahul as Lok Sabha member from Wayanad constituency of Kerala. If the conviction is not stayed […]
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es Flaying the BJP-led Karnataka government for its decision to scrap the reservation for Muslims under Category 2B in the OBC list, the Congress declared on Sunday that it would restore the quota to the minority community in the event of the party coming to power in the State, where Assembly elections are due by […]
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Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha is a “deep betrayal” of Gandhian philosophy, an influential Indian-origin Congressman said on Friday. Rahul Gandhi, the former Congress president, was on Friday disqualified from the Lok Sabha, nearly 24 hours after a court in Surat convicted him in a defamation case. “The expulsion of […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil in the country. The immediate provocation […]
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Showing a shift in stance, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday openly supported Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he was sentenced to two years in jail in a defamation case and alleged a conspiracy was being hatched to “eliminate” non-BJP leaders and parties by prosecuting them. The Congress and the AAP have in the […]
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In the span of about a week, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is meeting three important leaders from the opposition camp. It began with Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav on March 17. Then on Thursday, Mamata met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik. And on Friday, she will have a meeting with Janata Dal (Secular)’s HD […]
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