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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party is the only opposition party which held the review meeting with all the 403 candidates contesting  last assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and started preparations for 2024 Lok Sabha polls. There is a great demoralisation in BSP leadership and workers after worst ever performance of Party in UP […]

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By Arun Srivastava Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s deafening announcement at a rally at Siliguri in Bengal that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be implemented once the Covid-19 situation is over has multi dimensional implication.  In recent months Shah has announced many programmes to be implemented in near future. He is also contemplating to […]

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By Sagarneel Sinha It has been a year since the results of the assembly elections of Assam were declared and the BJP scripted history in this northeastern state by winning for the state consecutively. During the election campaign, the Opposition in the form of the Grand Alliance led by Congress presented itself as the only […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections, the BJP is likely to undertake a major invasive strategy and major changes will be seen in the state government. While Basavaraj Bommai will remain at the helm as chief minister, he has been advised to be more assertive and effective ahead of the […]

The post CM Bommai To Stay On At Helm As Karnataka BJP Prepares For Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty After the defeat in the French presidential polls, the socialists and the left-wingers of all hues in France arrived at a historic compromise on May 4 to form an alliance for the legislative elections in June this year to meet the dual challenge of both President Emmanuel Macron’s party and the powerful […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With Priyanka Gandhi Vadra staying away from Uttar Pradesh after worst ever performance in assembly polls, senior leaders and rank and file are in a state of restlessness. It would be worth mentioning here that Congress could manage to win only two seats out of the total of 403 assembly seats […]

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The BJP’s biggest leader in Karnataka, BS Yediyurappa, today attempted to firmly scotch the buzz about a change in leadership in the state, where elections are due next year. Yediyuruppa, the predecessor of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai at the top post, expressly said, “There won’t be a leadership change according to me. Basavaraj Bommai is […]

The post Yediyurappa backs Bommai despite multiple scams first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee held a meeting in the national capital today, the first after their parties contested the assembly elections in Goa recently. There was buzz over ties souring between the two Chief Ministers, after the Trinamool Congress decided to contest in Goa, where Mr Kejriwal’s […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP are working for Mission 2024 to achieve the target of getting more than 70 seats in Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. Soon after taking over as chief minister for second time Yogi Adityanath announced programmes for his ministers with targets keeping in mind 2024 Lok […]

The post Amit Shah Has Given Uttar Pradesh BJP Unit A Target Of 70 Lok Sabha Seats first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Ashis Biswas For the Delhi-based Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), winning a seat in the 2022 Guwahati Municipal elections was not exactly a major victory, but it certainly helped in consolidating its position as the undisputed front runner among regional parties in India, currently ahead of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The political significance of the […]

The post AAP Winning A Seat In Guwahati Municipal Poll Is A Jolt To Trinamool Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakrabory Now that the poll strategist Prashant Kishor has finally dissociated himself from the Congress Party’s plans for the next state assembly elections culminating into the Lok Sabha polls in March/April 2024, the Congress Party has to focus fully on how to make optimum use of the strategic planning for defeating the BJP […]

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By Prakash Karat The chief justice of India, N V Ramana, has stated in court that he would consider resuming the hearing of the petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and the creation of two union territories by dismantling the state of Jammu & Kashmir in July, after the summer vacations. He said this […]

The post Petition Challenging Abrogation Of Article 370 Must Get Priority By Supreme Court first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Kalyani Shankar Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has taken a conciliatory step by not confronting the rebels in the party ( G 23) by postponing her decision on poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s entry into the party. It, however, does not mean that it will not happen, as she is biding time and preparing the ground […]

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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Barely nine hour visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah has helped to boost Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s prestige in his party and also in the politics of the state. In the course of his speeches at various programmes in Bhopal Shah paid rich tributes to Chouhan. Amit Shah […]

The post Amit Shah’s Visit To Madhya Pradesh Focuses On BJP’s Preparations For 2023 Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Harihar Swarup Elections in Gujarat have traditionally been direct fights between the BJP and the Congress. However, the 2022 Assembly polls expected to be held in November-December, are set to be different after Aam Aadmi Party announced it would contest all 182 seats. The ruling BJP is attempting to win an absolute majority for […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra After the   total   defeats put up by the Congress in the recent five state assembly elections, The Congress has planned to hold three day Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan’s Udaipur to rethink and discuss about the recent dismal show  from May 13 to 15  at a resort, where the leaders will deliberate […]

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By Sagarneel Sinha The main Opposition party in the northeastern state of Assam, the Congress, is going through a crisis. Many party leaders see no hope in the grand old party, which was once the dominant party in the state. They are now looking for greener pastures in other parties. The exit of Ripun Bora, […]

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By Kalyani Shankar Will the poll strategist Prashant Kishor be an asset or a liability if he joins the Congress party? It is a million-dollar question as Kishor waits for the Gandhis to announce his induction. This speculation arose after Kishor had a four-hour meeting with the Congress top brass, including the Gandhis, on the […]

The post Can Prashant Kishor Shake Up Lackluster Congress From Within? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Nitya Chakraborty Things are heating up in Indian politics as the BJP and the Sangh Parivar prepare for the next phase of assembly elections in the states within this yearend as also in 2023, and, eventually, tobe followed by the Lok Sabha polls in March-April 2024. After the last round of assembly elections resulting […]

The post Prashant Kishor, A Ray Of Light At The End Of Tunnel For The Opposition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A Lingayat seer has accused Karnataka’s Basavaraj Bommai government of taking a 30 per cent cut from the grants set aside for the welfare and development of mutts — a shocking allegation days after the corruption charges related to former state minister KS Eshwarappa. Chief Minister Bommai has said that he takes the seer’s allegations […]

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By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: For West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her party’s by-election win announced last Saturday in the Asansol (Lok Sabha) and Ballygunge (Assembly) seats was the best news in some time. Of late the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) had been facing some truly torrid times over repeated administrative failures in maintaining law […]

The post Saturday’s Bypoll Wins Bring Some Relief To Beleaguered Trinamool Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty This time, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao chose to travel to “national capital” Delhi. The last time it was to Mumbai, India’s commercial capital. Then, he sat with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to plot the ouster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi come 2024. This time he doesn’t need another pair […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The 2022 presidential election will occur when President Ramanath Kovind’s term ends on July 25. Though it is more of an ornamental post as the real power exists in the hands of the elected Prime Minister, there are always speculations about the polls. It may be too early to speculate but the […]

The post Narendra Modi Has Started Exercises For Picking His Next Presidential Candidate first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: All stops must be pulled out to ensure that the anti-BJP vote is not divided.  Will the decision made at the 23rd Party Congress of the CPI(M) not to have a national-level alliance with the Congress achieve that goal? The five session ended on April 10 with a massive rally and […]

The post CPI(M)’s Political Line On Opposition Unity To Isolate BJP Is Still Confused first appeared on IPA Newspack.