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By Sushil Kutty One, the Bharatiya Janata Party does not need the current kerfuffle in Goa. It is already in power there. But the fact that Goa is a neighbouring state to Maharashtra does betray that the disease is contagious. If Maharashtra was engineered to overturn a post-poll “unnatural” alliance, Goa is a straightforward attempt […]

The post Goa Crisis Again Shows How Congress High Command Is Clueless On States first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray’s challenge to the man who replaced him, Eknath Shinde, to hold fresh elections in Maharashtra hasn’t elicited response, and likely would not because the Shinde-Fadnavis dispensation cannot for all the money in the BJP’s war-chest hazard a guess on which alliance will win the civic body elections, which is where […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray Is Right In Calling For Fresh Polls In Maharashtra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One servant to the other: Blame it on the British. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said July 7, that the education system India inherited was designed by the British Raj to create a “servant class”. The Prime Minister couldn’t have justified his ‘pradhan sevak’ title in a more succinct manner. However, contrary to […]

The post Narendra Modi’s Sermons On Colonial Education Contain Half-Truths first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Why do we obey rules?’ asks The New Yorker and then stretches the answer till one of the rules is about how everybody has the right to let go of the rules too strenuous to live by. And, from what is happening in our own country at, we can assume that we […]

The post In India, Rules Are Meant To Be Obeyed By Leaders Of Opposition Only, Not Ruling Party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The last time the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) piled on the heat on the Modi government was ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, promising to relegate the BJP to second or even third place. That did not happen. Other factors set the trend for the poll outcome despite the vestiges […]

The post Samyukta Kisan Morcha Is Again In A Mood To Fight Modi Government first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Several things were happening when the BJP was holding its national executive in Hyderabad, targeting Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao with an eye on the Telangana assembly elections slated for 2023. Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid low KCR with attacks on dynastic politics, resistance was building up against the […]

The post Hard Core Hindutva Is Making Governance Difficult For Narendra Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Now that ‘Operation Lotus’, Maharashtra edition, has successfully added the richest state in the realm to the 2024 BJP war-chest, ‘Operation Lotus’, Telangana edition, is ready for launch. And Telangana is in the neighbourhood, right next to Maharashtra. Therefore, the Bharatiya Janata Party is holding its national executive in Hyderabad with Prime […]

The post K Chandrasekhar Rao Is Strong Enough To Keep BJP Away From Telangana first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty After the three-pronged Maha Vikas Aghadi government, it’s the turn of the ‘Double-engine’ Shinde-Fadnavis regime to rule Maharashtra. The Opposition called the new alliance ‘Maha Vinaash Aghadi’, and as if approving the nomenclature, within a couple of hours of Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis taking the oath for Chief Minister and Deputy […]

The post In Maharashtra, Fadnavis Is The Main Driver Of The New Ruling Combination first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty What next for Shiv Sena? Will the Eknath Shinde faction grab the party from “rightful owners”, the Thackeray’s, and run with it? That must be in Shinde’s mind. The fellow is no angel. It requires a stout mean heart to rebel and run roughshod over shallow sentiments. Shinde wants the Shiv Sena […]

The post Testing Time For Uddhav Thackeray As The Battle For Shiv Sena Control Begins first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Riyaz Aktari and Ghouse Mohammad. The beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal by the duo could have been prevented if the police in Udaipur hadn’t turned peacemakers instead of piling the full force of the law on the law-breakers. After the two believers’ video that they were going to ‘sar kalam’ Kanhaiya Lal […]

The post Udaipur Murder Of A Tailor Is A Horrific Hate Crime Needing Urgent Action first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty At last the Delhi Police has gone and done the unpardonable. The capital’s constabulary, which answers to the Union Home Ministry, summoned AltNews co-founder Muhammad Zubair from Bengaluru to Delhi and Monday, June 27, took him into custody in what looked like a sleight of the ham-handed. If it was a non-BJP […]

The post AltNews Co-Founder’s Arrest By Delhi Police Is A Violation Of All Laws first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The militant Shiv Sena is in search of a commander-in-chief. The first one was Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Uddhav Thackeray didn’t shape up to be one. Now, the mantle may have fallen on Aaditya Thackeray. This is because Uddhav Thackeray’s emotional speech didn’t help. It wasn’t of the calibre of the Gita, […]

The post Battle Lines Are Drawn In Maharashtra But For Uddhav, It Is Really Tough first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Now, there is one more reason why the Muslim minority will not trust the Supreme Court of India. Earlier, there was Afzal Guru, as cited by Afreen Javed, Prayagraj riots kingpin Muhammad Javed’s daughter. June 23, the apex court should have thought twice before it upheld the “clean chit” given to Prime […]

The post Supreme Court Has Acted In Haste In Upholding Gujarat High Court’ Clean Chit To Modi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray undid Bal Thackeray’s Hindutva legacy by linking up with the secular Congress and the NCP. And Aaditya Thackeray is being blamed for alienating Eknath Shinde. ‘UT’ was blind to ‘AT’ meddling in affairs out of his depth. But that would be diminishing Sanjay Raut’s role, hovering overhead! ‘UT’ should have […]

The post Shiv Sena Crisis Shows The Faultlines In Uddhav’s Pursuit Of Secular MVA first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The NDA’s choice for President of India, a woman, and a tribal — Droupadi Murmu, is a sureshot winner, considering the political situation in the country. And Murmu is no stranger to power, and high office. She was Jharkhand Governor from 2015 to 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at the head […]

