On the eve of voting to elect the new Congress president, Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said he is batting on a track with an “uneven bounce” and doesn’t want “pitch tampering”. Asked to comment on the fairness of the polls, Tharoor in an interview told PTI, “I had said there is an uneven playing field […]
The post Tharoor says he is batting on a tampered pitch first appeared on IPA Newspack.
Nihar Thackeray, the grandson of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray, has said that he supports the Eknath Shinde faction of the party and is ready to campaign for the upcoming Andheri East Assembly byelection as well as the Mumbai civic body polls. He also did not rule out joining electoral politics. The BJP, supported […]
The post Bal Thackeray’s grandson shifts loyalties to Shinde camp first appeared on IPA Newspack.
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who is reportedly being backed by the Gandhi family in the party presidential poll race against Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor, on Saturday was seen walking with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka. It is for the first time that Kharge participated in the Bharat Jodo Yatra which is […]
The post Kharge walks with Rahul during Yatra in home state Karnataka first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Rahil Nora Chopra Targeting the 2024 parliamentary elections, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has asserted that his party’s success in winning the support of women, farmers and marginalised groups with various welfare schemes, can be replicated at the national level. KCR has projected himself as a pro-farmer leader by financially helping the kin […]
The post K Chandrasekhar Rao Asserts National Ambition With Pro-Farmer Image first appeared on IPA Newspack.
With little more than a month left for the Himachal Pradesh polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress seem to be in a quandary over finalisation of candidates with both parties waiting for each other to come out with their final list. With the high-stakes battle, both the parties fear crossover of many leaders […]
The post BJP, Cong struggle ahead of finalisation of HP candidates first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the administrative deadlock with the centre over the mandatory provision of 100 days work for unskilled rural people under the MNREGA scheme drags on, adding to the political concerns of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) Government. This project, suspended since last December in the state, is the centrepiece of the […]
The post Centre-State Confrontation Hurting Rural Poor In West Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch the ‘Gujarat Gaurav Yatra’ on five different routes from Wednesday to reach out to people ahead of the state Assembly elections due this year-end. The yatra will be launched by BJP president J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Notably, the […]
The post BJP’s ‘Gujarat Gaurav Yatra’ ahead of assembly elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.
Amid reports that Roger Binny is likely to replace Sourav Ganguly as the BCCI President, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Tuesday accused the BJP of “trying to humiliate” the former Indian skipper as it failed to induct him into the party. The BJP had tried to spread a message among people ahead of last […]
The post TMC claims Ganguly denied 2nd term for failure to join BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.
The Shiv Sena faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has received the ‘Two swords and shield’ as symbol for the upcoming by-election in Andheri (East), the Election Commission said today. The Commission has already allotted the name “Balasahebanchi ShivSena” for his group. In its letter, the Commission said the “Dhal Talwar” suggested by […]
The post Shinde faction gets ‘two swords and shield’ as symbol first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of India towards farright in the last […]
The post CPI Has To Take Key Role In Building Broader Unity Against Ruling BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday hit out at Aam Party Party’s Gujarat unit President Gopal Italia for allegedly calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Neech”. PM Modi is on a three-day visit to Gujarat where he will dedicate and lay the foundation stone of several projects. His visit assumes significance as the state will go […]
The post BJP slams AAP leader calling Modi ‘neech aadmi’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed that many leaders and workers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat secretly support his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and want to see the defeat of their own party in the upcoming Assembly elections. Targeting the BJP over the posters that surfaced in several Gujarat […]
The post Kejriwal claims many Gujarat BJP leaders ‘secretly’ support him first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By James M Dorsey Proponents of a moderate Islam that embraces tolerance, diversity, and pluralism may be betting on the wrong horse by supporting Muslim scholars on autocrats’ payroll. Polling in the Middle East seems to confirm that state-sponsored clerics lack credibility. Recent research suggesting that non-violent protest has increasingly become less effective magnifies problems […]
The post Betting On The Wrong Horse: Battle To Define Moderate Islam first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Nitya Chakraborty The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi completed one month of its march in Karnataka on October 6. With the participation of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the Yatra got massive character boost, attracting thousands of men, women and even children, as also the grassroots party workers. What […]
The post Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Has Given A Big Boost To Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.
Aiming to boost its tally in the 2024 general elections, the BJP has planned dozens of mega rallies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, covering the 144 Lok Sabha seats most of which it lost in 2019, and where it has been working to brighten its prospects. Sources said on Saturday the party has prepared a […]
The post Mega PM rallies to bolster BJP standing in 144 seats first appeared on IPA Newspack.
In the scam-versus-scam fight between the BJP and AAP in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena with a renewed demand for action over a “Rs 6,000-crore scam” in collection of toll tax by BJP-run municipal bodies. This came a day after the Lieutenant Governor — appointed by the BJP-run Union government […]
The post Sisodia demands action in 6,000-cr scam in BJP-run MCD first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty One opinion poll places the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Congress and AAP in the forthcoming Gujarat assembly elections, slated for December 2022, with the BJP reportedly all set to beat both anti-, and pro-incumbency; perhaps, even another altogether different strain of incumbency if there’s one, in the state where Narendra […]
The post BJP May Again Sweep Gujarat In The State Assembly Polls By Year End first appeared on IPA Newspack.
Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and claimed that he spurned a recent request by the latter to “lead” the Janata Dal (United). Kishor, who is on a 3,500-km-long pada-yatra’ that would cover every nook and corner of the state, made the claim in a […]
The post Prashant Kishor claims Nitish asked him to head party first appeared on IPA Newspack.
For the first time in around three decades, opposition parties have not been given the chairmanship of any of the four key parliamentary panels in the latest reshuffle announced on Tuesday. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who headed the panel on Information Technology, has been replaced by an MP from the Shiv Sena’s Shinde faction. The committee […]
The post Cong left with chairmanship of only one parliamentary panel first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil, the largest populated country in Latin America, failed to elect its next President in the national elections held on October 2 as the front runner in opinion polls Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the left-wing former president got 48.4 per cent of the votes polled-slightly less than the required 50 per […]
The post Polarised Brazil Poised For Run Off On October 30 As Lula Is Short Of Majority first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sushil Kutty The Congress ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has been in Karnataka since September 30. It rolled in from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu to Gundlupet in Karnataka. Add the third ‘G’, ‘Rahul Gandhi’, and it will be like the stars were in alignment. Rahul Gandhi started the Karnataka leg of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Mysuru […]
The post Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Is Crucial For Congress Before Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With the decline of BSP in successive elections, Congress in Uttar Pradesh is now depending on imported leaders from that party to regain traditional dalit votes in 2024 Lok Sabha poll. Major political parties were surprised when Congress high command announced the name of BSP import Brijlal Khabri, a dalit from […]
The post Congress Depending On Imported BSP Leaders For Revival In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the major political parties of Madhya Pradesh BJP and the Congress have taken two very crucial steps in view of the coming elections of state Vidhan Sabha. Among the two the state BJP has held a marathon session of important leaders of the party. The meeting was held in […]
The post BJP Unit In Madhya Pradesh Making Massive Preparations For Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar for questioning in its ongoing money laundering probe into the operations of the Congress party-owned National Herald newspaper, official sources said. He has been asked to depose before the federal investigative agency on October 7 in Delhi, they said. The 60-year-old former cabinet minister […]
The post ED again summons Karnataka Cong chief D K Shivakumar first appeared on IPA Newspack.
