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By Sushil Kutty Why should it surprise anybody if Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu wants his son Nara Lokesh to replace him at the head of the TDP table? CBN is doing nothing that is unusual. Besides, it is classic Congress. Nara Lokesh will also undertake a ‘padayatra’, just like Gandhi family scion Rahul […]

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By Arun Srivastava None can deny that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the storeroom of the best imaginative and fertile brains. Earlier the CBI sleuths had come out with the revelation that Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav owned the Gurugram mall constructed from the illegal money received from the job seekers. Their […]

The post Modi-Shah Duo Is Using CBI To Break Mahagathbandhan Govt Under Nitish In Bihar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said the state will ask Karnataka to stop the work of raising the height of Alamaty dam on the Krishna river till an ongoing study to assess its flood impact in Sangli and Kolhapur is completed. Replying to a question in the state Assembly on Wednesday, Fadnavis said […]

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Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur’s remarks at a function in Karnataka’s Shivamogga are a clear example of hate speech and he would move the Supreme Court against her. Ramesh said he would file a case against Thakur in the apex court as the police in Karnataka would not […]

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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday asserted Mumbai belongs to the state which will not tolerate anyone’s claim over its capital and strongly condemned remarks made by some Karnataka leaders amid the raging boundary dispute between the two states. Speaking in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Fadnavis said the state’s feelings will be conveyed […]

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The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh may have suffered a setback with the Allahabad High Court ordering local body elections at the earliest without reservation for Other Backward Classes, but the ruling BJP is set on at least one course of action — to woo Pasmanda Muslims ahead of voting. Danish Azad Ansari, the […]

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By K Raveendran Judicial academicians will do well to bring out the correlation, if any, between the tenure of Supreme Court chief justices and the quality of decisions pronounced during their respective tenures. The year 2022 would be a rich resource for any such study as it saw three different CJIs at the helm and […]

The post Three CJIs In One Year Make Consistency Quotient Anybody’s Guess first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party, the election winning machine, is closing the year a little rough for the wear, despite the resounding win in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home-state Gujarat, where fellow Gujarati, Home Minister Amit Shah, contributed his two bit with a threat and a promise, both rolled into one, reminding the […]

The post Will BJP’s Election Juggernaut Get A Hit By Bearded Rahul Gandhi In 2023? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava The day Union Home Ministry took away the investigation in the Bhima Koregaon case from the Maharashtra police and handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA,) it became explicit that the home minister has some ominous designs. This was not simply an endeavour to unearth the so called plan behind the […]

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By Arun Srivastava In India, the political graph, image and charisma of a politician shoots up only when he continues to win elections. Electoral victory is the precondition for being a charismatic and popular leader. Winnability quotient defines the stature of the political leader. In contemporary Indian politics, the two figures who are credited as […]

The post Congress Has Finally Got A Real Ideologue In Rahul Gandhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura today ordered the survey of the Shahi Idgah Mosque, said to be built on the “Krishna Janmabhoomi” or the birthplace of Lord Krishna, by the Archaeological Survey of India from January 2. The report will be submitted after January 20. The court passed the order on a lawsuit filed by […]

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By Arun Srivastava If the tone and tenor of Narendra Modi’s speech at the high level meeting held on Thursday to discuss the strategy to fight covid is any indicator, it is obvious that Rahul Gandhi would have to terminate his Bharat Jodo Yatra even before reaching Delhi, not to speak of Kashmir. Emphasising “Covid […]

The post Rajasthan BJP Going Ahead With Jan Akhrosh Yatra Despite PM Asking Rahul To Stop first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Opposition members staged demonstrations in the Maharashtra legislature complex here on Tuesday accusing the government of being corrupt and demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The demand for the CM’s resignation comes against the backdrop of the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench ordering status quo on a decision taken by Shinde when […]

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By Prakash Karat The Narendra  Modi government has stepped up its attack on the Supreme Court.  In the past few weeks, the union law minister, Kiren Rijiju, has been making a series of statements, both outside and inside parliament, criticising the collegium system of appointing judges as alien to the constitution and asserting that the […]

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By Arun Srivastava Having failed in its design to malign and create hurdles in the path of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, Narendra Modi has finally resorted to the strategy of hitting below the belt. As an obedient colleague, the Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya conveyed the directives of Modi to Gandhi to suspend his Yatra […]

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday faced calls from the Opposition for resignation after the Bombay High Court’s status quo order on allotment of government land in Nagpur when he was the urban development minister in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi dispensation, but he denied any wrongdoing and rejected the demand to quit. The […]

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Efforts to infringe on the freedom of judiciary will not work, former Supreme Court judge Madan Lokur told NDTV in the backdrop of the judiciary’s escalating friction with the government on the subject of judicial appointments. He also questioned Law Minister Kiren Rijiju’s recent statements critical of the judiciary, saying they are “completely unprovoked” and […]

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Karnataka appears to be headed for another huge controversy on the heels of the hijab ban, with a leader of the ruling BJP planning a bill to ban halal meat a year before the state elections. The matter is expected to create a storm in the state assembly, which started its winter session yesterday. The […]

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By Kalyani Shankar The BJP has weakened Congress in the past eight years, but can it decimate the growing number of influential regional leaders who will be the primary challengers in the 2024 polls? In July, the BJP vowed to eliminate the family rule in the Hyderabad executive meeting. However, to their dismay, one more […]

The post DMK Promotes Udhayanidhi As Third Generation Dynast Politician In Tamil Nadu first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Kisan Garjana Rally organized in Delhi Ramleela ground on Monday by RSS-affiliated farmers’ body Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) against the ruling establishment led by Narendra Modi might have inflicted a chilling sensation into the Modi-Shah duo’s spines, for it reflected the despair and anger of farmers against them. Moreover, it may […]

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BJP’s Sushil Modi, who spoke against same sex marriages in Parliament yesterday, told NDTV that while same sex relationships are acceptable, allowing such marriages will give rise to problems on multiple levels, including “divorce and adoption”. Speaking in Rajya Sabha earlier today, the MP had objected to it in the social and cultural context. In […]

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By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi is silently, and certainly irreversibly, moving towards his goal, to transmute the basic identity and character of Indian judicial system. There are many aces on his chess board, but the Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is a rare exception to perform the task more diligently. In his exuberance […]

The post Rijiju Planning To Bring A New Law To Empower The Govt To Appoint Judges first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Hundreds of young people die in India due to dishonour killings merely because they love someone or marry outside their caste or against their family’s wishes, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Saturday, in a speech on “Law and Morality”, according to legal news website Bar and Bench. Referring to several cases […]

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