The post Droupadi Murmu Is A Sureshot Political Choice Of BJP For Presidency first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty ‘Unreachable’ is what mobile phones communicate when the tower can’t connect. But when a bunch of Shiv Sena MLAs went “incommunicado” midnight on Monday, the future looked grim for Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who couldn’t get through to Eknath Shinde, a key Sena MLA and a strongman of no mean clout […]

The post Shiv Sena Supremo Uddhav Thackeray Is Facing His Biggest Political Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty June 19 Rahul Gandhi turns 52. And it called for a perspective on the life and times of Rahul Gandhi. Not everybody’s cup of tea, because Rahul Gandhi doesn’t leave much to the imagination. He is in a class all his own. First and foremost, Rahul Gandhi is not a ‘chaiwala’, his […]

The post Rahul Gandhi Has Turned 52 : He Is Still Young As A Politician But What Next? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If it   is not broke, don’t fix it. That, and let sleeping dogs lie. Modi could have walked away, let sleeping dogs lie. But he chose to fix that what didn’t need fixing, could it be that our Prime Minister thinks he’s got the answers for everything, and that everything about India […]

The post Our Prime Minister Is A Fixer In Chief In The Country For Every Vexed Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Sri Lanka has a social media. And these days Modi is trending. For Sri Lankans, Indian bigwigs trending in their social media is welcome diversion from the island nation’s woes. At least Modi is not Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s President who is still at the centre of storm after the resignation of […]

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By Sushil Kutty Agnipath and Madhushala! Two poems of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, actor Amitabh Bachchan’s father. Agnipath is about ‘hope’, while Madhushala spells ‘drunken despair’. But, with “Tu na thakega kabhi / Tu na rukega kabhi / Tu na mudega kabhi / Kar shapath, Kar shapath, Kar shapath / Agnipath agnipath agnipath”, is the Modi […]

The post Agnipath Is Our Prime Minister’s Seminal Contribution To Defence Programme first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The President of India’s post is where quite often a key politician is put to pasture. The news cycle in the last couple of days moved from Prophet and Nupur Sharma to rioting and bulldozer, and Rahul Gandhi. Now, there is Sharad Pawar, tapped for the President of India’s post, and the […]

The post Sharad Pawar Can Be More Useful To Opposition For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty “Of course, you were not spreading rumours, the charge is you were spreading facts.” That’s the blurb on an RK Laxman cartoon of 1962, 60 years ago. Today’s cartoonists should take a kerchief out of Laxman’s pocket-cartoons. Lampooning is serious business. It should tickle the cerebral cells. The sarcasm should be biting, […]

The post Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Is A Judge, Jury And Executioner In Uttar Pradesh first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Lopping off anybody’s head in the best of Islamist traditions isn’t for India. And no amount of rioting can change that. But frustration has to spill. And so it did. High up in the sky, above Bengaluru, a grotesquely strung up Nupur Sharma effigy, hanging from an overhead cable, pointing an accusing […]

The post BJP Is Out To Take Advantage Out Of Muslim Outburst Against Nupur Sharma first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty It starts with “Dear Congresspersons…” and doesn’t stop till the last vestiges of the Congress party’s confidence in the Gandhi family haven’t been ridden to the ground, the Gandhis painted in mud colours. Who were the people behind this exercise is still not apparent to the eye, but what’s being spoken isn’t […]

The post Anti-Gandhi Dynasty Congressmen Getting Active In States Once Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Finally, much to the delight of millions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not the Invincible! Little Qatar in the Gulf brought the Modi Government to its knees even as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Iran weighed in. Modi’s ‘Arabian Nights’ stands curtailed because Modi is no Xi Jinping. Also, the BJP’s ‘Naya […]

The post Gulf Nations Outbursts Have Panicked BJP Leadership And Modi Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty RSS ‘sarsangchalak’ Mohan Bhagwat thinks he speaks for the Hindus of India, and AIMIM solo head Asaduddin Owaisi wouldn’t be given a chair to sit by the vast majority of Muslims. But Bhagwat can’t get it round his head, and the AIMIM head refuses to heed his head that Muslims look on […]

The post RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Is Known For Giving Differing Signals On Hindutva first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty What’s with the Modi Government, why are AAP leaders being arrested? After Satyendar Jain, it could be Manish Sisodia. ‘Satyendar’ translates to ‘honesty’, the gospel ‘truth’. Yet, the enforcement directorate arrests Satyendar, health minister in the Delhi Government, and architect of the famed “mohalla clinics”. Kejriwal worried Thursday about the likely arrest […]

The post BJP Govt Is Making Use Of Central Agencies To Hound Opposition Leaders first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress is 137 and in a hurry to turn fossil, led by the nose into old age. Some liquefied high fliers in the party, sensing atrophy in the bones, have already flown the coop. Others haven’t, out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the party, if not for the family, […]

The post Congress High Command Has Again Messed Up The List Of Rajya Sabha Nominees first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty These days spanning a month are an essay of our times. That said, it took less than 75 years for India to start unravelling. Some will set the date closer by decades; like eight years to date—from May 26, 2014 on, from the time the BJP won a majority in the Lok […]

The post All These Eight Years, Narendra Modi Has Compelled The People To Listen first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Actually, it shouldn’t have been breaking news. The clean chit to Aryan Khan was on expected lines. Nothing on earth could have overturned the outcome. The only two questions remaining were ‘Who in his sound mind chose to slam-dunk Aryan Khan s/o Shahrukh Khan with a narcotics charge? Look at what happened […]

The post Aryan Khan Episode Exposes The Working Of Narcotics Control Bureau first appeared on IPA Newspack.