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By James M Dorsey With Saudi-hosted talks to end Sudan fighting producing minimal results and Arab states supporting rival forces, de-escalation in the Middle East faces a major test. So does Gulf states’ ability to employ dollar diplomacy to persuade poorer Arab brethren to align with the policies of countries like Saudi Arabia and the […]

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By Arun Srivastava As if the ruthless drubbing which RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of Hindutva met at the hands of the Hindus in Karnataka assembly elections, Modi and RSS are moving to implement  the Hindutva campaign  in Bihar for getting better results in the coming Lok Sabha polls through a Guru. This […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra It has been many summers since Mamata Banerjee floated Trinamool Congress in 1998, thus leaving the Congress a pale shadow of its former self in West Bengal, and no longer a political force to be reckoned with in the eastern state. However, post Congress’s decisive victory in Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister […]

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By Arun Srivastava Amidst the conjecture making round the political circle that the next meet of the opposition leaders for taking forward the process of unity, would take place in Patna on May 18, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashvi Yadav left for Mumbai on May 11 to meet NCP chief Sharad […]

The post Nitish Kumar Giving A Final Shape To Mission Of Uniting Opposition Parties first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The trouble in Rajasthan Congress bodes ill for the party’s prospects in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as any hope of a truce between Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot. The mess makes the top leadership look confused and helpless. And that is definitely not a good sign. Just two days after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok […]

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As the high-voltage campaign for the May 10 assembly elections in Karnataka ended, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made the final appeal to voters to elect the ‘double engine’ BJP to make it the ‘number one’ state in the country. Reiterating promises made in BJP’s manifesto for Karnataka, the Prime Minister, in an open […]

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In a significant development in the political circles of Tamil Nadu, expelled AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam (OPS) on Monday met with Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam chief TTV Dhinakaran at the latter’s residence in Chennai and announced to join hands to “retrieve” the Edappadi K Palaniswami-led AIADMK and put up a political fight against their common […]

The post OPS, Dhinakaran join hands to retrieve AIADMK from ‘traitors’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Satyaki Chakraborty The Labour Party in Britain made massive gains in the country wide local bodies elections this week vindicating the opinion polls that the Labour under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer is set to form the next Government after the national elections scheduled in 2024 or early 2025. The Conservative Party has […]

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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: All attempts of national and Madhya Pradesh leaders to persuade Deepak Joshi not to leave BJP failed. He finally joined the Congress on Saturday in the presence of PCC president Kamal Nath. He accepted the Congress membership along with large number of his followers. While announcing his decision to leave […]

The post Deepak Joshi Finally Leaves BJP And Joins Congress Leading State BJP In Turmoil first appeared on IPA Newspack.

As expected, in the third ‘Vajramuth’ rally held in Mumbai on May 1, Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray targeted the BJP and challenged them to hold the elections now. Uddhav said BJP is “scared of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance”, which is receiving positive response from people. While criticising the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak With sudden announcement by Sharad Pawar to step down from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) presidency may have surprised all, but it seems that his announcement was premeditated. He will be quitting as NCP chief, but will remain in politics at least for the next three years, during which he would guide […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Less than a year is left for the commencement of the polling in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. After the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s positive talks on forging opposition unity with a large number of parties, including the Congress, focus has shifted to the next meeting of the anti-BJP parties expected […]

The post BJP Can Be Restricted To Below 160 Seats In 2024 Lok Sabha Elections first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding some political experts and BJP sympathisers expressing serious scepticism on the feasibility of the opposition unity, Monday’s meeting of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee with JD (U) chief Nitish Kumar and Tejashvi Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar sends a clear message that this is now  no more unrealistic. The posturing […]

The post Nitish-Mamata Meet Is A Giant Leap In Opposition Bid For Maximum Unity Against BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

With her acquittal in the second and last case against her in the 2002 riots cases, doors are now open for former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Maya Kodnani to stage a comeback in Gujarat’s active politics, a decade after her political graph nosedived following allegations related to the post-Godhra communal violence. Gujarat BJP leaders on […]

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In a state where bicycles given to girl students have often been in the news for their ‘colour’, the Ashok Gehlot government has decided to buy cycles worth Rs 133 crore in the next three months before the state elections to distribute them to students. News18 has accessed a state government document inviting tenders on […]

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By Sushil Kutty That moment when Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were shot dead stays frozen in time. Now, less than a week later, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition seeking an independent inquiry. The petitioner also wants the 183 encounter-killings in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s time probed. The question […]

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By Kalyani Shankar With the state assembly election later this year, Congress faces a political crisis again. The party lost Punjab last year because of mishandling by the Gandhis by backing the wrong horse. Will the Congress leadership be able to save Rajasthan from going the Punjab way? Congress and BJP have been alternating in […]

The post Congress Leadership Has To Take Immediate Action To Resolve Rajasthan Crisis first appeared on IPA Newspack.

The Congress on Monday attacked the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra over the loss of lives due to sunstroke at an award function in Navi Mumbai, and demanded that accountability be fixed in what it said was a case of “culpable homicide”. At least 12 people have died while two others are battling for life […]

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The former Congress president Rahul Gandhi started his Kolar speech focusing on the four big Congress promises in the elections and raised the 40 percent corruption charge against the Basavaraj Bommai-led government – these local issues are working for the Congress and received much applause from the crowd. But he then moved on to his […]

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Backing Yogi Adityanath over the encounter of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad’s son Asad, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said if the Uttar Pradesh chief minister wants to end mafia raj then there should be no question of caste and religion. Criminals and terrorists have no caste or religion, he said, adding that those […]

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By Arun Srivastava For naysayers it was a the doomsday as the “historic meet” between Nitish Kumar and Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday in presence of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge not only sent a vibrant message that opposition unity was no more an illusion but would strengthen the ideological narrative of the opposition fight against the […]

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